Japanese Food Appreciation Thread:

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So while I was cooking earlier I realized how popular the Chinese food thread was, and I felt GAF needed a food porn thread dedicated to amazing Japanese cuisine.

I'll start!

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Daigakuimo, Japanese yams fried in oil, sugar, and soy sauce, and sprinkled with black sesame seeds.


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Okonomiyaki, Hiroshima style. An all-in-one monstrosity of a dish containing egg, cabbage, bean sprouts, a pancake-like batter, bacon, ramen, and whatever else you can think of.


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Soba, buckwheat noodles served cold and with a special sauce.


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Tonkatsu, breaded and deep-fried pork chop.


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Tenpura, fried veggies (or seafood) in a magically-fluffy batter.


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Yakitori, a chicken shishkabob with a sweet teriyaki sauce.


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Miso soup, a hearty and healthy soup made from miso paste, dried shiitake, seaweed, tofu, and other ingredients.

I find Japanese food to be the hardest for me to cook compared to Chinese or Korean recipes. It's something I'll have to really practice on, because a lot of these meals are as pretty as they are delicious.
 
Ramen, karaage, okonomiyaki and katsu sandwiches (on white bread with cabbage, spicy mustard and tonkatsu sauce!) are dear to my heart.
 

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OP come cook for me please.
 

Natetan

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Nabe is the ultimate Japanese food and I never understand why it's not more popular overseas.

Kiritanpo nabe is da bomb,
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and I'm also a huge kimchee nabe fan.

Nimono is also awesome and ridiculously easy to make. So is nabe to be honest!

I also love eating raw cabbage with miso to dip it in. So tasty and an izakaya staple.
 

Miletius

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Lots of places in Seattle serve takoyaki, but okonomiyaki is really hard to find.

Okonomiyaki is fairly easy to make at home. Just make an unsweetened pancake and add sliced cabbage, carrots, ham, and other traditional toppings. Serve with sauce and you've got yourself one.
 
Okonomiyaki is fairly easy to make at home. Just make an unsweetened pancake and add sliced cabbage, carrots, ham, and other traditional toppings. Serve with sauce and you've got yourself one.

I've made it before, but sometimes you just feel like going out for dinner.
 
The colder months of the calendar are upon us, so it's time to look for that warmer Japanese fare.

Oden. Simmered fishcakes, fish sausages, vegetables, eggs, etc. It's like picking all the large bits out of your favorite stew and not having to bother with the tiny dregs.

If Oden is not your thing you can stick to nimono daikon, which is awesome and ridiculously easy to make.
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Sukiyaki. The cadillac of Japanese cuisine. Expensive, made for large groups and luxury all around. Best part is pouring the leftover broth over a bowl of Udon.

And of course there's kakesoba, which is what you graduate to when it's too cold out for zarusoba
 

Zoe

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Katsu Curry!

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(I prefer chicken, but pork is more common)

Edit: A ramen place opened here recently, first b&m of its kind around here.

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Tonkotsu

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Spicy Miso

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Katsu slider - fusion but soooo good
 
What timing; I recently just started working at a Japanese Izakaya. Lots of Japanese customers come in and to a one; they always order some bowls of rice, chicken gizzard/chicken skin skewers and Maguro no Kama.

Tuna Collar.

 

Natetan

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Glad to see a fellow natto fan. Nom

I also love oden although I was t a fan originally. The kichaku mochi thing is prob my favorite the aburaage pocket when you bite into it the melted mochi and chicken oozes out. So good. Eggs and daikon are a good place to start I think.


And speaking of mochi, any wagashi fans here? I quite like it. Zundamochi is def at the top: anko made from edamame, sooo goood.

I also like anmitsu and warabimochi. Anything with kokuto/black sugar in it is awesome.

I also really like yatsuhashi.
 

Jezbollah

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Damn I wish there were more Japanese restaurants in England.

There's a branch takeaway place called the Japanese Canteen in the City. Loved grabbing Chicken Katsu with steamed rice for lunch. Miss it so much.
 

J2d

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If I ate fish and meat I would be all over it.

edit: Every time I watch Tampopo I feel like going to japan and have a non vegetarian food week.
 
Boom Noodle in Bellevue has them. I found some place in south seattle that served them too, don't remember the name.

Boom Noodle's okonimyaki is really bad. I had it at the Capitol Hill location when they first opened. Maybe it's improved since then.

And yeah, Daimonji down in Georgetown made it, but I heard that they took it off the menu when they changed owners.
 

Tathanen

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If we include not only Japanese food but also Japanese "food," then hooray for Sapporo Ichiban instant ramen. I finally graduated from Maruchan garbage to "approaching actual food"-caliber eats after a trip to Mitsuwa in Arlington Heights. Got me a box of Shio and another of Shoyu after being turned on to how much better they are than the typical US pap. The shio comes with a little bag of seseme seeds. :3

Chop up some green onion in there, throw in a couple sheets of nori, why, you could almost call it a meal.
 

hiro4

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I'm getting hungry now.
Thank god for my mom who makes the greatest Japanese dishes.

Also great, and easy to make at home:
Korokke
Gyoza
Ramen
Gyudon
 
What timing; I recently just started working at a Japanese Izakaya.

The best Izakaya in Los Angeles is Musha in Torrance. No question.

Buta Kakuni. Simmered pork with potatoes, eggs, garnished with ginger and hot mustard

Ebi Mayo Mayo. Tempura popcorn shrimp drenched in this amazing mayo sauce. My friends who hate seafood still eat this dish

Their signature dish is the brown rice risotto. Not orthodox Japanese cuisine but mustn't be missed

They also have seasonal/nightly specials which include the aforementioned Hamachi collar and other goodies like kabocha croquettes. Cheap beer of course.
 
yakisoba
ramen
tonkatsu sandwhiches
katsu curry
karaage
gyoza
okonimiyaki
teriyaki chicken
tempura
pickled vegetables
sukiyaki
shabu shabu
mochi
green tea flavour anything

YES, give it to me <3
Japanese food is my favourite
 

andymcc

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now i'm really fucking hungry. the ramen and tuna collar got me most.

i also make a mean buta kakuni (with pork belly)
 

Downhome

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I love the little Japanese places that have the teriyaki/hibachi plates with rice and veggies or sweet carrots. I eat a plate of that at least once a week from a place almost right across from our apartment. Oh the white/shrimp sauce, whatever that stuff is, I love it.

I know, blah blah blah, not authentic, blah blah blah. I don't care. I love it.

Here is the site for the place I'm so addicted to...

http://nagoyajapanese.com/
 
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Vilix

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Mmm. Mmmmm. Mmmmmmmm. Could definitely go for some fresh eel sushi and warm saki right now.
 

Zoe

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Had the best croquette ever last time I went to Japan. It was from a gyuuman stand on the way to one of the temples in Kyoto. Forgot to take a picture of it, but here's the stand:

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Speaking of the temples, I'm not normally a fan of anko, but these sweets outside of Kinkakuji were sooo good:

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Instead of the usual mochi, that's sugar on the outside.
 

Ravidrath

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Anyone know where I can get Nanban-zuke in LA?

I had it years ago and it was a wonderful lunch for the hot summer, and would love to find it again.
 

Medalion

Banned
I've been meaning to revisit my Japanese food experiencing days when I was younger from an older perspective... I was never really adventurous when I was taken to Japanese restaurants... I was like Larry David and eating Teriyaki Chicken, that's it.

I've only in the past half decade taught myself to enjoy Sushi... I was quite late to that train. And besides enjoying Tempura style battered foods like Fish and the like... my exposure to Japanese food is quite pathetic.

Someday though, gotta try more.
 
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