Tell me about Japanese food

Sure thing.
Maybe I just don't have enough technique or seasoning in my shitposting, right?

>browning
how euro centric of you
plenty of world cuisines dont rely on a european conception of the maillard reaction, they achieve that flavour or added savouriess via other methods

its also just plin wrong to think japanese food doesnt brown anything, grilling is a popular method of cooking, sukiyaki involves cooking food on a hot pan with beef tallow, tepanyaki is all about browning, yakiniku, okonomiyaki or takoyaki...

>has no argument so complains about phrasing
enjoy your unseasoned boiled beef which is only edible cut razor thin because MUH SAMURAI BANZAI CUTTING TECHNIQUE THE ICHIBAN MOST IMPORTANT SKIRRU

except japs eat everything fried and all of their ingredients have tablespoons of sugar added

>Because Tonkatsu, tempura, and karaage exist and they were the only foods I felt safe eating on my week trip to Japan, all Japanese food is fried

Japan tempura fries a shit tons of food. They don't go to the level of dessert-frying like parts of the US, but Japan loves to batter up food and fry it in oil (but they don't do a lot of baking).

Both of you are right in ways. I get user's point about a limit of seasoning because Japanese food is more about savoring individual flavor profiles one at a time. However, they definitely have a shit load of technique.

Love me some takoyaki and sashimi.

Almost every Japanese place here does some kind of katsu. Maybe they realized Burgers are very fond of fried cutlets and it's not as popular in Japan, though.

no wonder weebs get so defensive over j*p """"food""""
they literally eat everything flyovers eat:
tendies
fish sticks
ramen
only uses salt and pepper
everything has shitloads of mayonnaise on it
rice is bland as fuck and soft so little timmy's teeth don't break
everything is made cute for their manchild sensibilities

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Japanese don't do home baking, but there are many bakeries that bake just as well if not better than any bakery you'd find in Paris. I'm not as fond of that crunchy a crust but its properly made and highly regarded

It's all pretty simple and just an Eastern version of American cross-culture food stacks, but it's nice in it's own way.

I'm a complete and total weeb but chinese food is easily better. It just is.

>entire thread is full of flyover NEETs who love the one thing their local """japanese""" (actually owned by chinese and staffed by mexicans) restaurant cooks, or alternately hate it
>love or hate, they have very firm assumptions that everything is like it, and will gladly accept okonomiyaki and ramen as native or wagashi as foreign to protect their preconceptions
japanese is a cuisine that rapidly rocketed from "periphery mimics" to "global center", like british or american. you can find anything you want in it, and there are no hard and fast rules, as you can see from this thread where hates the nipshit for only being seasoned with salt while hates it for using soy instead of salt.
like american cooking, its shining moments aren't in fully traditional recipes. those are mainly vehicles for at best amazingly fresh and varied fish or ephemerally-delicate flavor distinctions in rice like ours are for garden-fresh veg of every sort and countless near-imperceptible variations in meat.
where japanese food really shines is its ability to mug other cuisines for good ideas - whisky-making on a par with the scots, hyper-quality premium beef in a country which had nearly banned its consumption for centuries, yoshoku's range of french-style sauces with the tang of eastern and preserved ingredients, and of course modern Tokyo's ability to provide Queens-tier access to top-quality takeout anything within 20 or 30 minutes of anywhere, except to 30 million residents rather than 3 million.

Only good answer in this thread

It's pretty popular here too desu. There are restaurant chains with their main dish being a Katsu of some kind. Usually pork, but have had beef Katsu too. It's been gaining popularity lately. There is also skewered Katsu (kushikatsu) which is pretty tasty too.

Is all your knowledge about Japanese food from youtube?

katsu are just some skewer with meat on it and probably teriyaki sauce, actually not that magical.

It's pretty bland.
Much like the Hokkaido mongs who were the original Japanese the cuisine has never evolved.
Korean and Afghan food is were it’s at when it comes to Asian cuisine.

I made pork Katsu and curry the other day. I fucking love it.
I made the curry for this batch with the rendered fat from the chops and it was way too salty.

jap food is the most overrated in the world. their traditional food is just unseasoned fish and pickled vegetables. all of the "good" jap food is actually adopted from other countries.

>ramen: china
>curry: india via england
>tempura: portugal

gomenasai user-sama I haven't been to kyoto to experience pure nippon perfection like you clearly have

Oden
Katsudon
Kinpira gobo
Anything nabe.
Yakisoba

i love kimchi best japenese food

Making some Oyakodon on Friday. Should be good.

Most of "traditional" Japanese culture is borrowd from China anyways.

>miso
>dashi
>mirin
>soy sauce
>sake

>okonomiyaki
Literally "throw whatever table scraps you can find in it": The food.

this thread is cancer, and I'd expect nothing less from a bunch of neet weebs obsessed with "japanese culture".

Inferiority complex, the post.

Mochi is always delicious. It's easy to make and snack sized.

My favorite is Ochazuke. Its essentially rice with toppings and then hot tea poured over it to make soup. Its cheap, easy, fast, tastes good and outside the weeb sphere.

Moving back to Japan next week. Here's what I'm looking forward to.

Kaitenzushi, particularly negi toro in all its forms.
Tsukemen
Thick Tonkotsu ramen.
Sukiyaki w/ raw egg.
Thin sliced yakiniki.
BYO shabu shabu joints.
Drunken late night gyuudon tsuyudaku.
Indian curry.
CoCoIchi Katsu Curry.
Unaju / Unagidon.
Saizeriya doria (cheap shit can be good!)
Famima Onigiri.
Street cart karaage.
Aji fry.
Izakaya style greasy gyoza and beer.
Upscale hand fried in your face Tempura.
Cheap train station Kani Cream Korroke.

That's just off the top. Gonna eat my face off the first few weeks.

Kamo negi soba.
Morozoff chocolate.
Hayashi rice.
Nikuman, PizzaMan, etc. steamed buns.
Konbini bentos too numerous to mention.
Mosburger.
Katsudon
Oyakodon
Chawanmushi
Inoshishi
Ika kakiyage

Sorry. Got me day dreaming about the weeks to come. I'm salivating.

convenience store food sucks, man.

Sez you. I think it's wonderful. But, I've had to ride on packed rush hour trains on the daily, and I'd take Japanese konbini food over a lot of other choices. Many of the bentos are made locally each day and delivered a few times a day. It's fresh, cheap, fast, and tastes mostly like Bachelor Chow, which I happen to like. Fried stuff with mayonnaise is a favorite. Not everything good has to be fancy. Welcome to Flavortown.

at least pick up a bento from grocery store or one of the bento shops, you idiot

Why? The grocery store ones were consistently worse to my taste. I'll grant you that speciality bento shops are usually great but you often have to detour a while to reach one, which on a day with 3+ hours of commuting time isn't an ideal situation.

No way, me too

What's that salad they serve at shopping mall food court teriyaki places?

I'm thinking it's mostly napa cabbage, but there's also some kind of dressing.

Besides all the obvious, Japs make the best goddamn pancakes on the planet. If you ever visit Japan, don't leave until you try them.

Why don't you move closer to work instead of commuting 3+ hours a day?

Don't see how that can be. Most grocery stores make stuff on premise. convenience stores (have stuff shipped in). It's processed, salty garbage. I never understood the obsession foreigners have with convenience stores in Japan, but whatgever...

Gonna go to Osaka for about 2 weeks in winter.

What do I absolutely have to eat?

551horai and sukiyaki. Basically set, then head out to numerous izakayas, like if you have the budget to go the high end places every izakaya is going to be the best experience ever (assuming you are from the states). Torikizoku on low end is good they have so much good stuff and its so cheap. Try chicken heart for example with a good mug of "beer".
torikizoku.co.jp/

I dunno what do you like, now there are so many restaurants of different styles it sick. Ofc if its your first time in japan get a good okonomiyaki, sushi whatever. Also italian and french food in really high end places is better that in europe(i'm european so I know), chinese restaurants are top notch, korean places all around maybe you go to Tsuruhashi, go beyond the touristy yakiniku and find some good bistro/bar. Really authentictic korean food really really cheap.

There are so many "oroshiya" type places to get fresh seafood you can grill yourself around that you are best set with finding the ones that really entice you some way. Ok so shinsaibashi has always been touristic but now its china land, you have to be a bit of the main or know where you are going to not get ripped off in some generic as fuck touristy sushiripoff.

Take a kaitensushi when you are down on money:

akindo-sushiro.co.jp/menu/

That sushi will be better than you get in any "nyc omakase" shit place and will cost pennies.

Generally don't go to the first place you see, go the places that are popular in japan( low end is cheap yet in the total scale really ok, mid priced japanese places tend to be really really good, high end can be a ripoff but mostly amazing really there are some places that are tourist traps like anywhere else.

thanks man, appreciate it

It's pretty popular on this board.
Though I can't blame anyone, it's fucking great comfort food, and I wasn't even brought up with it. I just have comfy memories of my time in Japan and it tastes fucking great.

Takoyaki, it is the Osaka dish

While you're there try Ramen everywhere, Sushi anywhere and GoGo Curry

On the sweet side japanese artisan chocolate has some gems. Most bakeries which are not totally in the suburbia are spectacular, really over the edge in goodness. Try local stuff like sweet potato based stuff.

Good coffee as in really good coffee is pretty UG, but you'll get a drinkable cup in most places.

Go in to a place with wagashi (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagashi) and tea, aim for high end to get something new to you palate. The tastes are really mild so maybe not after a night you with curry.

Speaking of curry japanese curry places are definately worth a visit, most places have a really original taste and method. Also there are loads and loads of authentic indian places with regionally different recepies from india/nepal with actual indians making them.

Also try "asian" food as in SEA places, really really much going on in there too. Vietnamese tends to be bit meh, but find a place with a bit more than peanuts and pho.

Breads and cheeses in japan are meh.

For value go to an all you can eat shabu shabu or yakiniku. Take the bit higher priced course + no limit alcohol. Fire up the grill for 120min and get absolutely pissed on high balls and beer.

Its value if you have a stomach that can take it.

In buffets you leave no leftovers so don't over order.

Anyways you should also eat meat, real waguy like get the japanese meat not american or aussie if the all you can eat place has the choice. Its not something you get everyday elsewhere.

gyukaku.ne.jp/gakuwari/index.html

yakiniku-ichiban.jp/jp/menu/index.html

Places like that are literally everywhere. Many izakayas will also be drink as much you can stomach with a food course(not all you can eat).

Good times remember going in for lunch at a mall with my father in law for shabu shabu(you should try it also its good) all you can eat+ all you can drink (900yen how fucking cheap for unlimited beers is that???)

90minutes we ate a horseload of meat and veggies, tofu all there was and drank a barrel of beer. This was 1 p.m and nobody even bats an eye. Truly gorgeus.

Food pics from Japan.

Is this all the same person?

Oyakodon is amazing. Egg yellow on top is a must for the rice.

japanese literally invented term umami.
your post is so stupid and ironic in it's own way
>anime shitposting
should've known better

Alcohol:

So you obviously have to try different types of sake, go to a shop in a touristy place and ask if they can help you in english. Its not for everyone personally think it better than white wine.

shochu (japanese up to 25% or something abv) Get a cheap buzz or buy something decent, it tastes like alcohol so as an alco I personally like it.

High ball: drink from whisky and tonic+flavouring mostly 7-9% This stuff is dangerously good. Its a smooth ride to drunken town and its literally dirt cheap in any supermarket( btw try to avoid going to 7/11 and lawson etc. konbinis are for the busy japanese its price but convenient. Do you shopping in actual stores..

Chuhai: A drink mix with cheap bubbly alcohol and flavourings. Get a strong one at 9% be a man and drink in the middle of the rush and see the frowny faces. (public drinking is not in any way illegal in japan btw.)

Ok so the daisan and other beer imitations : if you want something that tastes somewhat beer like and costs less that beer buy it.

Beer: asahi or kirin thats it. Ok try and artisan hipster gay beer whatever I'm personally in that gay shit.

Whisky: prices have gone so much up that its sick, I used to get a good bottle for 2300yen 10 years ago now its all high prices since the foreigners found out that japanese whisky actually is the shit. Its really good try it.

Wine: Most japanese fruit "wines" and drinks are a bit pricy but lets say you want to drink a peach wine, japan has that and its really good.

Protip for night life: Alcohol is generally cheap, you get free drink tickets too. Clubs are not so common best to find some on the net and just visit to see if its your style. People go drinking in izakayas, so its a little less grinding and dancing but osaka has that too . Just remember to update your fashion game, people here use a LOT of money of clothes.

Personal tip: get the cheapest possible shochu in the store and drink it. In a milk carton kind of container.

Yes just trynna help.

The company I worked for sent me to different locations every few weeks. Sometime 20 minutes away, sometimes 1.5 hours. I didn't have much choice, and the Japanese have little sympathy for long commutes.

Grocery store bento: made in house, sits for hours and hours if not in a popular store.
Konbini bento: made in a commissary 20 minutes away, sold in less than 3 hours. Fresh ones delivered twice a day. I actually lived across the street from one of the comissaries and would watch them load up for morning delivery.

The York Mart and Livre Keisei bentos near me were always greasier and less fresh. Plus if I'm in a grocery store, I can probably just get something from one of the shops/restaurants attached, like the katsu stand or soba shop.

My experience may be unique, I suppose.

>Yes just trynna reddit.

Fair enough

WOT?

l m f a o kys, my man

umami is nipbark for savory

Came here to say this. Love nip games, cars, ecchi, etc etc, but the food is just way too bland for my taste.

>savory is a poor attempt to describe umami that cumskins use because they aren't intelligent enough to detect the additional nuances in food

ftfy

shut up weeb

>inb4 some autistic weeb tries to say that you're wrong

why is your curry so black? did you make kanazawa curry?

As the pork fat was slowly rendering some bit were getting charred and caramelised. I mixed it in with the curry and it went dark.

That curry looks like tar
But i've seen curries like that, so kudos to you

Seared salmon flakes are good but the best one are served with pickled plum

lel

iceberg lettuce with cheap vinaigrette

It "should" be shredded napa (prob with a veggie peeler) and a rice vinegar vinaigrette spiced up with soy sauce and sesame seeds, but yeah it's probably chopped iceberg and something from a bottle.

I just got the ingredients to make a Katsudon bowl.

Asian food is the best for munchies.

Well as far as I've been traveling through japan before I can get why some people just throw in generalization. Sushi, and especially raws foods in generals taste like paper after you have eaten many times. These non-heavy cuisine are in fact sold in every corner of any local places. But is are all Japanese food bland? well if you have a common sense, then no. there are plenty of distinctive flavored Japanese foods as there are unflavored Japanese foods. Saying why Japanese food is bland is the same thing as saying why are American so fat, why is X food is so bad, or why can't Veeky Forums make a any helpful thread for once? all in all, memes.

What is unflavored japanese food?
Something like sushi, if you eat it slowly you can taste many flavors. But if you just eat it fast and all it may taste bland. Still, most food are based on savoury base (soy sauce, dashi). I don't think there are that many of unflavored food.

Anyone here know the shelf(more like refridgerator)-life of dashi stock?