Western food hard to find ...... in Japan

Cuisine Food & Drink
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Mais oui monsieur bien sur (ok iv used up all the french i know).

NO doubt you have graced their fine tables? I , usually dine a few doors down from there. At least in the same zip code :slight_smile:[/quote]
Went there once: it was fantastic. And yes, I’ve never understood why anyone would want to pay more for a meal than you would pay at Chez Panisse, which is one of the top restaurants on the planet.?

A few doors down?

Saul’s Deli? Cha Am Thai? Dara Lao?

There’s also the place across the street, where people get meals and then eat on the divider strip.

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Mais oui monsieur bien sur (ok iv used up all the french I know).

NO doubt you have graced their fine tables? I , usually dine a few doors down from there. At least in the same zip code :slight_smile:[/quote]
Went there once: it was fantastic. And yes, I’ve never understood why anyone would want to pay more for a meal than you would pay at Chez Panisse, which is one of the top restaurants on the planet.?

A few doors down?

Saul’s Deli? Cha Am Thai? Dara Lao?

There’s also the place across the street, where people get meals and then eat on the divider strip.[/quote]

Well a very good friend of mine is going to be visiting from England with his new fiancee and I am going to recommend that they go there (sans moi) to enjoy a pleasant evening at Chez Panisse. I recently found the new indian place a few doors down to be quite delightful. Its right next door to the spanish tapas place thats very hard to find a seat at and iv yet to go and sit down and eat something. I dont like Thai food (cept for some curry dishes) so I avoid the two thai places there though i have been to one of them. The place across the street does booming biz. They specialize in pizzas (which I generally avoid as well) though. They do often have a live band which is nice. But I cant understand eating on the divider strip because the car exhaust surely is beneath even me. Sauls is one of the best Jewish restaurants around and iv been there quite a few times. Further down the Japanese place TOYO is quite nice and does good food. I think the owners are Taiwanese.

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The guy in the OP sounds like a bit of a whiner . . . (not Tommy; the guy he quoted)

"2.Peanut butter. Need to go to a International food market to find
only Skippy and PeterPan, which both suck.
3. Steak. Not the thin slices the japs love, but a real WHOLE 2lb
steak, like Tri-tip or flank steak or even t-bone "

OK. I don’t know what special brand of peanut butter you need, but if you don’t like those, you should be able to find some coop that just grinds up peanuts (no sugar).

As for a 2lb steak, I think an 8 oz is nice and 12 oz is very nice, but anything beyond 16 oz is just gluttony, and eating twice that much is just nuts. I’ve probably come close to eating that much meat at a few Churrascarias, but at least with that, you’d get some variety.

Anyone out there miss 2lb steaks?

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Warning to weak eyes for the profanity among gentlemen (not) but I suppose some people will like to see the thread where the original quote came from?

groups.google.com/group/gaijinco … 9f8c?hl=en

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What kind of obscene brutalist would you have to be to eat a 2lb steak?

and what would such a ‘gourmand’ be doing in Japan? where would you park the Hummer?

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I just had to google a photo of a 32 oz (2lb) steak; the first thing I got was a steakhouse (Shula’s) that also has 48 oz steaks. :astonished:

I used to go to a cafe that served ridiculous portions . . . If you ordered a caramel roll, it looked like a loaf of bread. If you ordered an omelette, they must have used at least 7 eggs. Some people are shocked when they get a salad at Friday’s, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg lettuce.

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Not to mention the idiotic racial slurs. If I read the whining correctly, the quoted poster was black, so he should know better.

[quote=“zender”]"2.Peanut butter. Need to go to a International food market to find
only Skippy and PeterPan, which both suck.

OK. I don’t know what special brand of peanut butter you need, but if you don’t like those, you should be able to find some coop that just grinds up peanuts (no sugar).[/quote]

Better still, a cheap blender and do it oneself at home. How hard is it? I’ve done it; the problem is getting raw, unsalted peanuts.

Also, if one goes to Costco and has a card, their in-house Kirkland brand of “organic” PB is pretty good, peanuts and salt only.

[quote=“zender”]3. Steak. Not the thin slices the{y} love, but a real WHOLE 2lb
steak, like Tri-tip or flank steak or even t-bone "

As for a 2lb steak, I think an 8 oz is nice and 12 oz is very nice, but anything beyond 16 oz is just gluttony, and eating twice that much is just nuts. I’ve probably come close to eating that much meat at a few Churrascarias, but at least with that, you’d get some variety.

Anyone out there miss 2lb steaks?[/quote]

For anyone (no one in particular, I mean whoever’s reading this) who hasn’t figured it out themselves and wants thicker cuts of meat, here’s what to do:

Supermarkets with butcher sections get their meat early in the morning in big pieces. Go in as early as you can, before they’ve hacked up the meat. Ask them for a single piece of meat, one kilogram or more in size, then take it home and cut it into steaks yourself. Don’t ask them to cut steaks, it’s too complicated to explain, but I’ve found they all do understand “1 kg”.

It’s not difficult and you can make it into whaver size and thickness you want. I’ve done that at Carrefour numerous times.

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Shula’s 48 oz monster (if you eat the whole thing, you join a special club!)

Ow. Imagine being that person’s arsehole or colon.