/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Have you ever eaten one of these? It's just salty rice, right?

[Anonymous No.]

It's sweet rice actually.
Japanese rice is sweet.

[Anonymous No.]

No, they sometimes have fillings as well.

[Anonymous No.]

I found that they taste very similar to donuts.

[Anonymous No.]

No but I had eel sushi once. It was fucking good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442807
.....go back to the rock you crawled out of.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442805
I've never had a plain onigiri. The ones I had were rolled in sesame seeds and had all sorts of things on the inside. I'm not even sure what it was, but I guess it might've been seaweed and squid or something. It was okay, but the rice was undercooked and the rice was very compact so it was kinda hard to chew. A "fluffier" onigiri with simpler filling might've been a lot better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442813
What you mean? It's considered as "sweet". It's not like your everyday western rice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442824
The subject here is "Onigiri" not rice.
You use salt when you make Onigiri, what the rice itself tastes like doesn't matter, they are supposed to be slightly salty.

Can I beat your head in now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442810
Eel sushi is available everywhere here in the states, I know two places within a 5 minute walk of each other that serve it, raw or cooked.

[Anonymous No.]

it's just rice with meat/fish in it, rice is good so don't expect something better

[Anonymous No.]

No, you can't.

[Anonymous No.]

Unagi Nigiri is my favorite, I highly recommended having some if you're at a sushi bar.

[Anonymous No.]

What? Jelly donuts? I love 'em!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442883

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442824
>It's not like your everyday western rice.
>western
>rice

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442911
He is a weeaboo. Don't mind him

[Anonymous No.]

Heat and serve with a bowl of rice. A much more economical option.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442911
>>6442915
Actually I'm not. I was trying to say that it's not the same taste "our" rice usually has. Salty that is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442904

dasjfkahfhkldsafuhiwefllasdf;

oh my fucking god that looks good. I remember being the only kid brave enough to pound down some delicious eel when we went to a Mitsuwa Marketplace on a field trip for Japanese class. Those fuckers sure missed out.

Not a big fan of the texture of it sometimes, though. I dunno if its just how they cook it.

[n00b64 !FbbmtHBgtc No.]

>>6442911
some rice are different then others. some are more sticky, thick, thin, bleached and non bleach. from different places comes different tastes.

but that is just probably my OCD

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442923
>Actually I'm not

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442932
>HE IS WEEABOO BECAUSE I SAID SO XD NOW I'LL USE EPIC REACTION IMAGES

Yeah nice logic you have there, grow up please.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442923

Troll, kindly shoot yourself and discard your remains in /d/, I shall be along shortly to rape whatever is left.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442923
>Actually I'm not

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442841
I know, I ate it in the states.

Did you think I was claiming to have eaten it in Japan?

[Anonymous No.]

GET IN MY BELLY

also lol at all the weeaboos trying to protect their TRUOtaku™ street cred

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442805
Holy shit is that a jelly donut?!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442932
>>6442946
>>6442962
Same person

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442978
Nope

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442978
Wonder how you came to that conclusion. Actually, no I don't.
Stop making blind assumptions, makes you look idiotic.

[Anonymous No.]

The only time I ever liked plain onigiri it wasn't really plain. It was sushi rice and it was grilled so it had a tasty crust. You can flavor onigiri either on the inside. For fillings you can do meat or vegetables. On the outside you can roll it in furikake or wrap the entire thing in nori.

[Anonymous No.]

< Superior

[Anonymous No.]

>superior nihonese food
That isn't natto

[Anonymous No.]

Even compared to other Asian cuisines, Japanese food is fairly bland. I guess its a side effect of living on a mountainous island that they mostly eat bland rice and raw fish.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442824
the term "sweet" stems from the fact that it has more starch than long grain rice. Japanese rice is a short grain. The way to make onigiri is to turn it into sushi rice, which is rice vinegar and sugar mixed in. To say the rice tastes "sweeter" by itself than long or medium grain rice is idiotic.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>6443023

>Even compared to other Asian cuisines, Japanese food is fairly bland. I guess its a side effect of living on a mountainous island that they mostly eat bland rice and raw fish.

It is bland but it is healthy, and I would rather eat that for the rest of my days than the oil-soaked, deepfried cuisine of the West that rapidly hardens and fills your arteries.

You may have noticed that obesity was rare in that area, until the advent of the Golden Arches, and the fast-food epidemic that followed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443026
I thought the same thing, that you use sweet rice vinegar in onigiri like sushi... but according to wiki, I guess this isn't the case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443060
Hmm, odd then I guess my friend's japanese mother cannot prepare her own native dishes. Wow. She probably did it to make the taste more to our American palliate. Regardless, the rice flavor isn't sweet or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443058
>and the fast-food epidemic that followed.

Which is why America should keep it's meaty paws out of other countries with our shit fastfood franchises.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ cant really have this many weeaboos.....go back to /a/

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442928
>Mitsuwa Marketplace
Chicagoland anon?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443100
You go back to /a/

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443084
those aren't even "american" per-se, the populace and the public portion of the government disapproves heavily of those burger chain restaurants

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443077
Onigiri is usually made with salt. It is namely because after sweating allot having slightly more salt in your food makes it taste better, and Onigiri is considered simple food for those occasions.
There are variations like using no salt, making it with sushi rice or more like a rice sandwich, so what she did is not really "wrong". Whatever the case tho, they should never actually TASTE sweet, that's just messed up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443103
different anon, but we have Mitsuwa in California (and probably other states) as well. Just had delicious katsudon at the food court yesterday.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443058
obesity in thew west is actually contributed to the over consumption of carbohydrates actually

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442807

[Anonymous No.]

>>6442837
You frustrated bro?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443870
Bullshit, fucking bullshit. No offence to you, sir. Obesity is caused by
1) lack of excersise, we have cars while built for running
2) overdose of joules

Diabetes 2, common disese, only way to avoid it is excersise. Humans by design are walking lumps of fat, we are effective at eating and love it. Goddamn Atkins and his bullshit. Ask any goddamn biologist (me nearest) does his diet make any sense from evolutionary standpoint. No it doesn't, contrary.

[Anonymous No.]

CHINKY BALLS

[Anonymous No.]

calories in > calories out -> become fat

the simplest idea, convoluted and discussed for centuries by idiots fueled by a market sucking money from people that believe in the next diet fat and have no will power to sustain moderation

[Anonymous No.]

>>6443975
The debate is how you get rid of the calories and how you reduce your intake. You can't just eat nothing, you have to eat a balanced diet or your health will suffer.

[Anonymous No.]

Huge intake of calories is fine, as long as you burn it off. However.

1. Burning off calories without exercise will do absolutely no good for you. Exercising is key to maintaining your body and any cheating to get rid of calories (sauna etc) is unadulterated lazy bullshit.

2. Eating food with tons of calories that does not have any vitamins, minerals, protein or carbs is also bullshit. Vitamins and minerals are essential to make your body work, protein is for muscles (and will counteract certain cardiovascular diseases etc) as long as you've been exercising. Carbs are for exercising. Exercising without anything inside you is just dumb.

3. Eat your goddamn shit in moderation. You can have your cake and it eat too, just don't eat the whole fucking cake. North America sucks balls at this.

[Anonymous No.]

How many of these do Japs have to eat to get full? I think an average sized onigiri has 200 calories or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>6444027
you dont have to eat a balanced diet if you want to lose weight. you dont have to eat a balanced diet if you want to look great, lift, or anything. you can lose weight and look good eating nothing but cheeseburgers and milk shakes. whether or not that is healthy in the long run is a different matter.

having such a variety of meats, fruits and vegetables is only a recent occurrence in human history. we got pretty far eating carcass meat and berries...

[Anonymous No.]

rice is rice, the japanese variety is cooked to be stick together so it can be eaten with chopsticks. It tastes the same as any other variety of white rice

[Anonymous No.]

>>6444425
Calories has nothing to do with how full you get.

>>6444509
I disagree. The human body has changed a fuckton since forever ago; the nutritional standards we need from then and now are fairly different. You might be able to lose weight just by exercising, but there's no way you're going to look all pretty or be able to get past a baseline fitness by eating shit all the time, or even just by eating meat all the time. Healthiness is not directly proportional to fitness and looking good, but it's definitely correlated through many other variables (i.e. what you eat).

>>6444577
It uses different rice. Sticky rice is a short-grain rice that holds a lot more starch than your typical long-grain, which is why it becomes so sticky. You're dumb.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6444425
Depending on the size, you'd be surprised how filling they can be.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6444425

I've heard typical Japanese meal portions are much smaller than in many Western countries, or so my textbook tells me.

[Anonymous No.]

>Eat your goddamn shit in moderation. You can have your cake and it eat too, just don't eat the whole fucking cake. North America sucks balls at this.

this is because of the retarded phenomenon I call "clean your plate syndrome"

for some fucking reason, parents think shouting at their kids to CLEAN YOUR FUCKING PLATE is somehow a good idea, regardless of whether or not those kids have eaten their fill.

KIDS ARE STARVING IN INDIA is a good line- well why not send my leftovers over there than, rather than stuffing them down my gullet when I'm not hungry anymore?
"don't be a wiseass, finish your food." was the answer.

Anyways, I digress. Because of this, people grow into adulthood fearing that leaving food on the plate is somehow socially unacceptable, and will force feed themselves the food. Add in the fact that most restaraunts serve you plates that could feed 2-3 people, and you have a recipie for obesity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6444869
Since coming here I haven't really found this to be true. I get plenty full going to any donburi or family restaurant. It really depends on where you go, though. When we went to a slightly more atmospheric restaurant (i.e. not a feed trough) the portions were only just enough to satisfy.