Japan/The World and Stereotypes

Probably depends what's in them. The idea of a fried pastry with savory fillings is fairly nonspecific and I believe has slightly different incarnations even within Latin American cuisine, nevermind UK Indian food. Those do look fucking delicious, though.

:0 They do look similar. But I believe their ingredients are rather different. Though I could be wrong but check for yourself.

Yeah, the filling is different. :3

Bread is the foundation of civilisation. China is a savage backwater.

Those look like what I would call a fried, delicious dumpling to me.

I think that everywhere that isn't America in general has a disheartening lack of good ol' fashioned sub sandwiches or barbecue. The idea of grilling in the great outdoors must seem foreign and just a little barbaric over in Europe.

Then again, on the bread issue, I admit that I prefer rice. Full loaves of bread are a hassle, get crumbs everywhere, and have a short shelf life if you're eating for one. Presliced loaves of bread also have too short a shelf life unless you're eating for more than one. Rice lasts forever until you need it and you can cook as little as you want at a time like the Forever Alone you are.

Then there's frozen bread, but then there's that separate hassle of waiting for it to defrost. I like long shelf lives and/or immediate gratification in my food prep.

Did somebody say FRIED DUMPLINGS? :D



(This is turning into the delicious food thread, isn't it.)

"Rice is awesome if you are hungry and you want a thousand of something."

Dude, no... bulgogi. They serve it on buns like a sloppy joe in a lot of Korean restaurants in South Korea. It's awesome.

Ahhhh, I can't believe I forgot about bulgogi! Especially criminal considering I was raised on the stuff. Yeah, bulgogi is fantastic. Korean food is fantastic. Kimchi is like sauerkraut but better, because it has chili sauce added to it.

I present to you Chinese roast pork, the only kind of roast pork worth eating! Just look at that crispy skin! Those tender, moist, flavourful layers of fat, white meat, and dark meat!










Also I agree, kimchi is incredibly delicious especially if you fry it with rice or make it into soup. MMMMM.

BRB drooling

That looks beautiful, but maybe not quite as beautiful as roast duck. I'm Team Dark Meat all the way.

Doesn't look like lechon asado to me!

Lechon asado! Now you people are literally speaking my language.
BTW the famous 'barbecue' from USA has nothing on our asado.
NOTHING. But I bet it's still delicious.

It's meat and vegetables inside of sliced bread. It's a sandwich.

Japanese love sandwiches (sub sandwiches are a little barbaric, but you do see Subway restaurants every now and then) and yakitori is basically barbecue. Yakiniku too, but that's usually indoors.

Regardless of how you want to look at it, that's still not the word we would use for "sandwich" in Chinese. Imagine me showing you a picture of this:



and calling it "Kong Bak Pau".

That wouldn't make a single lick of sense.

Yeah, that's like calling okonomiyaki pizza. It makes some sort of technical sense I guess, but it's confusing and ultimately not properly descriptive.

I have heard about Argentinian beef. Oh, the wonderful things I've heard. :) Here, you come visit me, and I'll introduce you to Kansas City barbecue. Then I'll come visit you, and you can school me in the ways of asado. We will be educated! And full.

I am very much okay with being deliciously refuted. Keep up the good work.

Meh, there's many colors in the sandwich rainbow. If you go to Subway and get barbecue pork on flatbread with lettuce, ta da, you've made a really crappy Kong Bak Pau.

I love this idea already.

Also, WHY DID WE START TALKING ABOUT FOOD AUGH I'M A COLLEGE STUDENT AWAY FROM HOME.

I'm pretty sure that the stuff you make pau with is different from flatbread.

Again, this comes back to the language issue. You seem to use sandwich for "anything that has stuff in between anything that's remotely kind of sort of like bread". Fair enough. That's just not how I personally use it. When I think sandwich, I think of these:



Which is not remotely similar to the bun-type things that Subway has, or Kong Bak Pau, or what-have-you. What, are hamburgers sandwiches now too? (OH WAIT. JUST REMEMBERED THAT PEOPLE IN THE US DO CALL HAMBURGERS SANDWICHES. MIND. BLOWN.) So I was really weirded out when I first came to the US and people were calling these humongous bun things "sandwiches" and I was... wat. That's... not what I thought you meant...

And now all of this discussion is making me really hungry for a sandwich. GODDAMNIT.

(Also how the FUCK did we get onto this whole food discussion in the first place?! O_O)

Are ice cream sandwiches sandwiches?

"Hamburger sandwich" is not a common US usage, at least not since the days when they were still making new Popeye cartoons. :)

No, but a fair amount of people would classify hamburgers under sandwiches. I could go either way on it.

According to you, sure. I just look at that and I think "ice cream bar with chocolate biscuits".

(THAT'S ANOTHER US WORD THAT CONFUSED ME. Biscuits!)

You call this a fish sandwich, yes? We call it a fish burger.

Yes! What if you replaced it with a piece of fried chicken?

Chicken burger! (And so on and so forth.)

a) a sweetened fizzy drink: Soft drink, or simply 'fizzy drink'
b) a sale of unwanted items held on your porch or in your yard: Garage sale
c) rubber-soled shoes that you'd wear in the gym: Joggers
d) a big road that you drive fairly fast on: Highway, or freeway (I'm not quite sure of the difference, but I think it depends on the type of road. Sometimes 'bypass' and 'expressway' come into use, too)
e) a sandwich, usually filled with cold meat or cheese, served on a long bun: Uh... a sandwich? Baguette? Subway sandwich? By the way, Aussie slang for sandwich = sanga
f) the covered area in front of the front door of a house, usually up a couple of steps: Verandah
g) a summer insect that flies and has a rear section that glows in the dark: We don't have these in Australia (I don't think so, anyway). I'd probably call it a firefly, or a torchbug (yep, this is an Elder Scrolls influence)
h) a wheeled contraption for carrying groceries in the supermarket: Shopping trolley

It's strange...I have never barbecued a prawn. I wonder why people think that's something we do all the time here.

I've never had sex with a sheep either ;)

SATW reference?

You guys are making me hungry.

Anabanana, China has bread! You forget



Mm. 99 Ranch Market has more than 10 different varieties. Ooh, have you had the mini fried ones with that sticky cream(?) sauce? So good. Let me find a picture.

See, the problem with that is, I don't consider those things to be bread! When I read bread I think:



When I see what you linked I just think "bao" or "mantou". It's kind of similar to bread, buuuuuut that's not when I think of when I say bread. "Bun" would actually be a closer word, compared to bread.

I think Americans are more likely to view "bread" as a category, with loaves, buns, flatbread, etc. being subcategories of the general term bread.

I wouldn't consider rice balls bread, but I would consider pitas bread.

You know what I consider all of these things?

Delicious.

And those fried dumplings are making me wish my local Chinese restaurant was still open this late at night.

This. I was raised in America after all.

Fried dumplings are only the beginning, m'dear. Sichuan cold noodles want right now

A: Brus
B: Loppemarked
C: Gymsko
D: Motorvei
E: Smørbrød
F: Altan(Damn you, Kalle)
G: Ildflue/Sankthansorm
H: Handlevogn

I've actually really wanted to try that (as well as curry). I guess I just worry about not liking what I order... but then again, if I don't order the meal, I won't know if I like it or not...

It's a culinary Catch-22.

speaking of bread sandwich, and sandwich "sandwich", a coworker literally eat nothing but fucking bread + peanut butter. he complains whenever company orders actual food, we even ordered from Bay City Deli(awesome sandwich place in Santa monica) a couple times,



he refuse to eat it and instead ate his stupid white bread + peanut butter instead of the sandwich sandwich.

he lives in LA and he refuse to expand his taste horizon..I guess he is what you get if you are raised in a rural town in Wisconsin with the population of 300..