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I live in Eastern Europe and I want to get into Japanese cooking without picking up the painfully fucking expensive miso and whatnot in the supermarket, any tipson beginner recipes and stuff like that that isn't just storebought ramen?

>> No.16196043

>>16196035
>miso
>five burger bucks

Holy shit, you guys really are poor.

>> No.16196051

>>16196035
If its that expensive just try and steal it. I steal as many as I can. Mostly spices but anything I need on the fly that I can fit in a big pocket.

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>>16196043
Ah yes it's exactlly 5 bucks here as well, good job on your expert calculation and sound advice, faggot

>> No.16196061

>>16196051
Don't listen to this nigger

>> No.16196073

>>16196035
Make everything from scratch. Making miso is pretty easy, but a little laborious and take a few months to ferment.

>> No.16196076

>>16196061
Yea sure give the billion dollar corp more money. Fuck are you retarded.

>> No.16196079

>>16196076
>Stealing is good advice
Nigger

>> No.16196088
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OP here, I got into cooking a year or so ago and it's been great fun and I even got a job writing articles on food, but holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you people? I mean I've been on 4 chan before obviously but this kind of autism is new to me, I kinda like it.

>>16196073
Oh thanks, anon. Any more specific tips or basic dishes I should practice?

>> No.16196105

>>16196079
Fine stay a sucker.

>> No.16196120

I recommend growing the cilantro and mint yourself.theyre real easy to grow and go in EVERY dish.

>> No.16196121

>>16196088
Look at recipes and understand the techniques in the recipes not necessarily copying them exactly. They won't be authentic, but you aren't going to make authentic japanese food if you're still a beginner. Use techniques with local ingredients and you'll make tasty food that follows the ideals of the cuisine.

>> No.16196126

>>16196035
Just make omurice. You have rice and ketchup, yes?

>> No.16196135

>>16196121
There is a slight caveat to that because a lot of japanese cooking uses specific ingredients like miso paste, shoyu, kombu, bonito flakes. You'll need to just bite the bullet and get certain things.

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>>16196035
>painfully fucking expensive miso
How much is it where you live? The easiest thing I can think of is soba with some good tsuyu. I use this, just make sure you don't get the shitty version for wypipo.

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>>16196146
It's the equivalent of 8 dollars for 20g of miso paste.

Also I appreciate the comments, but can you point to specifgic beginner recipes?

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>>16196035
Just make some curry my nurry

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>>16196205
>8 dollars for 20g of miso paste
That's really not too bad. As for the soba it's easy as sin, you just water down some tsuyu per the directions on the bottle and either dip the noodles in cold or eat the whole shebang in a bowl as a warm soup. Curry is also a solid option, you just need meat, carrots, potatoes and rice. I keep boxes of this stuff around for when I'm feeling lazy.

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>>16196035
Buy japanese shoyu, cheap sake, real (hon) mirin, potato starch, dashi powder, msg, and sesame oil.

Then install rikaichan and poke around ryuji, cococoros kitchen, koh kentetsu, cooking with dog (eng) on youtube. Justonecookbook is also good and in english, but sometimes the flavor doesnt have enough kick for me. Also pmuch all the cooking is done with medium heat, even the deep/shallow fried stuff (veg oil for these). If you want takoyaki/okonomiyaki just buy the premixed flour somewhere. Enjoy.

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>>16196035
Depends on what you want to make.
make korokke. you'd probably find most of the ingredients around your house.
Katsu is also easy. As is Japanese curry. I'd recommend S&B brand if you can find it.
Spaghetti Napolitan has to be the easiest to make. It's pretty much some chup and some sketti.
Dunno what grocery stores are like in Soviet shitholes but here in Florida we get fresh Japanese vegetables, even Goya fruit which takes like absolute shit. If you want to have these in Eastern Europe you'd prolly need to pay a fortune to import them or a fortune to set up hydroponics.

>> No.16197199

>>16196035
why is japanese cuisine so hilariously bad?
the main staple dish of nipponland is sushi which is literally just fish on rice
their curry is just watered soup
ramen is just inferior version of authentic Chinese noodles
even instant noodles is taiwanese (Chinese) and not from japan

why could the nips not make a satisfactory cuisine?