Food, Food, and More Food Thread

bmwracer wrote:
I'll be over.

Uh, what kind of pizza?

Pizza Nova, with LOTS of yum-num toppings (bacon and pep, of course, with tomato, mushroom, green peppers, etc., plus some with hot peppers, plus plain veggies).

Wynter wrote:

Pizza Nova, with LOTS of yum-num toppings (bacon and pep, of course, with tomato, mushroom, green peppers, etc., plus some with hot peppers, plus plain veggies).

yummy, save some for me, we should get a large pizza...lol

Wynter wrote:Pizza Nova, with LOTS of yum-num toppings (bacon and pep, of course, with tomato, mushroom, green peppers, etc., plus some with hot peppers, plus plain veggies).

Oishii... That pizza was good...! :victory:

Wynter wrote:

Pizza Nova, with LOTS of yum-num toppings (bacon and pep, of course, with tomato, mushroom, green peppers, etc., plus some with hot peppers, plus plain veggies).

No pineapple??? :shakehead: [/list:u]

gaijinmark wrote: No pineapple??? :shakehead: [/list:u]

Actually, there's a place in Gardena, Pizza Machine, that makes a really good Hawaiian pizza using pineapple, ham, and Portuguese sausage (Linguisa ?)... Very good. :victory:

Hey is my first time posting in this thread (just took 600+ pages for me to post lol). Can you request Japanese food here? lol (as in ideas?)

I will go ahead and request some good Japanese ideas and food choices for my specific case. I have reaaaaaaaalllll bad and serious shrimp/shell fish allergy (ŠC˜VƒAƒŒƒ‹ƒM[). Therefore, I'm always looking to find out stuff I can order at Japanese restaurants etc. which won't send me to the hospital or worse yet kill me... :bleh:

You be amazed how hard it is having an ebi allergy specially when one is eating Asian or Japanese food (sort of similar to people with serious egg/nut allergies in the united states) In my case I can't even eat anything that has been cook where shrimp was previously cooked unless it was throughly washed. Overall, no shrimp or shell fish by product or which has come in contact with those. A perfect example of this would be the time I had chicken tempura and got a crazy allergic reaction (Cause the shrimp tempura and other stuff is deep fried in the same oil apparently) thanks god I had my epi-pen (epinephrine needle shot) and was able to arrive at the hospital before my trachea completely closed on me and suffocated.

So... any ideas? Comments? Suggestions? I'm all ears (should I say all eyes? hahah) :victory:

TaintedWisdom wrote:Hey is my first time posting in this thread (just took 600+ pages for me to post lol). Can you request Japanese food here? lol (as in ideas?)

I will go ahead and request some good Japanese ideas and food choices for my specific case. I have reaaaaaaaalllll bad and serious shrimp/shell fish allergy (ŠC˜VƒAƒŒƒ‹ƒM[). Therefore, I'm always looking to find out stuff I can order at Japanese restaurants etc. which won't send me to the hospital or worse yet kill me... :bleh:

You be amazed how hard it is having an ebi allergy specially when one is eating Asian or Japanese food (sort of similar to people with serious egg/nut allergies in the united states) In my case I can't even eat anything that has been cook where shrimp was previously cooked unless it was throughly washed. Overall, no shrimp or shell fish by product or which has come in contact with those.

So... any ideas? Comments? Suggestions? I'm all ears (should I say all eyes? hahah) :victory:

Itai... You're in a bad spot: You could just about rule out any and all Japanese/Asian restaurants... And a lot of other restaurants as well. :sweat:

I can't imagine how tough that must be... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Itai... You're in a bad spot: You could just about rule out any and all Japanese/Asian restaurants... And a lot of other restaurants as well. :sweat:

I can't imagine how tough that must be... :sweat:

No no, I have eaten in Japanese restaurants before. The only issue is trying to find out what the thing I'm about to order contains and making sure the waitress can tell the cook/chef about my allergy. Things that I have been able to eat before without any problem have been, Yakitori (my favorite), rice dishes (interesting enough I haven't seen many of these), some Japanese style eggs, tuna dishes (not my favorite as is a bit typical), oh and for snacks hahahah Tuna onigiri's rofl (god I love those things hahaha).

I never once had a single problem eating at ANY American restaurant EVER and that includes Italian, French, Brazilian, Indian, Latin, etc. etc. as is not typical to add shrimp to foods, unless you ask for it or is the main dish. However, Japanese restaurant love to add shrimp to most food as to why I always have to bring my epi-pen with me when I eat in any Asian/Japanese restaurant, and I never even bring it when I eat in any American or the others mentioned aboved.

So... any ideas as to what I could order heheh.

bmwracer wrote:
Actually, there's a place in Gardena, Pizza Machine, that makes a really good Hawaiian pizza using pineapple, ham, and Portuguese sausage (Linguisa ?)... Very good. :victory:

Not a big pineapple fan, except when it's really fresh and eat it as is. By the time they're over here, they taste like crap.

Pizza, I haven't eaten that in a long time... I like the thin crust with black olives, feta cheese, artichoke, heart of palm... or just something plain weird. I like the greasy regular pizza too, but I don't eat them in restaurant unless I'm in a truck stop. :mrgreen:

TaintedWisdom wrote:Hey is my first time posting in this thread (just took 600+ pages for me to post lol). Can you request Japanese food here? lol (as in ideas?)

I will go ahead and request some good Japanese ideas and food choices for my specific case. I have reaaaaaaaalllll bad and serious shrimp/shell fish allergy (ŠC˜VƒAƒŒƒ‹ƒM[). Therefore, I'm always looking to find out stuff I can order at Japanese restaurants etc. which won't send me to the hospital or worse yet kill me... :bleh:

You be amazed how hard it is having an ebi allergy specially when one is eating Asian or Japanese food (sort of similar to people with serious egg/nut allergies in the united states) In my case I can't even eat anything that has been cook where shrimp was previously cooked unless it was throughly washed. Overall, no shrimp or shell fish by product or which has come in contact with those. A perfect example of this would be the time I had chicken tempura and got a crazy allergic reaction (Cause the shrimp tempura and other stuff is deep fried in the same oil apparently) thanks god I had my epi-pen (epinephrine needle shot) and was able to arrive at the hospital before my trachea completely closed on me and suffocated.

So... any ideas? Comments? Suggestions? I'm all ears (should I say all eyes? hahah) :victory:

Yikes! That must suck so much. I know a few people who hates seafood and their having problems ordering food. Everything has a little bit of shrimp or something similar in it. =T


Good things: Wagashi (˜a‰ÙŽq) dessert like dango, manju. Yum.

Regular meals: donburi (rice with something else on top in a bowl like beef, chicken...), Curry bread, Yakisoba (fried noodles), nattou :mrgreen:, croquette, Omurice (omelette with rice in it), kare raisu (curry rice).

Also stuff like sukiyaki, shabu-shabu. I don't know if they have in okonomiyaki (never ate that), and gyoza is good, but sometimes have shrimp in them. Takoyaki (if you can eat octopus). I like umeboshi (pickled plum, but it's not like a regular plum). It's good in onigiri (rice balls), but you can put pretty much anything you want in it. Kind of like a sandwich, but probably don't have those in restaurants.

Lots of noodles, but sometimes they use shellfish for the broth, so that's not good. I can't think of anything more right now. I hope that helps. :D

TaintedWisdom wrote:No no, I have eaten in Japanese restaurants before. The only issue is trying to find out what the thing I'm about to order contains and making sure the waitress can tell the cook/chef about my allergy. Things that I have been able to eat before without any problem have been, Yakitori (my favorite), rice dishes (interesting enough I haven't seen many of these), some Japanese style eggs, tuna dishes (not my favorite as is a bit typical), oh and for snacks hahahah Tuna onigiri's rofl (god I love those things hahaha).

I never once had a single problem eating at ANY American restaurant EVER and that includes Italian, French, Brazilian, Indian, Latin, etc. etc. as is not typical to add shrimp to foods, unless you ask for it or is the main dish. However, Japanese restaurant love to add shrimp to most food as to why I always have to bring my epi-pen with me when I eat in any Asian/Japanese restaurant, and I never even bring it when I eat in any American or the others mentioned aboved.

So... any ideas as to what I could order heheh.

There's various ramen and udon dishes, but you might have to worry about what's in their soup stock...

Ah, how about unagi donburi? Delish...! :victory:

Or Japanese curry... :)

TaintedWisdom wrote:Hey is my first time posting in this thread (just took 600+ pages for me to post lol). Can you request Japanese food here? lol (as in ideas?)

I will go ahead and request some good Japanese ideas and food choices for my specific case. I have reaaaaaaaalllll bad and serious shrimp/shell fish allergy (ŠC˜VƒAƒŒƒ‹ƒM[). Therefore, I'm always looking to find out stuff I can order at Japanese restaurants etc. which won't send me to the hospital or worse yet kill me... :bleh:

You be amazed how hard it is having an ebi allergy specially when one is eating Asian or Japanese food (sort of similar to people with serious egg/nut allergies in the united states) In my case I can't even eat anything that has been cook where shrimp was previously cooked unless it was throughly washed. Overall, no shrimp or shell fish by product or which has come in contact with those. A perfect example of this would be the time I had chicken tempura and got a crazy allergic reaction (Cause the shrimp tempura and other stuff is deep fried in the same oil apparently) thanks god I had my epi-pen (epinephrine needle shot) and was able to arrive at the hospital before my trachea completely closed on me and suffocated.

So... any ideas? Comments? Suggestions? I'm all ears (should I say all eyes? hahah) :victory:

Whoa that's tough! :sweat:
Try Yakiniku. its a bite sized grilled meat...
same as korean dishes - bulgogi and galbi . :)

tabana, rina, and bmwracer, thank you so much for the suggestions, ideas, and comments. Really appreciate it :bow:

@tabana:
Wagashi sounds like it taste good, in fact I'm pretty much sure it will taste good, While I cannot eat any shrimp/shell fish I have literally had 100's of different Japanese candies ranging from chocolates to hard candies (I must say Japanese gummy's are INSANELY GOOD, also stuff like DARK CHOCOLATE FROM BOURBON is BEYOND GOOD) so I never have problem in that department (thanks god there no shrimps in their sweets heheh).

Donburi I thought thats what I was going to get once when I ordered this dish and instead I got some super raw tuna which didn't look anything like what I had in mind. I don't think donburi is that, so I will ask for this instead :)

Curry bread, now thats something I have never tried hehe. Japanese Pan is something which I must try for sure :)

Yakisoba, thats a no-no , things which are fried always tend to have allergens cause they fry shrimp in it X_X.

Nattou Mr Green, now thats one I never heard off. I know nattou is fermented beans but is Mr. Green like a specific company? I never tried Nattou but I hear is not that bad once you get used to it and end up loving it, might get some from Jas-mart heheh.

Omurice, bingo that sounds GREAT will def try. :)

Sukiyaki and Shabu-Shabu, I'm quite amazed I never had this, I just found out is very common in Japan. It sounds and looks great (other than the broth which I would like to found out what is made off, there no chances of allergy) furthermore, is also HOT, which is a PLUS. As I'm not the biggest fan of cold food.

Okonomiyaki, haha I actually had this once and oh boy am I lucky, I had no idea there were chances of this stuff having shrimp. I'm glad it didn't though so nothing bad happened, but I wont take my chances with it anymore (and it tasted pretty darn good heheh)

Gyoza, sounds interesting will research a bit into how is made.

Takoyaki, oh YES, this I been wanting to eat for a while. I can definitely eat octopus :) What is the dough (or whatever it is they add around it) made off?

Till this day I have never eaten a damn true ramen noodle from a Japanese restaurant due to the fear of the broth containing shrimp flavoring/powder similar to that of bonito powder in many other broths.

@bmwracer
Unagi Donburi, Never had eel before but I will take your word and try it the moment I see this in a menu :)

@rina
Yakinuki, sounds like yakitori except is mainly beef. Never seen this at a Japanese restaurant (would have remembered since is def NON SHRIMP hehe) but hey if I see it, why not try it hehe looks like good old barbeque hehe.

Overall, I'm a fan of Chicken and Pork recipes (I don't get tired of eating chicken and pork) so anything that contain does even if they look plain or boring to some might be appealing to me.

Lastly, thanks a bunch for all those ideas I will write them down in a peice of paper and bring them with me when I go eat at a Japanese restaurant.

Note: I went to a real nice Soba restaurant the other day and meh... I loved the place and environment but oh boy the food wasn't for me. I ordered some tuna(which said grilled) with rice and some sauce they put on top and OH SNAP, the tuna wasn't really cooked (looked more like sashimi) then the sauce didn't taste good either (my Japanese friend didn't like it either) then my other dish (as I was hungry I just ordered something else, I don't care if I have to pay 3 times as long I get what I want) was some noodles with a bunch of vegetables around it (looked more like roots) THAT I def could not even take 2 bites... It was straight up COOOOLLLDD, like really cold guys... In the end I just decided to fill my self up with a bunch of drinks and go outside and buy some onigiri's which never fail to satisfy me lol. On a plus side, THE GREEN TEA WAS BEYOND AMAZING (I'm thinking of going back to that place just to drink that tea X_X) it was super hot at first (like nearly skin melting temperature) served in a cool looking cup but once it cooled down a bit, it was one of the most delicious teas I have ever had (makes me one to visit one of those tea ceremony places hehe)

Anyways, I think this post has gotten a bit long (bit informative I should add). Once again thanks for the help guys and hope to hear more ideas from ya guys

:victory:

Ah, yes, gyoza... :victory:

Coincidentally, one of the big companies that sells gyoza, Day-Lee Pride, pulled all of their gyoza off the shelves a while back because it turned out that their beef gyoza were contaminated with shrimp from their shrimp gyoza.... :sweat:


Here's the Recall Notification:

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Recall Notification Report 001-2005
Product(s) Recalled:
Day-Lee Pride Beef Gyoza Potstickers, Vegetable and Beef Dumplings

Production Dates/Identifying Codes:
Produced 10/6/2004. The products subject to recall are: One pound bags of "DAY-LEE PRIDE BEEF GYOZA POTSTICKERS, VEGETABLE AND BEEF DUMPLINGS." Each bag bears the code "28004," as well as "Est. 17309" inside the USDA mark of inspection.

Problem/Reason for Recall:
The packages state that the gyozas are filled with beef, but they may instead contain shrimp, a known allergen.

How/When Discovered:
The problem was discovered by the establishment.

Federal Establishment:
17309 M
Day-Lee Foods Inc.
13055 E. Molette St.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Consumer Contact:
Mark Miller, General Manager, (562) 802-6801

Media Contact:
Mark Miller, General Manager, (562) 802-6801

Quantity Recalled:
Approximately 2,520 pounds

Distribution:
California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New York, and Washington.
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gaijinmark wrote: No pineapple??? :shakehead: [/list:u]

I don't like pineapple on my Pizza. It's too sweet. I do love it on its own tho. :drooling: My sis loves pineapple on her Pizza tho, so we usually order that topping on a few slices. :D

Wynter wrote:I don't like pineapple on my Pizza.

Boo.

bmwracer wrote:Ah, yes, gyoza... :victory:

Coincidentally, one of the big companies that sells gyoza, Day-Lee Pride, pulled all of their gyoza off the shelves a while back because it turned out that their beef gyoza were contaminated with shrimp from their shrimp gyoza.... :sweat:


Here's the Recall Notification:

-------------------------------------------
Recall Notification Report 001-2005
Product(s) Recalled:
Day-Lee Pride Beef Gyoza Potstickers, Vegetable and Beef Dumplings

Production Dates/Identifying Codes:
Produced 10/6/2004. The products subject to recall are: One pound bags of "DAY-LEE PRIDE BEEF GYOZA POTSTICKERS, VEGETABLE AND BEEF DUMPLINGS." Each bag bears the code "28004," as well as "Est. 17309" inside the USDA mark of inspection.

Problem/Reason for Recall:
The packages state that the gyozas are filled with beef, but they may instead contain shrimp, a known allergen.

How/When Discovered:
The problem was discovered by the establishment.

Federal Establishment:
17309 M
Day-Lee Foods Inc.
13055 E. Molette St.
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Consumer Contact:
Mark Miller, General Manager, (562) 802-6801

Media Contact:
Mark Miller, General Manager, (562) 802-6801

Quantity Recalled:
Approximately 2,520 pounds

Distribution:
California, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, New York, and Washington.
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As if it weren't scary enough having to deal with shrimp allergy and foods containing allergens. On top now I have to also deal with cross contamination within the company itself X_X.

TaintedWisdom wrote:As if it weren't scary enough having to deal with shrimp allergy and foods containing allergens. On top now I have to also deal with cross contamination within the company itself X_X.

Yup, really scary. :sweat:

TaintedWisdom wrote:

As if it weren't scary enough having to deal with shrimp allergy and foods containing allergens. On top now I have to also deal with cross contamination within the company itself X_X.

One of my friends is allergic to salmon, and she can't even enter a restaurant where it's on the menu, because the scent in the air alone will set her off. I have complete sympathy for people with allergies. It's a hard thing to deal with. :patpat:

I'm so glad I can eat anything I want... :sweat:

Wynter wrote:One of my friends is allergic to salmon, and she can't even enter a restaurant where it's on the menu, because the scent in the air alone will set her off. I have complete sympathy for people with allergies. It's a hard thing to deal with. :patpat:

I'm so glad I can eat anything I want... :sweat:

Just Salmon? :headscratch: