/ck/ - Food & Cooking

so is the op of this thread some weeb living in japan?

im kinda jelly cuz the food looks good most of the time.

Beef from United States.

poop from canada

Weeb here, but why is Japanese food so fucking vanilla?

>B-BUT THEY MADE MY RICE LOOK LIKE A LITTLE BEAR

Give me Chinese, Thai or Vietnamese.

>>6515120

It'd be nice to get some recipes along with those pics.

>>6515331
Not that anon, but ff you want I can start a Japanese recipes thread, or just post recipes to pics that are posted ITT.

thanks for these threads! I love the cute foods

you fucktards half this shit isn't even japanese

>>6515321
Presentation is important in the cuisine of every civilized society. The Japanese just seem to have a fetish for it.

Also, my favorite images are the simpler preparations. It's not all the different from your everyday meal here in the States, only less gut-busting. The tomatoes in >>6515161 look fantastic. Because tomatoes are fucking delicious. I get just as excited seeing a basic cucumber and tomato salad in Middle Eastern food.

Stop hogging space for Japan only. Show some love for the rest of Asia! Here's some soup dumplings from Shanghai.

>>6515693
>Because tomatoes are fucking delicious.

Preach. A good tomato doesn't need any frippery, a good tomato is a glorious thing by itself. The principle behind a lot of Japanese cooking is just to take very good food, dress it simply and present it so it can be appreciated for its own qualities.

Of course the principle behind other Japanese cooking is to make spices into a slurry and pour it all over a pork chop, but that also tastes delicious.

>>6515704
As much as I love the various Chinese delights, if you find yourself reaching a point at which you're drinking liquid out of a dumpling with a straw, it's time to give up the heroin.

>>6515713
Not when the dumpling is the size of your fist and contains as much meat as scalding hot soup.

But if you need something more tame, have some selections from the Xi'an dynasty show theater.

If bacon is the candy of the meat world, Dong Po pork is the high class dessert of meats.

>>6515808
I don't even know what most of the stuff in there is

>>6515817
That looks more like risotto.

>>6515820
It's a doria, sort of like risotto, usually a rice casserole of sorts. A lot of them are topped with cheese. Curry doria is my favorite.

I'll post some of mine from when I went.

Was pretty cool. Very cheap. Sort of bland food compared to other Asian countries I liked more but whatever

Yakitori was good but man portions in Japan are small as fuck I ate it in like 5 bites

>>6516131
That is how that broth comes off as at first taste. Japanese food is about harmony of flavors. It isn't about punch you in the mouth. Like the broth is supposed to be salty enough to mix well with the earthy flavor of the soba and the fried cake there gives the broth a bit of fat and better mouth feel.

>>6516135
japs believe in eating until you feel 70% full. you get used to eating that way.

>>6516135
>>6516166
Well that and Yakitori is still stems from Koreans making do with less. Because Korean Japanese are considered sub-humans and treated the same way white folk treated black folk in America until about the 70's.

Glad to see the spirit of Korean perseverance is still around. Not so glad they gotta hide their Korean names to avoid persecution bit.

In the basement of the department store in Shinjuku.

>>6516710

>>6516166
After living in Japan for a while, the standard portions make me legitimately full. When I go home I can force myself to consume the larger portions but Im perfectly fine with 90% of the dishes I get here now.

I wish they used more attractive dishes and cups. Everything looked straight 80s over there. Must be the pollution over there.

>Go to Kagoshima
>be very close to volcano.
>can't see volcano at all because smog.

Summer in Japan isn't kawaii.

>>6516410
korea sucks.

>>6516410
This might have been true in the 70s, but these days, especially among younger generations, Koreans in Japan are treated quite well.

>>6516941
that's cause everyone is treated well. i mean girls will go over to korea to shop but then come back and laugh about how everyone -needs- plastic surgery since they're so ugly. even in younger generations there is hate, but it's become more passive aggressive.

>>6516941
yes that's why zainichi korean are given japanese names, go to japanese schools, learn to hide any trace of their korean heritage and even marry japanese people

>>6516970
I'm talking about younger generations and Koreans who migrated in the 80s-90s, not the post-war Zainichi Koreans who like to hold grudges over petty shit.

>>6515655
Please tell me that's cranberry juice with ice and not wine.

As for me, the topic of Korea hopes for a Korean thread. And I want to see the photograph of the Korean daily life meal.
I post the photograph of the Japanese daily life meal to a Japanese thread.

>>6517050
It is liqueur called Japanese "Umesyu".
It is liqueur of the plums. And the product is finished with grape fruit juice.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B00IM33NM4/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en_JP

>>6516970
Yeah, like blacks in America, they are now treated better. On paper.

But every now and then you still see that ugly side of Japan pop up.

www.japancrush.com/2014/stories/anti-korea-book-goes-viral-after-bookstore-promotion.html

HEY KISAMAS,

WATASHI NO NAMAE WA ANANIMASU OFFU KAKUSU TO WATASHI WA KIRAI EVERY SINGLE ONE OF ANATA. ALL OF ANATA ARE FAT, BAKA BAKA NO-LIFES WHO SPEND EVERY SECOND OF MAINICHI MITEIRUING AT BAKA PICTURES. ANATA WA SUBETE THAT IS WARUI IN THE SEKAI. HONTO NI, HAVE ANY OF ANATA EVER GOTTEN ANY NEKO? I MEAN, WATASHI GUESS IT'S TANOSHI MAKING FUN OF HITOS BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN UNKAWAIINESS, BUT MINNA TAKE IT TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. KORE WA WORSE THAN ONANI-ING TO PICTURES ON HESUBUUKU.


SHIRANAI HITO JA NAI DESHO? JUST HIT WATASHI AND BE SURE TO GANBARIMASU. WATASHI WA PRETTY MUCH PAAFEKUTO. WATASHI WAS AMERIKAN FUTBORU NO CAPTAIN, TO WATASHI WAS HAJIMASHTATER ON WATASHI NO BASUKETOBOORU TEAM. DONNA SUPOTSU DO ANATA ASANBOU, OTHER THAN "ONANI TO NAKED DRAWN NIPPONJIN"? WATASHI MO GET HOMO JA NAI A'S, TO WATASHI HAS A BANGING KAWAII SHOJO (KANOJO WA BLOWJOB WO ********** ; KUSO WA HONTO NI CASH.) ANATA WA ALL KISAMAS DARE SHOULD JUST KOROSU THEMSELVES. DOMO ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU FOR LISTENING.

(SONO PIC WA RELATED DESU, ARE WA WATASHI TO WATASHI NO ONNA)

>>6517052
There is a Korean food thread here >>6513755 but it seems to be mostly people shit talking Koreans.

>>6517089
So it's basically Sangria?

>>6517052
I dig. Not sure what the dark stuff is in the glass on the right, or topping the rice balls, but it's probably tasty.

>>6517627
Hence why not to go there and just post Korean food here.

This thread is "food pics from Japan".

>>6515223
>>6515120
What are these? If that's actually what takoyaki looks like I'm going to find a Japanese restaurant immediately.

>>6518063
What the hell are those kernels?

>>6518092
Theyre tenkasu, basically tempura batter scraps

>>6518076
Yes thats takoyaki, not even particularly good looking takoyaki since the owner seems to have been cheap and skimped on toppings

>>6517630
The base of the plum wine is shochu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlBNdRKNhJI

My family uses the brandy. The rock sugar is unused.

For a food tour around Japan, what are some must visit places? I heard Fukuoka is godtier.

c o r e a a s h i t

>>6516929
Not only the food, but the infrastructure and most buildings look very 80s as well in Japan. Especially in the more slow/rural parts.

>>6518636
e b i n
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How popular/respected is Wine in Japan? I know they like their whisky and bad beer, and of course I know that sake/shochu is more popular, but is there a place for grape wine in Japan?

>>6518617
Having a party?

>>6518669
Japan has a culture of inadaptability to it. Virtually every business was still running XP until Microsoft twisted their arm and stopped supporting it last year.

>>6518708
Yes. It is a small party. Cousins of the wife gathered. It was fun.

>>6518713
XP was the very good OS for the Japanese. I use 7.1 now. It was XP before it.

Beef bowl 380 yen. Green tea 130 yen.

>>6519004
Did your wife make that food or did you order it?

>>6518621
If you look in Tokyo you can find pretty much every regionally popular dish in the city, as well as pretty much every other kind of food in the world. Its ridiculously diverse. However depending on the food it may be decent but not great. Like Hiroshima style okonomiyaki or Chicago deep dish. Sometimes it'll just be totally lacking, like the Mexican food.

However sometimes you'll find food that is just as good if not better like Osaka style okonomiyaki, takoyaki, and Italian pizza. The winner of the best Italian pizza in the world for like 3 or 4 years straight runs a pizza restaurant in naka meguro

>>6519432
Cool stuff. Thanks anon.

>>6519364
All the meals of this day were delivery.
http://www.takashimaya.co.jp/shinjuku/catering/shop.html?id=025
http://www.takashimaya.co.jp/shinjuku/catering/shop.html?id=172

>>6515704
>>6515725
>>6515731
Not even OP, but make your own thread, dude.

>>6518713
>Virtually every business was still running XP until Microsoft twisted their arm and stopped supporting it last year.
Yeah. Now we have Vista.

>>6520600
Looks good aside from the cup, which is off putting for me

>>6520637
>kirin beer

ugh
absolutely disgusting

>>6520637
nice cat

>>6515261
>butter on steak
>random hunks of cheese
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

>>6521506
>cheese
I'm pretty sure those are carrots, son.

Does Mitsuwa sell chu-hi?

Bento 1,080 yen.
Nikujaga, sardine sesame, kombu boiled in soy.
Sake.

>>6520600
What's in the cup? Looks like some kind of liquid omelette

>>6522264
Probably a corn potage. You can buy it in cans from vending machines, too.

A chicken and vegetables soba, a walnut and sesame sauce. 1,390Yen.

>>6523754
mr nippon where can i find this delicious food

I drank a plonk in the roast pork of the bargain sale.
Tax-excluded 101 yen is very cheap in Japan.

>>6517089
Oh, so it's Umeshyu. We're cool then, OP.

>>6524493
>>6524498

>>6525230

>>6518617
Goddamn fruto sando. So weird.

>>6525285
>>6525230
Ayy girl, wait till you see my futomaki.

>cocos ichibanya

do you get evil smirks if you get something like >>6519049
but like 3 times that in your initial order? i sure love me some big ass portions and i go to japan at some point, i'd like to pig out cheaply without shame :O

>>6526311
*if i go

>>6526311
Just eat something else at another places. The fact that the portions are small is an advantage, it means you have the chance to try more types of food.

>>6525368
Bear in mind that their version of white bread is sweeter and fluffier than the typical American ones. That and cream is used instead of mayo for fruit sandwiches.

It's almost like eating cake.

Inarizushi set. 299Yen.
Green tea. 59Yen.

Left, 637 yen. Right, 410 yen.

>>6515358

Yes please.

>>6529732
>ice cubes on pizza

>>6530976
I believe those are slices of onions

>>6529732
looks really tasty

Beef bowl bento. 380Yen.

>>6530976
It's garlic.

>>6530979
...

Really anon? You can't tell the difference between onion and garlic?

Also whoever cut that garlic did a damn good job. Fuckers are cut Goodfellas style.

>monday is my birthday
>ive never been the kind of person for big birthday celebrations
>i just want to eat good food for my birthday
>going out with a friend to stuff ourselves with sushi until i die

cant wait

>>6531514
congrats on ur death

>>6527939
The exact same thing here would cost 4 times more. They even use the same kind of container. I'm jealous.

Hiyashi Chuka, 850Yen.

>>6516929
>>6518669
Gotta hold onto that Showa era.

The size of all portions in these threads looks really small. Do Japanese people just eat less?

>>6526723
There's also tonkatsu and egg salad sandwiches in there, though.

"弁松" 嘉永三年創業。"Benmatsu" since 1850.

>>6533698
In old Tokyo, the Bento of this shop was distributed by the celebration that a building was completed.
It was a steamed rice with red beans rice bento.
This picture is a white rice bento for the daily life.
For a person born in Tokyo, this Bento is taste feeling nostalgic for very.

>>6520641
You shut your whore mouth

Breakfast of Champions in Japan.

Great Wagyu beef

>>6521638

Clapburgers can't tell the difference it seems.

Seriously, there are kids in the big cities who have never seen a carrot, and can't recognise them.

>>6534912
No there aren't

>>6517613

Those look like some good n proper tacos, where you get those?

>>6534325
nooooooo

>>6527642

Is that tuna sashimi?

>>6535459
I wonder how much for a half hour

>>6535491
be attractive, confident, intelligent and witty

you can't afford it, frankly

>>6535667
washed up third rate idols aren't that expensive
10k yen should do the trick

>>6533541
What's むむ?

>>6520583
Some of this food looks like it would be good for you but tastey at the same time

>>6523913
Thats a nice donut
Ive always wanted one like that

Kushiage.

Yakisoba.

>>6535749
if i wanted to eat a bowl of raw tomato slices i'd stay home

and shoot myself.

kuso thread

>>6535728
もも
Thigh meat.

>>6525482
>CoCo Curry House

I went there once.

I ordered what I thought babby-level spicy (1辛), but it was actually quite spicy.

I liked the subtle miso in the curry.

>>6532349
Tell me about that egg. Is it pickled or something?

>>6537263
Looks like it was soaked in soy sauce, then hardboiled and peeled.

>>6537263
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaJqaQE8Ab4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKBWZUQWzzk
The ramen restaurant boils an egg and pork with the same pan at the same time.

>>6537425
Its an egg cooked in the ramen broth

Shio ramen(Salt ramen),650Yen.

Gyoza,400Yen.

>>6536377
looks like good yakisoba

i have had a lot of bad bland yakisoba before and there are few things worse

Was absolutely amazing :)

>>6538059
What did that look like when you cooked it?

>>6539396

It didn't look much different to any other steak, really. It definitely lived up to the hype though, the fat in it was brilliant.

>>6531539
lmao

>>6539386
Freshness Burger is so wonderful. I don't even like burgers and I think their burgers are delicious.

>>6540612
Freshness burger blows and easily the worst chain in Japan. Mos Burger is so much better in every way

>>6540670
Are you crazy? Mos Burger is disgusting.

>>6540679
Freshness burgers are tasteless. That Mos Sauce is amazing

>>6516109
well it looks tasty, I'd try it.

>>6540684
Well the Freshness sauce is far superior to me. Mos Burgers taste like generic low-quality slop.

>>6540612
FRESHNESS BURGER = Smoking room.

>>6540690
All the ones I've been to have been non-smoking.

>>6540690
>tfw cant smoke inside anyplace here in illinois
>smoking anywhere on school property is now against the law too
;_;

>>6538038
FUCKING GYOZA YES! YES! YES!

I'm thinking of going to Japan for a "food tour" after my current contract is up. I'll have tons of money.

Anyone have any suggestions on where I should go?

It upsets me that there's no easy or affordable way to eat this stuff on a regular basis in the states without learning to master the dishes yourself.

I just wanna be able to quickly grab something for lunch that isn't an overpriced, mayo drenched sandwich or greasy chicken.
But no, america. :(

>>6540880
Emphasized order?

meat/fish/Vegetables/fruit/tea/liquor/sweets
Modern dish/Traditional dish/B-Class gourmet

>>6521506
This has to be an ironic post. You're pretending to be retarded, trying to be a le epic master ruseman, and I'm falling for it.

Because I refuse to believe that there are people out there who are actually this dumb.

Help me. It's 4:30 and all I can do is look at Japanese recipies and plan my trip to the Asian grocery tomorrow.

I'm planning on making some dashi to use in tamagoyaki for breakfast then make some kind of soup with the rest of it for lunch, then use the bonito flakes as filling for onigiri.

This is keeping me awake. Should I seek help?

>>6515261
>beef brand instead of actual origin
that's just sad.

>>6536638
Ah, I took a good look at the photo again and the last three sitcks all seem to be もも, only the first two have a different font compared to the third one. That's what confused me at first.

>>6540898
>tfw living in Tokyo and eating 400 yen maguro roll grocery store sushi nearly every day for that is better than most of the sit down restaurants in the US

>>6515261
I don't really think USA! when I hear of the Angus strain anyways.

>>6534896
>That marble

>>6532530
yeah Japanese portions are generally small, they believe you eat until you're around 70% full. That's what I've heard.

>>6541410
Thats what fat white people say when they come here. After living here for a year your stomach adjust, the standard Japanese portion almost always leaves me stuffed.

When I go home or if I'm shitfaced I can still pack it in, but I almost never feel hungry anymore after eating a standard meal in Japan. I feel like thats normal here too. My 45 kg friend can eat half a large pizza hut pizza after a night of drinking at the club, but usually eats barely sauced udon for lunch

>>6541418
Can confirm, was fat white person when I went, adjusted to portion sizes after a couple weeks.

I legit lost about 10 lbs when in homestay, healthiest I've been. Moderate portions of rice, fish, miso soup, seasonal vegetable every meal. Regained everything when I returned to USA because America Fuck Yeah.

>>6534325
Not Even Once

>>6540698
Good.

>>6515120

Ah i was wondering when the next Bland Food General Thread would pop up

>>6541576
Sry m8, you must have the wrong thread.

>>6538038
Tried making these the other day

Ended up putting too much water to steam and were way too soft.

still delicious, but I'll need to adjust it if I want to get the shine on it right.

>>6527642
Beautiful squid and dandelions

>>6535459
Is that a baby pine tree in that dish?

>>6542956
probably a matcha green tea topping

>>6542956
It's shaved ice with green tea syrup.

>>6536384

you're a dick

Hayashi rice.
This is not curry rice.

Sukiyaki spaghetti.

>>6543995
What is that, mini rhubarb?

>>6543529
Fuck you that's not udon, its spaghetti.

>>6544015
Looks like butterbur stem to me.

Japanese folks love their mountain vegetation.

>>6519049
Is that a portion for toddlersß?

this thread is precisely why im sick of the food here in japan and want to go home

everything looks so unappetizing

>raw food
>mystery vegetables
>overapplying sauce
>cold food
>tofu
>paste, mystery veggies, fish paste, etc made into guk

Its like all the things wrong the food world.

Anytime you find something not disgusting, they manage to find some ingredient to put in that absolutely should not be there, just because well you cant have something that isnt gross

>>6543224
>green tea syrup

Melon syrup obviously

>>6545575
Guess it's just not for you. I love the food here.

>>6545593
'Kay. It's green tea-flavored.

>>6535290
What are those black sticks and what are the things right next to it.

>>6515161
THAT LOOKS PRETTY DAMN GOOD, BUT THOSE ARE SERIOUSLY THE SADDEST SAUSAGES i HAVE EVER SEEN

>>6517052
THOSE SAUSAGES LOOK FUCKING DELICIOUS

>>6523853

I should think so since that's only like eighty goddamn cents.

>>6535756
fuckoff Brock

>>6547904

>>6545068
>that fork
Did you sit in a high chair and have your mama feed it to you?

Also why are you having a side of bread AND pasta with your sandwich? Have the Japs fully adopted Murrkan food culture?

>>6548094
Japanese women love those small tiny little forks with designs on them

>>6548126
Do they know it looks as ridiculous to us as someone who doesn't know how to use chopsticks trying to use them anyway looks to them?

>>6548138
No because they don't care and they also like cute shit

>>6548167
Then they won't mind if I ridicule them for it.

Sushi & Beyond_EP4
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2r3ya2

EP_1 EP_2 EP_3
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mweg4
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nucn0
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2pjm11

Yakitori is so much better than it rightly should be.

>>6516410
Disgusting zainichi koreans. Go back to your country.

>>6548094
What is the matter with you?

>>6548138
Why would it look ridiculous for someone to use a fork? Are you drunk?

Sushi set. 2592Yen.

>>6548174
Go for it

>>6549473
and everyone on /ck/ keeps telling me sushi is finger food.
It's almost like they haven't actually been to Japan..........

>>6549918
Well it depends on the context. Sure it can be finger food if you're going to a cheap place somewhere in the western world.

>>6549473
Its looks expensive. 21$ for 1 set of rolls, 6 sushi and other things.

Octopus.

>>6543516
In that dish, was the egg yolk separated from the egg white before cooking, then the egg white cooked by itself, and then the egg yolk placed in there afterwards?

>>6550730
sure looks like it
plus the egg white actually looks steamed or something

>>6549918
>>6549922
A finger and chopsticks. Either is all right.
In Japan, knife and fork may be set on a hamburger. I am at a loss.

>>6549946
Are all the hamburgers of your country cheap?
Probably this sushi was 4,500 yen.

>>6550758
They only eat hamburgers with a fork and knife when its a hamburger steak which is perfectly reasonable to me. Its not a bun and meat type burger.

>>6550758
People will do dumb shit like eat wings with a knife and fork but I've never seen someone use them on a hamburger.

They all use that hamburger bag though.

>>6549946
it's probably really good sushi because 'normal' sushi is actually far less expensive in Japan than in most other places

>>6550802
What the Japanese call a hamburger is a hamburger steak and not the kind of buns around it. Its just a thick paddy of hamburger meat on a skillet which vegetables/fries on the side. Seems perfectly reasonable to eat with a fork and knife.

Um.
The Japanese thinks this to be "hamburg"or"hamburg steak".

The Japanese thinks this to be "hamburger".

>>6550942
The ingredients seem like standard hamburger fair to me. Not too sure about the bun, though.

>>6550994
>no salt or pepper

>>6550942
>>6550955

All looks fine to me except for that fucking 1 inch thick tomato "slice".

>>6545394
confirmed for fat ass thanks anon.

>>6550826
No I'm talking about a ハンバーガー you are talking about a ハンバーグー.

>>6551008
Boiled in salted water.

>>6551158
>ハンバーグー
ハンバーグ

>>6550942
these tomatoes must grow near fukushima

Beef bowl bentoh, 398 yen. Green tea, 108 yen.

>>6550939
So a Salisbury?

>>6550980
What is that on the right? I don't know why but it looks so damn good.

>>6528440

that weird middle finger

>>6515120

>>6553356
>peeling the shrimp
>no head

>>6553460
holy shit what the fuck

mayonnaise doesn't belong on french fries

>>6553460
>mayo on the raw fish
I am feeling indescribable rage

>>6553460
>no mayo on the beverage
almost

>>6553460
http://rommel3.tumblr.com/

>>6521506
>>random hunks of cheese

>>6553535

Looks like an egg cracked over a piece of lasagna that has a bunch of extra cheese and sauce.

>>6553848
It's a hamburg steak with cheese (?) and egg.

>>6554022

Wow, are they cute. They are so cute.

>>6554032
cute pizza and cute girls

>>6551152
Confirmed for angsty teenage girl.

>>6554754
What am I looking at here? It looks strangely appetizing to me.