/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18148165
They became popular with students at a place near a university, so they got called university potatoes.

Daigakuimo, university potatoes. They're named that because they were invented at a restaurant near a university in Tokyo and became popular with the students.

Daigaku imo, university potatoes. Their name supposedly comes from the shop that invented them being right near a university, and these fried honeyed sweet potatoes became popular with the students.

When I lived in Japan I very much enjoyed introducing people to new foods. None of my coworkers had ever had pecans, for example.
I took two different women out to different Mexican restaurants, I took a girl to an Australian coffee shop. A former student of mine was going to study abroad in England, so I found an Indian place that did Butter Chicken curry and treated her.
I had daigaku imo for the first time with two cute chicks, that was nice.
None of them were ever my girlfriend though.

University potatoes. I wasn't expecting to enjoy them since I'm not big on sweet potato or honey, but they fucking work.

That art style makes those deserts look like shit, man.

>>13647353
It's soup curry and it's fantastic. I'm pretty sure the rice is white, it's just lighting making it look weird.
These daigaku imo are yellowish, though

>>13345248
When you've been living there for years that kind of thing loses meaning.
If I were just going for vacation I wouldn't be eating at a McDonald's.

Try any new food recently?
I had daigaku imo for the first time. It's fried sweet potato with honey. I'm not a big sweet potato fan but these are pretty fucking good.