Favorite Japanese food ... The sticky

so true... :smt042

 

...Never been able to get any Japanese food here, nearest equivilent would be sweet and sour Chicken from the local Chinese Takeaway :smt043

 

I like Sashime, but I've forgotten the names of all the other food I've eaten. ^^'

I will certainly try some of the dishes mentioned here.

 

Suhis all the way!

damn, it's like a drug for me. :-D

 

Yeah, its about as costly as cocaine isn't it? ;-)

 

At least rock cocaine

 

Hurray, someone is going to buy me a Japanese dinner for my birthday next month. What should I pick?

 

abalone sashimi... yum yum yum
:-D

 

:smt043 :smt043

it's not that expensive if you do it by youself. Still, you need alot of experience and testing times. :smt045

my secret is to give my own-made sushis to my dog, if he smell them but don't eat them, then it's because it wasn't a succes. If he eat them though, it was a succes.. :smt043

oh well, guess i'll never be as good as the pusher, uh i mean... :smt043

 

I make sushi too I've mastered the California roll bwahaha.

 

I'd have to say Tonkatsu or Udon. Sushi is good too.

 

I can't remember the name but there's donkatsu restaurant in Yokohama near station. it's actually missus favourite place. Theirs is one of the best I've had for a long time... I'm sure some of people here might've been there... it's underground near dptmntstore entrance and not far from the station... as I only been there twice with missus I'm not too good with the directions but she herself took a while to locate the shop so it wasn't easy thing to find...
After the meal you can check out China town or Minaminotori 21(?) for some fun time if you are with opposite sex... he he

and there's a rather good curry rice house not far from Harajuku station.
we found it by accident and it was real tiny one at the basement - it will fit about 6-7 people with much try but its curry rice was good. real good in fact. yum... unfortunately the owner doesn't speak a word of English so you will need to drag him upstairs to point the model in the window... unless you are in the mood for a Russian Roulette.

 

Udon is tasty, and I'm also fond of tempura - not sure how authentically Japanese it is at the restaraunts here, but it's good nonetheless.

Also, taiyaki!! :-D

 

I love the sushi around here. It's not expensive, either (I get it for free, as my brother rarely eats all of his ).

 

I haven't had great sushi outside of California (specifically bay area and parts of Los Angeles) sadly even the most prestigious New York restaurants are like Asian-fusion. It's rare to find an authentic place now adays as everyone's cashing in on the Japanese cuisine business :\

If anyone ever hits northern California, PM me, my hometown Alameda is a Japanese food goldmine, there are always between 10-15 (about half of them authentic) restaurants around on the 6x3 mile island, mind you any restuarant is going to be better than your average Nebraskan Japanese restaurant but there are a few real jewels that I used to eat at weekly+.

BTW, since this is the only food thread, does anyone here like Taiwanese Boba Tea (Pearl Milk Tea)? I wonder how far that's spread, I hear there is a nationwide chain store but I haven't seen it.

 

I saw that pearl milk tea in 1999 at our Chinatown and nowadays in every shopping mall there are one or two...

for Japanese restaurants there's a small one called "sakanaya" at North Sydney. Booking is essentional - basically without booking they won't accept you as customer really - and their food is great. There's also used to be a soba restaurant at Neutral Bay but the owner went back to Japan late last year... And then there used to be a small restaurant ran by a couple at Mosman that served authentic Japanese home meal... sadly they closed down three years ago...

Around here it looks like authentic Japanese restaurants are disappearing and replaced by crap sushi-on-train chains...

and don't get me started on super-crap Japanese restaurants at major hotels...

 

Mmm!! Japanese food...I absolutely love it! ^_^
Honestly, there's very little I don't like...soba/udon noodles, sushi, sashimi, rice dishes, the various odd candies and snack foods. It's all very good and usually healthy too!

 

Do you like umeboshi? I hate it, I don't know what they were thinking. Japanese love their drugs.

 

Okonomiyaki~! (from all regions in japan)

Negi Okonomiyaki (made with a green onion base rather than cabbage)

Takoyaki (ofcourse, from all regions in japan)

Unagi prepared using the special marinaten coals (man im gettin hungry)

hand made inhouse UDON , especially COLD SOBA~ ooooh man.

and last but not least

Chicken Katsu Curry!!! , Curry Soba and basically anything CURRY!

coco ichibanya is a preference for sure, its the best curry in the world , based on franchises.

these are the reasons why I can live in japan forever!