So the b-ball thread is drifting a little and it seem like everyone like to talk food so ...
What kind of foods to you like? Do you have a favorite? Favorite meat? Favorite dish or place to eat out at? What's the most obscure thing you've tried? Was it good? What could you live without? What couldn't you live without? A place to discuss food in general. If you've got a recommendation I would love to hear it.
If there's two types of people in this world, those who eat to live and those who live to eat, I would fall into the latter. I love food. I love trying new foods. I love food across a ton of cultures. I love Mexican, Italian, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, American, French Cuisine, Spanish Tapas etc etc etc. One of the thing I love about living in the greater Los Angeles area is the crazy amount and variety of good food. Very few places in the world boasts a variety like the LA area. Mexican food alone here sets it apart from other foodie locals.
A perfect night for me could be a bottle of wine, bread with a charcuterie and cheese platter.
It could be 4-6 Al Pastor street tacos
It could be oysters in the half shell on a pier near the beach
It could be a bowl of curry
It could be a burger from a gastropub
It could be a bowl of pho on a cold day.
The most obscure things I've tired would be Veal Sweatbreads. It was at a fancy place though so it was cooked really well. I also tried escargot that night, which was the consistency of clams that tasted like butter and garlic.
FOOD OF THE GODS:
What kind of foods to you like? Do you have a favorite? Favorite meat? Favorite dish or place to eat out at? What's the most obscure thing you've tried? Was it good? What could you live without? What couldn't you live without? A place to discuss food in general. If you've got a recommendation I would love to hear it.
If there's two types of people in this world, those who eat to live and those who live to eat, I would fall into the latter. I love food. I love trying new foods. I love food across a ton of cultures. I love Mexican, Italian, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, American, French Cuisine, Spanish Tapas etc etc etc. One of the thing I love about living in the greater Los Angeles area is the crazy amount and variety of good food. Very few places in the world boasts a variety like the LA area. Mexican food alone here sets it apart from other foodie locals.
A perfect night for me could be a bottle of wine, bread with a charcuterie and cheese platter.
It could be 4-6 Al Pastor street tacos
It could be oysters in the half shell on a pier near the beach
It could be a bowl of curry
It could be a burger from a gastropub
It could be a bowl of pho on a cold day.
The most obscure things I've tired would be Veal Sweatbreads. It was at a fancy place though so it was cooked really well. I also tried escargot that night, which was the consistency of clams that tasted like butter and garlic.
FOOD OF THE GODS:
Way too many.
Thai - pad thai, papaya salads, Phat wun sen, curry puffs
Chinese - Dim Sum, egg flower soup,
Indian - pork vindaloo, butter chicken, chicken tikka masala, saag paneer, samosas, vada pav
Mexican - al pastor tacos
Italian - gnocchi pasta
French - steak tartare, croissants, daube de beouf, quiche, eggs benedict
Japanese - Udon (specifically with Pork Broth), sukiyaki, poke salads
Mediterranean - greek salad, spanakopita, gyros, falafel, hummus, shawarma
Ethiopian - goat wat
Korean - Jap chae, kalbi, pajeon, various ban chan, bulgogi
I'll edit this later, I'm sure I forgot shit.
Thai - pad thai, papaya salads, Phat wun sen, curry puffs
Chinese - Dim Sum, egg flower soup,
Indian - pork vindaloo, butter chicken, chicken tikka masala, saag paneer, samosas, vada pav
Mexican - al pastor tacos
Italian - gnocchi pasta
French - steak tartare, croissants, daube de beouf, quiche, eggs benedict
Japanese - Udon (specifically with Pork Broth), sukiyaki, poke salads
Mediterranean - greek salad, spanakopita, gyros, falafel, hummus, shawarma
Ethiopian - goat wat
Korean - Jap chae, kalbi, pajeon, various ban chan, bulgogi
I'll edit this later, I'm sure I forgot shit.
food is awesome.
i regularly pop over to paris, italy and london just for food lol.
will post some pics later.
i regularly pop over to paris, italy and london just for food lol.
will post some pics later.
Fender have you been to Baco Mercat in LA? I visit LA once and friend brought me there. The Toron oxtail was so good.
Obviously everything listed so far is great. But allow me to be the first to acknowledge soul food. Man, let me tell you. I'd take a good plate of Mac and cheese like auntie used to make over most things in life. Thanksgiving is always a blessing.
By shun Go To PostFender have you been to Baco Mercat in LA? I visit LA once and friend brought me there. The Toron oxtail was so good.
Holy hell that looks amazing. Thanks for the recommendation!
By Trey Go To PostObviously everything listed so far is great. But allow me to be the first to acknowledge soul food. Man, let me tell you. I'd take a good plate of Mac and cheese like auntie used to make over most things in life. Thanksgiving is always a blessing.
That's why I listed American. Creole food is another. Fried alligator beignets anyone?
Beef is the most naturally delicious meat. I would bite directly into a cow if I had the jaw strength.
By db Go To Post
I like monjyayaki more than okonomiyaki. Both can be made vegetarian.
PSYCH ... WTF man lol
Chicken is my least favorite meat. If the bad to pick a poultry, it would be duck. Fried or smoked turkey is pretty good too.
Chicken is my least favorite meat. If the bad to pick a poultry, it would be duck. Fried or smoked turkey is pretty good too.
By db Go To PostOr just shit posting depending on your perspective I guess.that's basically what trolling is short for
I mean, you're not seemingly posting in good faith in this thread and people are noticing, so what else am I supposed to tell you? A shit food thread is totally fine, cause there's some disgusting shit out there.
I mean, I was laughing until mc Donald's. He lost me at greasy hash browns and grape jelly
My thread title was poking fun at him too
My thread title was poking fun at him too
I need to be one of those jerks who takes pics of the food I get at restaurants just for this thread.
By db Go To PostI need to be one of those jerks who takes pics of the food I get at restaurants just for this thread.
I have a good pic to but am currently lazy. Will upload soon.
Shun how often do you eat non-Asian food? Seems kinda like you stay within that general area?
I live in North Hollywood. Let's start with the general LA area. Just keep in mind if you're not from here, "LA" represents a massive amount of space.
I live in North Hollywood. Let's start with the general LA area. Just keep in mind if you're not from here, "LA" represents a massive amount of space.
The aliens who dig up our ruins will probably think we suddenly discovered food in 2010, as evidenced by our 20 million photos of yesterday's dinner.
I love food. Enjoy cooking. This year I've been making a ton of soups. Soup is great in that the process is simple and roughly the same between all soups, but you can add so many variations. It's also an age-old sort of meal, something we've been making since we've had fire and pots.
I've tried and enjoyed many sorts of cuisine and food. The one dish I have yet to try and would like to is bigos. A nice thick, hearty Polish stew.
Since I've yammered on about them. my top soups/stews
Korean Tofu Soup
Pozole
Hungarian Fish Stew
Borscht
Ham and Potato soup
Tom Kha Gai
Clam Chowder
Jook with Century Egg/Thousand Year Egg
Gumbo
I love food. Enjoy cooking. This year I've been making a ton of soups. Soup is great in that the process is simple and roughly the same between all soups, but you can add so many variations. It's also an age-old sort of meal, something we've been making since we've had fire and pots.
I've tried and enjoyed many sorts of cuisine and food. The one dish I have yet to try and would like to is bigos. A nice thick, hearty Polish stew.
Since I've yammered on about them. my top soups/stews
Korean Tofu Soup
Pozole
Hungarian Fish Stew
Borscht
Ham and Potato soup
Tom Kha Gai
Clam Chowder
Jook with Century Egg/Thousand Year Egg
Gumbo
By etiolation Go To PostThe aliens who dig up our ruins will probably think we suddenly discovered food in 2010, as evidenced by our 20 million photos of yesterday's dinner.
I love food. Enjoy cooking. This year I've been making a ton of soups. Soup is great in that the process is simple and roughly the same between all soups, but you can add so many variations. It's also an age-old sort of meal, something we've been making since we've had fire and pots.
I've tried and enjoyed many sorts of cuisine and food. The one dish I have yet to try and would like to is bigos. A nice thick, hearty Polish stew.
Since I've yammered on about them. my top soups/stews
Korean Tofu Soup
Pozole
Hungarian Fish Stew
Borscht
Ham and Potato soup
Tom Kha Gai
Clam Chowder
Jook with Century Egg/Thousand Year Egg
Gumbo
Ethiopian food is filled with stews and soups. There's this little vegetarian dish called Foul. Tried it at some Ethiopian restaurants, pretty simple but delicious.
By Vahagn Go To PostShun how often do you eat non-Asian food? Seems kinda like you stay within that general area?
Well I grew up in a very Western family because my mother worked for ANA growing up. I didn't really have a father and my mom was always working so I grew up cooking and eating traditional food myself and trying different kinds of food because I was fortunate enough to have the money to do so.
Even in Sapporo you get a lot of Western and different ethnic foods made Japanese style. There are a lot of Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish places and there are more because it is "in fashion" if that's the right word to try different style of foods.
A lot of cafes get caught up in the hype of a certain kind of cooking so French was popular for a time and Italian has become popular again. So on so forth.
I'm not very picky when it comes to food other than being lactose entolerant. So I'm familiar with other Asian and Western and African foods more so now that I go to school in Berkeley. I recently tried Ethiopian food and thought it was delicious.
By Vahagn Go To PostEthiopian food is filled with stews and soups. There's this little vegetarian dish called Foul. Tried it at some Ethiopian restaurants, pretty simple but delicious.
Unfortunately my experience with Ethiopian food was awful. I had many of the pastes, including the raw red meat, and was sick for days afterwards. It's tough for me to even approach an Ethiopian place afterwards.
Well Vahagn, you're in luck my girlfriend is lived in Burbank and she showed me places around the Southern California area. Let me go look and ask for a list for you.
By etiolation Go To PostKorean Tofu SoupUsually just called kimchi jjigae
By shun Go To PostWell Vahagn, you're in luck my girlfriend is lived in Burbank and she showed me places around the Southern California area. Let me go look and ask for a list for you.
That's perfect! My girlfriend LOVES Asian food, I can take her to these places and try things myself. Thanks man!
By giririsss Go To PostUsually just called kimchi jjigae
Aye. My favorite Korean dish is probably Ojingeo-bokkeum.
Thai: You can't really go wrong with it. Lotus Vegan has a lot of seitan fake meats. So go for seitan instead of doufu if you're tired of eating doufu. Yo can ask for seitan or the fake meats for curries and other dishes too. Thing with seitan is that it is gluten and macrobiotic so if you are gluten free that no work. Tom Kha Soup is better than Tom Yum in my opinion. Ask if the thai place has eggplants too. Almost any eggplant dish is good.
You can always supplement thai food with more chill or peanuts if you don't get enough flavour.
Japanese: Daichan can do vegetarian. Just go in and ask specifically if you can substitute for agedashi doufu or any other fried tofu they have. Eat it with soba, you usually dip the soba in tsuyu it is dipping noodle. Instead of tofu you can also ask for kakiage, which is vegetable tempura. Kakiage can be done with pumpkin, squash, carrot, and other vegetable. They have stuffed pumpkin and stuff lotus root too. Don't be afraid to try the other options like eggplant, lotus, pumpkin, radish, etc.
You can ask for extra nori if you want more flavour, just ask and they should be able to do vegetarian soup stock too.
Daichan also offers nattou which is fermented soybeans. You can try it if you like it. I like it but I know some japanese don't.
Find a place that does vegetarian curry udon, that's pretty good.
Joon shabu shabu has a lot of vegetarian and if you want more flavour you use sauce. Ponzu, goma which is sesame, kind of like peanut,
Find out what kind of soup the shabu shabu place offers. A lot of places that do shabu shabu and nabemono have soymilk broth, tomato broth, kimchi broth, etc. Not all of them is meat or fish based. A lot of shabu shabu broth gets better and stronger after you let the food sit and cook. Drink the broth only after eating the cooked vegetables and cooking the noodle.
Ramen is very hard to do vegetarian, but Robata-Jinya has a vegan ramen. They have a lot of vegetarian dishes too.
Just don't be afraid to try other vegetables outside of what you are used to and just doufu. You have a lot of variety as vegetarian.
I post more later, just some quick recommendations from places she brought me to when we go down from UC Berkeley.
You can always supplement thai food with more chill or peanuts if you don't get enough flavour.
Japanese: Daichan can do vegetarian. Just go in and ask specifically if you can substitute for agedashi doufu or any other fried tofu they have. Eat it with soba, you usually dip the soba in tsuyu it is dipping noodle. Instead of tofu you can also ask for kakiage, which is vegetable tempura. Kakiage can be done with pumpkin, squash, carrot, and other vegetable. They have stuffed pumpkin and stuff lotus root too. Don't be afraid to try the other options like eggplant, lotus, pumpkin, radish, etc.
You can ask for extra nori if you want more flavour, just ask and they should be able to do vegetarian soup stock too.
Daichan also offers nattou which is fermented soybeans. You can try it if you like it. I like it but I know some japanese don't.
Find a place that does vegetarian curry udon, that's pretty good.
Joon shabu shabu has a lot of vegetarian and if you want more flavour you use sauce. Ponzu, goma which is sesame, kind of like peanut,
Find out what kind of soup the shabu shabu place offers. A lot of places that do shabu shabu and nabemono have soymilk broth, tomato broth, kimchi broth, etc. Not all of them is meat or fish based. A lot of shabu shabu broth gets better and stronger after you let the food sit and cook. Drink the broth only after eating the cooked vegetables and cooking the noodle.
Ramen is very hard to do vegetarian, but Robata-Jinya has a vegan ramen. They have a lot of vegetarian dishes too.
Just don't be afraid to try other vegetables outside of what you are used to and just doufu. You have a lot of variety as vegetarian.
I post more later, just some quick recommendations from places she brought me to when we go down from UC Berkeley.
By shun Go To PostThai: You can't really go wrong with it. Lotus Vegan has a lot of seitan fake meats. So go for seitan instead of doufu if you're tired of eating doufu. Yo can ask for seitan or the fake meats for curries and other dishes too. Thing with seitan is that it is gluten and macrobiotic so if you are gluten free that no work. Tom Kha Soup is better than Tom Yum in my opinion. Ask if the thai place has eggplants too. Almost any eggplant dish is good.
You can always supplement thai food with more chill or peanuts if you don't get enough flavour.
Japanese: Daichan can do vegetarian. Just go in and ask specifically if you can substitute for agedashi doufu or any other fried tofu they have. Eat it with soba, you usually dip the soba in tsuyu it is dipping noodle. Instead of tofu you can also ask for kakiage, which is vegetable tempura. Kakiage can be done with pumpkin, squash, carrot, and other vegetable. They have stuffed pumpkin and stuff lotus root too. Don't be afraid to try the other options like eggplant, lotus, pumpkin, radish, etc.
You can ask for extra nori if you want more flavour, just ask and they should be able to do vegetarian soup stock too.
Daichan also offers nattou which is fermented soybeans. You can try it if you like it. I like it but I know some japanese don't.
Find a place that does vegetarian curry udon, that's pretty good.
Joon shabu shabu has a lot of vegetarian and if you want more flavour you use sauce. Ponzu, goma which is sesame, kind of like peanut,
Find out what kind of soup the shabu shabu place offers. A lot of places that do shabu shabu and nabemono have soymilk broth, tomato broth, kimchi broth, etc. Not all of them is meat or fish based. A lot of shabu shabu broth gets better and stronger after you let the food sit and cook. Drink the broth only after eating the cooked vegetables and cooking the noodle.
Ramen is very hard to do vegetarian, but Robata-Jinya has a vegan ramen. They have a lot of vegetarian dishes too.
Just don't be afraid to try other vegetables outside of what you are used to and just doufu. You have a lot of variety as vegetarian.
I post more later, just some quick recommendations from places she brought me to when we go down from UC Berkeley.
Awesome thanks! I actually have been to Joon Shabu Shabu a lot. My girl loves that place and it's right across the street from where my business was located for 5 years. The cooked vegetables themselves aren't that flavorful but the soups after are pretty bomb. The purple rice is a nice touch too.
Yeah you go dip in the sauces for the extra flavour, I mean you're cooking the vegetables in soup stock not frying them or seasoning them.
The purple rice is korean style rice cook with red beans.
The purple rice is korean style rice cook with red beans.
By shun Go To PostYeah you go dip in the sauces for the extra flavour, I mean you're cooking the vegetables in soup stock not frying them or seasoning them.
The purple rice is korean style rice cook with red beans.
If you're down to explore outside of that genre and you're in the area - Right across from there is a place called "Raffi's Place". Easily the most famous middle eastern food in that part of LA. Get a taboule salad, beef lulu kebab plate with rice and barbecued tomatoes and peppers. It's a massive amount of food and the Kebabs are really good, everything is actually.
There's also a brand new King Taco right there too. Which is essentially the most famous authentic Mexican chain in LA. Their vegetarian options are ok, but their hot sauce and meat are supposed to be bomb for that price.
I will keep in mind, I don't drive so I don't go down there often unless my friends decide to go there.
There's a lot of places up in Berkeley. I usually eat burritos vegetarian because I think the vegetarian ones taste better than meats. If not it's seafood because I really like ceviche.
There are a lot of gyro and kebab places in the area too. Hummus is great.
There aren't many things I've yet to try. I haven't tried real Greek food or German food yet. I haven't had Russian yet either. Or Soul Food I haven't tried soul food or a lot of American foods yet like American style ribs yet.
Like I don't really go to American restaurants for some reason other than maybe a burger place or bratwurst. Or a sandwich place because there are a shit ton of sandwich places here.
There's a lot of places up in Berkeley. I usually eat burritos vegetarian because I think the vegetarian ones taste better than meats. If not it's seafood because I really like ceviche.
There are a lot of gyro and kebab places in the area too. Hummus is great.
There aren't many things I've yet to try. I haven't tried real Greek food or German food yet. I haven't had Russian yet either. Or Soul Food I haven't tried soul food or a lot of American foods yet like American style ribs yet.
Like I don't really go to American restaurants for some reason other than maybe a burger place or bratwurst. Or a sandwich place because there are a shit ton of sandwich places here.
Over the summer I went on a road trip to Portland and Seattle and db and reilo gave me a list of different things to try. It was pretty good.
By etiolation Go To PostAye. My favorite Korean dish is probably Ojingeo-bokkeum.replace the squid with pork belly :P
Min would just be raw beef bibimbap in a dolsot. With egg yolk.
So good.
By shun Go To PostOver the summer I went on a road trip to Portland and Seattle and db and reilo gave me a list of different things to try. It was pretty good.
Raffi's place is famous, tons of reviews and articles on different food review sites, blogs, etc. for reference, it has almost 2,000 reviews and 4.5 stars on Yelp.
Get the cherry rice if you can, it's the sneaky good underrated item that most
People don't even know exists.
That rice knocks the authenticity up like 5 notches.
