/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12853965
Fish sauce
Get one or two of those 50 packs of dumplings. S&B mustard is good also.

>>12853976
>50 packs of dumplings
This also eel if they have it, love me some fresh eel.

>>12853965
This is almost as good as Colman's and a lot less expensive.

Get some beer if they got. Orion and chang hold memories (okinawan and thai respectively)

>>12853987
That's something I need to try out sometime. I've had eel at various restaurants but never tried to make it myself.

>>12853965
Tofu is a must, but only medium or firm. Tofu pudding, however, is pretty good as a dessert, especially in some green tea and with sugar.

>>12854032
It seems worthy of trying out.
There's no reason I can think of to not try it out.

>>12853965
Get some shrimp chips.
They used to be at every Chinese restaurant with a little thing of hot mustard and another of sweet&sour sauce aka duck sauce but then it disappeared, almost overnight. I never see that anymore at Chinese restaurants.

>>12854061
Fucking hell I remember eating like a pound of those fuckers one night while wasted out of my mind. Just thinking about the taste makes me wanna spew, fuck what a great night.

sweet and sour hi-chew

i do all of my shopping at international markets because i'm gay and a weeaboo

Buy seaweed. There's no shortage of things you can't put it in. Finely chop it and mix it into your rice before turning on your rice cooker to make 'dirty' rice.
Hon dashi instant stock is a really good addition to most asian broth. Try making miso soup. Here's some miso I made awhile back.

If you haven't had a chance to get melon drinks or steamed buns like manapua or hum bao, I highly recommend both. It's my lunch some weekends.

There's also a lot of types of dry and soaked noodles, please take advantage of this to try everything and see what you like. That sentiment also extends to the whole store. I will deliberately buy things when I'm not sure of what they are just to try them. It's never once failed me, everything is a learning experience.

>>12853994
Orion is good shit
I would also suggest sake though it can be polarizing as hell. There's no shame in flavored sake, I have a bottle of cucumber sake hanging around.


>>12853990
it's better desu

>>12853987
fresh eel slaps

>>12854061
>>12854187
this anon is correct buy only a small bag of shrimp chips or you will never want to eat them again for the rest of your life

>>12853965
Kikkoman and rice candy (White rabbit)

>>12854061
We have something just like that in India, but I think ours didn’t have shrimp and it was just some random carbohydrate. I’ve tried both though and they taste identical so I could be wrong.

>>12853965
bulldog tonkatsu sauce
canned coffees are great
three mountains brand yellow chilli sauce
Trung Nguyên coffee its fucking godly with heavy cream
furikakes, they are good in soups
try the different ramens,
the korean special oreos are good
just wander around and have a good time

they have the coffee pocky with the schoolgirls on it at the grand asia market by me.

>>12853976
>Get one or two of those 50 packs of dumplings.
absolutely based
>>12854061
>shrimp chips.
another guy with his shit together.

>>12853965
There are two ways smelly underachieving wh*teoids can shop at an asian store successfully:

1. Near the register, all of the pocky and daifuku and shit like that is conveniently placed in easy view. Buy that because let's be honest that was the main thing on your list. Some part of you says you should branch out but let's be honest, it's going to smell unfamiliar and you won't know what to do with it anyway and what if the cashier laughs at you? Just don't bother.

2. Block the aisles with an empty cart autistically googling stuff. Occasionally give imploring looks to other customers about your age who are asian as if you want to ask for help but are afraid it would be rude. Stare hungrily at the contents of their carts as though the secrets of the universe are contained therein. Occasionally, pretend not to reach for something they just reached for, until they are just out of sight. Then google it furiously. After an hour of this, throw some random dried sea creature into your basket, and the pocky obviously. You weren't going to forget the pocky, but I thought I should mention it. Also when it's checkout time talk really slowly and loudly to the cashier because they have a slight accent and that means they don't speak English at all.

>>12855107

speaking of Asian shit
I had a roommate from Taiwan named Yiying many years ago that turned me onto and gave me the orange rice cooker you see on the left. the Tatung cooker, according to him they're in just about every single household in Taiwan and this model was already many years old when I got it. He brought it with him from Taiwan to North Carolina, USA because he knew you couldn't find anything like it here and he needed it for his home cooked chinese food. He didnt want to bring it back home so he gave it to me and I'll be damned, this thing is a miracle machine. All it is is a pot shaped steamer, but its such a versatile appliance I bought a second one from amazon for like $80! Not cheap but so worth it

You put your rice and water (1:1 ratio) in a bowl of your choosing or the provided metal pot that fits inside the cooker, and two parts water in the cooker. You can just set your bowl of rice in the pool of water and let it steam away in there. the provided aluminum dish will actually float around on top of the water for a while. It float steams your rice yo!
You can use it for anything that can steam. I like to heat up cans of soup while they're STILL IN THE CAN! Awesome for heating up tamales too.

a bowl of rice that was cooked in the same bowl its served in is literally perfectly aesthetic. perfect bowl molded rice cake.

I almost made a thread of its own for this machine but I'm new to /ck/ and I didn't want to offend anyone by posting something that wasn't fast food.

>>12855107
I'm a fat smelly whitoid and I go straight for the japanese food section. Golden curry, Furikake. And that awesome hot water soup Furikake are my go to's. I also buy lots of those little cans of Maesri curry paste and coconut milk to go with.

They always give me looks like *typical fat whitey*

i think there was a rice cooker thread earlier this would've been perfect for that, but it's also fine here

that's really cool, honestly
i might invest in one

>>12855163
>>12855147
forgot to tag posts

guess i'll share a secret with you. be thankful.

>>12855728
this stuff is good in a pinch but i really suggest trying out this recipe

https://www.justonecookbook.com/mentsuyu-noodle-soup-base/

you can adjust proportions of ingredients if you think it needs a little extra something AND like the article mentions you can even use the katsuoboshi and kombu to make your own blend of furikake

AMINO
SUPPLI
i bought this shit while in japan, and its fucking crack cocaine, its too fucking good, if you can find this somewhere in the states, get it, its fucking GOD TIER

I have a couple of the larger chain Asian markets near me with about 3 aisles worth of instant food. What's Korean, what's Thai, what's Chinese or Japanese or Vietnamese?

Those slant eyed bugs are keeping something from us.

>>12855849
if you notice a large circle in any of the letters
you're probably reading korean: 젠장

Lots of small circles and accents in a language you would see inscribed on a cursed ring is thai script: เพศสัมพันธ์คุณอานนท์

Chinese looks really blocky and has lots of complex characters: 他媽的你

Japanese tends to look like Chinese For Babies: 性交する

And Vietnamese is just Oops: Almost English!
đụ bạn

>>12853965
this is fucking nasty.
>>12854061
this is boring and they srill have them in chinese restraunts in SEA
>>12855147
rice is a meme its boring bug food that you eat because you are to poor to eat a bowl of Ulam
>>12855728
good stuff
>>12855849
have fun with blood pressure spikes, that shit is MSG stroke fuel.

>>12855919
I mean they're hiding their good recipes behind all the instant shit. Every fucking Japanese restaurant owned by a Korean family or Chinese restaurant owned by an American family or Thai restaurant that uses premade and preserved curry paste tastes the same. I hate the instant stuff unless I'm feeling lazy, I feel like these cuisines need so much more but in the US these chunks bank off our ignorance.

>>12855949
when i lived in US i worked in Chinese restaurant, they never ate menu items. they made special dishes and had special items delivered for their family/staff.
dont know if its the same for market owners.

go to the back of the asian supermarket and ask one of the asian men for cream of sumyunggai
tell em /co/ sent you

>>12853965
Penang White Curry, Indo-mie, KiKi noodles.

>>12854032
>Tofu is a must, but only medium or firm.
Silken Tofu is great in Sundubu for example. Or as an addition to Kimchi Jigaei.

>>12853965
Get some roasted duck if they have it. You'll if they have it because some will be hanging in the window and they'll either chop it for you or not depending on your preference. It's a good deal compared to ordering that at a regular restaurant.

>>12854061
What fucking white people don't know is that you use it as a sort of cracker to put your stir fried rice on it. Try it.

>>12853965
Golden curry

>>12857081
That seems worthy of trying out.
Is that some ancient Chinese secret?

>>12853965
OP, look for the stuff you can't get at an oriental section in the big box groceries. Just go aisle to aisle.
If there is fresh kimchee case with jars made by some local korean grandma's business, seek out the green onion kimchee. Amazing on everything.

The noodle aisle might reveal variety, round or giant rice papers for summer rolls, or some wider or thinner udon versions. Freezer might have frozen doughs for egg rolls or even dumplings.

In the condiments, I like chili paste that is not with garlic. I look for naturally fermented tamari, dark soy, some unusual rice vinegar flavors such as yuzu, coconut vinegar, tamarind pastes, maybe some mustard and sesame things. Big bags of black sesame (cookie making). Fresh chilies. Yard long beans. Kaffir lime. Galangal. Dried mushrooms. Bok choy.

Lychee anything, from coconut pectin gelatin bites to frozen sorbet or ice cream bars. Boba tapioca pearls. Jasmine or oolong loose tea. Work friendly small packets of sweetened condensed milk or instant french-vietnamese coffees. Snacks like green tea jelly beans or candies, kasugai mango gummies, milk tea hard candies. Kelp rice crackers, sesame or shrimp chips, durian items, chips with pandan flavor. K beauty creams. Forbidden rice.

>>12853994
>Orion
tasty but was always expensive in the only market I could find it

used to cycle between Asahi, Sapporo, and Kirin when I had access to them
Still haven't tried Yebisu

>>12853965
dunno, Pocari sweat is kinda a meme
Tastes like citric acid and sugar

Buy a whole durian. I'm in the middle of nowhere in flyover country and a local supermarket has tons of ethnic food including these, it was a lot of fun buying my first one

i only really know/can recommend korean shit so here goes. get some kko kko myun, its my favorite instant ramen. get some frozen japchae mandu (dumplings), shikhae ((sweet rice drink), jollypong (eat it like cereal in a bowl of milk), homerunballs (chocolate in puff ball), pork belly and gril it and dip it in some sesame oil with salt and pepper. wrap that up in some redleaf lettuce with some rice, roasted garlic, and ssamjang and wash it down with a shot of soju

>>12853965
get some instant ramen that's not maruchan/topramen/whatever that is made to pander to the western

>>12857164
What's forbidden about it, or is that term from that only noble types were allowed to have it?

Get some Gochujang, mix it with mayo, and make a delicious rich, spicy dipping sauce

>>12857590
Piss off of your high horse.
If you were so high falooting you wouldn't be posting on an American message would you, you hypocrite?

>>12857624
I like mixing some chopping up a habanero or two, mixing that with 1 part soy sauce and 1 part fish sauce for a good dipping sauce. I do let it sit for about 1/2 hour to let the flavors combine.

>>12857610
yeah, it was an imperial household only thing for a long time.

>>12853965

>>12857632
what's wrong? are you offended that someone talked badly of your 50 cent instant ramen?

>>12853965
A cute wife.

>>12853965
Bacchus D

>>12857112
rice crackers are a western invention, they're literally starch disks with food coloring. I've never tried the method the anon described but it might work out alright