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Answerman - What Western Foods Are Popular In Japan?

Japanese crepes are so good, I don't understand why the rest of the world doesn't roll it up now. It's so much more efficient. I can't go back to regular crepes.

I think they have a Pizza Hut, too. Man, I would love to try Japanese pizza....

They're really creative with their toppings, but adds less cheese.

Japanese pizza, what an oxymoron. You're better off trying some local food instead of tasteless hyperprocessed homogenized industrial US food. Damn it, do you want to travel to Japan and end up eating at a McDonalds ?

Besides, I've heard you speak positively about Little Caesar's before on one of the ANNcast. If that qualifies as alright pizza to you, then I definitely don't understand your qualms with Denny's, unless the only ones you've ever eaten at were shitty; that certainly is a possibility.

Yeah, I've heard it being an issue when Americans hang out with Japanese in shabu-shabu restaurants (where they give you raw meat and you cook it at your table's grill).

I think they have a Pizza Hut, too. Man, I would love to try Japanese pizza....

I most certainly did not do that. Perhaps I was being sarcastic or something. I haven't eaten Little Caesar's in 15 years. Hell, I don't even eat at Olive Garden.

Yes, I am a gigantic snob, but at least I live in a city where I can be.

(big ol' Little Caesar's lecture

There were also some really weird places. We found a hot dog bar across the street from our hotel in Akihabara which offered something like 20 different kinds of hot dogs.

Denny's IS everywhere, although it's basically a different restaurant than the pile of sadness we have Stateside.

You said something about how you used to be the guy that could eat two Little Caesar's pizzas in one sitting in an ANNcast. I feel like if you mention that, you must think they're at least alright.

When desperate, though, I'll hit an In 'n' Out Burger.

Don't you guys in London boil peas until they're mushy though?

Shabu-shabu is "hot-pot" (you boil your meat & veggies in water), you're thinking of Yaki-niku (grill your meat and veggies on the table grill). Both have their merits, but I definitely enjoy going by a Gyu-Kaku and getting Yakiniku.

I mean, I didn't used to be so discerning. I used to eat 10 White Castle burgers in one sitting back in my early 20s. But once I had to start watching what I eat, I began eating for quality over quantity -- no sense in wasting calories on stuff that isn't truly great, right? You only get to have x number of meals in a lifetime.

leafy sea dragon wrote:

Don't you guys in London boil peas until they're mushy though?

I shall admit that is the case. But the resulting dish is treated as between intermediary between a condiment and a side-dish, and in its most upmarket variations it is delicately flavoured. Conceptually it is quite similar to frijoles refritos, to give a ready example.

To that extent, my parents did not trust anything that wasn't a chain, under the idea that if a local non-chain place was truly successful, it would already be a large chain by then.

If my memory serves me correctly, that is the second time you have admitted this in the last six years.
As we have both Shake Shack and Five Guys over here now, may I ask if In-N-Out* Burger compares favourably?

leafy sea dragon wrote:

To that extent, my parents did not trust anything that wasn't a chain, under the idea that if a local non-chain place was truly successful, it would already be a large chain by then.

That's an odd mindset to have, the success of a business doesn't necessarily speak for the quality of the food and often large chain restaurants aren't the highest of quality establishments.