*im a mixed culture my mom is half Filipina and half Chinese and my father is full blooded Chinese so im almost pure Chinese but we're here in the Philippines that's why we almost got the Filipino culture i love to eat lechon and the kiam pong rice in Chinese(arroz valenciana in Filipino/Spanish) that's my comfort food a very nostalgic to me. God bless you and your family Shinichi i love all your videos sending my regards to Satoshi* 🙏🏻♥️🥰
This is the first program I see that you have made. It really held my attention ❤️ to feel and think about the enjoyment of comfort food. AND I love to see how real Japanese people eat. I'm a big fan of properly made ramen 😍
All of your comfort foods are mine as well. I would also add zaru soba. When I was little my grandmother took care of me at night. We would walk to the public bath and, if I was good, she would take me to a restaurant for a treat. I'd always order zaru soba. She would beg me to order something else because people would give her dirty looks for ordering something more expensive while her granddaughter got the cheapest thing on the menu. It's still one of my favorites today and I think of her every time I make it. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I have been excluded from the grand opening of my work’s new office because I have a cold. Watching you enjoying Japanese food I have grown to love makes me feel happy. Thank you. I might order some of those dishes from my local Japanese restaurant to be delivered tonight and have my own party. 😀
Yes, some of my favorite foods are foods I ate as a child. My mom would make lasagna and curry which I still love. Yakisoba was my favorite food to get when we'd go out to restaurants and I still get happy when I can eat it now. A quick midnight kinda snack I'd make as a teenager is just a bowl of rice topped with an egg over easy with the yolk a tiny bit runny and a bit of ketchup and shoyu. Simple but yummy! Grilled cheese sandwich made with sourdough bread is so good, too! Also, can't go wrong with pizza! Oh, and I love ume! Ume with rice--so ono! Now I must go find something to eat! 😋😄
Thanks Shinishi. Just to let you know in London Katsu Chicken with rice is a favourite comfort dish and becoming popular dish the day after you’ve drunk a lot of alcohol. I’m of Greek Cypriot heritage born and live in England so my favourite comfort foods are : 1. Pork souvlaki with Greek salad 2. Fish and chips with mushy peas 3. Beef teriyaki with rice and broccoli
Hi shinichi we're from Liverpool in the UK we visited Japan 3 years ago and we mainly make and eat Japanese at home, we watched your stream and I had to stop my husband from drooling, I'm now going to make my favourite onigiri with okaka as I love katsobushi, I also love okonomiyaki, my husbands absolute favourite is oyakodon
In rural America, we grew up with onigiri filled with umeboshi without the seed! Even though my grandparents came from Japan, we didn't put nori on the outside of our onigiri, but I can see where that would elevate it! We didn't eat any other filling in onigiri except ume, and sometimes it didn't even have a filling--just salted rice in the shape of triangles for picnics. My favorite Japanese comfort food is oyakodon.
My comfort foods are takoyaki, egg salad sandwich, pasta-carbonara, gyoza, braised beef, and pork & beans (hunt's)..and thats' what makes me happy especially when days are not going my way🙂...thank u for sharing yours, happy eating!😊
My childhood comfort food is my mom American fried rice which is very similar to Japanese chicken rice with toppings. We also add black raisins in rice too with fried chicken, sausage and over easy egg as toppings. My mom also made stir fried mince beef and onion with curry powder and butter. When we are craving midnight snack, we took that from the fridge and made sandwich in a sandwich maker, It smells sooo good that woke me up every time my brother made it. In Thailand we also have similar version of spaghetti napolitan but we use macaroni instead yumm and my mom used a lot of butter too. The last one is corn soup which is really simple; just milk and cream corn in a can. My mom used to make that every Sunday morning along side with toasts, bacons, sausage, and over easy eggs. My favorite onigiri are ume and mentaiko. Your mom gyoza recipe is my all time favorite. From 2011 I worked far in the countryside so when I craved Japanese food, the recipes from Tabieats, Cooking with Dog and Just one cookbook are my go to.
Made katsudon recently, and then made katsudon a few times right after for friends and family. Reception has been great, even with those less adventurous in eating non-western foods.
Karaage and the Japanese curry and the spaghetti 🍝ools delicious 😋 Shinichi actually they all do. Comfort foods for me a really refreshing vegetable soup and a beef stew. I love these food reviews thanks for sharing yours .🤗💛👍
Thailand also has spaghetti dish that Italian might scream at too. It’s call “spaghetti khee mao”. Very delicious. And of course, spicy. I love all of those food you had, well maybe except the ume onigiri one. I like my onigiri filled with unagi or salmon. Thank you for sharing your comfort food. 🙏
Good food is one of the most important things in the life after a nice, dry (and in winter warm) roof over your head. I love food, too. I love onigiri filled with tuna salad. So yummy! Comfort food for me are: Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki, Onigiri, various types of pasta, pizza tonno e cipolla (tuna & onions), green asparagus wrapped in bacon with gnocchi... I have a lot of comfort foods.
My comfort foods tend to be Southern cooking…my Mom was from Alabama. I grew up as an Army kid so we lived all over the US & Europe. But for comfort food, I almost always fall back on my Mom’s cooking. My favorite is chicken & dumplings, which is also my daughter’s favorite of my Mom’s. I’m a very good cook; not being boastful here, I learned from 3 generations of Southern women & one Cherokee Elder. And I learned all about Italian, Irish & German cooking. At 14, I got to go to a professional German cooking school in Hanau, Germany. I experimented on my family! 😁 The first time I made spaghetti for my husband, he never ate that dish anywhere but home! On days it was on the menu, he would come home early when he could! And having grown up in a family of six, I tend to cook that much; there was always plenty of sauce for the next day. Gravies & sauces are richer the more they are cooked. My go to though is still beans & cornbread. I usually use pinto or northern beans. I grew up eating pinto beans & my husband, who was from Indiana, ate white or Northern beans. I especially like the soup the beans create & I mix it with cornbread, onions & tomatoes. Sometimes I add a dash of pepper juice. Anyway, that’s some of mine. Thank you for creating content like this. When I’m not feeling well but need to eat, I’ll watch your food videos. They help me want to eat! Arigatōgozaimashita
Great video! Tonkatsu, ramen, and tempura are my favorite Japanese comfort foods. In NYC, where I'm from, roast beef and mashed potatoes with gravy and peas is my favorite. Also macaroni and cheese.
Those foods look great. I still need to try Japanese fried chicken! My favorite comfort foods are a mix of childhood favorites and new ones. My mom used to make meatballs and rice. Beef meatballs simmered in a very, very sweet tomato sauce. The sauce is just tomato sauce, brown sugar, lemon juice, dried thyme, and black pepper. It's almost like candy. We didn't have much money, so I ate a ton of Kraft Dinner. It's a specific brand of boxes macaroni and cheese and I still love it! They changed the flavor but it's still good. These days I love burgers, teriyaki chicken, pizza, and German foods my mom made like schnitzel with mushroom gravy! I love to cook so each month there's a new favorite lol. Jambalaya was this month's discovery 😂
Shinichi san, I hope you are reading this somewhere out there. I completely agree, some of my favourite comfort foods are from my childhood. Probably because it brings back so many memories! I'm curious to see what your top 9 comfort foods overall.
Everything looks yummy and so comforting! I love watching you eat with such relish, Shinichi.😊 I agree that our comfort foods often come from childhood. Like your mother, my mom was an excellent cook--very into nutrition, freshness, balance, etc. in an era when many people weren't. I ate meat as a kid and, over all her fabulous healthy, plant-based meals, my favorites were the classic meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and a vegetable (and the meatloaf sandwiches the next day); melt-in-your mouth, super crisp, nongreasy, pan-fried chicken and fabulous potato salad; and an amazing Indian curry with multiple savory and sweet toppings, chutney, and cucumber raita. SO delicious and nostalgic. I hope Mom is cooking for happy multitudes out in the cosmos somewhere.❤
My family’s background is a large percentage of German but comfort food for me is Mexican. And macaroni and cheese 😊 My mom was an adventurous cook so we tried lots of different foods and different restaurants that a lot of people I grew up with would have never dreamed of eating. I don’t think it is at all strange to find comfort in foods your mom made when you were growing up. Makes perfect sense to me.
What I love about your selection is it's mostly yoshoku (western-influenced food) so I can find comfort in those great selections too. The curry looks especially yummy
My mixture of soy sauce, vinegar and raayu for gyoza is equal parts of each. I want gyoza now🥟🤤 Umeboshi onigiri, tuna mayo are my favorites onigiri. Funny enough I only have a couple of home food I crave but my comfort food is mainly Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indian food is what I crave so much. Me and the hubs always gets the spiciest Japanese curry roux at the supermarket, we love spicy curry.
I love Japanese curry; we have a restaurant in Seattle, Rondo, that has the best katsu curry…beef…! I stay with mild though. I love spicy foods but my gastric system rebels sometimes. LOL I truly love katsu, chicken is my favorite but I like pork as well. I do cook at home & I enjoy experimenting! Another TH-camr introduced me to onigiri, particularly mentaiko. Yum! Karaage is a big favorite & I just bought some from a little restaurant that’s inside of an H Mart, just south of Seattle. Yum yum!
I had karaage for the first time the other day, it was pretty good :). I had my karaage with Japanese mayo and it's now my all time favourite mayo haha, so delicious I even bought myself a bottle! I would most like the croquettes, curry and katsudon.
Shinichi, yes I crave dishes my parents used to make and I try making them whenever I need comfort! We associate food with love! Japanese curry one of my favs from your list, but definitely would eat all of the foods you featured. I hope Satoshi will show his in a future video. Thanks for sharing!😊💝👍
Japanese comfort food for me would be chawanmushi, oyakodon, ramen, nabemono, and onigiri. I don't if they make the same kind of onigiri like our musubi in Hawaii. One of kari kari ume musubi at Marukai or at crunchy ume musubi at Mamaya. At Iyasume, I like ume musubi and green leaf musubi.
Loved this. Definitely would love a Hawaiian food faves! Honestly; most of my comfort foods as an adult is all Filipino food my nanay made for me as a little girl. So sinigang na itlog (garlic rice and eggs) or misua (poor man’s onion soup) just basic and simple but feels like hug in a food
You make the food look sooo delicious and I wish I was there with you to enjoy it! We have all of those foods here in Hawaii but somehow having it in Japan is the best! Can’t wait to go back for a visit!
Where did you get that chicken? I want to try it when I come over, but I definitely want that kind, with the marinated chicken. I don’t really care for plain chicken or just salted chicken. ✌🏻💕😊 Also: tuna mayo onigiri is my fav, but I’ve only had a couple kinds. In the US we have our own type of spaghetti as well, that is similar to a spaghetti bolognese, but it’s American not Italian. It’s typically spaghetti noodles, ground meat...beef or pork mostly, and a tomato sauce.... I personally make it with a tomato paste base. Then we usually eat it with grated Parmesan cheese on top. It is one of my comfort foods. 😁💕
One of my Japanese comfort food is pasta napolitan, together with kombu onigiri and tamago yaki. But my all time favourite would be yomogi daifuku. Just the one you can find at the convenience store. I don't really have a Dutch comfort food, perhaps very salty drop (licorice), growing up my favourite dish was sweet and sour chicken at the local Chinese restaurant.
Great looking feast! I can agree with most of those choices! Especially the curry and karaage... We also have chicken rice for school lunch sometimes too👍
I think if you grew up feeling close to, or having great memories with that parent, food will frequently bring them up. As a kid, I didn't like eating the bitter "goya", but I find myself craving it from time to time.
It’s past midnight here and watching this makes me so hungry! Great selection! I like ume and especially so in ochazuke. Also love Tonkatsu and curry rice and karaage. For some reason cold udon or soba are very comforting to me too.
Thank you for sharing your comfort food. And your remarks made me curious: do some things become comfort food because you ate it a lot as a child, or did it get made often when you were a child because you loved it and always asked for it.
I think my favorite onigiri is mentaiko mayo and my second favorite is ume. My mom makes me ratatouille when I visit and I make that at home but probably the recipe of hers I make the most is gumbo. Both my parents and I tend to eat different foods than my mom made when I was a child (we are In the US).
When we were in Japan we learned to really love Onigiri. I was especially a fan the mayo tuna but the variety was impressive and it always made the best breakfast going down to whichever convenience store was close and grabbing a couple, one for breakfast and one for a snack later. Also, I got really addicted to japanese custard. Something about Japanese eggs, they are just so much better than american eggs and it's where I learned to really like soft eggs. Comfort foods for me tend to be really hearty foods I grew up with. Chicken Fried Steak sandwiches are one that I just have to have from time to time. Really good hot-out-of-the-fryer french fries. A good homemade chili with beans. A big bowl homemade pinto beans with onions and peppers and mexican spices.
You made me hungry... I love some of those foods, specially vegetable gyoza. But my favorite Japanese food is vegetable tempura. I add ginger to my dipping sauce though. My favorite comfort foods are also some of the ones my mother used to make for us. My favorite comfort food is fried fish with rice. Fried sardines too.I’m a vegetarian but I’d love to finally become vegan because what stops me from being a vegan is that I can’t stop eating fish. I usually hate curry and all things Indian food but you have been tempting me to try Japanese curry.
I'm a huge ume fan. I remember my host grandma would tell me I was going to develop high blood pressure due to my love of them lol. I can eat 4 or 5 at a time, it's soooo good!
these are some of my favorite foods! I haven't tried Neapolitan spaghetti, korokke, or ume in onigiri but I'm sure they're delicious too 😍 Would be fun to see you make something nostalgic like chicken rice with your family, if you had time!
My mother used to make the best tuna casserole and that is something I crave. Mashed potatoes and gravy. There are probably others because I can’t find a food I don’t like.
I have 2 comfort foods I always go to..one is curry rice made with hamburger meat. The other one is a bowl of rice with a dash of soy sauce and furikake.
I love cooking katsudon so much. One of my favorite comfort foods. Who doesn’t love gyoza? I’ve only had/found Japanese curry once (delicious). Not so easy to find here. I want to find a good recipe. I love ume and salmon onigiri best. And I’m trying to find the best karaage here in Portland, Or. Such a great treat. So many great choices Shinichi.
On my five different trips to Japan I have enjoyed all of these dishes, and actually they are all my favorites right there in front of you! The only one I don’t care for is the one the chef cooked for the western soldiers LOL being from America you would think that I liked spaghetti, but I hate it. I laugh and say that myself and my son were born in the wrong part of the world as Asian food has always been my preferred cuisine! I really love sushi, and will only eat it in Japan. American sushi doesn’t even compare to Japanese sushi. Tonkotsu was my first love when I came to Japan for the first time.
I like to imagine that Satoshi is on the other side of the table chowing down when you pass the dishes over. Does he have nostalgia about any of the same ones?
Here's my request for a video on Japanese dishes that are thought to be suitable, and usually made for the invalid or who are unwell, down with flu etc. Are those dishes, in fact, comfort foods such as these? Or something else?
I like a good beef korokke I know fish and chip places around here use to sell them. Mince beef with mash potato crumbed and deep fried. Its been years since I had a decent one, the last one I had was last year and it wasn't cooked properly.
The comfort food you features helps families like mine where we have different eating styles and tastes ..I can have my meals vegetarian and add meat or chicken for my husband and my daughter. Secretly I’d like to make them all vegetarian 😂🤣
one not form the western guy i would say the #1 Japanese food if you go buy amount consumed is miso soup its more o a side dish but it seems like its everywhere
Hello, Sir. My name is Calvin and just wanted to say how much I enjoy your and your partner's channels. If I may ask, is there a name/recipe for the red rice dish and the spaghetti dish? Thank you, very much. I'm amazed with your command of the English language and would be remiss if I didn't also say, I find both of you very handsome. 🙂
I've been trying to get my mom to make Japanese curry for a while because I really want to try it, but she always says no (probably because she assumes that it's the same as Indian or Thai curry).
Most of my favorite food actually aren't the ones I had a lot of as a kid. I do crave some of my childhood food sometimes though but not often. Also as a kid meaty dishes were part of usual meals but I always found meat strange and gladly I changed my diet entirely to be completely vegetarian or even vegan when I was older and completely shocked and traumatized behind what meat actually was and how billions of innocent and intelligent and emotional animals are put through the worst kinds of torture we humans can't even imagine and kept in that state every single day and then killed as "human food". Best change I have made in my life to this day. Never missed what is called meat but in fact is the flesh of corpse of the said poor animals either (then again meat itself never has flavor, it's what the cooks add to it or mix with it or marinate it in etc. that is what holds the supposed taste).
My favourite thing to eat is vegetarian 🥟, I can't get enough of them. Always leaves me feeling happy and contented.
*im a mixed culture my mom is half Filipina and half Chinese and my father is full blooded Chinese so im almost pure Chinese but we're here in the Philippines that's why we almost got the Filipino culture i love to eat lechon and the kiam pong rice in Chinese(arroz valenciana in Filipino/Spanish) that's my comfort food a very nostalgic to me. God bless you and your family Shinichi i love all your videos sending my regards to Satoshi* 🙏🏻♥️🥰
This is the first program I see that you have made. It really held my attention ❤️ to feel and think about the enjoyment of comfort food. AND I love to see how real Japanese people eat. I'm a big fan of properly made ramen 😍
Thank you!
All of your comfort foods are mine as well. I would also add zaru soba. When I was little my grandmother took care of me at night. We would walk to the public bath and, if I was good, she would take me to a restaurant for a treat. I'd always order zaru soba. She would beg me to order something else because people would give her dirty looks for ordering something more expensive while her granddaughter got the cheapest thing on the menu. It's still one of my favorites today and I think of her every time I make it. Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I have been excluded from the grand opening of my work’s new office because I have a cold. Watching you enjoying Japanese food I have grown to love makes me feel happy. Thank you. I might order some of those dishes from my local Japanese restaurant to be delivered tonight and have my own party. 😀
Yes, some of my favorite foods are foods I ate as a child. My mom would make lasagna and curry which I still love. Yakisoba was my favorite food to get when we'd go out to restaurants and I still get happy when I can eat it now. A quick midnight kinda snack I'd make as a teenager is just a bowl of rice topped with an egg over easy with the yolk a tiny bit runny and a bit of ketchup and shoyu. Simple but yummy! Grilled cheese sandwich made with sourdough bread is so good, too! Also, can't go wrong with pizza! Oh, and I love ume! Ume with rice--so ono! Now I must go find something to eat! 😋😄
Thanks Shinishi. Just to let you know in London Katsu Chicken with rice is a favourite comfort dish and becoming popular dish the day after you’ve drunk a lot of alcohol.
I’m of Greek Cypriot heritage born and live in England so my favourite comfort foods are :
1. Pork souvlaki with Greek salad
2. Fish and chips with mushy peas
3. Beef teriyaki with rice and broccoli
All my favorites ❣😋 Yum 😋
There is also Persian curry. Curry just has been going around and each countries added their own twists to it.
I would eat them all!! Great video Shinichi!
Love all types of Japanese food…thank you for sharing your favorite comfort food.
Hi shinichi we're from Liverpool in the UK we visited Japan 3 years ago and we mainly make and eat Japanese at home, we watched your stream and I had to stop my husband from drooling, I'm now going to make my favourite onigiri with okaka as I love katsobushi, I also love okonomiyaki, my husbands absolute favourite is oyakodon
In rural America, we grew up with onigiri filled with umeboshi without the seed! Even though my grandparents came from Japan, we didn't put nori on the outside of our onigiri, but I can see where that would elevate it! We didn't eat any other filling in onigiri except ume, and sometimes it didn't even have a filling--just salted rice in the shape of triangles for picnics. My favorite Japanese comfort food is oyakodon.
Totally agree on everything you presented. I would only add yakitori and yakisoba
Yummie food enjoy your meal stay safe and take care 😘❤️👍🥰🤩😍
My comfort foods are takoyaki, egg salad sandwich, pasta-carbonara, gyoza, braised beef, and pork & beans (hunt's)..and thats' what makes me happy especially when days are not going my way🙂...thank u for sharing yours, happy eating!😊
My childhood comfort food is my mom American fried rice which is very similar to Japanese chicken rice with toppings. We also add black raisins in rice too with fried chicken, sausage and over easy egg as toppings. My mom also made stir fried mince beef and onion with curry powder and butter. When we are craving midnight snack, we took that from the fridge and made sandwich in a sandwich maker, It smells sooo good that woke me up every time my brother made it. In Thailand we also have similar version of spaghetti napolitan but we use macaroni instead yumm and my mom used a lot of butter too. The last one is corn soup which is really simple; just milk and cream corn in a can. My mom used to make that every Sunday morning along side with toasts, bacons, sausage, and over easy eggs.
My favorite onigiri are ume and mentaiko. Your mom gyoza recipe is my all time favorite. From 2011 I worked far in the countryside so when I craved Japanese food, the recipes from Tabieats, Cooking with Dog and Just one cookbook are my go to.
Made katsudon recently, and then made katsudon a few times right after for friends and family. Reception has been great, even with those less adventurous in eating non-western foods.
In my family, homemade baked beans, macaroni and cheese and kielbasa sausage was a comfort food feast. My mother was a very good cook.
Karaage and the Japanese curry and the spaghetti 🍝ools delicious 😋 Shinichi actually they all do. Comfort foods for me a really refreshing vegetable soup and a beef stew. I love these food reviews thanks for sharing yours .🤗💛👍
Thailand also has spaghetti dish that Italian might scream at too. It’s call “spaghetti khee mao”. Very delicious. And of course, spicy.
I love all of those food you had, well maybe except the ume onigiri one. I like my onigiri filled with unagi or salmon.
Thank you for sharing your comfort food. 🙏
Good food is one of the most important things in the life after a nice, dry (and in winter warm) roof over your head. I love food, too.
I love onigiri filled with tuna salad. So yummy! Comfort food for me are: Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki, Onigiri, various types of pasta, pizza tonno e cipolla (tuna & onions), green asparagus wrapped in bacon with gnocchi... I have a lot of comfort foods.
Sukiyaki ❤ and your comfort food choices too. Including emoboshi onigiri too ❤
Just wow! All of your comfort foods are so delish! ❤️❤️❤️
I usually don't watch these too closely but this time I did and, wow, all that food looked so good and, you were enjoying it. 😋
We used to work in Shanghai and would buy onagiri at Family Mart several times a week. Salmon and tuna were our favorites.
My comfort foods tend to be Southern cooking…my Mom was from Alabama. I grew up as an Army kid so we lived all over the US & Europe. But for comfort food, I almost always fall back on my Mom’s cooking. My favorite is chicken & dumplings, which is also my daughter’s favorite of my Mom’s. I’m a very good cook; not being boastful here, I learned from 3 generations of Southern women & one Cherokee Elder. And I learned all about Italian, Irish & German cooking. At 14, I got to go to a professional German cooking school in Hanau, Germany. I experimented on my family! 😁
The first time I made spaghetti for my husband, he never ate that dish anywhere but home! On days it was on the menu, he would come home early when he could! And having grown up in a family of six, I tend to cook that much; there was always plenty of sauce for the next day. Gravies & sauces are richer the more they are cooked.
My go to though is still beans & cornbread. I usually use pinto or northern beans. I grew up eating pinto beans & my husband, who was from Indiana, ate white or Northern beans. I especially like the soup the beans create & I mix it with cornbread, onions & tomatoes. Sometimes I add a dash of pepper juice.
Anyway, that’s some of mine. Thank you for creating content like this. When I’m not feeling well but need to eat, I’ll watch your food videos. They help me want to eat!
Arigatōgozaimashita
Great video! Tonkatsu, ramen, and tempura are my favorite Japanese comfort foods. In NYC, where I'm from, roast beef and mashed potatoes with gravy and peas is my favorite. Also macaroni and cheese.
I love Japanese curry. I'm lucky enough to live near a bunch of Asian grocery stores, so it's easy for me to find Golden, and Vermont curry.
Those foods look great. I still need to try Japanese fried chicken!
My favorite comfort foods are a mix of childhood favorites and new ones. My mom used to make meatballs and rice. Beef meatballs simmered in a very, very sweet tomato sauce. The sauce is just tomato sauce, brown sugar, lemon juice, dried thyme, and black pepper. It's almost like candy.
We didn't have much money, so I ate a ton of Kraft Dinner. It's a specific brand of boxes macaroni and cheese and I still love it! They changed the flavor but it's still good.
These days I love burgers, teriyaki chicken, pizza, and German foods my mom made like schnitzel with mushroom gravy! I love to cook so each month there's a new favorite lol. Jambalaya was this month's discovery 😂
Shinichi san, I hope you are reading this somewhere out there. I completely agree, some of my favourite comfort foods are from my childhood. Probably because it brings back so many memories! I'm curious to see what your top 9 comfort foods overall.
Everything looks yummy and so comforting! I love watching you eat with such relish, Shinichi.😊 I agree that our comfort foods often come from childhood.
Like your mother, my mom was an excellent cook--very into nutrition, freshness, balance, etc. in an era when many people weren't. I ate meat as a kid and, over all her fabulous healthy, plant-based meals, my favorites were the classic meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and a vegetable (and the meatloaf sandwiches the next day); melt-in-your mouth, super crisp, nongreasy, pan-fried chicken and fabulous potato salad; and an amazing Indian curry with multiple savory and sweet toppings, chutney, and cucumber raita. SO delicious and nostalgic. I hope Mom is cooking for happy multitudes out in the cosmos somewhere.❤
Yummy choices shinichi!!!
Hope your enjoying time with the family now too!!! ✌🏻
Favorite fillings from the onigiri that my roommate makes for me are Ume and pickled yellow daikon, kani salad, and salmon and cream cheese!
Great video 😊
Umeboshi onigiri has always been my favorite.
My family’s background is a large percentage of German but comfort food for me is Mexican. And macaroni and cheese 😊 My mom was an adventurous cook so we tried lots of different foods and different restaurants that a lot of people I grew up with would have never dreamed of eating. I don’t think it is at all strange to find comfort in foods your mom made when you were growing up. Makes perfect sense to me.
My American comfort foods: Spaghetti with meat sauce, pork ribs boiled with sauerkraut (grandmas recipe
I tried all these foods except Napolitan. and love them. Love combining ton katsu and curry the most.
My favourite onigiri filling is katsu curry. I can get them from a local oriental store here in the UK.
What I love about your selection is it's mostly yoshoku (western-influenced food) so I can find comfort in those great selections too. The curry looks especially yummy
My mixture of soy sauce, vinegar and raayu for gyoza is equal parts of each. I want gyoza now🥟🤤
Umeboshi onigiri, tuna mayo are my favorites onigiri.
Funny enough I only have a couple of home food I crave but my comfort food is mainly Japanese, Korean, Thai and Indian food is what I crave so much.
Me and the hubs always gets the spiciest Japanese curry roux at the supermarket, we love spicy curry.
That all looks so tasty! We actually eat Japanese curry here quite often as everyone in my house loves it :)
Just watching you eat makes me hungry…. Im started watching this at 1:20 am and now I will go to the fridge to grab something to eat! 🙈
I love Japanese curry; we have a restaurant in Seattle, Rondo, that has the best katsu curry…beef…! I stay with mild though. I love spicy foods but my gastric system rebels sometimes. LOL
I truly love katsu, chicken is my favorite but I like pork as well. I do cook at home & I enjoy experimenting!
Another TH-camr introduced me to onigiri, particularly mentaiko. Yum!
Karaage is a big favorite & I just bought some from a little restaurant that’s inside of an H Mart, just south of Seattle. Yum yum!
I had karaage for the first time the other day, it was pretty good :). I had my karaage with Japanese mayo and it's now my all time favourite mayo haha, so delicious I even bought myself a bottle! I would most like the croquettes, curry and katsudon.
Shinichi, yes I crave dishes my parents used to make and I try making them whenever I need comfort! We associate food with love! Japanese curry one of my favs from your list, but definitely would eat all of the foods you featured. I hope Satoshi will show his in a future video. Thanks for sharing!😊💝👍
have you reviewed instant currys? my favorite is golden curry. it's what my dad used and I love it with just potato and rice
Japanese comfort food for me would be chawanmushi, oyakodon, ramen, nabemono, and onigiri. I don't if they make the same kind of onigiri like our musubi in Hawaii. One of kari kari ume musubi at Marukai or at crunchy ume musubi at Mamaya. At Iyasume, I like ume musubi and green leaf musubi.
When I was a kid, smell of curry made me so happy when I came home
after played outside till dusk.
Loved this. Definitely would love a Hawaiian food faves! Honestly; most of my comfort foods as an adult is all Filipino food my nanay made for me as a little girl. So sinigang na itlog (garlic rice and eggs) or misua (poor man’s onion soup) just basic and simple but feels like hug in a food
You make the food look sooo delicious and I wish I was there with you to enjoy it! We have all of those foods here in Hawaii but somehow having it in Japan is the best! Can’t wait to go back for a visit!
Where did you get that chicken? I want to try it when I come over, but I definitely want that kind, with the marinated chicken. I don’t really care for plain chicken or just salted chicken. ✌🏻💕😊
Also: tuna mayo onigiri is my fav, but I’ve only had a couple kinds.
In the US we have our own type of spaghetti as well, that is similar to a spaghetti bolognese, but it’s American not Italian. It’s typically spaghetti noodles, ground meat...beef or pork mostly, and a tomato sauce.... I personally make it with a tomato paste base. Then we usually eat it with grated Parmesan cheese on top. It is one of my comfort foods. 😁💕
One of my Japanese comfort food is pasta napolitan, together with kombu onigiri and tamago yaki. But my all time favourite would be yomogi daifuku. Just the one you can find at the convenience store.
I don't really have a Dutch comfort food, perhaps very salty drop (licorice), growing up my favourite dish was sweet and sour chicken at the local Chinese restaurant.
The first time I tried Japanese curry, I found it so strange but now I love it! :D
I love tuna Mayo onigiri so much 🫣♥️ with some shōyu and lots of black pepper if I make it myself 😤 so good 🤤
Great looking feast! I can agree with most of those choices! Especially the curry and karaage... We also have chicken rice for school lunch sometimes too👍
I think if you grew up feeling close to, or having great memories with that parent, food will frequently bring them up. As a kid, I didn't like eating the bitter "goya", but I find myself craving it from time to time.
I would happily eat any of this stuff. And no it is not weird for comfort food to be what you ate as a kid! One of my comfort foods is Mac n cheese 😂
It’s past midnight here and watching this makes me so hungry! Great selection! I like ume and especially so in ochazuke. Also love Tonkatsu and curry rice and karaage. For some reason cold udon or soba are very comforting to me too.
Thank you for sharing your comfort food. And your remarks made me curious: do some things become comfort food because you ate it a lot as a child, or did it get made often when you were a child because you loved it and always asked for it.
I think my favorite onigiri is mentaiko mayo and my second favorite is ume. My mom makes me ratatouille when I visit and I make that at home but probably the recipe of hers I make the most is gumbo. Both my parents and I tend to eat different foods than my mom made when I was a child (we are In the US).
When we were in Japan we learned to really love Onigiri. I was especially a fan the mayo tuna but the variety was impressive and it always made the best breakfast going down to whichever convenience store was close and grabbing a couple, one for breakfast and one for a snack later. Also, I got really addicted to japanese custard. Something about Japanese eggs, they are just so much better than american eggs and it's where I learned to really like soft eggs. Comfort foods for me tend to be really hearty foods I grew up with. Chicken Fried Steak sandwiches are one that I just have to have from time to time. Really good hot-out-of-the-fryer french fries. A good homemade chili with beans. A big bowl homemade pinto beans with onions and peppers and mexican spices.
Made Kare raisu at the weekend but I also love nikujaga on a cold day in winter tho' my goto comfort food is Hokkaido Miso Ramen
You made me hungry... I love some of those foods, specially vegetable gyoza. But my favorite Japanese food is vegetable tempura. I add ginger to my dipping sauce though. My favorite comfort foods are also some of the ones my mother used to make for us. My favorite comfort food is fried fish with rice. Fried sardines too.I’m a vegetarian but I’d love to finally become vegan because what stops me from being a vegan is that I can’t stop eating fish. I usually hate curry and all things Indian food but you have been tempting me to try Japanese curry.
Comfort food really is the best.
By the way, I started making vegetable gyoza at home after watching your video where you make gyoza with your mother 😉😊
Thank you Shinichi, this was very interesting. I took notes for my next Japan trip ! Everything looks delicious except the Japanese spaghetti.
I'm a huge ume fan. I remember my host grandma would tell me I was going to develop high blood pressure due to my love of them lol. I can eat 4 or 5 at a time, it's soooo good!
these are some of my favorite foods! I haven't tried Neapolitan spaghetti, korokke, or ume in onigiri but I'm sure they're delicious too 😍 Would be fun to see you make something nostalgic like chicken rice with your family, if you had time!
My mother used to make the best tuna casserole and that is something I crave. Mashed potatoes and gravy. There are probably others because I can’t find a food I don’t like.
I have 2 comfort foods I always go to..one is curry rice made with hamburger meat. The other one is a bowl of rice with a dash of soy sauce and furikake.
I love cooking katsudon so much. One of my favorite comfort foods. Who doesn’t love gyoza? I’ve only had/found Japanese curry once (delicious). Not so easy to find here. I want to find a good recipe. I love ume and salmon onigiri best. And I’m trying to find the best karaage here in Portland, Or. Such a great treat. So many great choices Shinichi.
youre in portland? there is a place called kalé there that serves very good homemade japanese curry
Wow, how did I miss this video! Reminds me of Beryl's channel. Anyway, my favorite onigiri filling is salmon. I wish we had tried other flavors.
My favorite Onigiri is Ume. I love Ume.
I love Japanese curry! But I won't lie I'm a bit terrified of the sphegetti 😅
~ Yum!!! 🥢 My favorite onigiri, is stuffed with takuan…😋
On my five different trips to Japan I have enjoyed all of these dishes, and actually they are all my favorites right there in front of you! The only one I don’t care for is the one the chef cooked for the western soldiers LOL being from America you would think that I liked spaghetti, but I hate it. I laugh and say that myself and my son were born in the wrong part of the world as Asian food has always been my preferred cuisine! I really love sushi, and will only eat it in Japan. American sushi doesn’t even compare to Japanese sushi. Tonkotsu was my first love when I came to Japan for the first time.
I love curry I've had both Japanese Curry and Indian curry and I love them both yummy!!!
I love all your dishes, but I would add Oden, a side of kinpira gobo, hayashi rice to name a few.
I like to imagine that Satoshi is on the other side of the table chowing down when you pass the dishes over. Does he have nostalgia about any of the same ones?
Hope you do your fave sweets in a future video.
Here's my request for a video on Japanese dishes that are thought to be suitable, and usually made for the invalid or who are unwell, down with flu etc. Are those dishes, in fact, comfort foods such as these? Or something else?
I love katsu curry!
I like a good beef korokke I know fish and chip places around here use to sell them. Mince beef with mash potato crumbed and deep fried. Its been years since I had a decent one, the last one I had was last year and it wasn't cooked properly.
The comfort food you features helps families like mine where we have different eating styles and tastes ..I can have my meals vegetarian and add meat or chicken for my husband and my daughter. Secretly I’d like to make them all vegetarian 😂🤣
The curry rice, and cutlet. 😇👑🌍🌎🌏💚
Is there a certain place you favor these foods from-are these dishes from 7-11? It seems you favor that combini store the most!
My favourite Onigiri fillling is tuna and maxo
one not form the western guy i would say the #1 Japanese food if you go buy amount consumed is miso soup its more o a side dish but it seems like its everywhere
Favorite onigiri, salmon. Donburi, gyudon.
Yummy!
My comfort food is Asian food like onigiri with kombu/soysauce , korean ramyun and Thai green curry
so i had a onigiri with beef with soy sauce vinegar marinade and it was by far the best I've had this was in the US so I haven't had all the flavors
The beef onigiri is a specialty of Kyushu prefecture in Japan. I like it too
Now I'm hungry!!! I love curry
Hello, Sir. My name is Calvin and just wanted to say how much I enjoy your and your partner's channels. If I may ask, is there a name/recipe for the red rice dish and the spaghetti dish? Thank you, very much. I'm amazed with your command of the English language and would be remiss if I didn't also say, I find both of you very handsome. 🙂
I've been trying to get my mom to make Japanese curry for a while because I really want to try it, but she always says no (probably because she assumes that it's the same as Indian or Thai curry).
Make it yourself. She's not your servant or personal cook.
My favorite onigiri is tuna Mayo🍙
Most of my favorite food actually aren't the ones I had a lot of as a kid. I do crave some of my childhood food sometimes though but not often. Also as a kid meaty dishes were part of usual meals but I always found meat strange and gladly I changed my diet entirely to be completely vegetarian or even vegan when I was older and completely shocked and traumatized behind what meat actually was and how billions of innocent and intelligent and emotional animals are put through the worst kinds of torture we humans can't even imagine and kept in that state every single day and then killed as "human food". Best change I have made in my life to this day. Never missed what is called meat but in fact is the flesh of corpse of the said poor animals either (then again meat itself never has flavor, it's what the cooks add to it or mix with it or marinate it in etc. that is what holds the supposed taste).
My comfort food is my homemade gourmet burger and my homemade spaghetti bolognese and my homemade tuna salad mnomnomnom
Can you get gyoza in Japan that isn’t made with pork? Like veggie or chicken?
Hungry! Hungry!! Very Hungry!!