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[Max™]

Figured you all (why doesn't english have a direct "ustedes" dammit?), being into cooking and df, would appreciate this.

[scrdest]

why doesn't english have a direct "ustedes" dammit?

It does, and it's exactly that (y'all), you just sound like you're about to proceed to asking people if they would like some sweet tea.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

No, that's vosotros.

[scrdest]

No, that's vosotros.

Damn, I remembered my words backwards and didn't bother to check >_>

[BFEL]

So am I the only one who lives in the US and has NEVER seen a Japanese restaurant? There's plenty of CHINESE restaurants, some of which CLAIM to be Japanese, but the only Japanese dish I've ever seen outside of anime is sushi. Also instant noodle stuff, but that doesn't fucking count.

I've watched enough anime to know there is more to Japanese cooking then that, so why the hell is there nowhere to taste it around here?

[Sirus]

I would imagine that there isn't a large Japanese community where you live.

I've been to a Japanese restaurant once, though I had to go to San Francisco for it.

[Flying Dice]

As I said in the other thread, they exist. They're just apparently less common than a lot of other culture-specific restaurants outside of places with large populations of immigrants/immigrant descendants.

[Neonivek]

Japanese food proper isn't always very... attractive foods to western patrons.

[penguinofhonor]

Americans are so dang squeamish around fermented fish.

[Flying Dice]

Fermented fish is about equal with century eggs on the scale of why in that they at least had a purpose behind them originally beyond "Hey, know what would make this perfectly good food better? Let it get all gross and decayed, then eat it!" Even if it's now solely because people enjoy the taste, it was at one point a practical preservative method.

Maggot cheese, on the other hand...

[Neonivek]

I meant more the Japanese style of serving vegetables.

[Flying Dice]

What, pickled?

[scrdest]

Maggot cheese, on the other hand...

That's probably type 2: 'It spoiled and looks gross, but I haven't eaten in a yea-- OH GOD SO GOOD MORE'. Or possibly 'Hold my beer, imma eat that!'. See also: blue cheese, botyrized wines.

Also fun thing I found when reading on the casu marzu cheese: 'the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed'.

[DeKaFu]

Well, there's dozens of sushi restaurants around here, but it's generally difficult to find pretty much of anything else in terms of actual Japanese food. I usually go out of my way looking for the less common stuff, so I've managed to come across and try katsu curry (deep fried pork cutlet and Japanese curry on rice), tonkotsu ramen (has a super-fatty broth made from pork bones), chawanmushi (savory egg custard with various meats/seafoods/mushrooms suspended in it) and some rather mediocre takoyaki* (gooey balls of fried batter with octopus in the middle).

My sister just got back from a semester in Japan and liked a lot of the food, so she's been trying to recreate some at home. Already had some highly successful Okonomiyaki (savory cabbage pancake full of whatever good stuff you want and slathered in tangy sauce and mayo) and some pretty good rice balls. Neither of which I've ever actually seen in a restaurant around here.

And yes, she was very impressed with the crazy-colored pickled everything that was common there. Hot-pink pickled cucumber, for example.

*I once was excited to find a low-end all-you-can-eat sushi place offering Takoyaki, so I got some for takeout. I got it home and discovered that for some reason, instead of covering it with Takoyaki sauce (similar to Worcestershire sauce)... they'd covered them in chocolate sauce. That... was an interesting culinary experience. Never went back there. :/

[hops]

Fried bamboo maggots taste surprisingly good, and I can't help but rolls my eyes when people are squeamish about them. I mean, sure, if they're live, or boiled, I'd find rhem disgusting. But fry them enough and they're just bug-shaped bacon. (If bacon had chitin or whatever protective skin the maggots have, anyways)