Have been loving this show since the first episode came out ! FYI, although both robatayaki and teppanyaki are the styles where chefs prepare food in front of you, but robatayaki refers to a cooking style over charcoal and teppanyaki is literally cooking over iron griddle. So slightly different
I always thought curry rice was a Japanese dish, and I have a memory related to that. When I was staying with a host family in San Diego, the host mother said she would make Japanese curry rice, and I was looking forward to it. When I saw the food that came out, I thought, 'Huh? Did she change the menu?' But she said, 'It's curry rice.' On the plate was a large serving of white rice, topped with broccoli and carrots, and then a generous amount of cheese and curry powder sprinkled on top. I don't think I've ever seen curry rice like that anywhere else, but it was the first 'Japanese food' I encountered in America, and I still remember it vividly.
Seattle's famous teriyaki chicken is originally a Nikkei people(Japanese-American) dish. It is said that Japanese immigrants began grilling chicken on an iron griddle at festivals and gatherings in the olden days. When I stayed in Seattle for the first time 25 years ago, I was so surprised to see so many teriyaki shops there. I tried some of them and was even more surprised by the sweet flavor like the sauce of mitarashi dango. However, there were also some delicious shop without sweet sauce, and Yasuko's Teriyaki near Seattle U was my favorite. Last year I visited Seattle for the first time in 14 years, and most of the teriyaki stores were gone and Yasuko's seemed to have closed. Thai and Korean food seemed to be more popular now(I love both though). I highly recommend Maneki Restaurant in Japantown, International District, which has been around for a long time(since before WW2). You guys may have heard of it.
Once l took a nice sightseeing boat trip in Oregon. It came with fancy dinner. When I looked at the menu, one of the main dishes that we could choose from was yakisoba noodle. I became interested and ordered it. It was a fancy version of Asian pan-fried noodle. It was good so I had no complaints. However, I thought it was funny that yakisoba was considered as a fancy dish for Americans.
I live in Tokyo and one time there's a couple of american tourist asked me on the street where can they find an authentic Japanese sushi. I was confused, then I said all sushi in here are authentic. They said no because none of the sushi in here sells "California roll" with avocado. I was shocked that they think sushi with "California" as the name would be considered as an authentic Japanese sushi !
Absolutely agree with those comparisons. 😊 but but but, I also so much like California roll and wasabi-mayonnaise sauce. Yeah, maybe I love cheap flavor...😅 Thanks for the good subject as always!
I've never considered teriyaki chicken/beef/shrimp as Japanese food, kinda like Panda Express as Chinese. But I'd say one thing you can't seem to escape is that a lot of non-Japanese owned nanchatte (we, the real Japanese blooded Japanese call those pretend Japanese places なんちゃって日本食) Japanese restaurants always use zucchini in a lot of Japanese menus,,, why??? I've had zucchini tempura, Katsu-don with zucchini & carrots in the egg, and those Hibachi restaurants. which btw,, we never think of them as Japanese restaurants,, never fail,, always, always serve stir fried vegetables with zucchini. And non-Japanese owned Japanese restaurants' miso soup is always lacking dashi flavor. Nowadays,, many Chinese/Thai/Korean owned places that serve sushi actually serve decent to pretty good sushi. But when it comes to the cooked Japanese dishes like Katsu (most of the times, Katsu is Chicken Katsu though), grilled fish like mackerel, karaage,, I don't trust non-Japanese owned places. If I see padthai, sesame chicken, bulgogi, I'd be cautious about what to order. BTW, I heard Steve Aoki's dad started the Benihana. Oh, Gyu-Kaku here in the US is so much better than the ones in Japan,, in my opinion.
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Have been loving this show since the first episode came out ! FYI, although both robatayaki and teppanyaki are the styles where chefs prepare food in front of you, but robatayaki refers to a cooking style over charcoal and teppanyaki is literally cooking over iron griddle. So slightly different
I always thought curry rice was a Japanese dish, and I have a memory related to that. When I was staying with a host family in San Diego, the host mother said she would make Japanese curry rice, and I was looking forward to it. When I saw the food that came out, I thought, 'Huh? Did she change the menu?' But she said, 'It's curry rice.' On the plate was a large serving of white rice, topped with broccoli and carrots, and then a generous amount of cheese and curry powder sprinkled on top. I don't think I've ever seen curry rice like that anywhere else, but it was the first 'Japanese food' I encountered in America, and I still remember it vividly.
Seattle's famous teriyaki chicken is originally a Nikkei people(Japanese-American) dish. It is said that Japanese immigrants began grilling chicken on an iron griddle at festivals and gatherings in the olden days.
When I stayed in Seattle for the first time 25 years ago, I was so surprised to see so many teriyaki shops there. I tried some of them and was even more surprised by the sweet flavor like the sauce of mitarashi dango. However, there were also some delicious shop without sweet sauce, and Yasuko's Teriyaki near Seattle U was my favorite.
Last year I visited Seattle for the first time in 14 years, and most of the teriyaki stores were gone and Yasuko's seemed to have closed. Thai and Korean food seemed to be more popular now(I love both though).
I highly recommend Maneki Restaurant in Japantown, International District, which has been around for a long time(since before WW2). You guys may have heard of it.
Once l took a nice sightseeing boat trip in Oregon. It came with fancy dinner. When I looked at the menu, one of the main dishes that we could choose from was yakisoba noodle. I became interested and ordered it. It was a fancy version of Asian pan-fried noodle. It was good so I had no complaints. However, I thought it was funny that yakisoba was considered as a fancy dish for Americans.
I live in Tokyo and one time there's a couple of american tourist asked me on the street where can they find an authentic Japanese sushi.
I was confused, then I said all sushi in here are authentic. They said no because none of the sushi in here sells "California roll" with avocado.
I was shocked that they think sushi with "California" as the name would be considered as an authentic Japanese sushi !
I much prefer videos of this length.
アメリカではない海外に住んでいますが、やっぱり食べ物は日本が最高。日本食はエセ日本食なのに日本で食べるより高くて勿論まずい。寿司だって現地の人向けにアレンジされた変な寿司。日本は本当安くて美味しくて安全で、外国人旅行客にとっては最高の場所だろうなと感じます。
Absolutely agree with those comparisons. 😊 but but but, I also so much like California roll and wasabi-mayonnaise sauce. Yeah, maybe I love cheap flavor...😅 Thanks for the good subject as always!
I've never considered teriyaki chicken/beef/shrimp as Japanese food, kinda like Panda Express as Chinese.
But I'd say one thing you can't seem to escape is that a lot of non-Japanese owned nanchatte (we, the real Japanese blooded Japanese call those pretend Japanese places なんちゃって日本食) Japanese restaurants always use zucchini in a lot of Japanese menus,,, why???
I've had zucchini tempura, Katsu-don with zucchini & carrots in the egg, and those Hibachi restaurants. which btw,, we never think of them as Japanese restaurants,, never fail,, always, always serve stir fried vegetables with zucchini.
And non-Japanese owned Japanese restaurants' miso soup is always lacking dashi flavor.
Nowadays,, many Chinese/Thai/Korean owned places that serve sushi actually serve decent to pretty good sushi.
But when it comes to the cooked Japanese dishes like Katsu (most of the times, Katsu is Chicken Katsu though), grilled fish like mackerel, karaage,, I don't trust non-Japanese owned places.
If I see padthai, sesame chicken, bulgogi, I'd be cautious about what to order.
BTW, I heard Steve Aoki's dad started the Benihana.
Oh, Gyu-Kaku here in the US is so much better than the ones in Japan,, in my opinion.
Why is the screen partly white?
Thought it's easier for us to see English auto generated subtitle 🤔