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I've been curious about Japanese cooking and snack foods for some time now, but (AFAIK since I haven't done a lot of looking or asking around) there aren't any real good Japanese/Asian markets in my immediate area and all the grocery stores that have Asian food aisles don't have much to begin with outside of the usual rice noodles, soy sauce, panko, and Pocky. Outside of third-party sellers on Amazon who seem to charge $5 for shipping (which probably isn't bad assuming you buy a lot from one seller), are there any good sites to buy Japanese food and ingredients from?
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bringmyfishback posted:Where are you located? 
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Sep 1, 2014 06:06
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ladyweapon posted:Depending on how far you are from Modesto, this asian market is legit (as is the pho place in the same parking lot). bringmyfishback posted:Hunh. This article is a bit dated, but maybe you can find somthing on here: http://justhungry.com/handbook/just-hungry-handbooks/japanese-grocery-store-list/united-states/ca Stottie Kyek posted:It's been floating around the Internet a while but the recipes from Cooking with Dog are actually really good - I tried the mochi and okonomiyaki recipes and they turned out nice. And the show's hosted by a big grey poodle.
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Sep 15, 2014 23:04
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A while back, I posted a question in this thread about getting access to Japanese food when the closest Japanese/Asian stores are many miles away. Well, yesterday I finally signed a lease and got the keys for a room I'll be renting out in San Jose, Ca. As it turns out, the building the room is in is about a three minute drive away from a Japanese grocery store that I ended up stopping at on the way home. I ended up buying a bag of Green Tea Kit-Kats everyone seems to rave about as well as a bag of Kasugai Melon Gummies (those were amazing by the way ). With that said, the landlord only allows for light cooking, meaning microwave and little/no use of a portable electric stove for all cooking. So, now that I have easy access to imported ingredients, what are some good Japanese dishes that I can make for cheap (or close to cheap since import food can still be a little pricey compared to domestic food) and doesn't require a ton of prep and/or stove/microwave use? Along the same line, what are some other good Japanese snacks/treats that don't have to be refrigerated since I'd like to have something to keep in my room in case of midnight snack cravings, and not knowing my roommates and how trustworthy they are with a shared fridge? I tried finding the dried squid Arino from Game Center CX eats, but I didn't find anything that looks like the cylinder container the brand he eats uses.
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Oct 12, 2015 05:35
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Sex Hobbit posted:Okonomiyaki can be made on an electric griddle if those are ok. Eggs, water, flour, cabbage, bacon, sauce. There are mix kits you can buy but it's not really necesssary. Tendales posted:Like 99% of the stuff they make on Cooking With Dog is done on a tiny little single burner portable stove, so there's a wealth of ideas waiting for you there.
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Oct 13, 2015 01:14
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Follow-up question to my last few posts... Would the okonomiyaki sauce usually be located with other cooking/food sauces? I went back to the Japanese grocery store the other day after dropping off some stuff at my new place, and I looked up and down the cooking sauce/oil aisles, but couldn't find it at all. I even looked in a few other spots where it might be, but didn't see any indication that they even sell it.  Also, Sex Hobbit, those pinapple kasugai gummies are freaking amazing. I might end up buying one bag of each flavor because so far I've been nothing but impressed with them. I also tried squid jerky for the first time, which I'm not as impressed with. I do like seafood taste, but holy gently caress there really can be too much of a good thing. I'll still finish off the bag since it's not super gross, but I'll probably never try it again.
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Oct 15, 2015 23:02
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About a year and a half ago ago, I posted ITT that I was moving to the Bay Area where I would be closer to Asian/Japanese stores compared to where I used to live. I never did much in terms of cooking/eating Japanese food outside of snack stuff that I can eat out of the bag and/or stuff cooked in restaurants, but the other day I got inspired when (for whatever reason) I started watching/rewatching Japanese food tutorials/recipes on YouTube and felt like making okonomiyaki, which I've never had before and was suggested by another goon way back then who said it's one of the fastest/easiest things to make. Today, I went by this really good Japanese store that I live near and found (I'm waiting to get my next paycheck in a couple days before buying since I'm pretty low on funds right now  ) that they had everything to make it (including the flour for okonomiyaki, which I assumed would be hard to find) that I can't find at regular grocery stores.With this knowledge, I'm wondering if I can make a really basic okonomiyaki with the batter, cabbage mixed in, the sauce, and Japanese mayo to top it? A lot of the recipes I see call for stuff like pork belly/bacon and benito flakes (some people say one or both of these are required, while others make me think they're optional), but I'd like to try to keep it as simple as possible for my first okonomiyaki to see if I like it and go from there.
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ALFbrot posted:They're optional, but once you make a good okonomiyaki with bacon and bonito flakes, you will realize that they are, indeed, required al-azad posted:Great thing about okonomiyaki is that it's whatever you want it to be. The name roughly means "cooked the way you like" and all the different varieties go nuts. Hiroshima style particularly doesn't mix the ingredients into the batter and is instead like a layered open face sandwich with a crepe on the bottom.
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