Comments on: Being Snobby About Japanese Food

By: LittleEnid

LittleEnid — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:33:00 +0000

Interesting about bodegas. In NYC/Brooklyn i’ve never heard any non-chain convince store NOT called a bodega, but in South Florida, which is fairly urban, and even in the inner city parts or more hispanic parts (like Little Havana) i’ve never heard the term used ever. It’s interesting. I’ll have to do more research on bodegas. :)

By: Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:48:00 +0000

Tex-Mex is just plain wrong. It’s really difficult trying to get “THE REAL DEAL” outside of the place or zone where it comes from. Be it Mexican food, Chinese food, Japanese food, etc. Not to much ago, I went to a Mexican (Japanese) Restaurant and I got really surprised to see it was run by a Japanese old man, who has never been in México or doesn’t know Spanish. The food was a very big dissapointment, it was a really bad copy of Tex-Mex (which is a really bad copy of Mexican food IMO). On that day, the Mexican inside me died a little. But it’s also the same with Japanese food in other places, for example, Sushi in México is not even close to the real Sushi here in Japan, neither Chinese food. Is just that unfortunately you just can’t get the real thing and you have to go search for it. :)

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:46:00 +0000

Tex-Mex is just plain wrong. It’s really difficult trying to have “THE REAL DEAL” outside of the place or zone where it comes from. Be it Mexican food, Chinese food, Japanese food, etc. Not to much ago I went to a Mexican (Japanese) Restaurant and I was really surprised to see it was run by a Japanese old man, who has never been in México or doesn’t now Spanish. The food was a very big dissapointment, it was a really bad copy of Tex-Mex (which is a really bad copy of Mexican food IMO). On that day, the Mexican inside me died a little. But also with Japanese food in other places, for example Sushi in México is not even close to the real Sushi here in Japan, neither Chinese food. Is just that unfortunately you just can’t get the real thing and you have to go search for it. :)

By: Jo Somebody

Jo Somebody — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:33:00 +0000

Maybe Chris means that the challenge *is* the simplicity/boringness… For me, it’d be challenging to my unrefined palate to go to a burger joint and choose the plain burger, or even a simple cheeseburger. I’ve overworked my mouth over the years (Oi! Mind out of the gutter!), so now most things have to be excessively salty with a truckful of flavour for me to not say it’s ‘bland’.

Saying all that, I love food and love to eat and enjoy 95% of what I eat, from junk food to elegant restaurant food to homecooked grub and even the bland food!

I hope I’ve made sense. I was daydreaming about food throughout…

By: Lieke

Lieke — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:25:00 +0000

Reminds me of this commercial which is airing in Japan recently. It’s a CM for the American Fair at family restaurant Gusto, which shows American cowboys who hate the “American” food sold at Gusto, because it is made to fit Japanese taste. I thought it was quite surprising that they actually use the lack of authenticity as a selling point.

http://youtu.be/v5b-YkAQeCg

(if the link doesn’t work, you can find it here as well: http://www.skylark.co.jp/gusto/american2013/)

By: Hashi

Hashi — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:50:00 +0000

I’m down for a knock-off Chipotle! I’ll definitely have to check it out next time I’m in Tokyo