Thread 21679804

So turns out my little podunk town of 40k has a small taiyaki food stand I'm going to hit up on monday. Never had it before and curious what kinds to try. They got raseberry jam, dulce de leche, custard, sweet red bean, and chocolate. Are we talking fish shaped toaster strudels or is there something more to these things?

>>21679804 (OP)
>>>/ck/

lol wrong board

>>21679804 (OP)
I'd recommend getting custard, do not get any bean ones because it tastes like shit.

>>21679804 (OP)
...this is not /ck/

FUCK

>>21679804 (OP)
I wish we had those here
I was actually surprised when I found out last week one of the nicer restaurants here served edamame and miso soup
Both good btw
I hate Latin America, the whole continent is a rural backwater shithole

>>21679804 (OP)
japanese food is pretty bland and anything that isn't seafood tends to taste very western

>>21679804 (OP)
You forgot to say "vidya for this feels?" at the end.

>>21679808
>bean ones because it tastes like shit.
>t. corn syrup addicted obese diabetic mutt

>>21679809
Come to Southern California, brown man. We have a lot of chink cuisine here

>>21679804 (OP)
>>>/jp/
Try a chocolate and raspberry jam for me and report back at this time next saturday

>>21679813
I'm White and I want nothing to do with the US
It would be like moving to a more obese and dumb LATAM country

>>21679804 (OP)
>food analogy
Imagine being so at computers

>>21679804 (OP)
You got raspberry jam taiyaki in your cunt? We only have anko and custard cream here.

>>21679804 (OP)
Why don't you buy them first, take photos, eat them, and make a thread showing us all that?

>>21679815
>I'm White

it's like you made a cream puff with pancake batter

>>21679804 (OP)
Sir, this is /v/ Wish I could have one of those, they look nice

Where is my UGUU

>>21679804 (OP)
Make sure to make an audible "nom" sound when you bite into it for the first time.

>>21679823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO1Yq7n9zLU

>>21679804 (OP)
Try the red-bean one since it's the most traditional. But yeah, it might be one of those things you have to grow up with to really "get".

>>21679804 (OP)
try red bean first if you haven't, it's the classic OG

>>21679812
Shit, meant to >>21679807

>>21679825
it grew on me as an adult, but i've liked barely sweet things

>>21679804 (OP)
Raspberry sounds really nice. :)

>>21679804 (OP)
>Are we talking fish shaped toaster strudels or is there something more to these things?
They aren't as flaky as that. If you've ever had those frozen french toast sticks, the outside is pretty similar to those, IIRC (without much resemblance to actual french toast, to be clear).
Custard and chocolate both sound good, but I don't think you can go wrong. Red bean paste sounds a little exotic, though.
In July, I went to a place in Los Angeles called SomiSomi that serves ah-boong (Korean taiyaki, essentially) with soft serve ice cream. It was pretty good. There was a Sega pop-up across the street that I did not go to, but I looked inside.

>tfw food sucks in my dusty town of 50k
>Nothing but chain restaurants
>Any mom and pop restaurant only ever sticks around for a year or two before going under
>The only 2 places in town that offer sushi is a grocery store and an irish pub
>tfw the closest I'll get to japanese food is playing Sushi Go

>>21679804 (OP)
You can find taiyaki in the most backwoods redneck towns of the US these days so you must literally live in Hillbilly central OP assuming this isn't some ancient copy pasta given it belongs on >>/ck/

>>21679804 (OP)
>40,000
>Small Podunk town

I live in a town with a population of 777.
Not thousand, just 777.
I grew up in a town with a population of 160.
The closest "city" has a population of 13,700.
I'm in the USA, on a coastal state, less than 40 minutes from the ocean. You really don't know what small towns are.

Anyone ever have dim sum? Is it as fun and tasty as it looks? I'm sure I'll never get a chance to have any. I have to live vicariously through faceless text posts on an image board.

>>21679834
I had an aunt from Hong Kong and she used to make dim sum, for chinese new year. It was pretty neat, all these steamer baskets loaded with different kinds of food. She was fucking crazy though, she threw a meat cleaver at my uncle one year, then divorced him and became a lesbian not too long afterwords.

IMAGINE
COMPUTERS

>>21679804 (OP)
>>21679807
get the bean one as a right of passage

>>21679831
To be fair, Sushi Go is pretty good.

>>21679837
Seconding this. If you're trying new food you really should go for the traditional option. Feel free to branch out and try other things too but your first should totally be how it's normally made.

>>21679804 (OP)
just waffles with red bean, though custard is the way to go
otherwise its best when koreans do it since they use puff pastry dough

>>21679834
I went to China on business and wanted to try it so bad, but missed the opportunity because my retarded wigger boss fell for the "chinks eat dogs" meme and refused to eat anything
I really liked the pork dumplings though

>>21679834
How have you not have dim sum? Chinese food is everywhere. Its good as its just ground pork. Nothing amazing.

>>724204
Red bean filling is nothing like chocolate. Ive seen a lot of people make that mistake while spending their money. It is a bean, so it is a bit earthy in its flavor. It is still a bit sweet though. Just keep that in mind.

>>21679804 (OP)
Try Red Bean Paste it's good
come back and update us /v/fags

>>21679804 (OP)
Japanese cuisine is the most overrated in the world and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

>>21679839
lovely image

>>21679804 (OP)
i dunno why, but for some reason whenever i saw that shit in games and stuff, i always figured it was some grilled/deep-fried fish thing or something and not a pastry or whatever it actually is.

>>21679847
I thought taiyaki was some kind of fried dough ball with octopus in it.

>>21679804 (OP)
taiyaki is boring as fuck, try it to find out what it is but don't expect anything interesting

>>21679834
no chinese resturants nearby? if not you can probably order most things from costco/grocers for some of the mainstream stuff

>>21679845
>the most overrated in the world
objectively it's french. Japanese can still be overrated but french is THE most overrated. Also shoutouts to ethiopian which they tried to shill for a few years as THE exotic cuisine but nobody fell for, if they had it would have been the new #1.

>>21679804 (OP)
Red bean can be hit or miss depending how they make it. Some are a nice sweet and thick paste, and others I've had just tasted like baked beans. Custard is always safe.

>>21679848
isn't that takoyaki?

>>21679850
Never got the hype for xiao long baos.

>>21679845
most of it is fusion...

>>21679848
That's an understandable mistake because you were thinking of takoyaki, and this is called taiyaki. "Yaki" is a word that means grilled or fried. "Tako" is octopus. "Takoyaki" is fried octopus [balls]. "Tai" is "sea bream" (a type of fish). "Taiyaki" is "fried sea bream"

>>21679853
yea

Based mod for fixing OP's mistake.

>>21679804 (OP)
Enjoy OP, try all of them. I need to see if there's any around Vegas although I haven't tried any cuisine in the half year I've lived here.

>>724206830
>>21679804 (OP)
japanese food is great but the traditional sweets, basically anything they 'wagashi', is consistently pretty unexciting because they didn't get any of the good sweet-stuff tech until after they opened the borders. Heavy reliance on stuff like red bean paste which doesn't do much for many people. It's not all terrible but they were just working with a smaller set of sweet-things ingredients for a long time.

Modern Japanese sweets are based though, they make loads of interesting stuff you can't get anywhere else now. You just have to remember the traditional stuff is probably going to disappoint.

I like kinako with mochi, I like mizumanjuu, there are some trad wagashi that don't suck but the creativity levels boomed with all the new desert items that flowed in after the borders opened

>>21679848
I had some and was pretty dissapointed. I thought it would have a nice deep fried taste or a nice octopus taste. It had neither. Just $1.50 a ball of generic indeterminate warm paste and flavorless breading.

>>21679864
>>21679845

>>21679867
good takoyaki is heavy octopus, minimal paste, heavy sauce and katsuobushi etc.

but bad takoyaki where the skimp also exists. what you're doing is like saying you ate a "steak" that was actually just a slice of spam that someone dug out of a tin that they slopped onto a plate, and saying that because of this experience therefore all steak is shit. You just don't know what you really ate

>>21679864
The fact they have just straight ass cream and strawberry white bread sandwiches is so surreal I can't wrap my head around it. It sounds like a made up anime dish.

>>21679874
that's not common in japan, but bakeries all over the world put cream and fruit in baked goods. There are 4 countries I can think of off the top of my head where I could go to a random local bakery and expect to find that

>>21679876
>>21679874

>>21679876
No Japan invented it

>>21679874
>>21679876
>>21679878
>>21679879

>>21679874
>>21679876
>>21679878
>>21679879
>>21679880

>>21679878
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>>21679881
Yeah but we're talking just plain ass white bread. Not a flakey probably semi-sweet pastry. White bread should only be used for cold meats and cheeses...and sometimes hot meats and cheeses. Sometimes fried with butter and hot cheese with warm tomatoe juice. Maybe mixed with an egg and cinnemon slurry and then topped with butters, powered sugar, and syrup. Occasionally you can also lather it with peanut butter and sweet jelly. Only in the most desperate of times do you just sprinkle brown sugar on top of a toasted piece of bread with melted butter. I should stop talking. Still it is weird.

>>21679884
japanese bread for desert purposes like this is unlikely to be plain ass white bread, it'll be shokupan milk bread which is much more of a desert item than a generic staple food that westerners think of when they think of bread

>>21679867
can barely come up with any good stuff besides
melonpan icecream
of course senbei
candied sweet potatoes (or any sweetpotato based thing)
mizu mochi is ok

>>21679874
hey people like strawberryies.. why not make a sando

>>21679888
modern sweets are better than most of the stuff in this image. wagashi genuinely should be retired, it's really lame compared to the really cool stuff japan has come up with since

>>21679892
>wagashi genuinely should be retired
The general idea of this, that things an individual doesn't like should be retired or removed or forbidden, is horrible. It's okay for things that individuals don't prefer to exist. Some people do like them. They have value beyond just stimulating the sweet taste receptors on one individual's tongue.

I'm deliberately not using "you" to avoid making this personal but that is your personal expressed opinion and I think you're wrong to even express it.

Since we're talking about jap food, is grilled eel overrated? It's much more expensive than the other grilled stuff where I am.

>>21679911
I watched a hour long doc on these slimy fucks and cannot even begin to consider eating one of it's kind. No matter how it is prepared.

>>21679929
it's delicious, charcoal grilled and basted with sweet soy sauce
tastes like fatty white fish

>>21679911
Isn't it supposed to give you super boner powers?

>>21679804 (OP)
>food shaped like a fish
>doesn't have any fish in it
why do japs do this

>>21679804 (OP)
I enjoyed a red bean paste one of these when I tried this once. Don't blanket trust the retards in this thread. Get it and try it yourself, you might like it.

>>21679804 (OP)
>>21679809
Self fellating third world obsessed hipster faggots detected.

>>21679815
>>21679819
Bitter Immigrant exposed hard

>>21680004
The fish shape represents sea bream, called “tai” (鯛) in Japanese.

Sea bream has long been a symbol of good fortune and celebration in Japan — often served at weddings, New Year, and festive meals.

This is partly because “tai” sounds like medetai (めでたい), meaning auspicious or joyous.

By making a humble street sweet shaped like a “tai,” it became a lucky snack — something everyday people could enjoy as a small luxury or charm of good luck.