This is what $2 gets you in Japan

[Anonymous No.12603666]

And I can get a few leaves or a single line for $1.50!

[Anonymous No.12603670]

>>12603666
Lime*

[Anonymous No.12603673]

>>12603666
or any big city fuckass retard

[Anonymous No.12603680]

>>12603673
I’m sorry in what city can I get a miniature head of cauliflower?

[Anonymous No.12603681]

>>12603673
Japanese groceries are way expensive even as a Scandinavian. Weirdly, eating out or getting ready meals is fairly cheap though.

[Anonymous No.12604030]

>>12603666
that devil trips

[Anonymous No.12605347]

>>12603666
>cherrypicking 2 of the more expensive things in Japan
you're conveniently forgetting how cheap cabbage, onions, carrots, potatos, pork, alcohol and cigarettes are, my dude.

>>12603681
nah it's cheap as fuck, you just need to learn how not to be retarded like OP is pretending to be. also stop buying overpriced bentos from 7/11.
t.lived in Japan for 10 years and at one point had my daily food budget down to 150yen/day.

[Anonymous No.12605429]

>>12605347
I’m memeing it up my guy, I’ve had to live the frugal life here too.
It’s ridiculous how expensive certain fruits and veggies are though, you can’t deny that.
Curry is the ultimate budget food for me, curious what your ¥150/day diet is

[Anonymous No.12605437]

>>12603666
I thought the conversion rate worked well for us

[Anonymous No.12605603]

>>12603666
considering they pay $500 plus tip for raw fish it makes sense.

[Anonymous No.12605714]

>>12605347
Is it also expensive because he's holding ones that are sold separately instead the big piles like at normal markets?

[Anonymous No.12605783]

>>12605714
yep
and cauliflower is just shittier white broccoli anyway, which is pretty cheap in Japan.

>>12605429
yeah I agree with you on the fruit. about the only fruit even reasonably affordable in Japan is mikan tangerines and bananas.
veggies are dirt cheap though most of the time and meat's decently priced too. pork is the cheapest, chicken is cheap as fuck too if you go to stores like Gyoumu Supa and Beef is cheaper than most western countries if you take your time to find good cuts of lean Australian/Tasmanian beef and avoid the marbled meme shit.

When I was on my 150yen diet I was mostly doing a lot of bulk shopping at Gyoumu and making teriyaki stirfry a lot. 800yen for 2kg of smoked chicken, 500yen for 2kg bag of frozen veg, bag of cheap rice and making my own teriyaki sauce from scratch (pretty easy to do, it's just soy sauce with honey and brown sugar in it really.
pasta, instant noodles (20yen a packet) and making soups using miso paste was cost effective too. just throw some potatoes onion carrot and pork into a pot of water with miso paste: quick and easy ton-jiru.
To get drunk every night it's just a matter of buying a 4L carton of locally distilled 25% Shouchu and having it mizuwari.

>>12605437
it's good for Americans and Euros going INTO Japan yea but they always complain about how ""expensive"" everything is.

[Anonymous No.12606372]

>>12605783
Yeah I have to agree with the meat. Basically if you are making Japanese food you can live cheap. The cheap super near me (essentially a gyomu supa under a different name) has amazing cuts of steak for a steal besides their usual stuff. Sometimes you can get them half off even.

I totally want to start a Japan daily life cooking thread, actually.

[Anonymous No.12606377]

how the fuck do you people not understand that farming surface area the size of long island creates a tiny amount of food

[Anonymous No.12606385]

>>12606377
Long Island's farms used to produce really good potatoes and wine. A shame that all of the farms are being bought up as estates.

[Anonymous No.12606399]

>>12606377
>food can’t be shipped in cheap from other countries
There’s a reason many restaurants in Japan proudly proclaim their use of locally farmed ingredients only, cause loads of the stuff at the grocery store isn’t from Japan.
Although I will say, Japanese fruits taste great.

[Anonymous No.12606416]

>>12606399
lol wut, they have some of the most strict import laws in the world. processed garbage? sure, happy to take that in, but they harshly refuse to bring in fresh food. the recent trade deal was supposed to change quite a bit of that, but then it was torpedoed by some guy in the US

[Anonymous No.12606422]

>>12606372
Please do, I'd be very interested

[Anonymous No.12606430]

>>12606372
i'd happily help with that, been wanting to start one over on JP to give it something other than an average game that seems to rule everything

[Anonymous No.12607408]

>>12603666
>>12603673
>>12606372
Yeah, no. There's no way what you're saying is correct. No possible way Japan has comparable food prices on ANYTHING compared to flyover land. It might have something to do with being an island way out in the middle of nowhere and having tiny little twisting streets and alleys.
Standard US grocery distribution method is the best rail freight network on Earth then 53' reefers.
Was fun watching you trigger the weebs and nips though. What a bunch of fragile fucks.

[Anonymous No.12607445]

>>12606372
>>12605783
>>12605429
>>12605347

Listen up you stupid pieces of fucking shit I am only going to say this once and if you dare to defy me I WILL freak the fuck out.

Japanese food sucks, and not only that, it is extremely expensive. You can larp about living in Japan as you defend glorious nippons honor like the piece of shit weeb you are but the facts are out there and they are easy to find and even on this website there have been HUNDREDS of posts that aren't lies like yours about not only how outrageously expensive but also how extremely low quality and ultra processed Japanese food is.

This isn't your weeb safe space so fuck off.

[Anonymous No.12607463]

>>12607445
>This isn't your weeb safe space so fuck off.

turbo newfag

[Anonymous No.12607476]

>>12607445
Japs are the most exploited consumers on Earth.

[Anonymous No.12607515]

>>12607445
>This isn't your weeb safe space so fuck off.
He's cute ain't he? All the newfriends are always adorbs. Take my adivice, if you don't want to be here forever, leave now and never return.

[Anonymous No.12607529]

>>12607463
>>12607515
Real oldschool original /ck/ posters are normal people not fucking weebs. Japan rightfully gets absolutely fucking destroyed and btfo out constantly here. In Japanese food threads the weebs are btfo, in "worst cuisine threads" japan is always the most mentioned. Rightfully so.\

The newfags are you, weebs.

[Anonymous No.12607538]

>>12607445
>Hates weebs
>Browses a cooking board on 4chan

Go back to /pol/ and stay there, newfaggot.

[Anonymous No.12607550]

>>12607445
>go to blacked.com
>complain about all the cucks watching niggers fucking white women
really activates the neurons

[Anonymous No.12607569]

>>12607538
>>12607550
I post here because I like cooking. I am a pretty good chef and not only that I am a gourmet as well, I regularly dine out at all of the best trendiest restaurants I can. I have traveled Europe sampling fine cuisine. I am also a connoisseur of wine beer and whiskey.
\
Basically I am more qaulified to post on this board than almost all of you.

It is because of my culinary skills and knowledge that I hate Japanese food and hate the fools who blindly praise it because they have allowed their pathetic idiotic selves to be subliminally hypnotized into loving Japan (by all accounts one of the worst countries on the planet. Look it up, so much wrong with the country. I am friends with economists, anthropologists, diplomats and such, any such person hates Japan and knows the objective faults.)

[Anonymous No.12607591]

>>12607529
Who actually browses 4chan mainly for its food community? There are thousands of other better sites for that shit. Fuck, I'd even rather use Reddit if that was my priority. /ck/ is at best a sub-interest for people who come from larger boards, usually from either /pol/ (like you and all the other newfags complaining about weebshit and infesting the entire goddamn site), /fit/, or the weeb boards. You think these shitposts are made by people who actually give a fuck about cooking? There are no "oldschool" /ck/posters.

[Anonymous No.12607640]

>>12607591
>Who actually browses 4chan mainly for its food community
me for one

[Anonymous No.12607728]

>>12607569
surely such esteemed and well connected chef such are you have no need to stoop so low to subhuman tastelet like us. Please, leave.

[Anonymous No.12607778]

>>12605783
I had a similar experience when I was living in Tokyo.
A single shopping trip would run me less than 10000 yen and last the whole month, I was surprised by how cheap meat was even though anime/manga run with the "But meat is so expensive!" meme so often.

[Anonymous No.12607875]

>>12607569
Holy pasta

Get the fuck out from this board you easily triggered newfaggot

[Anonymous No.12607894]

>>12607569
Is this nibba serious?

[Anonymous No.12607929]

>>12607538
Hey, hey, woah. Are you saying /pol/ aren't weebs too? Have you not been there?

[Anonymous No.12607936]

>>12607569
Then please explain to me why japanese food sucks and the country is the worst on the planet. In plain terms like I'm an idiot, in MLA format with sources cited.

[Anonymous No.12607943]

>>12607640
I really liked it in the early years , a lot of home cooks and college cooks , who knew how to make the old stuff , the comfort foods were here but also we had a lot of industry people here who gave you inside secretsa to making restaurant stuff , was a really fun and informative place back then , don't really know when all the shit posting took over it was here just not volume it is now ..

[Anonymous No.12608039]

>>12607943
/ck/ used to be a niche hobby board like /po/ or /ic/, the rest of the site at large had no reason to come here. Once we developed a board culture, people stayed cross posting in /v/. I'd say that's when it started, 4 or so years ago

[Anonymous No.12608271]

>>12607929
No, but there was a huge fucking surge of edgy newfags on 4chan since the Trump campaign who want a safe space to spew their angsty Third Reich manifestos. /pol/, of course, became their breeding ground.

[Anonymous No.12608614]

>>12608271
Don't blame /pol/ for redditfugees, bro.

[Anonymous No.12609449]

>>12607640
>>12607943

I'm old but poor so the base idea of some food service guys and poor students is right where my interests lie. I'm also fat and a computer sperg.
I cook off of momblogs though so many good ones.

[Anonymous No.12609604]

>>12605347
150/yen a day
Can you please convert that from anime money to freedom bucks?

[Anonymous No.12609611]

>>12608271
>Anyone who isn't liberal is a Nazi REEEEEEEE!!!

[Anonymous No.12609617]

>>12609611
That's not what he said.

[Anonymous No.12609927]

>come back to my thread in the morning
Lookwhattheydidtomyboy.png

[Taco Pal No.12610761]

>>12603666
Too much plastic. Nuke Japan again.

[Anonymous No.12610952]

>>12607936
Im simply posting common knowledge. An undisputed fact. The objective reality. If you would like to go against the train and prove otherwise the burden of proof falls on you.

[Anonymous No.12611228]

>>12610952
I post here because I like cooking. I am a pretty good chef and not only that I am a gourmet as well, I regularly dine out at all of the best trendiest restaurants I can. I have traveled Japan sampling fine cuisine. I am also a connoisseur of wine beer and whiskey.

Basically I am more qaulified to post on this board than almost all of you.
It is because of my culinary skills and knowledge that I love Japanese food and hate the fools who blindly criticise it because they have allowed their pathetic idiotic selves to be subliminally hypnotized into hating Japan (by all accounts one of the best countries on the planet. Look it up, so much right with the country. I am friends with economists, anthropologists, diplomats and such, any such person loves Japan and knows the objective merits.)

[Anonymous No.12611235]

>>12605783
>cauliflower is just shittier white broccoli anyway,

[Anonymous No.12611237]

>>12611228
You're fucking insufferable is what you are

[Anonymous No.12611238]

>>12606372
>I totally want to start a Japan daily life cooking thread, actually.
We used to have comfy "Food pics from Japan" threads before the website went to shit around 2015.

[Anonymous No.12611240]

>>12611237
Im simply posting common knowledge. An undisputed fact. The objective reality. If you would like to go against the train and prove otherwise the burden of proof falls on you.

[Anonymous No.12611243]

>>12606416
half their fruit is from the Phillipines and all their meat is from Australia so iunno where you're getting that one from bud.

[Anonymous No.12611245]

>>12607778
yeah this, especially on the meat.
I'm from Australia and friends back home are always asking me how I get by when """"meat is so expensive in Japan"""".
I havent got the heart to tell them that it's all cheaper in Japan, apart from sausages.