/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

I never ate miso soup or sushi in my life because I have no friends to go to a restaurant with. How much did I miss out on?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
Only if you live or visit Japan. Don't know for miso soup but sushi sucks where I live.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
I don't see why you can't dine outside alone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793026
Because asian restaurants in the west are all the kinds of with western furniture, suited for two or more people sitting at the table, where sometimes you even have to make a reservation and say how many people are going to dine.
We don't have those small restaurants for workers taking a break. Our workers go to company cafeteria or bakeries serving some disgusting shit like french fries with sausage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016

>corn

Anyway some food court stands sell them so you could probably go alone to get them there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
For fuck's sake, just get takeout.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793031
Just order it to go.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793109
>>11793100

This soup we are taking about you know.

[Anonymous No.]

OP try using the catalog.

>>11701437

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793113
Are you dense? If there are places that can deliver ramen to your house then you can get sushi or miso soup as take out.

Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016

You could always DIY you know. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793123

The point is take away delivery such as soup based food is terrible especially compared to it popping straight tout of the kitchen.

This is OP's first time in this experience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793123
I live in a middle-sized city Europe. We dont japanese fast food delivery service here, only chinese one and it sucks and is westernized.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793117
or better yet he could try using the right board (/ck/)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793031
Does it matter? They will welcome you as long as you are a paying customer.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793031

That's what i loved in japan. Every restaurant/bar has single seats.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
you are missing out nothing, sushi is disgusting.

[Anonymous No.]

Both miso soup and sushi tastes like shit if you aren't getting it from Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

naruto goes on >>>/a/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793240
LOL

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793022
>>11793233
>>11793237
This. Basically, Sushi is a stereotype of what most people think is Nippon food. The equivalent of thinking italians eat pizza everyday

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793233
>>11793248
Plebs detected
American sushi is shit
Go to a place with a real Japanese sushi chef though who knows how to properly prepare the rice and fish and it's god tier

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793248
I live in Italy and I can confirm that everyone here eats nothing but pizza and spaghetti. Sometimes we even put the spaghetti on the pizza.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793251
>spaghetti on the pizza.

I'm Italian and I've never ever seen that happen.

[Anonymous No.]

Overpriced shit(sushi)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793222

That must be heaven. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793263
Seriously, it's the epitome of hipster food.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793171

The reality is, especially during peak hours, that the restaurant will resent you for taking a table that could be for more paying customers and other customers will think you're a loser/weirdo.

And yes who cares what other people think, grow some thick skin blah blah blah but this is /jp/ and we're autistic which cannot be helped.

[Anonymous No.]

I went to a sushi bar run by white people. Biggest mistake in my life.

The sushi was mediocre and everything on the menu reeked of "asian fusion" where everything had to be sweet for some reason.

I ordered sashimi and they botched it by adding a dab of ponzu sauce on top of each slice.
How do you screw up RAW FISH?

And they worried so much about plate presentation. If it tastes good I don't care how the plate looks, damn.

Just try to find an authentic-ish Japanese restaurant where they don't change the recipe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793303

Go to ones run by Koreans and / or Chinese. Much better than ones even in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793252
>how to properly prepare the rice and fish

starting by not putting nor avocado neither Philadelphia cheese on it

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
seriously OP, making Ramen is the easiest thing in the world, just dont buy some cheap-ass brand. Avoid Maruchan for starters. Ottogi is pretty decent

[Anonymous No.]

Real sushi is from FamilyMart with mayonnaise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793324
>Avoid Maruchan for starters.
Japanese brand.
>Ottogi is pretty decent
Korean brand.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793251
>>11793256
how do I make genovese so it comes out like onion flavored tar? I tried following a recipe but it was watery and you could still tell the ingredients apart when it was done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
>I have no friends to go to a restaurant with.
They don't have sushi boats where you live?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793329
yeah, well it fuck has to do with the thread since OP is asking for Miso, not ramen

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793337
Holt shit a boat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793337

I fail to see how going to sushi boat restaurants will solve OP's problem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793356
Nice boat

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
Go by yourself OP. That way you wont end up payin the tab of your fat oportunistic friends, nor will be subject to the gross vision of seeing them speaking with the mouth full nor chewing with their mouths open (yechh)

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793248
I'm an Italian citizen but I live in America. I tell you right now that pasta is a go-to for food and American pasta is pretty close. Also I live in the SF Bay Area, and the Japanese food in San Francisco Japan town is supposedly very close to real Japanese food.

[Anonymous No.]

Miso soup kind of sucks. Maybe it's an acquired taste?

Fresh sushi and sashimi is awesome, though, if you can find a good restaurant for it. Unfortunately, a lot of places have mediocre sushi

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793402
>a lot of places have mediocre sushi
It can't be helped. Most places are not near the coast so they have to make due with frozen fish instead of fresh fish. Frozen fish thawed out and made into sashimi or sashimi from a fish that was still alive five minutes ago.

I'm not surprised people say 'shitsucks y u eatin raw garbage lel' when the food isn't prepared properly.

Poorly prepared food and ingredients make for shitty meals. Who would have thought.

[Y10NRDY !kxh.1oTAkU No.]

>>11793016
Are you at the end of your life or something?

Might as well get a California Roll before you check out, dude.

[Anonymous No.]

Dude, eat at the bar. It's great. You get to watch the chefs make your sushi, you get it instantly, and it's the coziest spot in the restaurant.

Shit, it's midnight and now I want ramen. You'll be the death of me yet, /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793566
Very good point. Talk to the chef and even offer him sake. He'll usually hook you up with some stuff not even on the menu and slip you pieces of fish for free.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
<- i ate plenty of this shit back in school

and it's disgusting

and prolly doesn't count

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793334
Sorry, I just buy the pre made stuff at the supermarket myself.

[Anonymous No.]

I live in Louisiana and I've never seen a single Japanese person in my life. I'm pretty sure all those Japanese restaurants and bars are filled with Chinese or Korean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793807
You poor thing.

Also is it true Louisiana is full of niggers (if you're not one).

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793824
I don't know the exact stats but I'm pretty sure there's more white people than black, it's just that plenty of tourist traps are near urban areas for some reason. I live in THE HOOD so I see a lot of black people.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ what should I eat for lunch?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793857
http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/tokusan-hin/item/2897ba/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793807
I live in Massachusetts and I've only met two confirmed Japs (tons of asians though)

[Anonymous No.]

The biggest dilemma I find when going to a Japanese restaurant in the west is whether to pay at the counter as you would in Japan or wait to be brought the bill and pay at your table.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793031
It confuses me why there are so little single-seat eateries in the West.
So many people would love to just go out and have a meal on their own.
Doesn't even need to be for Japanese food in particular, just ANY kind of eatery really.

I mean I'd likely do that more if there were any. I'd feel so bad taking up a 4-seater just myself. Even a 2-seater.
And very rarely do any places have single seats up at counters.
In fact, I haven't seen one personally at all, outside of a typical bar that is. (and even then I don't think you can usually eat up at the bar seats anyway)

I do remember once years ago sharing a table with people though. That was rather nice. (read:awkward as hell, but interesting)

I also can't think of any time I have been to places where you can generally just eat as much as you want and then pay, similar to the sushi boat restaurant idea where food just comes around.
A place like that would probably need to be in a pretty busy place in my area. Likely day-open only since nighttime is usually a case of To The Indian or To The Chinese to get something that is neither Indian or Chinese. Or to the chippy to get deep fried mars bars. Don't you just love Scotland? They'll cook anything.
My friends family own a take-away and she walked in on her dad deep frying pizza dough. Oh god.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793252
You have to molest a squid in milk for an hour to make real sushi.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793248
Except sushi is a Japanese food, just like pizza is Italian. No one said anything about anyone eating it everyday, you twit.

[Anonymous No.]

Go to Japan

Reserve at Jiro's sushi restaurant

Eat there

Taste the best sushi in the world

Go back home

Live happily knowing you tasted his sushi before he died

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795181
Don't people/Can't you just eat at the bar?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795253
I'm not sure. I've not really seen people eat at the bar before. It is usually just drinking.
Either that or it is snacks and not actual food food.
It could just be around my area I've only noticed that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795279
Hotel restaurants usually have a lot of people eating alone at the bar (usually travelling for business). restaurants do as well

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795310
Oh yeah those places usually do, but I mean more smaller places like a typical café or bar made more for solitary people that just want to go have a drink and eat alone, pretty much.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795233
It doesn't matter if he's dead or not. His son does all the work.

[Anonymous No.]

Make your own damn sushi? It's actually really easy and cheap. You literally can't fuck it up unless you have only two fingers. No cooking required.

I have no experience with miso soup whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.]

I wish I could go eat sushi with a /jp/er so that we could both eat sushi and not be alone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795572

I would prefer eating alone, but if it makes you feel better I'll eat sushi next to you while you are also eating sushi.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11794858

Why is that a dilemma? Its just one or the other isn't it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795549
You have to cook the rice you fucking autistic piece of shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796176
lmao you owned him HARD

>>11795359
I am relatively close to both of the restaurants. Is there a huge reservation wait?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796176
If you have a good Japanese rice cooker with a sushi rice option, it will cook sushi rice just as good as any high-class restaurant.
And if you disagree with this, you don't know shit and are just a deluded weeb/hipster.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796199
You're still cooking the rice fagstorm.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11794858
I've experienced this

I went to a sushi place in New York and payed at the counter, but two girls came after me and payed the normal way, so I thought I screwed up at first.

[Anonymous No.]

Man, how can someone be so retarded in 2014? There are quite a few ways around this which were already said in the thread. Takeout is one extremely obvious solution. As well as going to a local grocery and simply picking up a tub of miso paste, dashi (msg), and possibly some tofu/dried seaweed to put in. As for how to make, just google it for petes sake. It's the age of the internet, take advantage of it.

Also, there is nothing wrong with dining alone. It may feel awkward but in actuality nobody cares about you or your childish fear of letting people know you are an autistic loser with no friends. Just stop caring what some commoners think and your life will be so much easier.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795222
are you autistic? my point is OP believing Sushi is a staple of Nippon food, which it isnt. And its never served over the body of a naked woman either

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796492
Say that to my friend man, he eats sushi 2-3 times a week.

[Anonymous No.]

>because I have no friends to go to a restaurant with

Are you serious? You don't go someplace just because you don't have anyone to go with? Isn't that a bit pathetic? As for me, well I go to restaurants by myself all the time. I also see movies by myself, and I've taken numerous vacations by myself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796618
Going to Restaurants by yourself IS pathetic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796673
Isn't it more pathetic to not do something you want just because you don't have others to do it with? What's the worst that could happen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796308
Don't lots of people go to restaurants by themselves? Or is that just here in Japan?

I go all the time by myself for lunch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796676
>What's the worst that could happen?

OP Not thinking that there are take away sushis and misos

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796673
such a normie way of thinking

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796673
I know it's pathetic but do people really look around and notice people eating alone? I always thought no one gave a shit.

Now I'll always feel bad for eating alone. THANKS /JP/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796841
No. Nobody notices that.
If you think anyone gives a shit about anything besides the people directly in front and next to them, then you may have an anxiety disorder or something to that extent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796129
Look up dilemma in a dictionary.

If you're supposed to pay at the table and go to the counter it could come across as being pushy.

If you're supposed to pay at the counter and thought that paying at the table was the done thing you could be sat there waiting for ages.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11797020
Checked another dictionary. Turns out original dictionary was wrong and 11796129 was right.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796915
Oh ok. PHEW

I'm way too oblivious to know of these things.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796915
It's really funny how people on /jp/ claim to be not-a-normal or even autistic while being intensely concerned of how people think of them in public.

Seriously autistic people probably wouldn't even understand the concept of being worried about that.

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>>11795181
>It confuses me why there are so little single-seat eateries in the West.

It's just because the vast majority of the population has an irrational fear of being seen doing something on their own. Westerners are just fucking stupid on the whole.

Japan's service sector is so much more developed, and there's absolutely no shortage of work as a result.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11797872
I thought Japs had that same fear

[Anonymous No.]

>>11797878
Only in university/shool cafeterias. Otherwise Japan is a paradise for loners. I went to 1P karaoke just the other day for instance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796492
>OP believing Sushi is a staple of Nippon food
Where did this happen?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793222
That sounds glorious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11797976
In japan, people go to restaurants to eat.

[Anonymous No.]

Dining alone was the best experience I've ever had. I went by myself to a restaurant run by a japanese family. It was nice and they was all speaking japanese to me as soon as I walked through the door. It was like I was really in japan.

[Anonymous No.]

What is it like to dine with a real girlfriend?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11803432
have you never been?

i had lunch with a sort-of-girlfriend once, it was nice and we had fun. i imagine it'd be a bit like that but probably even better, with kissing.

can I be your girlfriend, anonymous? we can dine together and it'll be fun! you like fun, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016

>the taste when last time I had a miso soup

[Anonymous No.]

雨にも負けず、風にも巻けず
雪にも夏の暑さにも負けず
丈夫の体をもち
欲はなく、決して怒らず
いつも静かに笑っている
一日に玄米四合と
味噌と少しの野菜を食べ
あらゆることを
自分の勘定にいれずに
よく見聞きし分かり
そして忘れず

tl;dr: make your own miso soup

[Anonymous No.]

I'm going to stop by the oriental grocery today, they have a lot of the asian domestic stuff. Can I get some brand recommendations for the cheap soup and noodle packets?

[Anonymous No.]

i am hungry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795215
...That's pretty hot.

How much of my milk does she need?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793016
>restaurant

stop being a lazy fuck and go learn to cook.
I've been to a japanese restaurant twice in my entire life. For what it was, it's simpler to just go to the asian market, google a recipe, and cook higher quality foods myself.

[Anonymous No.]

OP, just get Japanese food delivered. If you have social anxiety just get your mom to answer the door.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11805107
This is my experience with every restaurant. Only thing I can't replicate or outdo is burgers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11804941
The things I would do to that squid..

[Anonymous No.]

For miso just poor all your salt in 4oz of water then drink it. For sushi rub your hand on your taint then lick it.

[Anonymous No.]

I've heard sushi in most places is shit, but I wouldn't know since I live in Vancouver B.C. Apparently we have some of the best sushi around besides in Nippon, geographically and based on the amount of Asians here it makes sense.

So yea I've never been to a bad sushi restaurant, it all has tasted great. There's sushi fucking everywhere near where I live, like within 15 minutes 7 sushi places at least, and they're all fantastic and run by actual nips. I eat it at least once a week.

I imagine sushi in a landlocked state / province / country would suck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11805822
>run by actual nips
human genetics do not change the quality of fish

[Anonymous No.]

>>11805839
This, the best sushi I've ever tasted are from Swedes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11805822

We do. A couple of my Japanese friends came over for the summer and they were surprised with how well Vancouver sushi compares. It's better than some places in Japan. The big difference is how things are prepared and served though. We eat rolls here far more often while rolls are more of a rarity in Japan. Also, you usually order a dish, eat, then order more, eat, then order a bit more. North American customs of ordering all at once then eating over time is something that has been brought into sushi restaurants here but isn't really seen in Japan as often.

Even up here in the Okanagan, where I live, you can find sushi places that rival some of the best in Vancouver. B.C has crazy good sushi.

Also race doesn't matter when making sushi, experience does.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11795549

>I have no experience with miso soup whatsoever.

Miso is super easy. It takes a few batches to get the taste down right, but once you do then making it is so simple. You just have to be super autistic with your ingredients and there's like only 4 involved in whole process. Dashi is easy as shit, don't use the instant stuff, and it's basically just add miso paste and tofu/kombu after that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793263
it's like half the price for 2-3x as much in asia.

Maybe it's just because I'm a fan of unagi.

[Anonymous No.]

Just go in the restaurant. Table for one. Read the newspaper while eating.

You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11796681
>>11796308
I don't see anything wrong with eating out alone.
But maybe that's because I'm a chef and it's expected.

[Anonymous No.]

People in this thread sperging out over eating alone need to get a grip.

Protip: Nobody gives a shit.

If you want to go out and eat alone, then go for it. Nobody cares, nobody notices you, nobody gives a shit if you're alone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806027
>But maybe that's because I'm a chef and it's expected.

Why would being a chef lead to that expectation?

[Anonymous No.]

Is this the worst thread on /jp/ right now?

[Anonymous No.]

All you normalfags saying there is nothing wrong with eating alone outside, I just can't deal with it. Its the worst feeling in the world that I can't really describe.

Especially if someone you know sees you, especially if they are in the same restaurant with friends. Thats the worse worse. As a matter of fact I think I might be ok in a completely foreign city / country but where I live oh no.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806044
This is more a self-confidence issue than one about social mores.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806044
>All you normalfags saying there is nothing wrong with eating alone outside,
You're an idiot.
Being alone if bliss. Hell is other people.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806044

>normalfags

Stop using that term if you don't know how to use it. If you want to go out and have a merry time with a bunch of friends as a restaurant then go for it. eating a lone is better in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806054

What do you mean by that?

[Anonymous No.]

Nobody gives a shit about other people eating alone. Everyone has to eat. Going alone to the cinema, on the other hand, that is embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806081

Yeah but why would any self respecting person go to the movies?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806086
This.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806086
Exactly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806012
Unagi is a pleb food here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11793807
Louisianian here, can confirm that there are Japanese people that live here. Most of them live in New Orleans, however.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806401
Are you a basketball american?

[Anonymous No.]

bump

[Anonymous No.]

>>11813580
Just die.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11806031
Late hours, you're working during most of the "social eating hours", for the most part. (little before noon till around midnight)
So if you get off work, everything's closed. If you want to eat before work sometimes, or just want to go sampling food, you're usually doing it alone because the hours you're off everyone else is either at work or asleep.
Same with bartenders.