/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15120487]

I'm going to catalogue food I ate over several years in Japan. I'll try to put in what I recall about the circumstances. Questions are welcome.
The first is a grocery basket from Shizutetsu store with Caspian Sea yogurt, a small cup of Ben and Jerry's, and a discounted pack of beef with a packet of wasabi.

[Anonymous No.15120497]

A glass of ochawari, sometimes even called Shizuokawari. It's green tea and shochu. This was during Shizuoka Omachi Baru, a kind of restaurant crawl event.

[Anonymous No.15120505]

From the same event, but at a coffee shop instead of a bar. Tiramisu.

[Anonymous No.15120510]

>>15120505
That's some weird coloration

[Anonymous No.15120511]

And from the same event, this time its green tea tiramisu. I called it "Shizuoka as hell" at the time, which made my friend working in Shizuoka tourism laugh very hard.

[Anonymous No.15120517]

Shizuoka Wasabi double burger and mochiko chicken, from Cherry Beans.

[Anonymous No.15120522]

A box of Halloween chocolates. This old racist teacher I hung out with fucking loved Halloween, but I didn't know they made chocolate assortments like this for it!

[Anonymous No.15120525]

A bento during an annual job training conference in Kakegawa. I didn't eat bento often, so I always enjoyed it when it happened.

[Anonymous No.15120530]

The first and only Christmas Cake I ever bought, from a Châteraisè right next to my apartment.

[Anonymous No.15120537]

Okonomiyaki from a famous Osaka chain. I stupidly took a trip during the new year, so almost everything was closed which left me a lot of time to hunt for restaurants.

[Anonymous No.15120542]

A meal from Pepper Lunch at Cenova mall.
Good, cheap, fast food teppanyaki.

[Anonymous No.15120545]

I'm a sucker for tiramisu, so when I saw a tiramisu crepe advertised in Akihabara I couldn't resist.

[Anonymous No.15120550]

If memory serves, this was a homemade valentines treat from a cooking course student.

[Anonymous No.15120552]

Based thread

[Anonymous No.15120553]

My late mother's cookie recipe, as interpreted by students of the club I co-lead.

[Anonymous No.15120557]

First meal at Yakushima, famous for fresh fish.

[Anonymous No.15120562]

Saag chicken curry from my favorite Indocurry shop Dahami. They knew I liked my curry hot and kept daring me to try the hottest, so this was the day I did.

[Anonymous No.15120568]

Imported sardines from Kaldi. I found the chili sauce to be the best way to go, so I'd often buy a week's worth at a time leaving barely any for other customers. Usually I'd have them with a salad for lunch.

[Anonymous No.15120569]

Various pieces from a tonkatsu restaurant in Shizuoka station. I think it was the only time I ever went there actually.

[Anonymous No.15120575]

Cocoichi curry with chicken, spinach, and some extra fried chicken on top. I usually got level 3. It's strange, but 4 was just too much.

[Anonymous No.15120576]

We had a 'Sweden Party' and tried various ethnic swede foods

[Anonymous No.15120579]

Doughnuts from Good Town Doughnuts, I think in Harajuku.

[Anonymous No.15120582]

The Power Breakfast from Gemminy's, a local cafe. The omelet uses local eggs, which isn't hard. There were actually local egg vending machines where farmers would put their stock into cubbies and you could just go up and buy some. Very cool.

[Anonymous No.15120583]

Chestnut kitkat.

[Anonymous No.15120588]

A basic egg sandwich from Aoi Brewing Cafe. I spent many a morning walking an hour to this Cafe right as they opened, to leisurely weekly enjoy breakfast and a black iced coffee while the entire place was empty.
Afterwards, I'd spend the day walking the city and window shopping at recycle shops and bookstores.
Top comfy.

[Anonymous No.15120591]

we didn’t drop enough bombs on them. and all weebs should kys

[Anonymous No.15120593]

>>15120576
SWEDEN NO

[Anonymous No.15120598]

I remember this cart well. I had worked on Saturday that weekend, and pulled a muscle in my back on Sunday ruining my weekend plan to meet with a friend. But I had Monday off and found this half price tiramisu on the Monday that I had off.

[Anonymous No.15120600]

$5 for 80g of beef
Salary in Tokyo is like $25,000 a year for Software/IT
I don't know how these guys survive

[Anonymous No.15120606]

Three just fantastic flavors of Pringles.

[Anonymous No.15120613]

"Cheese hot dog" from Shizunosai.
I had expected a hotdog covered with cheese and fried, but it turned out to be just a giant mozzarella stick.
Still good though.

[Anonymous No.15120619]

Shizuoka Wasabi kitkat, aka the best fucking kitkat.

[Anonymous No.15120622]

>>15120606
Do these actually sell consistently? I always wonder if they're just memes only available for a few weeks, like they would be in the US

[Anonymous No.15120624]

Snack + Nuts = Snuts
I laughed way too fucking hard at these.

[Anonymous No.15120641]

Hug is a popular local coffee shop with a few locations, but at one specific 7-11 they also sold souvenirs.
This was of particular interest because my late mother was a lactation consultant, she would've loved this.
>>15120622
Pretty much all flavors are limited time with a handful of exceptions, and they rotate them out frequently for other wacky flavors.

[Anonymous No.15120643]

A calzone, pumpkin pudding, and fruit drink I can't quite recall, from my final Shizunosai.

[Anonymous No.15120651]

Various kitkat. Wasabi, strawberry tiramisu, and the bigass coffee one were my faves. I got these together to give to a friend visiting from overseas, and then lost the bag like a jackass.

[Anonymous No.15120662]

Parfait at Snow Brand Parlor, famous for Snow Royal ice cream created to serve the Emperor and Empress in Saporro. Staying in character, I got tiramisu.

[Anonymous No.15120669]

Completely average unremarkable spaghetti... Except that Ishiya Cafe served it for breakfast!

[Anonymous No.15120672]

Saporro Black ramen, famous from a particular late night ramen shop. The sad part is that the restaurant proclaims the owner wants to make other styles of ramen, but this has become so popular he can't escape it.

[Anonymous No.15120675]

A selection of stuff from a Saporro hotel breakfast buffet. I only took a bit of soup curry, and wouldn't truly appreciate it until about a year later on my second trip.

[Anonymous No.15120680]

Aburasoba from Noodle Stand Tokyo, and among my favorite noodle dishes I had in Japan.

[Anonymous No.15120687]

Breakfast from Sawamura Bakery, I want to say in Shinjuku but I can't quite remember.

[Anonymous No.15120692]

This is breakfast ramen, a tradition in Fujieda, Shizuoka. The broth is fish based. It isn't nearly as heavy as tonkotsu.
Well it is still heavy, though

[Anonymous No.15120697]

This is just a cup of cocoa, but it's still kind of cool. A coworker would make matcha for himself in the traditional style every day, and sometimes he'd make it for me too. One day he offered cocoa instead, but then proceeded to make it in the same style as matcha.

[Anonymous No.15120698]

based thread

[Anonymous No.15120700]

>>15120487
What prefecture/city were you in?

[Anonymous No.15120709]

Package of Final Fantasy themed karaage-kun chicken nuggets. The coolest part is the register would play the FF fanfare when you bought them.
>>15120700
Shizuoka/Shizuoka

[Anonymous No.15120718]

Accurate advertising, though I didn't try them.

[Anonymous No.15120726]

Takoyaki machines working hard at a club takoyaki party.

[Anonymous No.15120727]

>>15120672
Is it black from sesame seeds (rich), squid ink (fishy), or beans (sweet and starchy)?

[Anonymous No.15120732]

With extra batter they made pancakes though.

[Anonymous No.15120735]

>>15120709
>Shizuoka/Shizuoka
nice.
I lived in Numazu for a couple years. I miss the food over there every day. Cool thread for my morning coffee.

[Anonymous No.15120746]

A plastic model of sakura ebi, cherry blossom shrimp. Shixuoka's Suruga Bay is their largest habitat, and I believe the only area where they are harvested in significant quantity.
>>15120735
Oh nice, man! I've been asked a few times to do a thread like this so I figured why not. And it is nice to reminisce.

[Anonymous No.15120754]

A combination plate from Aloha Table. The loco moco was the star, though.

[Anonymous No.15120765]

Egg sandwich flavored Pringles. They really were eggy.

[Anonymous No.15120775]

A shockingly elaborate display of what I belive was every currently available variety of kitkat from the Chocolatrey at the time.

[Anonymous No.15120780]

Crummy grocery store pizza with plenty of corn.

[Anonymous No.15120787]

A hilariously thin corned beef Ruben from a coffee shop.

[Anonymous No.15120800]

Koiwai coffee milk, the fucking best coffee milk.

[Anonymous No.15120810]

Kakigoori (shaved ice) but with blueberries! Blueberries aren't so common a topping. This was from a local traditional sweets shop, right next door to Buisness Hotel Sunpu where I put up my family when they came to visit.

[Anonymous No.15120813]

Chicken avocado sandwich, a favorite of mine from a local cafe.

[Anonymous No.15120815]

amazing thread, living the dream OP

[Anonymous No.15120823]

A delicious spicy snack
>>15120815
Lived, past tense. I miss it dearly. I might try to go back, but... I don't know.

[Anonymous No.15120828]

Competition practice soba from cooking club students.
Soba was the first meal I had when I came to Japan as a tourist, years before moving there. When I was served this soba for the first time it blew my mind a little bit.

[Anonymous No.15120832]

Odeco's absolutely wonderful plate lunch. They closed down a few years back, a real tragedy.

[Anonymous No.15120835]

My favorite flavor of pocky. I think you can guess why.

[Anonymous No.15120840]

>>15120787
A lot of delis in New York overstuff the Reubens, to be fair. Nothing is worse than soggy bread though

[Anonymous No.15120845]

Tiramisu Frappuccino from the Starbucks in MarkIs. I would've rather had a normal tiramisu.

[Anonymous No.15120853]

Another discount card, including absolutely wonderful mint chocolate kitkats.

[Anonymous No.15120859]

>>15120487
Is that beef in a pastry box?

[Anonymous No.15120861]

Oyakodon is a rice bowl dish with chicken and barely cooked egg. But this oyakodon is special. It's from Tamahide, the restaurant that invented the dish around the end of the Meiji era. There was only about a twenty minute wait to get in, not so bad to consume history.

[Anonymous No.15120872]

>>15120828
Why it's so white?

[Anonymous No.15120879]

Taiyaki, but instead of anpan this had a hotdog inside. This was in Ikebukuro attached to the Sega arcade right across from Sunshine City.
>>15120859
I don't think that box is specifically for pastry, no.
>>15120872
No idea? Perhaps that's a mistake? It was practice soba, after all.

[Anonymous No.15120885]

A big load of Shizuoka style oden. Oden is a popular einter stew composed mainly of fishcake, but also potato and egg.

[Anonymous No.15120887]

>>15120530
Is each slice a different flavour?

[Anonymous No.15120897]

One of the best oyakodon I ever had, at a restaurant on Yakushima.
>>15120887
Not entirely. There were two strawberry slices and I think two chocolate almond slices, but I can't quite recall the rest offhand. One was green tea and one was coffee for sure, though.

[Anonymous No.15120902]

Not Japanese, but a connection between Japan and Brazil. I had never heard of it but it's apparently THE Brazilian soda.

[Anonymous No.15120907]

Mint chocolate freakshake at Cookie Time in Harajuku. I'm particularly pleased with the glint of the sun coming through the pocky.

[Anonymous No.15120914]

>>15120897
Most of the food you're posting looks great! It's quite interesting as well

[Anonymous No.15120916]

Shirako sushi from Kurazushi. Shirako means "white children." I ate it because all my friends were pussies about it.
Can you guess what this is?

[Anonymous No.15120930]

The best damn pizza in the city, at Anan. An old brick building covered in ivy, only four tables in the cramped space, and the staff was curt bordering on rude. But what good pizza.

[Anonymous No.15120935]

The meal at my farewell party from work. It was absolutely delicious and far too much food.
I didn't dunno drink much at all before coming to Japan. But at my welcome party I only drank one beer, and at my farewell party I drank three.

[Anonymous No.15120944]

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.

[Anonymous No.15120949]

Blue Seal is a famous Okinawan brand of ice cream. I'd heard of it but never got the opportunity to try it until it showed up at the 7-11 next to my apartment. Salty milk worked far better than I expected.

[Anonymous No.15120952]

>>15120916
Looks like soft roe/milt

Very jealous about every one of these photos

[Anonymous No.15120956]

Here's a restaurant quality display of the same oden dish here (which was homemade)
>>15120885

>>15120952
Got it in one, yeah.

[Anonymous No.15120959]

comfy thread. will read later.

[Anonymous No.15120967]

A donut made with mikan (mandarin orange) peel as a study in getting the most nutrition out of fruit. One of the last things I ate made by a student.

[Anonymous No.15120978]

Boba tea became incredibly popular in the last few months I was in Japan. Boba places had existed, but hadn't done well. But something just clicked and suddenly they all had huge lines.

[Anonymous No.15120984]

>>15120978
Japan is all about vintage americana, I guess boba became so flyover tier in the US that it now qualifies as quaint rustic USA style to cool japanese urbanites

[Anonymous No.15120989]

My real farewell meal from work, at a sushi restaurant just across the street. Felt bittersweet man. Mono no aware to the max.

[Anonymous No.15121000]

Another curry dish from my favorite spot. I wanted to include it because I asked for a smaller bowl of rice than normal and they obliged. Changes/substitutions are usually refused in Japan, though it helps that this place was run by Sri Lankans.

[Anonymous No.15121008]

>>15120916
sperm?
>>15120832
what was in the little jar on the left?

[Anonymous No.15121015]

Better than it had any right to be mint kakigoori from 7-11. My final trip included a lot of walking around Japan in the summer, so I ate these with little hesitation.
>>15121008
That was a very nice pudding.

[Anonymous No.15121023]

Breakfast from an excellent cafe in Saporro.

[Anonymous No.15121040]

Purin (Japanese pudding) with bitter caramel sauce and snow royal ice cream, from the same shop as the tiramisu parfait.

[Anonymous No.15121048]

Wonderfully fluffy pancake from Ishiya cafe.

[Anonymous No.15121056]

Soup curry, a Hokkaido specialty. I spent a week there and ate this almost every day. Just incredible.

[Anonymous No.15121066]

It's even better with pumpkin.

[Anonymous No.15121081]

I don't recall the origin of this flavor, but I fucking love that Japan added an interobang to emphasize how unusual it is.

[Anonymous No.15121088]

Soba ice cream, from a popular soba shop in Otaru.
It wasn't amazing but I'm glad I tried it, since I love both soba and ice cream.

[Anonymous No.15121097]

The best ice cream I've ever had, from a small shop called Barnes in Saporro. It's run by two sisters, it isn't so far from the Olympic museum.
They have one main flavor: milk. They have a second flavor that changes monthly. They only do softcream. And it has the most sublime texture I've ever experienced.

[Anonymous No.15121110]

Another milk ice cream, but this time with maple syrup. Maple syrup isn't super common in Japan, especially as an ice cream topping, so I had to try it.

[Anonymous No.15121116]

From Saporro to Fukuoka, we've got some hakata ramen. I had never seen that second spoon for gathering solid bits from the soup.

[Anonymous No.15121125]

A gelato shop had sea salt flavor, so as a KH fan I wanted to try it. They also had tiramisu, so why the fuck not?

[Anonymous No.15121144]

Nagasaki champon from Shikairo, the restaurant that invented it. This place was insane. Quite large, line winding through the whole place. I was Powhatan prepared to wait a long time but it was only like a half hour. And the view is incredible too.

[Anonymous No.15121145]

>>15121116
>I had never seen that second spoon for gathering solid bits from the soup.
That's kinda widespread, but for cooking, not eating.

[Anonymous No.15121167]

Nagasaki butaman are miniature nikuman pork buns. I think normal nikuman have too much bun so I preferred these. But I also prefer sliders to large burgers, too.
>>15121145
I've seen slotted spoons before, if that's what you mean. But not as a dining utensil paired with a common spoon.

[Anonymous No.15121173]

thank you so much this is great!

[Anonymous No.15121181]

Kakuniman, a braised pork belly bun that just melts in your mouth. When I said I was going to Nagasaki, a coworker immediately recommended I try this. They were correct.

[Anonymous No.15121183]

based thread anon; keep up the good work

[Anonymous No.15121185]

Here's a better shot. It's was so good I'm showing it twice!

[Anonymous No.15121192]

And here is the adorable mascot.

[Anonymous No.15121201]

Yakitori with negi is my favorite kind, and this was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.15121213]

Wonderful breakfast at an old style cafe. The workers were so old it was hard to speak loud enough to get their attention.

[Anonymous No.15121229]

Look at these great coffee cups!

[Anonymous No.15121244]

Turkish Rice is a Nagasaki dish with foreign influence, but look at this night view from Inasayama

[Anonymous No.15121258]

>>15120872
>>15120879
Soba noodles can be white
it means most of the hull was shaved off before milled into powder
the best of the best soba is made from 100% shaved soba without AP flour mixed in: Sarashina Ki Ippon, slightly transculent with amplified springiness makes for the best in texture

[Anonymous No.15121261]

Sasebo is a city that was occupied by the US after the war, and had developed a strong hamburger culture known throughout the county.
This was a torotoro cheeseburger, the name referring to the melty cheese.

[Anonymous No.15121273]

This was the second sasebo burger I had, though it wasn't quite as good even if it had more stuff. Sometimes simple is best, and that's often a strength of Japanese food.

[Anonymous No.15121274]

>>15121244
>rice AND pasta

.........do they really?

[Anonymous No.15121286]

A rarity for me, Japanese style breakfast in Sasebo.
>>15121274
Maybe because it's a foreign influenced food and foreigners obviously eat carbs on carbs

[Anonymous No.15121292]

Sara udon is another Nagasaki dish from the same restaurant as Champon, but I actually had this in Fukuoka. Glad I didn't miss it, though! The heavy sticky sauce softened the crispy noodles a bit in a really nice way.

[Anonymous No.15121301]

Excellent pull apart cinnamon rolls from the cooking club.

[Anonymous No.15121308]

>>15121292
breh
you are eating HK Chow Mein
but yeah the softened egg noodles that was hopefully fried in lard tastes like heaven

[Anonymous No.15121320]

Curry with both katsu and karaage at Fujiyama Dragon Curry in Akihabara.
The katsu was much better than the karaage.
>>15121308
It's from Nagasaki, I'm not surprised it's a dish based on foreign food. So are champon and kakuniman.

[Anonymous No.15121326]

Nagasaki castella with ice cream inbetween. Big improvement to plain old castella.

[Anonymous No.15121332]

Tiramisu kakigoori, from the day before I left. It was from a chocolate shop, and really it just tasted like chocolate kakigoori. Still though.

[Anonymous No.15121341]

A spread from my last real meal in Shizuoka, at a restaurant that specializes in wasabi dishes. Everything has wasabi in it. The wasabi and sharkskin grater was actually to put wasabi into a mojito, which was wonderful. And the sushi rolls only have wasabi, no fish. They're called crying rolls.

[Anonymous No.15121353]

A far too large burger from Johnny's Jawaiian Burger in Hamamatsu.
The smallish woman who organized the trip out there convinced me to go for it because she was getting one too. She them proceeded to split it with someone, playing me for a fool. It was too much, man.

[Anonymous No.15121369]

Wisteria ice cream from a Fujieda festival. Pretty darn good.

[Anonymous No.15121376]

Ice cream with purin on the bottom. Oh man, it was good.

[Anonymous No.15121380]

Wasabi ice cream at Nihondaira. I could've tried sakura ebi, but I love wasabi.

[Anonymous No.15121391]

Kirbyman, maxim tomato fkavored. I got the very last one on the last day of sale.

[Anonymous No.15121395]

My dad, absolutely thrilled with his very first parfait.

[Anonymous No.15121401]

Gyuudon Pringles which my visiting family claimed smelled like dog food.

[Anonymous No.15121409]

Egg tart from Eggcellent in Roppongi. This place was so fucking good.

[Anonymous No.15121418]

Kuro diamond from Burger King. Pretty good, kind of had tangyness I attributed to the squid ink but honestly I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.15121433]

>>15121391
tomatoe flavor? how was that? was it filled? what was the consistency like?

[Anonymous No.15121443]

A set from Osawa Engawa Cafe, an area of the mountains with and 25 old tea growing families.
About $3 gets you a unique cup of tea and small plates of food from one of the houses, and they all serve different things.
One of the most wonderful experiences I had.

[Anonymous No.15121447]

>>15120487
Thanks OP
For so long i had been idealizing japanese food but now i see the truth, it's real fucking trash

[Anonymous No.15121451]

And here's another. The most excellent place.

[Anonymous No.15121457]

When my brother came to visit he really wanted Fugu so here is some.

[Anonymous No.15121467]

>>15120522
I want hear more about this racist teacher.

[Anonymous No.15121475]

>>15121457
And here's a bit more.

[Anonymous No.15121480]

>>15121447
this

[Anonymous No.15121483]

My first birthday in Japan was about two months after I arrived. I had only just started teaching, and on that particular day I was questioning my suitability and life choices.
I walked into class concerned about a disaster, but my teacher and students had planned a surprise party for me.
I honestly don't know how they even knew it was my birthday.

[Anonymous No.15121505]

The racist teacher abs I often go to coffee shops. She ordered this red bean and ice cream dish at an old cafe.
>>15121467
The funniest fucking part about it is that she taught English and diversity. She wanted me to move to Japan and marry a Japanese girl.
She was racist against Koreans and Chinese, and seemed unaware that her own prejudice was in direct opposition to the things she was teaching students.
>>15121447
>>15121480
Idealizing Japan is unironically bad.

[Anonymous No.15121509]

Wasabi ramune, just a bit of spiceness on the back end.

[Anonymous No.15121510]

>>15121395
That's wholesome and cute

[Anonymous No.15121516]

Idol cup noodles. Extra cute.

[Anonymous No.15121526]

Japanese Full English, at World Breakfast All Day.

[Anonymous No.15121528]

>>15121505
>Idealizing Japan is unironically bad.
Your pics are only making it look more ideal

[Anonymous No.15121533]

A small bit of oden I ate myself, once.

[Anonymous No.15121547]

Lasagna and tiramisu from a small Italian place. A friend I know invited me out with "Do you want to eat lasagna and tiramisu in Dec XX?"
Who the fuck would say no to that?

[Anonymous No.15121561]

Food adjacent, here's a shot of the fish market in Yaizu.

[Anonymous No.15121572]

Food adjacent, here's a row of stalls at Shizuoka festival during cherry blossom season.

[Anonymous No.15121588]

Yakushika, deer served two ways. It was so good.

[Anonymous No.15121597]

One of my favorite candies, it's a chocolate mochi sweet served in packs of four.
The best was a chocolate mint version.

[Anonymous No.15121604]

Breakfast buffet in Fukuoka.

[Anonymous No.15121619]

Food adjacent, this advertisement for a hot spring with a yuzu bath just looks delightful huh?

[Anonymous No.15121638]

Thanks for sharing OP!

[Anonymous No.15121661]

Some homemade rice balls at a barbecue in the mountain area of Aoi Ward

[Anonymous No.15121667]

>>15120576
how dare you try to slander my country like that. that shit is not ethnic anywhere you rancid swine

[Anonymous No.15121674]

>>15120522
>>15121467

I had science,English,math, teachers growing up but never ones that specifically taught racism. Had to learn that on my own by being liberal and living in cities in my 20s. Sounds fun tho

[Anonymous No.15121676]

Chicken nanaban, just fried chicken with tartar sauce basically. It's based on a Portuguese fish dish, I believe. I wanted to go to the restaurant where it was invented when I was in Fukuoka, but it was just a bit too far.

[Anonymous No.15121688]

>>15120487
>Ben and Jerry's
>Eating the faggot cream
Shame

[Anonymous No.15121691]

An ice cream vending machine, with a notable tiramisu flavor. This was probably at Higadhishizuoka station.

[Anonymous No.15121697]

Man, all these pics are reminding me of the food I ate there and now I want to go back

Pic related, black ramen I had in Kyoto

[Anonymous No.15121707]

>>15121505
What a coincidence, I’m Korean.

[Anonymous No.15121709]

An absolutely smashing cup of cocoa I had when my teacher friend got
>>15121505

>>15121674
That's the funniest part, she taught English and diversity/multiculturalism at a university. But clearly she meant only for non-Asian people.

[Anonymous No.15121722]

Pepper Lunch's most famous dish, pepper rice.
This is simple enough I should just make it myself. Man is it good.

[Anonymous No.15121727]

>>15120568
those deenz look delicious. How was the chili sauce?

[Anonymous No.15121734]

You better believe I enjoyed this.
>>15121727
Just great. Good flavor and heat. I'm still not the biggest fan of fish but this made the deenz pretty damn good.

[Anonymous No.15121752]

This ad always made me laugh.it just doesn't seem like a good pairing.

[Anonymous No.15121760]

I mentioned Sasebo's burger culture, well here is the mascot.

[Anonymous No.15121777]

A standard burger from Cherry Beans, but I wanted to show off the fries because they are fairly heavily peppered and it fucking works.
Salt and pepper your fries, dudes.

[Anonymous No.15121792]

A pile of souvenir snacks from when I returned home.
The Hokkaido melon and cheese kitkats are the secret best flavor.
I think I'm running out of pics, but I'll check back in if I find any stragglers.

[Anonymous No.15121802]

ARIGATO GOZAIMAS

[Anonymous No.15121813]

Also, the first time I went out drinking the racist teacher sent me an email the next day.
"You have a great pretty to heal others, so everyone is full of energy today."
Felt good man.
>>15121802
Dou itashimashite.

[Anonymous No.15121822]

Ah, this was a bit more of the food from that barbecue. Good times.

[Anonymous No.15121824]

Outstanding thread OP, thank you.

[Anonymous No.15121841]

>>15121802
KONICHIHA NIPPONJIN DESUE! GENKI DESUE KA?! NIPPON HA SUGOI KAWAI!!

[Anonymous No.15121847]

seeing the cuisines of other places gives me wanderlust as much as anything. OP, if you don't mind me asking, how long were you there for and why? were you staying in a hotel or living somewhere proper?

[Anonymous No.15121964]

Here's the green tea produced by students I taught.
>>15121824
Glad you enjoyed.
>>15121847
I was an English teacher in Shizuoka for 5 years. I took a handful of trips in that time, which is where the other pictures are from.

[Anonymous No.15122088]

Based tiramisuchad

[Anonymous No.15122110]

>>15120517
>>15120525
>>15120530
>>15120569
>>15120579
tasty
>>15120582
i never knew japanese places could serve slices of bread

[Anonymous No.15122250]

>>15121081
>shokata
it's lemon elderflower. it's popular in the balkans.

[Anonymous No.15122265]

>>15122088
I was thrilled the first time I went to conveyor belt sushi and they had tiramisu for ¥100 as a dessert option. I knew it must be pretty popular to be available like that, and I was not disappointed.
>>15122110
Japan fucking loves bread my man. At the school festival the line would wrap around the school gym for people to buy the cooking club's bread, and the cooking club would sleep over at the school to bake late into the night to prepare.
>>15122250
Thanks! I was happy to find something new and interesting.

[Anonymous No.15122288]

>>15122250
Elderflower is popular here in Austria as well. I'm drinking elderflower syrup mixed with mineral water right now.

[Anonymous No.15122313]

>>15122288
>Elderflower
That shit has recently blown up everywhere here.

[Anonymous No.15122314]

>>15120487
i've been waiting for this thread

thank you shizuoka anon

[Anonymous No.15122328]

>>15121081
I'm only basing this off of watching anime but I think "socata" is / sounds similar to the expression for "is that so?"

[Anonymous No.15122445]

Sometimes when you buy a drink it has a prize attached, often a drink holding sleeve.
>>15122314
Heh, I hope it's been anything approaching interesting.

[Anonymous No.15122456]

Melonpan from a Fukuoka train station bread shop, flanked by croissant and anpan.
The bread shops are so good.

[Anonymous No.15122475]

Delicious tempura, not that it's difficult to make fried food good.

[Anonymous No.15122485]

Taco rice from Locomani, a wonderful tiny restaurant right near Shizuoka Station. This was the first place I had ever heard of it.

[Anonymous No.15122510]

There was a deli close to Tokyo station that had challah bread. One of my coworkers would sometimes ask me religious questions, so I bought some up share with him (among other teachers).
He paid me back with these pretty wagashi, sweets to be eaten with matcha.

[Anonymous No.15122520]

>>15122510
>One of my coworkers would sometimes ask me religious questions, so I bought some up share with him (among other teachers).

wat

[Anonymous No.15122536]

This one was cool. It's an okonomiyaki style dish that won a cooking contest students at my school joined. There are elements of a Shizuoka ingredients in it, like a Wasabi sauce and Sakura Eni included. They sold it at the local Shizutetsu grocery store chain.
>>15122520
He was interested in religion and asked me about Christianity and Judaism. Challah bread is a great bread made and eaten by Jewish people on the sabbath, it's a religious food I'm sure he had never had before.
Plus it makes an absurd French toast. I don't know if it's common all over America, but in the northeast where I grew up diners often served challah French toast.

[Anonymous No.15122552]

Damn this thread is based.

[Anonymous No.15122553]

Damn, I guess that was the image limit.
I'm glad I finally did this.
This was only a few years worth of pics. If I ever dig through my older stuff maybe I'll do this again. I really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.15122560]

>>15122553
Thanks for going through all the effort, OP.

[Anonymous No.15122650]

>>15122536
i like to make bread pudding with a loaf of challah, which is really just french toast scraps
people love it, but i never really thought about it being traditional somewhere

[Anonymous No.15122678]

>>15120487
op just curious but how fat are you
some of those portions look huge

[Anonymous No.15122756]

>>15120487
Looks so terrible

[Anonymous No.15122763]

>>15120522
Tell more about the true hero: racist teacher

[Anonymous No.15122769]

>>15120530
Lame

[Anonymous No.15122776]

>>15120582
Porqueria

[Anonymous No.15122788]

>>15120662
You are so gay.

[Anonymous No.15122791]

>>15122678
many of the pictures are from very close up, OP must have been almost sticking his camera into the food.

[Anonymous No.15122798]

>>15120780
Corn. Disgusting.

[Anonymous No.15122806]

>>15120902
So naive. Learn more.

[Anonymous No.15122833]

>>15122678
>>15122791
My eyes are not good, so I often take pretty close up shots. Japan is not known for huge portions
>>15122763
Hmmm, uh, she had this good friend who also did multicultural activities. But eventually they got into an argument about something and stopped hanging out. It must have been some real shit, they both seemed quick to be nasty if they were upset.
>>15122806
About what?

[Anonymous No.15122865]

>>15122833
ahh, makes sense now that i've given it a second look
thanks for the thread op! i'll link it to a few friends who've always wanted to go to japan

[Anonymous No.15122879]

Great thread

[Anonymous No.15122910]

>>15122553
yes thanks for a great thread.. now im hungry

[Anonymous No.15123163]

>>15120583
how are these? saw them last time i went to uwajimaya in the states but passed them up and got strawberry cheesecake instead.

[Anonymous No.15123242]

>>15123163
Honestly I don't remember them so well, which leads me to believe they are decent but not amazing.

[Anonymous No.15123386]

How did you end up in Japan?

[Anonymous No.15123653]

that was a really nice thread.
Thank you OP.

[Anonymous No.15123843]

>>15123386
I applied to the JET Program.
>>15123653
I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.15123853]

>>15123163
I prefer them to the strawberry one for sure.
It seem to lie on that "roasted nut" side of flavor. Pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.15123861]

>>15123843
>I applied to the JET Program.
cringe

[Anonymous No.15123961]

Japan looks like you could enjoy living in a dystopia with all those interesting foods... like being a salary man would be ok if you could sample something new like that daily. O well, maybe in next lift.

[Anonymous No.15123983]

>>15121395
I’ve never had a experience like this with my dad.

[Anonymous No.15123999]

>>15120510
Google: "What makes red velvet cake red"

[Anonymous No.15124048]

>>15120687
What's the orange soupy thing?

[Anonymous No.15124054]

>>15124048
Just a soup.

[Anonymous No.15124101]

>>15123961
>like being a salary man would be ok if you could sample something new like that daily
you really don't know.

[Anonymous No.15124109]

>>15120505
very poor presentation, surprised it's Japanese, maybe Zainichi owner.

[Anonymous No.15124116]

>>15124109
t. racist Japanese teacher

[Anonymous No.15124184]

>>15124116
>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH WAXISM, SAVE ME FEMINISM

[Anonymous No.15124334]

Is this how you ate all the time? It all looks so refreshing and pleasant

[Anonymous No.15124537]

>>15121395
your dad looks a dang ol' sweetheart

[Anonymous No.15124685]

>>15122553
Very cool thread anon, thanks

[Anonymous No.15125214]

>>15121000
>curry
>not served with basmati
This is really fucking wierd

[Anonymous No.15125890]

>>15120525
I'm looking for a bento box, it cant be pinku (that's Japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (that's Japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute). Also It has to be about 10-20 bux. And you have to post pics of it first (i want to make shure it's kawaii [cute]). And it would be nice if it came with matching chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks). OH! and it CANNOT have any cartoon pictures, or be made out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would be nice if it was made in japan. and not in china or corea (Korea) or whatever. I have found a bento box similar to the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i don't want my gohan (rice) to touch my other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii)

[Anonymous No.15126596]

>>15121467
He sounds based.

[Anonymous No.15126600]

>>15121547
That lasagna looks like garbage.

[Anonymous No.15127036]

>>15126596
She. In her late 60s or early 70s.
>>15126600
I don't disagree. It tasted fine. The tiramisu didn't use lady fingers either.

[Anonymous No.15127551]

>>15127036
>The tiramisu didn't use lady fingers either.

Did it have something else in it instead? Or was it just cream?

[Anonymous No.15127560]

Whats the difference in the japanese takes in western food?

[Anonymous No.15127631]

>>15127551
I think they often use a thin cake. Sometimes it's sold in stores as tiramisu cake rather than just tiramisu.
>>15127560
It's often just simpler, kind of. You ever hear the anime song where they make beef stroganoff with like, milk, salt, and pepper?
https://youtu.be/ibu_aoDrgTk

Kebab is just meat, tomato, cabbage, and sauce. It isn't heavily spiced, it isn't at complex as gyro or shawerma which I'm more used to. Japanese curry is based on British navel curry, and it kind of just has that standard flavor to it. There are always variations, but the base is the most common.
Hayashi rice is similar to curry but using a demiglace sauce, it's similarly foreign and similarly boringly standardized.
That said, both of those dishes (curry and Hayashi rice) are both really Japanese fusion food, and they're still more interesting than straight foreign foods simplified for Japanese tastes. See also Omurice.

[Anonymous No.15127677]

>>15127631
>You ever hear the anime song where they make beef stroganoff with like, milk, salt, and pepper?

That shit is constantly posted on /f/.

[Anonymous No.15127754]

>>15121229
It’s gorgeous
Great thread OP

[Anonymous No.15128006]

>>15120800
I used to get this at my local Marukai. It's good but the Sangaria coffee milk will forever be king

[Anonymous No.15128414]

>>15121395
10/10 mustache

[Anonymous No.15128464]

>find thread
thank you op, I have something to do now!!!

[Anonymous No.15130107]

>>15120487
coolio

[Anonymous No.15131764]

>>15120907
>I'm particularly pleased with the glint of the sun coming through the pocky.
very nice!

[Anonymous No.15131886]

>>15121443
what is the bottom right dish?

[Anonymous No.15131921]

>>15131886
Konyakku, also known as devil's tongue. I honestly couldn't tell you what's on it, though.