Food, Food, and More Food Thread

Wynter wrote:

O! I live about 45 minutes from there!!! :woot:

you should give a try one day...nothin' beats a good bowl of ramen on a cold day! immensely satisfying.

Whatfs on top of your nattoBy Ken Y-N ( July 13, 2006 at 23:00) · Filed under Polls, Silly, Rankings

One of the foods that gaijin donft eat is, of course, natto, which as any visitor or resident to these shores will tell you is one of the stock food questions to foreigners, gCan you eat natto?h, along with gCan you eat Japanese raw fish?h and gCan you eat anko?h I myself love anko, but nattoc Interestingly enough, natto is mostly a Tokyo or Northern Japan delicacy; many (I think the majority, if I could find a survey!) of people from the Kansai area turn their noses up at it, including, thankfully, my wife, although she finds many other unpalatable items to make up for it! Ifve tried it once in a cooked dish and managed to get through about a third of it before giving up.

So, goo Ranking took a wee look at what people put on top of their natto. goo Ranking offer now a service to cut and paste their original survey into your blog, so Ifll add that for those who want to see the original results. Ifll also add an English translation, of course! As usual for goo Rankings, 100 points is awarded for the top vote-getter, and the rest awarded a percentage representing how many votes they got relative to the winner. gNothingh was perhaps not one of the answers allowed.


Q: What do you put on top of natto?

Rank Topping Score
1 Spring onions/green onions/scallions 100
2 Egg (usually raw?) 65.8
3 Okura 33.3
4 Oba/shiso/perilla/beefsteak plant 26.6
5 Grated radish 25.7
6 Yam (ŽRˆð, yama imo, mountain potato) 22.9
7 Bonito (‚©‚‚¨, katsuo) flakes 22.7
8 Kimuchi 22.6
9 Seaweed 18.0
10 Shredded dried plum (”~“÷, bainiku) 18.0

The table continues with items such as squid, mini sardines, complete dried plums, tuna, other types of seaweed, tofu, mayonnaise and all the way down to garlic.

Tu_triky wrote:Black pepper beef tonkotsu (pork bone broth) ramen. :drooling:

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The soup look good! maybe i will have soup now!! :hehe:

Had crappy Chinese food for our company luncheon today... Panda Express woulda been a lot better.

Good thing I have a strong stomach. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:Had crappy Chinese food for our company luncheon today... Panda Express woulda been a lot better.

Good thing I have a strong stomach. :bleh:

<raps cast-iron gut with knuckles>

Tu_triky wrote:


Q: What do you put on top of natto?

The lid to my garbage can when I throw it away. [/list:u]

gaijin mark wrote: The lid to my garbage can when I throw it away. [/list:u]

:hehe: :hehe: i'm with you on that one....natto.....might as well call it not-to....as in i'm not-to gonna eat it. :shakehead:

The Krispy Kream donut I ate early was 320 calories... :grumble:

Guh, if we have Chinese food next year for our Xmas luncheon, I'm not showing up. :shakehead: :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:Guh, if we have Chinese food next year for our Xmas luncheon, I'm not showing up. :shakehead: :bleh:

Going through the after affects now? :patpat:

Wynter wrote:Going through the after affects now? :patpat:

I'm not sick, just disgusted with the food selection... Considering that the boss is Chinese, her choice of food from the menu bites big time.

bmwracer wrote:
I'm not sick, just disgusted with the food selection... Considering that the boss is Chinese, her choice of food from the menu bites big time.

You mean that psycho crazy boss? cause if it's the same one, I'm not at all surprised at her lack of judgement in delicious food.

Wynter wrote:You mean that psycho crazy boss? cause if it's the same one, I'm not at all surprised at her lack of judgement in delicious food.

I don't know why in hell she picked that place... Two people didn't show up because of it.

I shoulda made it three.

Poor judgment on my part again. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
I don't know why in hell she picked that place... Two people didn't show up because of it.

I shoulda made it three.

Poor judgment on my part again. :bleh:

what exactly was the food like?

Wynter wrote:what exactly was the food like?

Hmm, let me try to recreate the crime:

Hot and sour soup
Moo shu pork
Cold plate with beef, squid, pork, and jellyfish :bleh:
Kung Pao chicken
Fried rice
Wok-sauteed lobster on a bed of noodles
Chinese pork chops
Sauteed asparagus
Beef with broccoli
Sweet and sour chicken with rice squares :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:Had crappy Chinese food for our company luncheon today... Panda Express woulda been a lot better.

Good thing I have a strong stomach. :bleh:

If Panda Express food would be better....where did the Chinese food you had come from??? :sweat: :sweat:

K.T.Tran wrote:

If Panda Express food would be better....where did the Chinese food you had come from??? :sweat: :sweat:

Panda Express Garbage Can, I'm guessing.

Judging by the menu, some of those things COULD have been nice. The quality of the restaurant must really REALLY suck.

bmwracer wrote:
Hmm, let me try to recreate the crime:

Hot and sour soup
Moo shu pork
Cold plate with beef, squid, pork, and jellyfish :bleh:
Kung Pao chicken
Fried rice

If these were really good, I wouldn't mind eating them.

Wynter wrote:The quality of the restaurant must really REALLY suck.

To be fair and honest, I didn't like most of the stuff that was ordered to begin with... Maybe more traditional Chinese folks like the stuff that was ordered, but only a couple of the people there fell in that category. :shakehead:

But it's consistent with my boss: Poor decision making.

Hit my fave sushi place for probably the last time this year... And got my annual sushi calendar from them. :woot: