Things you've hated, but now love in Japan

[gankoba]

My wife puts instant coffee and salt in the fridge....

[kurogane]

My wife puts instant coffee and salt in the fridge....

Okay. Now, I am sure she's lovely in many ways.

But that's weerd.


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PS putting salt in the fridge screws it up. Too much moisture, maybe.

[gankoba]

She also puts chocolate in the fridge I hate cold hard chocolate
Also any open coke/beer can I leave on the table for a minute gets swiftly placed in the fridge...

[kurogane]

She also puts chocolate in the fridge I hate cold hard chocolate
Also any open coke/beer can I leave on the table for a minute gets swiftly placed in the fridge...

Oh. So she is just plain Nutz, then??????????

THAT'S A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I agree on the chocolate bit. BTW, you can always microwave it at super low power for about 32 seconds. It gets pretty yummy, then.

Mind you, to defend your overzealous spouse, if you've ever come home to a Lotte Almond Big Bar left out on a summer's day............

The Horror.

The Horror.

[steki47]

Preferring koshi-an is like preferring creamy peanut butter over crunchy. You people are weird.

It may not be a popular opinion, but I'm standing by it.

I prefer creamy PB to crunchy. Seems slightly masochistic to choose food that is difficult to eat.

I like soft, yielding food. Tofu is nice. It doesn't argue with me on the way down.

[kurogane]

I like soft, yielding food. Tofu is nice. It doesn't argue with me on the way down.

No, but if you eat too much of it, down is where everything Down There stays.

We discussed this.

Preserve your purity of essence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Protect your precious bodily fluids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and no fighting in the war room, please.

[steki47]

Preserve your purity of essence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Protect your precious bodily fluids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and no fighting in the war room, please.

Don't let them contaminate your bodily fluids! Ah, great reference. Haven't seen that movie in the videostores here.

[kurogane]

Don't let them contaminate your bodily fluids! Ah, great reference. Haven't seen that movie in the videostores here.

He He he.
BTW, here is the reference for the Jpn title

博士の異常な愛情

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%8D%9A%E5.../dp/B0000BHHJ6

Man, did they ever screw up that title.

[speedboat]

Well, spam was never fun...

[DavidStar]

Another thing, which was mentioned in another post, is the whole taking off your shoes business. Wasn't so keen on taking off and putting on my shoes everywhere I went. But now, of course, I can't imagine it any other way. I used to track mud into my house as a kid, but imagining my own son doing that just...I wouldn't be able to handle that very well. Can't imagine why other cultures haven't caught on...

Whole ____ing Asia does, from west to east, only European and Americans live like pigs

[silikon_tajine]

Whole ____ing Asia does, from west to east, only European and Americans live like pigs

And yet that is where you want to live.

[CleverHaiku]

AV. The mosaic was just too annoying. But now (especially since I discovered Hitomi Tanaka), I can't go back.

[YokohamaTommy]

Streets too small,
Portions too small,
doorways DEFINITELY too small.
Feel like I landed in the land of fooking elves.

Good news.
I never got lost anymore,
I lost 15 kg,
and I have less bumps on my head.
..still tripping over crap though, and I can walk a stairwell in two hits.

[YokohamaTommy]

Whole ____ing Asia does, from west to east, only European and Americans live like pigs

At least we respect everyone here to their faces.

[Call_It_Like_Eye_See_It]

Macha (green tea) ice cream....

I still remember way back when.... I couldn't believe there was such a disgusting flavor...

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Now you can stick those other 30 flavors...!

[speedboat]

Atsukan, was really only into beer before I came here.

[Andun]

Macha (green tea) ice cream....

For sure. I'm a macha addict too.

[oxymoron]

I used to hate people constantly sniffing when they had a cold; particularly in the train. I would think "for God's sake, blow your bloody nose!". Now, when I hear someone empty a noseful into a tissue or, God forbid, a handkerchief, I just want to throw up.

[Japan Australia]

I hated natto like everyone else when I first arrived in Japan but now I really enjoy it. It is an acquired taste but give it a few years and it will grow on you

[Jakebullet]

I used to hate Japanese on-line dating sites.....


....but now I love them.

[YokohamaTommy]

Tororo and ALL THINGS SLIMY.

[TJrandom]

I hated natto like everyone else when I first arrived in Japan but now I really enjoy it. It is an acquired taste but give it a few years and it will grow on you

Give it enough years and it will completely consume your body - unless of course you choose cremation....

[TJrandom]

... ALL THINGS SLIMY ...

Slime is natures' way of telling you that something is not right to eat - that and the smell of course. So how did anyone ever figure out that it is sometimes safe to eat what appears to be rotten and death calling? Must have been in dire straights, the poor soul.

[YokohamaTommy]

Slime is natures' way of telling you that something is not right to eat - that and the smell of course. So how did anyone ever figure out that it is sometimes safe to eat what appears to be rotten and death calling? Must have been in dire straights, the poor soul.

Some build empires, some forward the destinies of nations.

and some live only to serve as an example to others.

To those whom gave their bad-decision making lives,
I salute you.

For your meager contributions of delicious foods that allow us the experience to suck snot.

as to what these poor unfortunate benefactors must have thought I cannot guess, unless perhaps to say:

OH WOW WHAT IS THAT STENCH? WHAT'S THIS? A SLIMY, GOOEY MUSHROOM! IT LOOKS LIKE CANDY!! (OM)

+ + +
.-"-. .-:-. .-"-.
/ RIP \ / RIP \ / RIP \
| | | | | |
\\ |// \\\ |// \\\ |//
jgs ` " "" " ` ' "" " " ' """ "

So I suppose that their noble sacrifice served two purposes.

[SometimesJustMe]

oden

plus more characters to hit minimum numbers.

[Call_It_Like_Eye_See_It]

ODEN?!?!

Say it ain't so? That mushy, bland, water-downed concoction of disgusting rejects from the expired date bin....

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Well, the KARASHI (hot mustart) makes it swallowable...

[SometimesJustMe]

It took me 10 to 12 years just to get over the pong in every conbini in the winter months. I couldn't stand it. Slowly, and I mean, very slowly it has grown on me to the point now with some good miso sauce, I love it!

ODEN?!?!

Say it ain't so? That mushy, bland, water-downed concoction of disgusting rejects from the expired date bin....

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Well, the KARASHI (hot mustart) makes it swallowable...

[Effected After]

For me it's Mugi-cha. Thought I was going to puke the first time I drank it, now I guzzle it daily.

[SometimesJustMe]

So how did anyone ever figure out that it is sometimes safe to eat what appears to be rotten and death calling? Must have been in dire straights, the poor soul.

I often wonder the same about namako. I mean, quite seriously.....how hungry would the first person to eat it have to have been to pick up a floating turd and decide to take a bite out of it??

[TJrandom]

I often wonder the same about namako. I mean, quite seriously.....how hungry would the first person to eat it have to have been to pick up a floating turd and decide to take a bite out of it??

Indeed. But then I have eaten road kill, and learned to distinguish between healthy-just-hit-by-the-bus, and sickly-and-couldn’t-get-out-of-the-way. The dogs got the latter, my stew pot the former.

But really – namako, raw eggs, clabbered milk, natto, - they were all discovered by truly desperate people – or the adventurous.

[Effected After]

In one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, it says something along the lines of:

"The secret to eating berries in the wild when you don't know if they are poisonous or not, is to wait until you are at the point where you will die if you don't eat them before trying".

[Seattlegirl]

But really – namako, raw eggs, clabbered milk, natto, - they were all discovered by truly desperate people – or the adventurous.

I always feel this way about うに; what sort of desperation would drive someone to pick a dangerous, prickly object out of the sea and figure out it's (arguably) edible?!

[SometimesJustMe]

I always feel this way about うに; what sort of desperation would drive someone to pick a dangerous, prickly object out of the sea and figure out it's (arguably) edible?!

I was quite surprised when a lot of my New Zealander (Islander) friends talked about how they used to dive for them and eat them right there on the boat as kids.

[Shonai Ben]

I often wonder the same about namako. I mean, quite seriously.....how hungry would the first person to eat it have to have been to pick up a floating turd and decide to take a bite out of it??

.....we have a similar thing here in sendai called hoya.......possibly a sea pineapple?........it looks disgusting and tasted the same the first time I tried it........but now i like the stuff.....

[YokohamaTommy]

I always feel this way about うに; what sort of desperation would drive someone to pick a dangerous, prickly object out of the sea and figure out it's (arguably) edible?!

Or worse, who was the first to see a bunch of fly-buzzed smelly green glop of のり and said, "You know, that looks like it might be tasty!"

My explanation: drunken men on a dare.

Ego is a hell of a thing;
I once ate a snail on such a dare.
from the ground.

[Mr. Ludd]

For me it's Mugi-cha. Thought I was going to puke the first time I drank it, now I guzzle it daily.

Same here. Used to think it tasted like watered down wood chips, now love it when get glasses of the stuff at schools or the gyudon place.

[PizzaTime]

Natto!

but I still HATE umeboshi!

[Trichophyton-in-my-pants]

Ok, there is this one pickled sea thingy in a slimy sauce that tastes of vinegar and salt, but I cannot recall what the hell it was. My friends in Nara consume that by cans whenever there is beer involved. Help a guy out and tell me what that thing is? Tomorrow is Friday and I suddenly have a craving for it.

Another thing is たこの塩辛. Never thought I'd like that, but dang it's tasty (with alcohol).

[JapaneseRuleof7]

I used to hate Goya (bitter melon), now I love it!

Ditto on that. The first time I ate it, I thought it tasted like a truck tire. Now I can't get enough of the stuff, and even grow it. What happened?

[Call_It_Like_Eye_See_It]

Ditto on that. The first time I ate it, I thought it tasted like a truck tire. Now I can't get enough of the stuff, and even grow it. What happened?

I'm guessing you learned how to cook it!

The first time I tried to, it was totally under-cooked (just slightly sauteed), and I thought I would die of food poisoning. Fortunately, a lovely young J-chick showed me the proper way to do it.

Then she cooked me goya champuru to restore my energy for Round II..!