Dotch Cooking Show

gaijin mark wrote:The SMAP guy finally gets to eat!!! :shakehead:

Is it my imagination or did that episode not appear to be one that followed last week's episode?

The intros and closing graphics were different... Unless they rotate them.


Very curious. :headscratch:

I was thinking the same thing. It seemed like SMAP guy's hair got a lot longer in just one week.

gaijin mark wrote:I was thinking the same thing. It seemed like SMAP guy's hair got a lot longer in just one week.

Maybe he's using Vigoro. :hehe:

Racer wrote:

Maybe he's using Vigoro

Well, he hasn't had anything to eat for a long time. :mrgreen:

I felt so bad for that woman ( I don't know her name ) who voted for the ribs.. ( ...those delicious ribs >.<! ) and I will blame her loss on SMAP guy just because I can!

Damn you, SMAP guy! Damn you!!! :smack:

bmwracer wrote:
Is it my imagination or did that episode not appear to be one that followed last week's episode?

The intros and closing graphics were different... Unless they rotate them.


Very curious. :headscratch:

i figured it was a new season or something. the picture quality was much clearer.

krim wrote:i figured it was a new season or something. the picture quality was much clearer.

I didn't notice any difference... Only the opening and closing graphics. :headscratch:

Jeshika chan wrote:

I felt so bad for that woman ( I don't know her name ) who voted for the ribs.. ( ...those delicious ribs >.<! ) and I will blame her loss on SMAP guy just because I can!

Yeah, it was kind of sad, I've never seen anybody that upset before. :puppydog:

gaijin mark wrote:Jeshika chan wrote:

I felt so bad for that woman ( I don't know her name ) who voted for the ribs.. ( ...those delicious ribs >.<! ) and I will blame her loss on SMAP guy just because I can!

Yeah, it was kind of sad, I've never seen anybody that upset before. :puppydog:

Was she really that upset or just doing that for dramatic/comedic effect?

seemed to be a bit of both. :doh:

krim wrote:seemed to be a bit of both. :doh:

She must be an actress then. :hehe:

I, as an uncertified BBQ master, was upset at the way they prepared the pork ribs.

krim wrote:I, as an uncertified BBQ master, was upset at the way they prepared the pork ribs.

Yeah, it did look odd.

I'm sure they think the same way when American's prepare Japanese food. ;)

Another difference was the on-location interview guy.

krim wrote:I, as an uncertified BBQ master, was upset at the way they prepared the pork ribs.

There are many legit ways to cook ribs. But that BBQ sauce looked wrong -- all pulpy. I think that's why the ribs lost.

There is no real right way or wrong way to cook something...

well i take that back, microwaving korean kaibi would be one.

im a dry rub/vingegar mop bbq pork kind of guy, i wouldn't consider what they did, real bbq.

krim wrote:There is no real right way or wrong way to cook something...

well i take that back, microwaving korean kaibi would be one.

im a dry rub/vingegar mop bbq pork kind of guy, i wouldn't consider what they did, real bbq.

Why would it be uniquely wrong to microwave Kalbi, as opposed to any other meat or rib dish? Microwave ovens ought to be delegated to the trash-heap of culinary history. They are anti-cuisine, an abomination. Just my opinion, of course, but I happen to be right on this.

I won't argue over what can be considered "real" barbeque -- that wasn't what lost the round. It's perfectly legit to parboil pork ribs, then glaze them in an oven, smoker or over a grill.

The barbecue sauce on last week's Dotch looked terrible. I would've chosen the tuna collar based on that alone. Then the rib chef made another mistake, and tried to grill the sauced ribs on a griddle. You can't achieve any kind of glaze that way.

dang...wished they would show some of this stuff in backwater state between Seattle and So. Cal :shakehead:

den4 wrote:dang...wished they would show some of this stuff in backwater state between Seattle and So. Cal :shakehead:

portland oregon, i assume? they don't get Dotch prg? that sucks...
they have even more in Hawaii, as i remember during my last visit... :bonk:

Also known to most of the outside world as DePortland :hehe:
No Dotchi, no J-doramas (as the new AZN TV took the entire thing off and replaced it with constant repeats of anime and some other programs that I didn't sign up for :usuck: ) and repeats of popjapantv from the past 2-3 years....
they even show Chinese and Korean shows on public access, but nothing of real interest on the J-variety/doramas...really sucks lately being in the backwater state on the west coast :shakehead:

well, I guess there are the few remaining vid shops still in existence, although one just bit the dust earlier this year....

no decent ramen shops, all the great J-restaurants, except for one Izakaya style waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in the sticks, have gone bye-bye in the sucky economy...along with most of the J-hi-tech firms that evaporated after the IT bubble burst...

feel like Robinson Crusoe, or Gilligan's Island sometimes with all the declining access to J-stuff :grumble:

oh well....that's life in Tattoine II.... :)