Thread 724204409

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?

>>724204409 (OP)
>>>/ck/

lol wrong board

>>724204409 (OP)
I'd recommend getting custard, do not get any bean ones because it tastes like shit.

>>724204409 (OP)
...this is not /ck/

FUCK

>>724204409 (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

>>724204409 (OP)
japanese food is pretty bland and anything that isn't seafood tends to taste very western

>>724204409 (OP)
You forgot to say "vidya for this feels?" at the end.

>>724204570
>bean ones because it tastes like shit.
>t. corn syrup addicted obese diabetic mutt

>>724204598
Come to Southern California, brown man. We have a lot of chink cuisine here

>>724204409 (OP)
>>>/jp/
Try a chocolate and raspberry jam for me and report back at this time next saturday

>>724204748
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

>>724204409 (OP)
>food analogy
Imagine being so at computers

>>724204409 (OP)
You got raspberry jam taiyaki in your cunt? We only have anko and custard cream here.

>>724204409 (OP)
Why don't you buy them first, take photos, eat them, and make a thread showing us all that?

>>724204842
>I'm White

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

>>724204409 (OP)
Sir, this is /v/ Wish I could have one of those, they look nice

Where is my UGUU

>>724204409 (OP)
Make sure to make an audible "nom" sound when you bite into it for the first time.

>>724205156
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO1Yq7n9zLU

>>724204409 (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".

>>724204409 (OP)
try red bean first if you haven't, it's the classic OG

>>724204689
Shit, meant to >>724204552

>>724205303
it grew on me as an adult, but i've liked barely sweet things

>>724204409 (OP)
Raspberry sounds really nice. :)

>>724204409 (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

>>724204409 (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/

>>724204409 (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.

>>724206113
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

>>724204409 (OP)
>>724204552
get the bean one as a right of passage

>>724205816
To be fair, Sushi Go is pretty good.

>>724206515
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.

>>724204409 (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

>>724206113
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

>>724206113
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.

>>724204409 (OP)
Try Red Bean Paste it's good
come back and update us /v/fags

>>724204409 (OP)
Japanese cuisine is the most overrated in the world and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

>>724206625
lovely image

>>724204409 (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.

>>724206878
I thought taiyaki was some kind of fried dough ball with octopus in it.

>>724204409 (OP)
taiyaki is boring as fuck, try it to find out what it is but don't expect anything interesting

>>724206113
no chinese resturants nearby? if not you can probably order most things from costco/grocers for some of the mainstream stuff

>>724206830
>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.

>>724204409 (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.

>>724206948
isn't that takoyaki?

>>724206980
Never got the hype for xiao long baos.

>>724206830
most of it is fusion...

>>724206948
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"