Plastic steak

Just came back from a Happy Teacher Day dinner, and one of the dishes was the famours plastic steak. A direct translation of the Chinese character is “Tai Plastic Beef Ribs” in short plastic steak. Apparently it is the favorite dish of our big boss, Tai Plastic or Formosa company.

Anyway, I quiet liked it. It was nice juicy pieces of beef that were in some sort of garlic marinade (very garlicy) all this was wrapped in plastic, and then wrapped in alumnium foil. It seemed to me that this was then baked in an oven or maybe they just wrapped it up after they baked it, not sure. I was told that the big boss likes to put a slab of fresh garlic on the already garlicy beef, so I tried that, and it was quiet good. I heard they sell this stuff in various locations in Taipei. If I get an address, I will post it here. Has anybody of you guys tried it yet?

Mmmmm Ryori Mihon…

Google asks you : “Did you mean: Ryori Nihon”

No, I didn’t. I meant Ryori Mihon, and only people who speak Japanese, or have been there would get the reference/ incredibly witty and incisive joke. :smiley: (Which I’m clearly not going to explain.)

Tom I’ve been a few times but don’t get it! :frowning:

Do you know what Ryori Mihon is?

No.

Have you been to a restaurant in Japan? How did you know what your dish was gonna look like before you ordered it? Think on, young lad…
Shame you never learned the lingo.

I guess google did not know the insider reference either, neither did I. Thanks for the explanations, although I am with Edgar, I still don’t quiet get it.

I guess now I get it after looking at this link and reading your explanations.

stoneschool.com/Japan/Kappabas/

It is actually a plastic model of the food. Hmm, how delicious.

Ach.

You had a plastic steak. Plastic food. In Japan they make plastic meals to display outside restaurants. It’s called Ryori Mihon.
Honestly, when did ignorance become desirable? My mum teaches me to keep my fool mouth shut when I’m out of my depth. :raspberry:

Does not fit here. So no ignorance involved. But thanks for the enlightment. Maybe I should change the title to : “In Plastic Wrapped Steak!”

Yeah, in Japanese it is. This is an English board. We call it “plastic food.” :raspberry:

Oh, we ate at the Forumosa Plastics steakhouse, yes. It was about NT$1000 each. One of us had the ‘plastic steak’, and the other had lamb ribs, I think. The steak wasn’t a steak at all; it was a large, lean roast (enough meat for four properly portioned, healthy meals, actually) with a coarse fiber. Not tough, just a very large grain. It didn’t have anything like the delicious flavor of, say, a good ribeye. Far from it. It was okay, maybe even good, but certainly not worth the price. It wasn’t even the proper use of such a cut of meat, IMO. I would have preferred that cut into large cubes in a hearty stew, for example.

The lamb ribs were excellent, however.

Overall, I’d say that it was a good example of a bad trend in restaurants – to give you inedibly large portions so as to justify an absurdly high price. Save your money, take the $2k and buy a Costco membership, pick up a tray of their best ribeye, take it home and slap it on your smoking hot cast iron skillet, and you’ll enjoy 6 nice meals for the price of one.

Was is by any chance this steak house you went to?
wangsteak.com.tw/menu_ch.htm#4

I guess I quiet liked what we were served at yesterdays banquet. For a Taiwanese banquet it was a pleasant surprise, as most of the stuff I had before had only little meat of low quality or completely overcooked and overseasoned that you don’t taste the meat at all, and venison tastes the same as pork. But you are right, I would not pay that much for a dinner either nor for that plastic steak. I was thinking of a more inexpensive place which serves it would be nice. I just heard that it is probably the prime rib of the cow which is used to cook it. It was also more of a roast than a pan fried steak anyway.

Tom

Sorry I hate Japan and believe the Japanese to be the most racist people on Earth. I had no desire whatever to learn their language or spend one more day than necessary in their country.

I did over Xmas go (under sufference) to Kyoto which was beautiful but I still don’t get the Japanese or their culture.

Maybe this is ignorance, but I seem to do ok in the rest of Asia.

Which would have negated the effect of my joke. The only point you can make is that as this is an English forum for people living in Taiwan my joke was too obscure for people to pick up on as it was a Japanese reference.

Ratbrain: your definition of ignorance is wrong, as it asumes that ignorance is a purposeful state of mind. I don’t belive the word ‘lack’ equates with the word ‘willful’ in this definition.

You are probably just being sarcastically ignorant, but I am actually ratlung. Anyway, I found the definition in the Webster dictionary, so it is not my definition. But I did pick it selectively. As ignorance is derived from the verb “to ignore”, thus “ignorance” or “being ignorant” is more than just not knowing, but this can certainly be a topic of debate

I do agree about your joke. Was a good try to bring some multiculti stuff in this forum.

Yup, the Wang2pin3 steak house, owned by Formosa Plastics.

Thanks, for the info. I will see if I go there or not. Due to your description it does not seem worth the hassle nor the cash.

Oh, it’s a nice restaurant, with a scant handful of other dishes available. If you don’t mind $1000 per person bills, you could try some of their other dishes.