Controversial Food Opinions - The Béchamel Test

I like the coldness of somen and the dipping. I prefer cold noodles.

rice is so useless

Maybe once, it was a persian saffron chicken dish.

Rice is just, whatever. I am not one of those asians that eats it every day to feel complete.

Bukkake style is okay

I like the coldness of somen

A small double take there.

Japanese rice is the best in the world and if you have some fancy rice in japan, the difference is totally noticeable — it just tastes that much better

It’s hard to eat white rice in north american asian restaurants after getting used to the fancy stuff

I've been to Japan for a month. The rice is fine. I've been to Taiwan for in total maybe 6 months of my life. The rice is fine. Blech.

Lasagna with bechamel should be called bukkake style. I hate having to order ramen bukkake in american restaurants even though it's on the menu.

Lasagna with bechamel should be illegal.

Plenty of Japanese mostly skip the soup part of ramen, e.g. at Jiro-style places.

I’ve literally had like a dozen types of rice all different quality in the course of a a couple months and if you can’t tell the difference you’re 1 mixing it with other stronger flavors and/or 2 you haven’t had someone to guide you through the differences in flavor

It’s like wine in some ways

No, I get it. I still don't like rice.

Fair

That said I am going to eat the shit out of some handrolls today. I actually make good sushi rice. Rice is still trash though.

Fuck u hurt my feelings

Rice is even good to eat when exercising

I eat rice everyday btw ✊

Brown on weekdays tho

I am staying with my singaporean friend and he keeps making me daily rice even though i have explicitly stated over the last decade that I hate rice. We joke about it and then make a date to have the same conversation the next day.

What about korean purple rice ugh

🤤

Even when I was in India I passed on the rice every single time.

And fuck risotto. Waste of cheese and time.

Can’t take this much h8

Since I moved back from China I cannot get used to the rice in the UK, its all dry, flavourless long-grain stuff. The only acceptable stuff in supermarkets is the Thai fragrant rice, and even that isn't really what I want. Luckily we have a Korean shop not far off, and I just buy bags of imported "sushi rice" these days, that will do. My wife, who has eaten rice every day in her life, does not care for rice of any sort, but has been buying basmati as it is a change at least, but unless it's used in chaofan I find it a bit of a slog to eat.

Give your wife a hi-five for me. She knows what's up.

Basmati rice is like the mcdonalds of rice jesus christ

I feel for u man

We agree 90% about food, but that other 10% we really don't agree on. We can't have risotto in the house because it's "Italian pigswill rice" apparently, and I am not allowed to make any sort of lasagne as she views it as an abomination.

And fuck risotto. Waste of cheese and time.

― Yerac, Friday, October 12, 2018 10:59 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

risotto is trash, agreed

rice is good though

Basmati rice is like the mcdonalds of rice jesus christ

lol no

risotto is trash, agreed

― marcos, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:09 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this thread is too hot and I would like to announce that I am leaving the kitchen

I have had amazing risotto before, but most have been awful, get the ingredients or timings wrong and it's a disaster.

you've got your chicken, your cheddar broccoli, your herb & butter. Whole world of rice out there. Amazing that it's all grown in san francisco.

Rice is incredible & risotto is a top dish, what the hell is going on here.

Rice in burritos is trash though, fuck SF

Yeah, I always try to leave the rice out of burritos. I did try to make one of those ramen burritos once but it wasn't great.

The rice (eg basmati) you get in america is grown in california

Japan buys that rice in container loads

To feed to their animals

Because it’s not meant for japanese human consumption

Good enough for americans to hail as good rice for a nice warm meal

#fastfoodnation

Unless it’s the imported the stuff of course

I avoid risotto because it's almost always shit, but that's more down to British cooking, nothing against the dish in principle

The rice (eg basmati) you get in america is grown in california

you know there are shops that sell basmati from a variety of places. have you ever been to an indian or pakistani market?

Not only have i been

I used to cook indian food like a couple times a week for a few years

I don’t like basmati but I didn’t realize it until i tried a variety of japanese rices

I like basmati just fine but yeah it’s only since I started going to Japan regularly that I’ve really come to appreciate rice. We have a Zojirushi for it now. The Japanese rice we get here for a reasonable price is Italian, but it’s been judged ok by Japanese rice masters or whatever so shrug it’s good

Rice from the Camargue is our local staple. We cook it by frying the grains first in a bit of oil and then when they turn golden brown add the water. Boiled rice is IMO inedible but this way, which I learned from my South American dad, is stupendous.

yes euler that is the best way

each grain coated in oil

i get good results doing the pilaf style toasting in fat and then using more water with basmati. i rinse jasmine and don't use oil or as much water, and that is also good.

The rice (eg basmati) you get in america is grown in california

Japan buys that rice in container loads

To feed to their animals

Because it’s not meant for japanese human consumption

Good enough for americans to hail as good rice for a nice warm meal

#fastfoodnation

― F# A# (∞), Friday, October 12, 2018 8:44 AM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this doesn't seem to be true. anyway price, nationalism, and expectation built on experience do some work here.

feeling v triggered by all this rice hate

it seems that japanese do import a fair amount of calrose from california for use in food because it is the correct grain size.

xxp

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rice-trade-20150611-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/business/worldbusiness/23rice.html

you're reading that other calrose rice article wrong btw

those links basically say that the situation has more to do with price manipulation than a disgust with california rice

i also don't support growing rice in drought stricken california, though

this thread is like cơm tấm but where the soul, not the grain, of rice has been fractured

whites on rice

that thing asians do when they disparage white rice