Food, Food, and More Food Thread

bmwracer wrote:
Just Salmon? :headscratch:

I think she's also allergic to nuts...

Wynter wrote:I think she's also allergic to nuts...

Yow.

There was that story a ways back where a guy accidentally killed his gf because she was allergic to peanuts and he had kissed her after eating something with peanuts in it... Tragic. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Yow.

There was that story a ways back where a guy accidentally killed his gf because she was allergic to peanuts and he had kissed her after eating something with peanuts in it... Tragic. :sweat:

Yuck, that's hard.

But how could he not know she was allergic? Poor guy.

Wynter wrote:But how could he not know she was allergic? Poor guy.

I'm sure he knew, but probably thought that only direct contact would be a problem, not from food the he ate... :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:

Yeah is similar in my case, I can't stay too long in a place where people are eating like shrimp tempura and similar shrimp food as I get dizzy and feel like I'm about to pass out.

I'm really freaking out about my whole Japanese trip thing...
I think I'm going to have to survive on cup noodles and american fast food restaurants like wendys and mcdonald while in Japan is sooooo not cool and is making me think twice about the trip as much as I want to visit the place cause I eat about 6-7 times a day here just to maintain my muscle mass and there the portions are also smaller which mean probably more food which I won't be able to get... Arggg, I don't want to eat shrimp but the cross contamination is the fear we allergic people always have X_X.

bmwracer wrote:
I'm sure he knew, but probably thought that only direct contact would be a problem, not from food the he ate... :sweat:

that story sounds so depressing.... :shamefulcry:

TaintedWisdom wrote:I'm really freaking out about my whole Japanese trip thing...
I think I'm going to have to survive on cup noodles and american fast food restaurants like wendys and mcdonald while in Japan is sooooo not cool and is making me think twice about the trip as much as I want to visit the place cause I eat about 6-7 times a day here just to maintain my muscle mass and there the portions are also smaller which mean probably more food which I won't be able to get... Arggg, I don't want to eat shrimp but the cross contamination is the fear we allergic people always have X_X.

I think if there's a concierge, tour guide, or similar that can help you out, things will work out just fine...

You probably aren't the first person with food allergies to visit Japan, I'm sure... Just some good planning might alleviate you of your anxiety... After all, YOU'RE GOING TO JAPAN...!! :woot: :dancing: :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
I think if there's a concierge, tour guide, or similar that can help you out, things will work out just fine...

You probably aren't the first person with food allergies to visit Japan, I'm sure... Just some good planning might alleviate you of your anxiety... After all, YOU'RE GOING TO JAPAN...!! :woot: :dancing: :victory:

A friend of my dentist (as we are pretty cool as they say) went to china about 5 years ago and while he had used the epi-pen before on other occasions. Instead this time, he got an allergic reaction and since he was in a high end restaurant and in a foreign country he decided he would walk to the bathroom before stabbing himself with the needle/epi-pen. Sadly he didn't make it, by the time the epinephrine kicked in he had died.

Moral of the story, or how I see it. Use the epi-pen even if you infront of the emperor hehe.

bmwracer wrote:

I'm sure he knew, but probably thought that only direct contact would be a problem, not from food the he ate... Sweat

Yeah the peanut butter incident was a bit crazy. Normally even people seriously allergic to any type of nuts (from peanuts to walnuts) hardly ever died from it unless is directly ingested (like actually eating the peanuts). Now as for shrimp allergy (the worse allergen of all) you can die from simply food cooked on something that had previously been used to cook shrimps X_X. In my case the smell makes me sick in about 10 minutes and if by 20 minutes I'm not out of the area I will surely get so dizzy I'm forced to get out of pass out there. If I touch a shrimp my hands swell up about 2-3 times their original size and lets not even talk about how it feels... (can we say knife/needles stabbing you?)

But yeah, before a moderator goes nuts about getting off topic (even though this does related to food hehe:bleh:).

Any more suggestions of food from dinner, to lunch, to breakfast, to snacks (obviously not candies cause those obviously don't really contain shrimp ehehe, and I allready know like 100+ which I absolutely love).

Thanks a bunch :bow:

TaintedWisdom wrote:But yeah, before a moderator goes nuts about getting off topic (even though this does related to food hehe:bleh:).

I usually give some leeway before I go nuts. ;)

TaintedWisdom wrote:

Yeah is similar in my case, I can't stay too long in a place where people are eating like shrimp tempura and similar shrimp food as I get dizzy and feel like I'm about to pass out.

I'm really freaking out about my whole Japanese trip thing...
I think I'm going to have to survive on cup noodles and american fast food restaurants like wendys and mcdonald while in Japan is sooooo not cool and is making me think twice about the trip as much as I want to visit the place cause I eat about 6-7 times a day here just to maintain my muscle mass and there the portions are also smaller which mean probably more food which I won't be able to get... Arggg, I don't want to eat shrimp but the cross contamination is the fear we allergic people always have X_X.

Ya know, I have a lot of students on epipens. Although the location IS Japan, and most of us here (myself included) would die to have the opportunity to go, if it's a risk to your health, I would reconsider. I'm planning a trip to China, and my travel agent said that it IS hard to get proper food concerns taken care of.

Mind you, if you're totally fine about noodles in a cup, and Americanized fast food, then I suppose it could work. Tho you have to be careful with places like McDonalds, cause I heard they incorporate Japnese foods into the menu. :sweat:

TaintedWisdom wrote:

Yeah is similar in my case, I can't stay too long in a place where people are eating like shrimp tempura and similar shrimp food as I get dizzy and feel like I'm about to pass out.

I'm really freaking out about my whole Japanese trip thing...
I think I'm going to have to survive on cup noodles and american fast food restaurants like wendys and mcdonald while in Japan is sooooo not cool and is making me think twice about the trip as much as I want to visit the place cause I eat about 6-7 times a day here just to maintain my muscle mass and there the portions are also smaller which mean probably more food which I won't be able to get... Arggg, I don't want to eat shrimp but the cross contamination is the fear we allergic people always have X_X.

i love the depachika's and convenience stores, and yea, they do give you small portions, but there are ways of not spending a bundle...uh, even in an expensive city like Tokyo.

Wynter wrote:
Tho you have to be careful with places like McDonalds, cause I heard they incorporate Japnese foods into the menu. :sweat:

i've come across a teriyaki burger but other foods are as you'd find in the west.

missing all those awesome crepes, baguettes, ghoulash, gelato and other stuff in europe - cant wait til next time i go back :mrgreen:

kenjilina wrote:

i've come across a teriyaki burger but other foods are as you'd find in the west.

I had a teriyaki burger from McD's in Akihabara, it was quite good...lol

but i have yet to try MOS burger in Japan, not sure if i will this time... :bonk:

Shindou wrote:missing all those awesome crepes, baguettes, ghoulash, gelato and other stuff in europe - cant wait til next time i go back :mrgreen:

Mmmmmm... gelato.... :drooling: I could go for one right now...

Gyoza day today..... Oishii...! :victory:

bmwracer wrote:Gyoza day today..... Oishii...! :victory:

>>flies over<<

Haha, went out with my Japanese friend today and instead he went for Puerto Rican food hahah (he ate it once before and loved it) so I ended up taking him to some real authentic traditional place here in New York hahahaha, he says he might just switch to eating Puerto Rican food everyday instead. (He literally ate all the dishes).

Never though Japanese people would like our food THAT much.
I know we amazing at making desserts and drinks like true authentic Pina Colada (99.998% of the Pina colada's out there are crap, is really hard to find an authentic place but this was one) he now wants me to show him how to make it cause he wants to make it for all his Japanese friends and his mom and dad when he goes back to Tokyo. (he swears is one of the best drinks he ever had, and keep in mind he worked as a chef for 5 years X_X).

After eating there I felt like I had to get something Japanese if not it be a waste of a eating day ehehe. So we went to a Japanese izakaya got some yakitori's then left to Jas-Mart (a Japanese food market chain here in New York and other states too I believe). Got myself there like 40 dollars of just Japanese chocolates, gummys, desserts, oh and Natto (he says it taste good but I'm still a bit hesitant) :fingerscrossed:.

Is such a relieve to eat at like latin places cause there is never any problems with shrimps ending up on my food somehow (unless you ask for it of course...) but ahhh... yakitori's are soooo goood hahaha. (tsukune being my favorite heheh)

Note: I will post my review on all the crap I bought today (they mostly candies and dessert but I will let ya know my review on it :victory:)
Keep in mind I'm really picky with my food and specially dessert as I have tasted just about every dessert I have ever laid my eyes upon (got to admit though Japanese candy overall is simply one of the best in the world, they know how to do this stuff beyond well)

Had chicken curry pilaf today from Curry House... My cousin was in town with her two kids. :)

Yum.

My brother bought a chocolate mochi with a chocolate covered strawberry in the middle. The mochi & chocolate part was good, but the strawberry was really, really sour. Like it had carbonate added to it. :bleh:

Also tried a chocolate mochi truffle, which was to die for! It's basically chocolate mochi with dark chocolate in the middle instead of an. So yummy. I wish I had more. :(