Food, Food, and More Food Thread

more sukiyaki love

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kobe beef love
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Sizzling Kobe beef with enoki mushrooms and onions (This I've ACTUALLY had! @_@)
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High quality beef from Japan...no mad cow here...or mad customers.
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silverpuzzle wrote:creative "sushi cake"

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kid's sushi box :mrgreen:

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WOW! :shocked: I wonder how long it takes to make one of these...

Tu_triky wrote:more sukiyaki love

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kobe beef love
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Sizzling Kobe beef with enoki mushrooms and onions (This I've ACTUALLY had! @_@)
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High quality beef from Japan...no mad cow here...or mad customers.
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great pictures, as always

the Japanese make their food so artistic, and taste as good as it looks, of course. :applaud:

qilver wrote:

great pictures, as always

the Japanese make their food so artistic, and taste as good as it looks, of course. :applaud:

yes it adds to the torture of not being able to eat it.

Tu_triky wrote:

yes it adds to the torture of not being able to eat it.

is this what you had while in Japan?
those are some very good detailed pix...
sugoi! :applaud:
the kobe beef is tempting...and costly :sweat:

qilver wrote:

is this what you had while in Japan?
those are some very good detailed pix...
sugoi! :applaud:
the kobe beef is tempting...and costly :sweat:

nah bro...those are just pix i found......i will say though i did have some beef that was on par with kobe beef twice...once for dinner with my friend at the Oak Door Restaurant at the Grand Hyatt Roppongi Hills where my friend and I stayed.. we had high quality beef from sendai..and one another time my friend and I ate Sukiyaki made with Matsuzaka beef at this restaurant called Yoshihashi....it was beyond ridiculous.....my friend who rarely eats beef uttered upon taking the first bite...."this is beyond beef!"

the meal at Yoshihashi included dessert and a few bottles of Yebisu beer was about 11,000 per person :sweat:

a while back, i posted this review of Yoshihashi I found a long time ago....

Just over the hill from the noise and hustle of central Akasaka, at the end of a dimly lit alley, is Yoshihashi, the best sukiyaki and shabu shabu restaurant in all of Tokyo.

Since its establishment in the 39th year of the Meiji Restoration, Yoshihashi - situated in a traditional house, surrounded by gorgeous Japanese gardens and once home to a famous kabuki actor - has prided itself on offering only the finest Matsuzaka beef served sukiyaki, shabu shabu or teppanyaki style. For those still uninitiated into the rarified world of cattle ranching in Japan, Matsuzaka cattle have a life for which many of us would gladly end our days as a plate of sukiyaki. Matsuzaka are given only the finest fodder, plenty of beer and milk and are massaged daily. This final luxury creates the highly-prized, fat-rippled beef which cooks evenly, leaving the meat tender and juicy, dripping with succulent fat. Vegetarians best look elsewhere.

"Upon entering Yoshihashi you will be shown either to the polished wood counter or, like us, to one of the many tastefully-appointed private tatami mat rooms which overlook the lovely Japanese garden. We settled on the sukiyaki course along with a few seasonal dishes and a nice dry Kubota sake served chilled to start it all off. Our meal started with tender young bamboo shoots with fuki, small meatballs of chicken breast seasoned with shiso and ginger served with the first turnips of the season and an assorted sashimi platter. The meat, vegetables and tofu began to arrive signaling the start of the sukiyaki course. The attentive and discrete staff brought literally anything we required, with a psychic timing that had us searching behind the handpainted scrolls for hidden cameras. Miso soup with small clams and steaming rice arrived to finish the entire affair off. When we were about to burst, the staff graciously offered us chilled fresh fruits for dessert. For those with the will to go on, Yoshihashi has on its grounds what has to be the coziest bar in all of Tokyo. Once an attached guest cottage it has been transformed with leather armchairs, a fireplace and red cut glass lamps into a chic spot to sip a cognac or brandy before venturing out into a world where such gentility and refinement seem a thing of the past.

Dining at Yoshihashi is a gastronomic experience and as with most things in Tokyo you pay for what you get - dinner for two with sake or wine will run to JY25,000. Coming to Yoshihashi for lunch is one of the best deals in town - at JY2000 to JY3000 you get the same fabulous food and attentive service for a fraction of the price.

1-5-25 Moto Akasaka, Minato-ku.
Tel: 03-3401-3129 (reservations required).
Access: Nagatacho station (Yurakucho, Hanzomon lines), eight minute walk from Exit 7.
Lunch: 11-3pm (last order 2pm); dinner 5-11pm (last order 9pm).
Closed Sundays, national holidays."

some really great info/recommendations...
for my next visit i am not quite certain if i will visit and try these places, but definitely a good option. I hope to make another visit to Japan this upcoming Summer time, when there is a good opportunity to go. thanks again for the great pix/info. :applaud:

qilver wrote:some really great info/recommendations...
for my next visit i am not quite certain if i will visit and try these places, but definitely a good option. I hope to make another visit to Japan this upcoming Summer time, when there is a good opportunity to go. thanks again for the great pix/info. :applaud:

if you read the review of Yoshihashi you can have the prized Matsuzaka beef for only 20 to 30 bucks for lunch...i gurantee you that is a STEAL for the ages!!!!!!

Tu_triky wrote:

if you read the review of Yoshihashi you can have the prized Matsuzaka beef for only 20 to 30 bucks for lunch...i gurantee you that is a STEAL for the ages!!!!!!

wow, at first seeing that price...was :shocked:
but figuring what kind of quality food-beef you are getting, you truly get what you pay for, and plus, how often is one going to have a great meal in Japan like that....
i'll check it out the review. thx.
also, do you have any views of the outside/inside of the actual restarant/webpage?

qilver wrote:

wow, at first seeing that price...was :shocked:
but figuring what kind of quality food-beef you are getting, you truly get what you pay for, and plus, how often is one going to have a great meal in Japan like that....
i'll check it out the review. thx.

dood if you eat there for lunch it's 1/10th price of dinner...and it's the same food! ^_^

there's no way in hell you would pay that much for lunch even in the states if the quality of the beef was that HIGH...it would proabably be more.....moreover you can't get even get that beef in the states anyway...any American Kobe beef is not imported from Japan...we don't import beef from Japan...anything called Kobe beef is really just the same genetic stock of cattle bred here in the United States (usually crossbred with other cattle)...it's REALLY good but it's not the original article from Japan.

Tu_triky wrote:

dood if you eat there for lunch it's 1/10th price of dinner...and it's the same food! ^_^

there's no way in hell you would pay that much for lunch even in the states if the quality of the beef was that HIGH...it would proabably be more.....moreover you can't get even get that beef in the states anyway...any American Kobe beef is not imported from Japan...we don't import beef from Japan...anything called Kobe beef is really just the same genetic stock of cattle bred here in the United States (usually crossbred with other cattle)...it's REALLY good but it's not the original article from Japan.

i believe you...and i just re-read that article :doh: :bonk:
lunch is way more affordable....dinner is way out of my budget at $250 on up...that is just nuts...
i would rather splurge it on Akihabara and otaku cafe's and get pampered by some cute maids than on a dinner..that is just me being crazy. :nut:

qilver wrote:

i believe you...and i just re-read that article :doh: :bonk:
lunch is way more affordable....dinner is way out of my budget at $250 on up...that is just nuts...

yeah it is nuts but 250 is dinner for two including sake or wine....so that's why it's a grip....dinner is always always always orders of magnitude more expensive than lunch...that's why if there is a restaurant that one really wants to try but you don't wanna pay thru the nose you can always go there for lunch for a FRACTION of the price....

i would rather splurge it on Akihabara and otaku cafe's and get pampered by some cute maids than on a dinner..

only if she's cute...not some chick with 3 crooked teeth for puncturing cans

Tu_triky wrote:

only if she's cute...not some chick with 3 crooked teeth for puncturing cans

:rofl:
that really hit the spot...dude....cracking me up with the classic one liners....chick with three crooked teeth for puncturing cans....lol :rofl:
for reals....will skip on that chick and go with a kawaii girl.

was in one of Japanorama clips, someone posted the video eps of some british dude going around japan...
he visited an otaku cafe, and got to play video games with one of the girls...think she was ok to kawaii....not sure how much that would cost though...lol

qilver wrote:

:rofl:
that really hit the spot...dude....cracking me up with the classic one liners....chick with three crooked teeth for puncturing cans....lol :rofl:
for reals....will skip on that chick and go with a kawaii girl.

was in one of Japanorama clips, someone posted the video eps of some british dude going around japan...
he visited an otaku cafe, and got to play video games with one of the girls...think she was ok to kawaii....not sure how much that would cost though...lol

so you saw that documentary already? cool...it was a funny take on "otaku culture."

they had one scene where they paid these girls dressed up in maid uniforms to give them hand massages....personally, that's too weird, man...if that cost 20 bucks...i'd rather take that money and go to Yoshihashi for lunch....or pay it in a cover charge to a club. :sweat:

Back from the DSL wars... :sweat:

Had dinner at a restaurant called Zentro in Cerritos... Not bad... Parking sucks like a 5hp wet-dry vac.

I had Salmon Piccata: grilled salmon with a lemon-white wine-capers sauce... Quite good. :)

bmwracer wrote:Back from the DSL wars... :sweat:

Had dinner at a restaurant called Zentro in Cerritos... Not bad... Parking sucks like a 5hp wet-dry vac.

I had Salmon Piccata: grilled salmon with a lemon-white wine-capers sauce... Quite good. :)

tasty....

qilver wrote:

:rofl:
that really hit the spot...dude....cracking me up with the classic one liners....chick with three crooked teeth for puncturing cans....lol :rofl:
for reals....will skip on that chick and go with a kawaii girl.

at least this one is without the shark teeth that might scare you off while she serves you some iced coffee, a sandwich or some other snack.


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cutlet sandwich = katsu sando

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tamagoyaki

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YAY! I found out the local supermarket sells instant Ramen noodles! (My wife does 99% of the food shopping) so I tried some today. Yummy! There's other stuff there I want to try too.


Also, my latest snack sensation: Thai chilli and lime cashews. YUM!!

Anime Dad wrote:Also, my latest snack sensation: Thai chilli and lime cashews. YUM!!

Hmm, sounds interesting... I'll have to look for that at Trader Joe's.