What Are your Favorite Foods?

[Oxmix]

I like a lot of different foods, but I find myself eating a lot of Kim Bob, Chopechetti and chicken flavored rahmen.

Regards

Ox

[newvalor]

Cup Ol' Noodles is the shiznit. But hey I've had to eat to other than normal food for the past few months, so right now anything in okinawa sounds good. I'd say an actual pizza sounds good right about now, just cause it won't be burnt and taste weird like they do here.

[Muku]

Favorite Foods....Mmmm.

First off at the very top of the list are two items that I would have a really hard time deciding which to pick if I was at a restraunt.

1st and 1st :w00t: Ishi-mibai and Prime Rib
Prime Rib is self explanatory however the Ishi-mibai is a fish here in Okinawa. It is great either raw as in sushi or sashimi, but I prefer it cooked in butter and garlic sprinkled lightly with sea salt. Great eating!:D

[lumpia]

I'm a big fan of tenderloin here, grilled, with mashed potatoes and some garlic bread. Either that, or flounder, pan fried with just a touch of salt and a few other seasonings.

Have you ever had deep fried prime rib? It's much like deep fried turkey.

[P_chan]

yaki niku from karubi daiyo is my favorite. I've also love okinawan soba too! Those little sweet potato boats are good as well. The fillet mignon from sam's is delicious!

[newvalor]

I go to captains inn down in mihama for me beef, they got an all you can eat beef meal for like a little over 5K yen. They also have all you can drink too, yeah that sounds pretty good right now for when I get back.

I knew I shouldn't have answered and ignored the thread instead, now I'm craving this food.

I hate you guys.........

[dk]

It's a tie for me between a good steak and king crab legs... Yakiniku is fantastic too, but steak allows me to be lazy!

[Muku]

Have you ever had deep fried prime rib? It's much like deep fried turkey.
No I havent, I really enjoy the meat and would never had the idea to deep fry a nice prime rib. If someone would cook it for me I might try it, however for my own personal tastes I think it would be hard for me to submerge a good slice of prime into oil.:-|:D

[Fonze]

I gotta tie with steak and real mexican food. since in japan I like real spicy curry I don't if thats japanese though?

[Muku]

I gotta tie with steak and real mexican food. since in japan I like real spicy curry I don't if thats japanese though?

Well I would say that the curry here in Japan has become Japanese, even though it has it's origins elsewhere.

Just like a few other foods that people commonly think of being Japanese. 1st and most recognizeable is tenpura, which came here from Portugal.

[dk]

Just like a few other foods that people commonly think of being Japanese. 1st and most recognizeable is tenpura, which came here from Portugal.
Woah, that's news to me! :ohmy:

[Muku]

Woah, that's news to me! :ohmy:
ABOUT TEMPURA
"The earliest record of tempura is from the end of the sixteenth century, and it probably came from a cooking method introduced by Portuguese missionaries. In the late Edo period the term meant different things in Kansai and Edo, according to an encyclopedia of customs from the mid-nineteenth century...The Tempura of Kyoto and Osaka was what is now known as satsuma-age...Frying with pil or fat was rare in the Japanese diet that developed through medieval times. The main exception was the vegetarian food eaten in and around Zen temples, with its deep-fried bean curd and wheat gluten. It was during the Edo period that the general population acquired a taste for food cooked in oil, due to the stpread of oil-based cooking styles introduced from abroad: Portuguese-inspired tempura in the sixteenth century, and the Chinese-style fucha and shippoku cooking that crystalized in Nagasaki during the seventeenth century. Only sesame oil, which was expensive, had been used for cooking until the Edo period. Then, as cheaper rapeseed oil came into production, mainly for lighting, the new oil-pressing techniques were introduced, the stage was set for the popularization fo deep-fried foods. Tempura is one of the national dishes of Japan that developed into its curren form in the city of Edo...Tempura became popular in the 1770s as a snack food sold at street stalls, where the customers ate standing and did not use chopsticks. The morsels of fish, prawns and vegetables were stuck on bamboo skewers, coated with batter, deep-fried and eaten on the spot, as an inexepensive food for the common people. Tempura restaurants first appeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and by the middle fo the century were lsited in Edo restaurant guides, indicating tempura had come to be appreciated by people of higher social standing."



The next is the "famous" pan which also came originally from Portugal as well. Many Japanese "think" that the word "pan" is Japanese however it originates from Portugese as well. To those that dont know the word "pan" it is bread in English:D

Both foods however have been adapted into the Japanese diet and in my opinion, particularly tenpura are now commonly thought of as being Japanese.

[Galina]

i love soki soba and the bentos that are sold during lunch :)

[Galina]

i also love that warty cucumber looking thingie that tastes soo bitter. what is it called in english? i forgot if its called goya in japanese. its good for the heat healthwise.

[P_chan]

obento is awesome! I always get one from family mart once my wife doesn't make me one.

[ryukyuboi]

The shrimp I had once in Phuket, Thailand was so huge and deliciously cooked outdoors on a fire and so cheap. I love Thai food overall.

[Fonze]

I also like deep fried calamari.

[DoctorP]

Sometimes the best meals can be really simple... a properly cooked porkchop on a grill, or perfectly made cubed steak...those are my favorites! Of course since living here champuru has become a fav as well.