Rice is the most boring food i have ever encountered without Soy it just sucks. I dont understand how anyone can eat plain rice.
Yesturday i went into a restaurant and they gave me a raw egg. I asked what it was for and they mixed it with soy and poured it on my Rice.
Why is this ok?
Anyone else experience such strangness.
If im hungry, and there is a shortage of time, or food in the fridge, I will eat rice with soy and mayo.... and kimchi ^^
Hmm soya, mayo and kimchi eh, I might try that some times.:gohan:
I only just recently was told off for putting my spoon of rice into Kimchi jjigae (kimuchi nabe in japan)... I thought it was more rude for me to put my rice (the whole bowl) in the soup or soup on rice... so I always had a habit of doing it this way. Im talking about my own personal bowl... not a shared big dish of soup.
Its nice to have rice soaking up in yummy soup juices.
You know that's what Chinese people do with their kids, the rice in a soup method seems easier for them to feed their kids, as the soup makes the food more liquid.:heyhey:
I was shocked the first time I saw corn and mayo sushi.
NA you cant put curry sauce with rice unless its japanese curry sause. Indian curry sauce etc is wrong to put with rice in Japan. Only Nan and indian curry sauce. I could not believe this about a japanese indian curry restaurant.
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I like rice to ballance out the taste of whatever else I am eating, say fish or meat, or that--- it makes the next bite that much more tasty.
I don't kow if it's rude or not, I've eaten raw egg with raw horse meat (amoung other things) as well, so, it's quite common, hopefully adding a little soy to your rice wouldn't be so bad a sin. Personally I find soy a little salty at times, but I use it in cooking quite a bit.
I dont eat rice plain, I always have other dishes accompanying it so the rice would balance out the tastes of the other dishes. I'ts like a staple food. So I guess when japanese/asian people see others putting soy sauce in rice, its just unneccessary.
I don't think anybody does, unless they are on diet or something. Yes rice is a staple food it goes with all sorts of dishes and each dish has itfs own taste so putting soy sauce on rice will just make every side dishes eaten with rice to have Soya sauce taste which is not supposed to be.:blush:
Yes, you're right. Just like potatoes (maybe +mayo) on a pizza here.
However, in my in-laws house, there is the Japanese custom of eating a bowl of rice as the last dish with dinner. When the rice is served, it means dinner is over. (I've also noticed this at other Japanese houses where I was invited for dinner.) But by that time I am usually too full to eat any rice. On the other hand, it is not so with breakfast as a bowl of rice is usually served along with the meal of soup, fish, vegetables or last nights left overs. I never asked why this is so.
Maybe in somewhere in the Shikoku island? I heard the traditon still remains with big plates of dishes to treat guests.
White rice used to be precious ages ago, so rice as the last meal was to show a good treatment to their guest, though white rice is everywhere and some choose unpolished rice for their healthy diet now.
It sure is. I've eaten plain rice as well, sometimes for a whole meal during my poorer college days in the midst of Lent.
Instead of soy sauce, I prefer some good furikake on my rice.
No one has given me any good reason yet other than "Its just not done, are you some kind of weirdo"
I suppose not every food is supposed to have Soya sauce taste when you eat it, if you do that all food will taste with Soya flavours.
I dont eat rice plain, I always have other dishes accompanying it so the rice would balance out the tastes of the other dishes. I'ts like a staple food. So I guess when japanese/asian people see others putting soy sauce in rice, its just unneccessary.
If im hungry, and there is a shortage of time, or food in the fridge, I will eat rice with soy and mayo.... and kimchi ^^
I only just recently was told off for putting my spoon of rice into Kimchi jjigae (kimuchi nabe in japan)... I thought it was more rude for me to put my rice (the whole bowl) in the soup or soup on rice... so I always had a habit of doing it this way. Im talking about my own personal bowl... not a shared big dish of soup.
Its nice to have rice soaking up in yummy soup juices.
But as i said this is just stuff i've read on several difrent swedish japan sites, so this is nothing i got any good knowledge about.
Maby it's something like the rule (atleast here in sweden) that your not suposed to put your elbows on the tabel, but no one follows it because it's a outdated rule.
It is like that debate over asking for ketchup at a French restaurant or what "Dirty Harry" said in "Sudden Impact": "Nobody but nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog!"
No it is not rude. Just strange to the Japanese.
When I first went to Japan and began eating regularly at my girlfriends house I also put soy sauce on my rice as I too found the taste way to bland. Every one laughed, but I no one said I shouldn't. They just thought it strange.
As with sushi, I cannot remember when I first came to savor just plain rice. Maybe it was when I began to learn "how to eat" Japanese, I'm not sure. Anyway, today I take a piece of whatever we are eating, be it pork, fish, or vegetables, and put it in the rice bowl where I then take a bit of rice and eat both together. Now that's good.
However, in my in-laws house, there is the Japanese custom of eating a bowl of rice as the last dish with dinner. When the rice is served, it means dinner is over. (I've also noticed this at other Japanese houses where I was invited for dinner.) But by that time I am usually too full to eat any rice. On the other hand, it is not so with breakfast as a bowl of rice is usually served along with the meal of soup, fish, vegetables or last nights left overs. I never asked why this is so.
I'm sure somewhere there is a confectioner who makes ebi-mayo ice-cream.
that's funny ! :giggle:
eek - i don't want to think of it, though .. ><
Also, everyone knows that once you grow up, mustard is the perfered condiment on hot-dogs! ;)
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