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History Comes Inside! posted:Nah I kept it strictly TGI for two meals out of all the meals I ate in Japan, truly I am a Western monster with no respect. I mean pigs are just tickled pink by rolling around in literal poo poo all day, so yes in that sense I’m sure you’ll enjoy yourself
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LimburgLimbo posted:Lol if you such a child that you don’t want to experience different food. Straight up just don’t leave your country. Like not liking certain things or whatever is fine but you’re a dumb rear end in a top hat if you flat out refuse to eat anything at all that’s not explicitly your home country/culture’s food. when I saw there were 41 new posts I was sure someone came out swinging and here we are
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LimburgLimbo posted:I mean pigs are just tickled pink by rolling around in literal poo poo all day, so yes in that sense I’m sure you’ll enjoy yourself This ain't conjecture either, the man is speaking from continued experience.
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Jun 6, 2019 09:40
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The Great Autismo! posted:when I saw there were 41 new posts I was sure someone came out swinging and here we are This is why you should keep your lunches to strictly two martinis.
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Jun 6, 2019 09:42
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LimburgLimbo posted:Lol if you such a child that you don’t want to experience different food. Straight up just don’t leave your country. Like not liking certain things or whatever is fine but you’re a dumb rear end in a top hat if you flat out refuse to eat anything at all that’s not explicitly your home country/culture’s food. No offense, but the irony of you calling someone a child while also complaining about what random people (completely unrelated to you) do or do not want to eat is rather amusing. Nice meltdown.
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Why come to Japan and not get all your calories from Strong Zeroes and konbini food?
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Archer666 posted:Why come to Japan and not get all your calories from Strong Zeroes and konbini food? good question
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Thanatosian posted:I have a friend who is studying Japanese in one of the outlying areas of Tokyo, and I think me and a mutual friend of his are going to go visit him. He's got a summer break from late July through early September, a winter break from XMas through January 5th, and he'll be finishing up in March and we could do some time there, then. I'm inclined to say March, since I'm not in a huge rush, and that just seems like the best time to visit (best weather, cheap flights, avoiding tourist season, etc.). We would probably spend 10-14 days there, probably mostly in Tokyo (I've never been to Japan before, and neither has our mutual friend). This definitely won't be, like, a luxury vacation or anything, we'll probably share a room in mid-to-mid-low range hotels. All that being said, what would people recommend as far as timing? I figure late in the year will be busy just because that's when kids have time off in the U.S., but maybe not for going to Japan? March sounds good, but maybe a little earlier so your friend isn't dealing with school, moving out, and hosting a friend all at once. Do some days with three people, some days with two. Mix it up and let your host take a break too.
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PS. If you get injured I am kinda a specialist in medical translation and can handle all the documents.
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Jun 6, 2019 10:06
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Hey guess what I’m going to japan August
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caberham posted:Hey guess what I’m going to japan August That's not necessarily what "You're going to hell" means.
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sale on Banksy art posted:This is why you should keep your lunches to strictly two martinis. fun fact: he spent more on alcohol in a day than I spent in an entire month
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Jun 6, 2019 10:19
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Magna Kaser posted:good question The answer is izakaya and nihonshu.
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Some people aren't foodies. These days it seems like everyone's a foodie but some non-foodies do exist.
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I wouldn't call myself a foodie, but there are a hell of a lot of good restaurants in Tokyo and would suggest trying some, or even just wandering into random places.
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lol if you go to [insert country] and don't do what I think you should, in that case you are [insert insult], just don't even go to [insert previous country]
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Jun 6, 2019 11:04
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I really like trying different McDonald's offerings in different countries. On my last trip to Japan they had like a super mega big mac that was like 2 American big macs mashed together and I thought that was cool and I ate it.
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Jun 6, 2019 11:40
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Yeah that was fun. And going to Wendy’s
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The first time I went to Japan, McDonalds had a chicken burger covered with teriyaki sauce that isn't available in the UK and I will be shamed by no man into not eating that again.
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Question Mark Mound posted:The first time I went to Japan, McDonalds had a chicken burger covered with teriyaki sauce that isn't available in the UK and I will be shamed by no man into not eating that again. Is this an Odyssey joke?
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Jun 6, 2019 12:11
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Stringent posted:Is this an Odyssey joke? The Chicken Teritama was delicious and I want it again 
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Shaka shaka chicken with pepper sauce every time
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Horumon best food
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Question Mark Mound posted:The first time I went to Japan, McDonalds had a chicken burger covered with teriyaki sauce that isn't available in the UK and I will be shamed by no man into not eating that again. I suppose that’s kind of the irony, because McDonalds legitimately actually I think has more regional variations worldwide that are interesting to try, when compared to something like Outback, TGIF, Hard Rock or whathaveyou, despite McDonald’s being the go-to example of things Americans eat overseas when they can’t deal.
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caberham posted:Hey guess what I’m going to japan August You go to japan like every 1.5 months this isn’t even news smh
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My Chinese relatives are like that; they'll bring food, right down to instant ramen, from China to eat instead of eating food from wherever they went to. It's infuriating but whatever, they're old.. Look, it's fine if you every once in a while you just want something familiar. I went to Tokyo, had the Thanksgiving (or Xmas?) buffet at New Sanno, and went home once.. it was glorious. But really, super picky eaters are the loving worst. There are foods that people might understandably decline to try (pidan, rocky mountain oysters, etc...). But honestly, if you bring food from home to eat because you're afraid of the food when traveling, just save yourself the trouble and don't bother traveling. For the record, my relatives in question above went to the UK to help look after their newborn grandson. But given that they went to the UK, they were probably better off eating the instant ramen anyway. And what the gently caress is wrong with you all, baijiu is delicious. I love me some erguotou.
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LimburgLimbo posted:I suppose that’s kind of the irony, because McDonalds legitimately actually I think has more regional variations worldwide that are interesting to try, when compared to something like Outback, TGIF, Hard Rock or whathaveyou, despite McDonald’s being the go-to example of things Americans eat overseas when they can’t deal. lol
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totalnewbie posted:And what the gently caress is wrong with you all, baijiu is delicious. I love me some erguotou. I was born and raised in China, lived in Japan, and now hold a US passport. I am wrong in every way, all the drat time.
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totalnewbie posted:My Chinese relatives are like that; they'll bring food, right down to instant ramen, from China to eat instead of eating food from wherever they went to. It's infuriating but whatever, they're old.. Growing up, whenever we did family vacations my Chinese parents would also pack instant ramen, but that was more for like midnight snacks in a hotel room food rather than what we actually ate. We usually went out to eat local cuisine. Though now that I think about it, we usually would go to a Chinese restaurant at least once wherever we were. It just wasn't all the meals. I'm personally a picky eater, in that I can't stand seafood. My friends say that I'm the worst asian they know because of it. I'll still try to get out of my comfort zone and eat local food, but I can't help it if seafood induces a gag reflex in me. My mom makes fun of me when I go to Taiwan because she tells me of all the amazing things I can't eat but whatever, the things I can eat are still delicious! pezzie fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jun 6, 2019 |
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eating all the different foods, especially regional ones is one of the best parts of visiting japan imo food's good
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Any suggestions on sites/calendars to check for live music, specifically hip hop or jazz in Tokyo?
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Bofast posted:No offense, but the irony of you calling someone a child while also complaining about what random people (completely unrelated to you) do or do not want to eat is rather amusing. Lmao Alright I'm just going to put it out there so this thread can get another 40 posts and be less boring, but what Limburg said is actually right. If you're privileged enough to travel and experience the world and spend money and not willing to open your mind, that is pretty childish. Look, I used to have a gag reflex when eating cheese and lamb, but over the time have grown to enjoy them. The cheese reflex was absolutely caused by being lactose intolerant (most people who are lactose intolerant can eat enzymes which will partially solve that problem), but by trying out dishes repeatedly I eventually started liking it. Many people have had an experience with traveling with somebody whose mind is completely closed or who is unwilling to open themselves to another culture. For a person who grew up multicultural, it's really dumb and can often ruin vacations, and nobody really likes that experience. The lack of multiculturalism leads to people being super ignorant, and that sucks like poo poo. Nobody is going to openly say "you suck like poo poo" in person if were traveling with you since we're all adults; we're just going to never travel with you again. Limburg is just willing to say this on this thread directly because this is an internet forum. Thanks for listening and enjoy the rest of your day. Also you missed Taiwan, a country that is worth traveling to just for food.
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They do care they are just too kind to tell you it. I've had many conversations when I've gone to Minshuku, and the owner, after finding out I speak Japanese, immediately relaxes and tells me about <insert last awful experience with foreign group here who couldn't eat anything because they refused to eat fish and complained/became argumentative when they tried their hardest but couldn't work anything out> .
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LimburgLimbo posted:I was born and raised in China, lived in Japan, and now hold a US passport. Sorry that you can't handle liquor.
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ntan1 posted:They do care they are just too kind to tell you it. Sounds like they know how to mind their own business, wonderful people the Japanese. Jokes aside, this is a forum that, ironically, creates standardized (low cost) trips for tourists to do stuff locals don’t ever do or did once years ago. A lot of the advocacy for foody purity as some form of personal growth is probably because so many trips to Japan, especially first trips, are nothing more than experiencing caricatures or romanticized elements of that culture. Eating “correct foods” somehow grants legitimacy to the travel in ways staying in a local suburb of Tokyo and visiting local supermarkets/movies/etc. far from Downtown somehow doesn’t.
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Nah. Food is just good. There's too much good unique poo poo to eat things you can get back home without spending 1000 to get to it.
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ntan1 posted:Alright I'm just going to put it out there so this thread can get another 40 posts and be less boring, but what Limburg said is actually right. If you're privileged enough to travel and experience the world and spend money and not willing to open your mind, that is pretty childish. often, close-minded people are unwilling to try local food or eat locally. that's correct, I'm guessing. but that doesn't mean that people who are unwilling to eat the local food are closed-minded. you have an issue of directionality here you're making a massive jump from "you don't like the local food or want to try some local food? you are super ignorant and unwilling to open up to another culture." like that is a gigantic leap in logic, you seriously passed like three separate steps between those two statements. if you reversed them "you are super ignorant and unwilling to open up to another culture, thus you don't want to try the local food" you're probably correct, I'm guessing. but that's not what you said. for example, my brother has been to Japan to visit me and the family, is learning Japanese, follows the j-league, is in to Nintendo culture, has read a book or two about the history of Japan and is doing everything in his power to culturally reach across the aisle and be the best brother/brother-in-law/uncle he can be to me and my family. he doesn't really like Japanese food. that doesn't mean he is "super ignorant", all it means is that he doesn't like Japanese food. the idea that you think him not liking Japanese food means he is completely closed minded and is unwilling to open himself up to another culture is misguided
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I personally think Japanese food is cool and good and I love it and I encourage people to try everything. but if people don't like it and went all the way across the world to Japan to have a trip that they planned and are excited about but don't want to try the same Japanese foods that you personally like, then why does anyone care, how about we just try to encourage everyone to enjoy Japan in whatever way they feel best and feel most comfortable
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