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there's more to japanese food than just seaweed and natto, you know #－.－)

I mean....What Japanese dishes have you tried yet? I'm genuinely curious

dude, u have variety of food in japan. you have takoyaki,donburi, etc.

Youre that type who be eating sushi and feels like, "i cant eat this' and concluded japanese foods r yucky

There is so much variety in Japanese food. Its not usa where vegetable based hotpots are urban ledgend you know. You need to train and expand your palate to understand flavors.

You people are taking this WAY TOO PERSONALLY
Japanese food tastes like ass to me.
Which should not offend anyone because I'm sure there is food I enjoy Japanese people would not eat.
And YES I have tried a lot of stuff.
In college my best friend's mom was not only Japanese, she worked at a Japanese restaurant, so she had me trying about everything she could think of.
The funniest part was her daughter, who was only half Japanese, didn't like Japanese food either.
So maybe... Calm the fuck down!

Well you're talking shit about food people like. What did you expect? ╮(￣▽￣)╭
You just don't

All I was asking is "What Japanese dishes have you tried?" I wasn't even offended. I was just genuinely curious.

It would be easier to try and identify ones I had not tried...

Really? Cause this is just my opinion, I feel like it would be easier to understand why you don't like Japanese dishes based on the food that you have tried. For an instance, I am Vietnamese. However, there are some Vietnamese dishes that I cannot even so much as to take a bite (I'm serious I'll straight up gag) bún bò Huế and bún riêu.

I love those spring rolls with rice papers though. Nem ran cha gio? Can't remember. But I like those with veggies or meat, fried or simply wrapped after soaked in boiled water. Also want to try those banana leaf wrapped pyramid rice based food. Ban gio?

Ah yes Gỏi cuốn (I prefer the peanut sauce for these) and Chả Giò (If you wrap it with lettuce and drip in nước mắm it's really good). Bánh Giò is pretty good in my opinion. There's usually either half an boiled egg or a quail egg in them. I used to buy them at my church and eat them every Sunday after church but then covid happened.

Oh I almost forgot. Some like to eat Bánh Giò as it is. But for me it adds more flavor if you put in a little bit of soy sauce

Oh never heard those goi cuon. Never been to Vietnam btw. But I so wanna try those food. Only high end far Eastern restaurants serve their dishes in Turkey. Maybe will look for recipes. I made cha gios before.
Hehe I like rice with soy sauce so I think would taste nice. I remember japanese prefer rice as it is

Gỏi cuốn is springrolls with shrimp in it. It's honestly my favorite. Yoo have you tried bánh xèo? Omg I love eating Bánh xèo. It's really easy to make

See now I like most Vietnamese food I've tried, it's popular in my city.
Korean food is hit or miss.
Thai food is AWESOME
I also love Ethiopian and wish it was easier to get/make.
I lived in West Africa for a few years, so I learned to like and make a lot of their foods.
The only Japanese foods I like are the Americanized ones like taco rice.
I really hate bonito flakes, those gummy rice buns stuffed with sweet bean paste gross me out too, I don't even understand the appeal of kewpie mayonnaise.
Again, I like pretty much everything else about Japan and most other ethnic cuisines.
It's just all traditional Japanese food is stuff I would prefer never to eat again.

That is an excellent question...
Reading the comments, one might guess i told people I thought their kids were ugly...
Not that seaweed and dried fish make me gag.

bánh xèo is like pancakes I assume! I really would like to try those! What does banh mean by the way any idea?
About goi cuon!!! Those I really want to try those. I love shrimp dishes to death haha (one would think I'm fat haha)

Oh! close to spring rolls we have borek. But leaves are mainly wheat paper not rice. Ingredients are either cheese with herbs or meat with veggies. sometimes potatoes with spices. It's made of really thin dough. Thinner than lasagne layers, but thicker than mill feuille layers (we use mill feuille for baklava desert)

Well on the general discussion. My point was japanese cuisine is too wide to be able to taste everything. And different parts or country have different food. So it's too weird to jump on hate boat on entire cuisine just because you tried hundreds of food by one person. The homecooking, breakfast, hotpot, different preparations of meat. They use variety herbs, mushrooms, vegetables, and meat. Honestly it became like a hobby to find some restaurant preparing Japanese food to taste different meals. But mind is easy to fool especially at younger age. If you keep thinking it's bad, you reject anything resemble that bad taste even by name. That sort of thing grown out of me few years ago. But I still have friends who keep themselves to what they're used to. For example, they are so fixated on that they hate any sort of coffee other than Turkish coffee. Or they like burnt ice cream (tastes like burnt milk btw) but regular ones feel out of place. It's what's normal to them. But they're afraid to move to another place.

TL, DR; these are my opinion.1) People should be open to trying different stuff. 2)It's rude to point out something other people eating as something disgusting even if you feel so.

Well...If you translate Bánh to English. It straight up means either "bread" or "cake" in English (some Vietnamese words translated to English is straight up weird one word can literally translate into three things in English. Example: đá = ice, rock, kick)
But Ohhh that sounds good I'm gonna have to try that one day.

Sorry I cannot face an entire fried fish for breakfast
I do not like ketchup on omelets
I never cared for teriyaki anything
I don't like rice noodles that much and really dislike buckwheat ones.
Yes there are regional differences and there are some things I can tolerate, but I honestly don't even.like the aroma produced by most Japanese restaurants and markets.
I have had some OK ramen, but even then I take forever to order because I need to tell them to leave a bunch of stuff out.
Some of the meat they produce is excellent, but that's just a reflection on their farming, not cooking.
Again, it just happens to be my least favorite type of food.

Ah makes sense. Is also naan vietnamese originally? I love than banh :)
Haha same happens with Turkish!
Hope you do! I love food on the Eastern side of world a lot. Also east European food

Haha I'm sorry I've been to hard on you with food topic. Thanks for elaborating you should taste Turkish food if you get chance. Seems like would fit your taste

I beg to differ. Natto taste so good with chilled tofu and soy sauce!

Different ppl have different preference. So yup

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