/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16203333
I appreciate the digits, but uh, we have no shortage of supermarkets here
Better yet you can get all your shopping delivered next day for just £1

>>16203333
Europe has some pretty cool shit, most of which will never reach America. sad as fuck.

>visiting USVI with gf
>both really excited to try new and interesting fruits and veggies and Caribbean snacks and cook for ourselves
>find local supermarket by our airbnb
>load up cart with tons of goodies, having just a sweet time planning out our meals
>suddenly hear screaming and shit breaking at the front of the store
>local guy had stuffed some pasta sauce and wine down his pants
>manager caught him but he said he put it down his pants cause his hands were full with other stuff and he didnt have pockets
>situation instantaneously accelerates like some sort of nuclear reaction
>manager is yelling at guy to get the fuck out of his store, shoplifter calls him a dumb fucking camel fucker and to suck his dick and let him pay for his stuff
>crowd of locals surrounds them within seconds and begins taking sides
>like 10 people all around them hooting like literal apes and trying to start a fight inside this store
>they start breaking shit
>realize gf and I are the only white people in this store and I probably have more cash in my wallet than any of them make in a month
>slowly grab my gf and slip her out of the store, abandoning our basket of goodies
>end up eating overpriced cheeseburgers at tourist traps the rest of the trip

>>16203433
US Virgin Islands? what were u doing there

>make excursion to Cambodia
>get food poisoning and almost die
>live on diet of Coca Cola and pringles for rest of trip

>>16204016
that's what you get for being a sex tourist faggot

>>16203333
One of the best lunches I ever had was traveling to London as a kid. My aunt and I went to this lovely cafe where they had an outstanding liverwurst pate served with crusty bread. Paired with a cup of tea, it was delicious.

>>16203333
Supermarket cheese and onion sandwiches are always tasty af! Tend to be the cheapest one. The Aldi ones are my fav and 85p, my kids ask for them instead of some sweets

>>16203333
When it eating a broad it's important to
Wash your hands
Be generous
Clean your plate
Not come first

>>16203984
him and his male gf were both at the time

>>16203379
Kind of like all those fast food chains that don't even bother leaving their home states

>>16204016
pussy

>>16203984
>not visiting the ancestral virgin homeland

>>16203333
>In Thailand
>get a raw oyster salad from a market stall
>somehow don't get sick from this

I lived in Tunis for one summer before covid.
Weirdest food I had was called Lablabi.
>guy gives you old stale baguette and a bowl
>you have to sit down and rip up the baguette to small pieces in the bowl
>you bring the bowl back to the guy and he pours some hot chickpea broth over the baguette
>puts in shitton of harissa
>dumps in a can of tuna
>cracks in raw egg
>some olives on top
>go back to your table and mix it up until it has a consistency of mashed potatoes and eat
>also some weird pickled carrots as a side

Apparently this eas the go-to cheap food there and everybody loved it. It cost under 0,5$ and it didn't make me shit myself as much as other foods, but it tasted really weird.

>>16203333
>in afghanistan
>buy goat off local
>dude in my platoon kills it with my knife
>kill the goat too
>we roast and it the goat
>whole platoon gets the shits

>>16205730
what

>>16203333

>be me
>go to NYC
>see one of those famous hot dog carts
>buy a hot dog
>get food poisoning
>sit on the shitter for the rest of my day
>was worth the 1 dollar

>>16203333
>be in Vietnam
>smoking outside hostel in Da Nang
>puppy comes around corner
>cannot resist must pet
>look for owner
>guy who works at bar next door
>introduces me to vietnamese girls
>huge language barrier but they like me anyway for some reason, only one girl speaks decent english and I speak no vietnamese other than one, please, and thank you
>hang with them all week, always riding bitch on a girl's scooter
>they take me around and show me stuff
>mock me for sitting on scooter funny
>mi quang, noodle dish with beef and small amount of oily sauce and peanuts
>absolutely amazing, eat three bowls
>take me into mountains to some weird bamboo platform restaurant/hangout spot
>literally only white person there
>they order a bunch of food for the group, chickens, noodles, some weird brown translucent jelly thing that vaguely tastes of coconut
>moreish, kinda like twizzlers in how they're almost tasteless but you want to keep eating them
>playing some vietnamese card game constantly, have no idea what's going on
>play anyway, bet money, get fleeced
>drink copious amounts every night, after bar closes always go to beach for food
>big plates of shellfish you need to suck out of shell, clams, more noodles, weird rice paper thing they put in bag with hot sauce
>end up doing a bunch of nos balloons in bar one night to much disapproval
>feel awkward, let it cool off for a night and go out elsewhere
(cont)

>>16205968
(cont)
>meet ukranian girl who owns bar with her russian bf
>he makes amazing paninis
>they're incredibly excited about budweiser draught being installed that day, convince me to wait to try
>fuck it may as well
>end up in bar till evening, meet english guy and end up bar hopping with him and meeting his expat friends
>original english guy ends up getting incredibly drunk, telling us he's going for a swim in the sea, walks to beach and never returns
>me and other guy are hungry, he knows good spot
>drives us there, little shitty food cart with child sized tables and stools, packed with viets
>disgonbegood.jpg
>some kinda cold noodle thing with pork, he shows me how to make it good with hot sauce and herbs
>both absolutely trashed, demolishing these noodles
>random viet guy comes flying down the road on a scooter and crashes into this dudes scooter
>laugh at his misfortune like any good bong would
>part ways, walk back to hostel, end up smoking weed with guy from reception and then watching him play pubg
>girls from bar next door closing up
>go say sorry for getting so fucked up and bringing "drugs" into their bar
>apology accepted, invite me to beach again
>go eat more weird wonderful shellfish plates
damn bros I wanna go back

more of a diary post than strictly food but fuck it

>>16203333
>Prague
>decide to get some of these famous "knedliky"
>get a plate of meat with sauce and some bread on the side
>eat the bread with hand
>make fool out of myself
>never visit this restaurant again
I wish I could forget. The food was good otherwise.

>>16205968
>>16205973
What is it like being this liberated and uninhibited? Kind of felt like I was on /trv/ for a bit. I've never lived in such a way or had similar experiences.

>>16203333
>no supermarkets
Why are Americans so fucking dumb?

>>16206208
idk dude I don't really think of myself like that, I feel awkward and stuff like anyone else does, I just kinda push through it. All of that shit just kinda happened by chance, I feel like I just fell into it all rather than making it happen, it was definitely the most eventful week I spent there out of the two months I was in Vietnam. I went from Saigon to Da Nang but I kinda feel like I wasted a bunch of my time there by fucking around in resorts and not going out and just wandering as much as I should have, cause that's how you end up in those situations. I only met the Vietnamese girls because there was a puppy, and I met the Ukrainian girl because one of the Vietnamese girls had a big sister who owned the bar and her husband was this Italian/Canadian guy who I ran into when I was looking for a barber and he gave me a ride to one, and while I was walking back to the hotel this hot girl waved at me and I went over to say hello and it was Yana, and then I only met the English guy and the expats because I met Yana and ended up talking to her and Max for so long. But I mean I spent plenty of nights in Saigon just sitting in random bars completely alone talking to no one because I'm not some social butterfly. I can hold my own in convo but I'm not so extroverted that I just approach random people all the time.

It's an amazing country, the people are super friendly, they don't really take advantage of foreigners, and if they do it's such a petty amount of money that it's meaningless. Some dude charged me 150k for a fake zippo and the girl I was with was like you got scammed, and then said I could have paid 100k, it's like 2 quid difference, means nothing to me but means a lot to them. I used to tip housekeepers and bellboys and shit with like 200k vnd which is like 7 quid, and they were so thankful, it's crazy. If you can ride a motorcycle or a scooter I would absolutely recommend going, for a few grand you can spend months there absolutely chilling.

>Go to Osaka for a few weeks to visit fiancée
>Time period happens to contain my birthday
>She surprises me with a weekend at an onsen in Wakayama
>Gorgeous drive down there
>She knows I’m a ramen fanatic, and had looked up some rural place close to the destination which supposedly made some of the best Wakayama-style ramen
>Tells me about it when we’re almost there
>No ramen shop to be seen. Turn around, go other way, turn around again; the only thing where her phone says it should be is some small grungy mechanic shop
Turns out that WAS the place; basically a garage with a side-room that had a kitchen in the corner and a few tables. The family that owned it was cool as fuck.
The father and son are motorcycle mechanics and the son also raced. When the ramen bit is open, the dad and his wife ran it while their son wrenched on bikes.

So some of the best ramen I’ve ever had was in a backwoods (for Japan) motorcycle repair shop.

>>16206541
The tables had laminated tops, under which were pics the owner had taken over the years.

>went to Japan right before COVID became international news
>had big list of different meals and foods I want to try
>turns out wagyu is mostly an overpriced meme
>raw egg on rice is actually good
>impulsively tried whale sashimi, it was ok but definitely an odd taste vs the fish
>ended up liking Japanese curry so much I make it myself now
>too nervous to try any of the "cook the meat yourself at the table" style meals because I didn't cook as much at that time
>didn't know enough Japanese or have a phone with a valid SIM card to make reservations at most places
>this can be a legitimate problem if you want dinner because most small restaurants/omakases can only handle one or two groups for the night

>>16206432
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I'm admittedly quite the social recluse and very infrequently leave my home, so I don't know how I'd fare in such a scenario. So, it is interesting to read about such events. What pushed you to go to Vietnam in particular anyway? As much as I lack confidence for such a trip, I would like to live like you did someday, even if only for a short while.

>>16206837
When I was young I think I saw Bourdain's A Cook's Tour, the Thailand episode, and that planted the seed, so I always wanted to go to Thailand. Then when I got a bit older I ended up getting a motorcycle to commute, and then fell in love with riding. The flame for Thailand was still burning in the back of my mind, and researching that put me onto Vietnam, which is famous for backpackers doing a cross county motorcycle trip, and that's what ended up changing my mind and I was set on going there. I wasn't ever making concrete plans until my gran passed and it kinda kicked my mortality into the forefront of my mind, and I decided then that I was going to do it and started saving aggressively. I went with 5 grand and kinda blew through it in like 2 months and some change, I was in Bangkok for a week too. I could have comfortably gotten 6 months out of that much though, I was just balling out in super nice hotels like a retard, the hostels really are comfortable enough to get by on.

The way to look at it is you're not getting any younger, you could literally have a brain aneurysm tomorrow and most of your life will have been spent in between the same 4 walls looking at the same dumb shit on a screen. If this is stuff you want to do just do it, I booked a 1 way ticket with absolutely no plan, didn't book a hotel until I landed, shit isn't hard to figure out these days if you're internet savvy. Hotel apps like booking are worldwide. Data sims are super cheap in SEA and airports always have free wifi.

There was a time when I used to be crippled with social anxiety, like I'd get invited to house parties as a teenager, get all dressed to go and then end up not going because my shitty brain would convince me it was some elaborate ruse to mock me, even times where I forced myself to go I'd be paranoid while I was there, convinced everyone was making jokes at my expense. It's a shitty demon that only you can fight, and repeated exposure is the sword to kill it.

>>16204033
>liverwurst pate served with crusty bread.
NNNNNNGGHHHHHH

>>16203333
Checked. Also, yes, those fuckers really nailed the sandwish. I don't get how those tastelets sub humans do it. Sandwiches and flapjacks.

>>16206956
>Grow up thinking liverwurst was just a meme from Scooby Doo jokes
>Bored in Publix one day and decide to buy a tube of it
>Also see something called braunschweiger
>Fuck it I'll get em both.

It has this metallic case but I couldn't stop eating it and ended up polishing off an entire box of triscuits and the entire tube of braunschweiger in one sitting. At the liverwurst 2 days later. Then again I also like Potted Meat so I shouldn't have been shocked.

>>16203333
red leicster is so fucking good bros

>>16203333
>no supermarkets, only little stores
>europe has the most supermakets to people ratio of the world

pick one nigger

>>16206956
>>16207699
I acquired the taste for braunschweiger when I was a kid, it truly is godly. So much fat, but man it's so good. If I feel like being fancier with it I'll get a crusty baguette, but usually I'll just spread it thick on some Ritz crackers.

>>16208866
>bongistan
>europe

>>16206541
>>16206559
that's really cool. Hope everything went well for you with her

>>16203433
You would have looked like such a chad if you simply paid for your food and the shoplifted items. You could then get a good recommendation for local spots from the their you bailed out.

>>16208913
england is stlll a european country are you literally retarded?

also bongs have an ingrained culture of going to supermakets as a hobby and bants when they are bored since most of its countryside is littered with ALDI-s and such

>>16203342
>>16206221
>>16208866
>>16208946
I live in the USA and briefly lived in the UK (Glasgow, plus a bit of moving around on the tail end). I can absolutely see how an american wouldn't regard UK supermarkets as such

>>16203433
Holy shit...was the owner an Arab?

>>16206208
>>16206837
Anon, are you me??

>>16203333
I live in Japan and people here genuinely think that corn on pizza is delicious and some sort of hidden italian delicacy. People here are really fucking nuts about italian food but can never remotely cook anything like it. There are loads upon loads of "italian" restaurants here but when you go in it's always some weird fucking japanese ripoff where they fuck up all of the dishes by adding jap shit like raw squid and eel and shit to it and then they try to fucking play it off as "real italian food". It doesn't help that people here don't know what normal bread or cheese is. It's all fucking gross. I have not had any normal-tasting cheese in all the time I've lived here, and good bread is about as rare as a properly paid salaryman. These people are born on this island, they will live their whole lives on this island, and they will die on this island without ever tasting real bread or cheese in their life and that's just sort of sad. The worst part is that because no japanese person actually knows what real italian food is like, nobody can call restaurants out on this bullshit, everyone eats it all up and calls it "honto ni umaiiiii uwuwuwu" and everyone thinks this is what real italian food is like. It's just sad. "Oh rettsu addu fishu eggu andu seaweedu to pasta carbonara don't u kno this is how rearu itarian peeporu eat!". The worst part for me is that japan doesn't just massacre classic italian food like this, but they also do it with every other country's cuisine imaginable. French, spanish, mexican, turkish, you name it. They botch everything they come across as "wow foreign so cool" but it's never apparently fucking good enough unless they douse it in soy sauce and raw octopus to make it "authentic european" food. Don't get me wrong I love me some japanese food but fuck this country for ruining foreign food culture and fuck the people for being too retarded to not know what real food is like, even though they kind of can't help it, fuck em it's gross

I'm craving a cheese and onion sandwich now

Visited DC and got myself a half-smoke and chili cheese fries and a Dr Pepper. I was one happy dude. Sorry I don't have OC pic. Lost the images in a file somewhere.

>>16208913
You are aware of the geographic continent known as Europe?

I was a working musician in the 90s, and when on tour in Germany, I was walking around the place we were staying that day, near a village called Immecke, and I went into the local shop. I don't speak German at all, so I just picked up a Snickers bar, took it to the counter, and held out a bundle of notes for them to take what they wanted. When I got back to the place were staying, I worked out they charged me about 35 Deutsch Marks for the Snickers bar, or about $50.

>>16210836
yank tax

>>16209644
Just to ask, you think an Italian cook could open a real Italian restaurant and be successful in jap?
Also, corn in pizza is a trash classic here. The recipe is corn, cheese, cream and ham. It's Panna prosciutto e mais or pizza mimosa. Google it and eat it if you can, it's good.
Another kind is swap corn with mushrooms.

>>16211881
>asking a serious question in a reply to stale pasta
It’s okay, anon. We’ve all done it once.

As for your question, it *could* definitely be possible. But as far as the business itself goes, it may be difficult to do such a thing outside of Tokyo. Maybe Osaka. But most of the Italian restaurants run by Japanese chefs who studied in Italy are in Tokyo for that very reason.
It’s also difficult to just move to Japan, unless you’ve been offered a job or are going to attend school. Applying for residency “so I can open a business” is only possible if you explain what you’re going to do, and show you have a ton of money to immediately spend on doing so. Even then, it’s no guarantee, it only lets you “apply”.
Marrying a Japanese national will make it as close to “easy” as possible, but *still* doesn’t 100% guarantee you residency to run a business.

>t. Burger in Osaka with a Japanese wife and saving up to open an izakaya.

>>16211934
Double thanks from an itafag, anon.
The dream would be to escape to jap and marry a qt there, so live the dream for me too in the while.

>>16210836
That's on you dude. No one is that retarded

>>16203333
looks like pimiento cheese