/ck/ - Food & Cooking

a lot of asian food is sweet and salty and spicy and savory at the same time tho
what a lazy bait thread

>>14710238
Yeah I mean I feel like that is their gimic almost. Everything has more than 1 flavor profile. Sweet/Spicy, Sweet/Savory, Sour/Spicy, Savory/Funky, sweet/sour, etc....

There are some super bland japanese dishes that I don't care for at all, but it's pretty few and far between.

Do asians really?

>>14710261
As much as I want to love Japanese food, I can't. Outside of Ramen and Okonomiyaki most of the food has the same flavor. It's not bad by no means but it isn't isn't on my bucket list when I think of foods to try out. Why is Japanese food taste the same?

>>14710333
It's an island nation that was isolated from the rest of the world for centuries whose landmass is like 80% mountains and volcanoes, and they were vegetarian for a few centuries as well.

Anyways this thead is shitty bait cause on the flipside American food all tastes the same and it tastes like sugar.

>>14710333
Do you think curry and hayashi rice taste the same?
What about nikujaga and gyudon?
Does oyakodon taste a lot like toriten to you?
How much Japanese food have you actually had, buddy?

>>14710559
>eating gyudon or oyakodon
fuck off chigyu/retarded weeb

>>14710215

japan: most dishes focus on a few distinct tastes. they actively experience every ingridient. the country is doing pretty good on a global scale.

india: pretty much every dish is a mixture of 80 different roots/herbs/spices/vegetables that they blindly throw in to a pot and call it a day. their country seems to be in turmoil.

I wonder if there is a connection.

>>14710215
Asian food is gay and bland cause they have no taste.

>>14710783
wouldn't be surprised if most of the indians shitting on the street were happier than the japanese who have to work their asses off like crazy and will most likely be alone in their tiny apartments for most of their lives

>>14710783
There isn't. Correlation =/= causation. You aren't Admiral Thrawn, you aren't going to find the fatal flaw in a culture by looking at its fucking cooking.

>>14710559
kys weeb fuck

>>14710783
Japanese food is not supposed to be refined. If you go to Japan you'll see all the classically trained chefs cook Chinese food. Japanese food in Japan is to American food in America what Chinese food in Japan is to French food in America

>>14710860
You lost me

>>14710860
>If you go to Japan you'll see all the classically trained chefs cook Chinese food.

>>14710860

>>14710215
Jesus imagine trying to eat all that

>>14710261
A flavor profile is the full profile. A food can't have more than one. It means the whole thing.

>>14710215
>t. never heard of thailand

>>14710826
Honestly looking at the cooking of any given country will probably tell you a lot about them and their values.

>>14711098
Maybe if your chef is a fucking scrub.

>>14711136
You can learn things about them, yes, but not literally why their culture succeeds when another fails.

>>14710860
the fuck are you on about? take your meds

>>14711124
no, we only make fun of the asian countries we hear about on cnn
china japan korea
geography is too hard to pay attention to

>>14710333
A lot of Japanese "home" cooking all starts with soy sauce/mirin/sake, and sometimes miso. I spent the 'rona lockdown cooking J food and basically if you start with that seasoning base, it'll taste Japanese.

>>14710559
what is this soup called? the japanese place near me serves it with some of their set meals and I love it, but they just call it "pork soup". Is it tonjiro? None of the google pics are as exact matches to their soup as yours is...