Posted on 11/05/2006 5:32:31 AM PST by A. Pole
"Woman who think way to man's heart through his stomach, have sights set too high."
snort, lol!
I never eat Blowfish cooked by an east Tennessee Japaneese cook.
"east Tennessee Japaneese cook"!
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Karaoke from hell.
Samurai murmuring "Mama Baby:!
Kewel! I'm confident that Miss Yuki will prove adept at expanding my, uhhh, cooking skills.
that's the restaurant started by Benjamin Hannah from New Jersey, right?
the kanji/kana in this picture are wrong - hold a mirror facing the screen to read what it *really* says!
No, I don't think I would want fugu from east Tennessee's kitchens, but Tennessee's excellent smoked hams are not matched by any ham product in Japan.
The closest that I came was to find good bacon made in northern Japan.
Japan does have some good pork -- the kurobuta breed comes from there -- so it's not a lack on that side, but they need to take some training courses on making smoked hams.
Cautious about saying "tongue -in-cheek" because you'll likely give us a recipe for it....Tennessee-style.
I can't read kani with or without a mirror.
Like Twinkies....
I suspected something like this was going on when our family recently went to the 'Sho Gun' restaurant and our personal chef, the one with the two large knives who stir frys the shrimp and chicken and flips it into the air, was wearing a Charlie Chaplin outfit.
Mmmmmmm! "Ideal Taste of Sea Goodness and Mayonnaise!"
I haven't been to many sushi places in the middle of the U.S., but 15 or so years ago I went to a kaiten sushi place in Minneapolis, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.
My favorite "not quite Japanese" story is when I went into a "Japanese" restaurant in Florida.
I spent some time trying out my Japanese on the folks working, but they seemed to be very reticient. After a few minutes, one of them blurted out in English "we aren't Japanese, we're Korean".
Food was good, though.
Yatta! It's about time! The number of faux Japanese restaurants out there giving one of the world's great cuisines a bad name is immense. Having a "food police" to certify restaurant fare as "authetically Japanese" will weed out the fakers from the pack and allow those of us who love Japanese food to find the real thing by some means other than luck and word-of-mouth.
I think there should be a Texas food council to certify restaurants who serve chili, steaks, and Mexican food (i.e. Texas food -- what some call "Tex-Mex"). In my travels, I have had "Mexican" food that barely rated the title "food", much less "Mexican". As for chili... dear Lord. The stuff that gets called "chili" out there! To grace that diarrhea-like swill they serve in Cincinnati with the proud name of "chili" ought to be against the law. "Never eat chili or Mexican food when north of the Red River" -- that's my motto.
Yeah. I've been to Thai restaurants run by Laos (good) and Chinese restaurants run by Thais (don't hold back on the chicken sauce !)...
I like this idea. God knows it should be used in three-quarters of the dumps that call themselves Mexican restaurants around here.
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