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Magna Kaser posted:i still get shengjianbao from that place in ikebukero every time im nearby cuz shengjianbao rule shengjianbao owns if you can get good shengjianbao the mapo tofu place sounds hilariously bad
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Kill All Cops posted:Sounds about right, Japan really loves their Ketchup and Mayo on everything Nah mapodoufu is an established dish which had a big boom a number of years ago and that’s absolutely out of the norm.
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LimburgLimbo posted:Nah mapodoufu is an established dish which had a big boom a number of years ago and that’s absolutely out of the norm. I just had it for lunch lol I just meant that I understand a Japanese Szechuan fusion place using tomato sauce for the mapo tofu sauce since they love ketchup on omurice Kill All Cops fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Kill All Cops posted:I just had it for lunch lol well, actually,
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Kill All Cops posted:I just had it for lunch lol Yeah I was also tempted to say I can imagine it being used if some place is trying to be “creative” but that’s distinct from just loving it up as they tried faithfully to replicate a dish. A lot of small izakaya, for example, often try to mix up dishes like that to varying degrees of success imo.
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Jan 9, 2020 08:30
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LimburgLimbo posted:A lot of small izakaya, for example, often try to mix up dishes like that to varying degrees of success imo. Drunks make the best guinea pigs
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peanut posted:I'm going to be working at the Olympics so don't anybody expect to visit me in Ehime this summer. I hope it's a good experience  Also that no one there has a peanut allergy 
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Nanigans posted:Can we just have clean public bathrooms in the US like in Japan? Please???? Is it considered "normal" to just throw things out the window along major roads in the US? Last time I was there I saw more trash on the road while going from the airport to the hotel than I do in years back home.
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Normal? No. Do assholes do it all the time? Yes.
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A long shot, but has anyone tried the Vladivostok-Sakaiminato ferry? Is it reliable? My partner and I are doing the trans-Siberian express later this year for our first foreign holiday in forever, and I've managed to convince her that we need another Japan trip afterwards.
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Jan 9, 2020 19:09
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ntan1 posted:owned. As our last meal in Japan we went to a Chinese place and I expected it to be some sort of unique Japanese twist on Chinese food but it was just kinda mediocre. Disappointing.
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Jan 9, 2020 19:23
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Doctor Zero posted:Normal? No. Do assholes do it all the time? Yes. Ah, thanks
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Jan 9, 2020 19:26
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Bofast posted:Ah, thanks It's pretty rare though. I honestly can't remember ever seeing it happen. Roadsides don't really get cleaned up though, so it doesn't take many people doing it for poo poo to build up.
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They do get cleaned up usually by prison labor, at least in CA. But more often the roadside is full of debris from crashes previously on the highway.
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CottonWolf posted:A long shot, but has anyone tried the Vladivostok-Sakaiminato ferry? Is it reliable? My partner and I are doing the trans-Siberian express later this year for our first foreign holiday in forever, and I've managed to convince her that we need another Japan trip afterwards. Nope but there are also flights Vladivostok-Sapporo now. Trans-Siberian Express sounds cool and good.
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ntan1 posted:They do get cleaned up usually by prison labor, at least in CA. Look out at the pile of cigarette butts to the left of the travel lanes next time you pull up to a stoplight. I have never seen a cigarette smoker do anything besides just throw their butt on the ground when they’re done regardless of where they are.
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mmm11105 posted:Anyone have opinions on Aomori or Yamagata for visiting. Want to do some of Tohoku on my next trip out, know I want to hit up Iwate, but still debating between starting in Aomori, renting a car and working my way down through Iwate, or starting in Sakata, then renting a car in Yamagata-shi and driving up over the mountains into Iwate. Just realized that during the time I intend to be in Tohoku (Sept 5-14th or so) the street jazz festival in Sendai is happening (12th and 13th). Big fan of Japanese jazz so I may have to try to route myself to be Sendai those days...
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peanut posted:Nope but there are also flights Vladivostok-Sapporo now. Ah, that's good to know. It'll probably be cheaper too. Cheers!
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LimburgLimbo posted:Nah mapodoufu is an established dish which had a big boom a number of years ago and that’s absolutely out of the norm. someone from this thread also showed me a "white" mapo tofu from japan, adervtised as suitable for kids, lol. what's the thing about how kids can't eat spicy food in japan anyway? I've seen that a lot, and it's the only country I've seen it in. here's a link to the shengjianbao place, it's right outside ikebukero station: https://goo.gl/maps/FJhtRcn33Y44rz5fA the dude running it is from shanghai, so it's p legit.
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Jan 10, 2020 02:43
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Magna Kaser posted:someone from this thread also showed me a "white" mapo tofu from japan, adervtised as suitable for kids, lol. A solid chunk of Japanese people in general put even white people to shame with their inability to handle the tiniest bit of heat.
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LimburgLimbo posted:A solid chunk of Japanese people in general put even white people to shame with their inability to handle the tiniest bit of heat. I know and it's not just Japan. In China it seems to be the closer you are the ocean the worse you are with spicy food (Shanghai, fujian, guangzhou are similar offenders) and HK + Taiwan are also p bad, while Korea talks a big game but isn't really there either in spicy food the way a lot of central China + SEA is. I have a few HK and Shanghainese friends who put even the whitest people I know in the states to shame when it comes to avoiding anything resembling a spicy dish. Even Sichuan itself isn't super spicy, and mapo tofu isn't actually spicy either which is what makes this all even more ridic. I wanna find out what happens when you bring a Japanese person to an authentic Hunan or Guizhou restaurant and see what happens cuz those are the dishes where everything is a scavenger hunt through chilies to find the actual food.
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LimburgLimbo posted:A solid chunk of Japanese people in general put even white people to shame with their inability to handle the tiniest bit of heat. Huh, weird, cause I've had decently spicy curry in Japan and do not even get me started on the one time I ordered "level 20" soup curry in Sapporo. It was so painful, but also so good
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Shout out to a "solid chunk of Japanese people in general".
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peanut posted:Furusato Matsuri Tokyo bump
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Stringent posted:Shout out to a "solid chunk of Japanese people in general".
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Xad posted:Huh, weird, cause I've had decently spicy curry in Japan and do not even get me started on the one time I ordered "level 20" soup curry in Sapporo. It was so painful, but also so good well that's why it was level 20 and not level 5!!!! yeah in general Japanese food isn't super spicy. Beautifully presented yes, subtlety flavored, but not stupid spicy. And many of the restaurants cater for that by toning things down. You can still get that heat if you're looking for it.
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Xad posted:Huh, weird, cause I've had decently spicy curry in Japan and do not even get me started on the one time I ordered "level 20" soup curry in Sapporo. It was so painful, but also so good Reminds me of when I had level 9 out of 10 curry at a shop in Osaka. Delicious, but took me six glasses of water to get down and even then everything burned. Best curry I had in a long time.
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I used to sk for 40 at my local curry shop. Their scale went up to 20 /shrug
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Chinese food in Japan is also toned down for flavor. It's why I've always thought American chinese food is still better than Japanese chinese food, despite neither of the two being anything close to real. The only exceptions are basically gyoza, nikuman, and ramen, which are basically Japanese food anyway. For similar reasons, I'd wager you could probably get better South Korean food in the bay area, CA, but this claim is kind of pushing it because there's a supremely massive group of Korean people in JP.
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Stringent posted:Shout out to a "solid chunk of Japanese people in general". Yeah. We've all had the opposite experience. It only happened to me once, ordering max spicy curry with the "heh, Japanese max spicy" thought in my head and then oh no, they were not loving kidding here.
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Someone mentioned Chinese food. Any recommendations for a good char siu bao in central Tokyo or Osaka? I typically don't really like the taste of pork in nikuman so I don't want to just start ordering random nikuman in hopes that it's sweet bbq. Let me rephrase that: I don't typically like the taste of pork in nikuman, it's been known to happen though.
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ntan1 posted:Chinese food in Japan is also toned down for flavor. NB, this doesn't apply to the Chinese food you can get in Chinese neighborhoods in Tokyo. You can get quite good Chinese food at places in Ikebukuro, Ueno, Kanda, Yokohama, and probably a lot more I just haven't been to. Not as good as in China, but exponentially better than standard issue Japanese or American Chinese food. ntan1 posted:For similar reasons, I'd wager you could probably get better South Korean food in the bay area, CA, but this claim is kind of pushing it because there's a supremely massive group of Korean people in JP. Come to Shin-ookubo some time and find out!
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drat, Canadians love trashing roads and highways. I've witnessed so many people throw garbage out of their windows or just drop it on the street while they're walking. I've filled bags full of trash on hikes in the mountains. People up here are gross.
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Picnic Princess posted:drat, Canadians love trashing roads and highways. I've witnessed so many people throw garbage out of their windows or just drop it on the street while they're walking. I've filled bags full of trash on hikes in the mountains. People up here are gross. For what it's worth, they do that in the inaka too. Get far enough from a city and it's like you're in lawless territory.
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What's the best time to visit between now and the Olympics? Bonus points if it's not terribly busy (ie China is not on national holiday). I would like to do some hikes along with exploring a few cities.
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There's almost never a bad time to visit Japan imo China being on national holiday matters if you're going to the major sights in Kyoto or want to hit up certain shopping districts etc. but not so much otherwise. Things that are busy are going to be busy much of the time anyway. Summer is hot and humid through much of Japan, if that bothers you. But depending on what kind of hike you're looking at it also means for higher hikes you don't need winter gear.
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Nohearum posted:What's the best time to visit between now and the Olympics? Bonus points if it's not terribly busy (ie China is not on national holiday). I would like to do some hikes along with exploring a few cities. Golden Week. Tokyo is a ghost town during those holidays because most people have the time off, and a lot use it to fly overseas.
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The missus and I are in Japan for a few weeks late February. We've both done Tokyo a few times before, we've stayed in Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ueno, Asakusa, any other districts you guys could recommend staying in? I feel like Ginza and Roppongi are more places you visit than stay in but I'd love input. Also recs for out of the way places to see, we're gonna check out odaiba because neither of us have done that, but feel like we've exhausted most of the common touristy things and places. Would also love some vague recs for stuff to do in Yokohama. We're mainly looking to relax/eat/drink and soak up some culture.
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field balm posted:The missus and I are in Japan for a few weeks late February. We've both done Tokyo a few times before, we've stayed in Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ueno, Asakusa, any other districts you guys could recommend staying in? I feel like Ginza and Roppongi are more places you visit than stay in but I'd love input. Also recs for out of the way places to see, we're gonna check out odaiba because neither of us have done that, but feel like we've exhausted most of the common touristy things and places. I mean, there's always more to see/explore/do, but if you've done this a few times, don't you have ideas of what you want to do and where you want to stay? Novelty is one thing, but there's nothing wrong with staying in a familiar spot because you liked it. Odaiba is a decent day, go check out TeamLab there if you can. Yokohama - Red Brick area and Minato Mirai are good for wandering, there's plenty of nice stuff but it's also more waterfront than the nice parts of Tokyo, so that can be fun.
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