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Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:01:46 2019 No.13267350 [Reply] [Original]

Why does Japanese food taste so bland compared to other asian cuisines?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:02:27 2019 No.13267354 >>13267350 >not drenching everything in soy sauce >not drinking miso soup you're doing it wrong. get that umami my friend

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:03:14 2019 No.13267358 >>13267350 because you are not eating their burgers or italian food. The most flavourful thing they have are those fucking pancake things that have cabbage and pork in it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:04:36 2019 No.13267362 Lack of seasoning i would assume

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:14:10 2019 No.13267399 Japan is not Asia.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:17:23 2019 No.13267417 >>13267350 Nigger detected.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:53:07 2019 No.13267586 >>13267417 cope

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 24 22:53:55 2019 No.13267589 Japanese food is great. Place by me can't season a pork cutlet for shit though.

Anonymous Mon Nov 25 03:37:24 2019 No.13268459

>>13267350
Old people who've been chain smoking for 50+ years have broken taste buds -- all they require is a fulfillment of caloric requirements. Even the fried chicken isn't seasoned. It's crispy as fuck, but essentially flavorless.
I've honestly learned that the Japanese value diversity of consistency over flavor. Foods like uni and horumon are valued because of their unique mouthfeels, not their honestly underwhelming taste. You ever notice that all the restaurants serve jellies as dessert (even though they're virtually flavorless)? Or how parfaits have corn flakes at the bottom? It's because they need all the different feels in their mouths, and that's more important than intense flavor or spice. Even Japanese "soul food" like okonomiyaki is, if we're being honest with ourselves, bland. Most of the flavor from okonomiyaki comes from the sauce on top, which is entirely optional.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:04:33 2019 No.13270103 >>13267350 Japanese cuisine has more of a focus on aesthetic and texture. Korean food is just pork and cheese covered in hot sauce. Chinese food is just "fucking fry/sautee everything in a gallon of gutter oil"

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:05:45 2019 No.13270106 >>13267350 >Bland I never thought so.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:06:48 2019 No.13270108 >>13267399 Japan is more like a rebranded Korea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:15:46 2019 No.13270137 >>13267350 because they're so post-soy that they only experience pleasure at the thought of eating something trendy and unique rather than what it tastes like

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:37:38 2019 No.13270218 >>13270103 >Japanese cuisine has more of a focus on aesthetic and texture. No wonder its so bland

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:39:17 2019 No.13270221 >>13270137 Ramen has been commonplace for around 20 years. How can it be trendy?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:39:53 2019 No.13270223 >>13267350 You’re talking about sushi, aren’t you anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 14:41:34 2019 No.13270225 >>13267350 everything is soy, mirin and sake

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 15:23:12 2019 No.13270386 Why do the Japanese think that food in France is bland when theyre used to eating bland food?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:09:40 2019 No.13271358 Same ingredients for every dish

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:13:37 2019 No.13271375 Because their tea and other drinks are about twenty thousand times as potent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:14:32 2019 No.13271380 >>13267350 Why does asian food taste so Japanese compared to other bland cuisines?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:14:38 2019 No.13271381 >13271358 (you)

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:15:34 2019 No.13271388 >>13270108 >t. grandmother was a comfort woman in WW2

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:16:18 2019 No.13271391 >>13271381 Pick up a Japanese cookbook, weeb

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:16:24 2019 No.13271392 >>13267350 probably because you're a braindead, tasteless whitoid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:17:54 2019 No.13271401 >>13267350 it's all about freshness and cleanness. It's the opposite of indian food. The taste is more refined. Of course westerners having invested cuisine, are the only people that found the proper balance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:19:13 2019 No.13271411 >>13271388 My grandmother actually led a successful guerilla force against the Japanese during ww2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:19:22 2019 No.13271412 >>13270108 t. korean gookface

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:20:31 2019 No.13271417 >>13271401 How is Indian food not fresh or clean?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:21:22 2019 No.13271419 >>13271412 >Korean Nah. My grandpappy bombed the shit out of Japan then helped ruibuild it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:21:48 2019 No.13271424 >>13271392 Not white

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:22:12 2019 No.13271425 Japanese people are the white people of Asia, the only 'spice' they know is mayonnaise and soy sauce.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:23:34 2019 No.13271431 >>13267350 Why does all Japanese food taste the same?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:25:10 2019 No.13271438 >>13271417 >How is Indian food not fresh or clean? Because it's murdered with spices and lacks fresh ingredients or even palette cleansers. It's all heavy foods with no subtlety or nuance to the taste.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:25:22 2019 No.13271440 >>13271425 >what is wasabi >what is teriyaki >what is tare G8 b8 m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:26:11 2019 No.13271445 >>13271425 Salt is unironically a spice and does more for food than every other spice combined.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:26:21 2019 No.13271446 >>13271419 You could say that modern day Japan is an American "product" in itself.

Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:27:31 2019 No.13271453
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>Japanese is sooooooo bland haha look I am being super original with my complaint of this cusine
>Only weebs like Japanese food OMG
>EWWWWWW raw food- I only eat the finest processed non-gmo organic fair trade foods

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:28:50 2019 No.13271458 >>13271438 What dishes have you tried?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:30:02 2019 No.13271462 >>13271453 t. assblasted weeabo

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:35:55 2019 No.13271493 ITT: assblasted nips

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:37:54 2019 No.13271500 >>13267350 Why is Vietnamese food so good when they only have like 3 ingredients

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:38:45 2019 No.13271504 File: 200 KB, 785x731, 1563324287766.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>t.assblasted weeabo

Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:39:27 2019 No.13271507

Easy. Japanese were an isolated nation that did not benefit from the spice trade and hence why their food has the same ingredients in nearly every dish. This is why China is regarded as the best asian country for cuisine and not china.
>but muh texture and presentation
This is a way of coping. If Japan had the same access of flavors as the other Asian countries their dishes would be loaded with ingredients.

Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:39:38 2019 No.13271508

Japanese emphasise subtlety.

Koreans and Thais and Indians and Pakis dump chili and other cover-up spices onto everything so you can't taste the rotten ingredients they used. Same with some parts of China.

Then there's Mongolia, where they just don't give a fuck. Eat your boiled mutton or starve on the steppes, your choice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:39:47 2019 No.13271510 >>13271500 fish sauce

Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:42:50 2019 No.13271522

>>13271507

What I remember as chinese food growing up as a young kid in Hong Kong

>turtle/shark fin soup
>fried chicken feet
>pig uterus noodles
>fried rice with pork knuckle gristle
>unidentifed fish balls on a stick
>boiled dog meat
>one time, monkey brains

Americans have no idea how bad it really is. No one in china knows what the fuck beef and broccoli is or sweet and sour pork. Chinese food is disgusting. Literally the worst parts to eat of any animal. Makes sense because chinks are the race of humans closest to animals. They make disgusting noises when they eat, slurp everything, men in the streets lift their fucking wife beaters over their sweaty stomachs while laughing and chewing with their mouths full of food. Like what kind of idiot decided 2 sticks is the most practical way to eat grains of fucking rice. Starving Nigerians who eat grass have a better diet than the average chinese.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:44:27 2019 No.13271529 >>13271440 >wasabi used VERY sparingly in a few dishes >teriyaki soy sauce >tare soy sauce wOW What a diverse cuisine

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:46:33 2019 No.13271539 >>13271508 >Japanese emphasise subtlety. Curry is their favorite dish, you dumbshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:47:00 2019 No.13271540 >>13271529 I put almost one pound of wasabi on my sushi desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:50:46 2019 No.13271560 >>13271540 you're eating horseradish not wasabi

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 19:50:52 2019 No.13271562 >>13271507 >>13271508 Real answer is that traditional Japanese cuisine, and fashion was heavily influenced by the kofun period Chinese, and Korean kingdoms which further developed during long periods of dietary restrictions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 20:05:03 2019 No.13271636 >>13271560 Okay seething tranny

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 20:06:58 2019 No.13271645 >>13271636 t. still seething weeabo

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 20:54:16 2019 No.13271903 japanese people have no soul

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 20:57:24 2019 No.13271915 >>13267350 Because 90% of their cuisine is raw seafood with a side of soy sauce.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:19:26 2019 No.13272041 >>13271411 ah yes, the legendary black widow of Seoul who gave an entire battalion of japs the clap

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:23:14 2019 No.13272060 >>13272041 Did Koreans even fight back?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:28:08 2019 No.13272075 File: 5 KB, 259x194, images-4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13272041 Imagine being such a weeb that you get offended on imperial Japan's behalf.

Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:39:23 2019 No.13272120

>>13267350
Historical reason.

1. Japan before the Meiji era banned spicy food due to strong Buddhist influence.
2. Japanese food always has been salty and the Edo era central and regional leaders were hooked on sugar from the Dutch. Nothing drastically changed today in Japan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:43:10 2019 No.13272133 >>13267399 Found the flat earther

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:48:55 2019 No.13272162 >>13271903 T. Ginger

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 21:51:01 2019 No.13272172 >>13271903 Soul-less people have good public image

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 22:16:23 2019 No.13272267 >>13267350 Why does all european food taste the same? Why can't white people cook?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 25 22:25:18 2019 No.13272301 >>13267350 they don't use spices duh

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