My Italian cousin married a jeet lady. Catered vegan Indian food, no other option. My table ran across the street to a Wendy’s in the middle of the reception because we were so hungry.
Chinese food for Chinese people looks like alien food most of the time.
My father was telling me about a wedding he attended as a guest (one of his cousins was getting married) where they served a massive table long submarine sandwich. My grandfather afterwards took their group to Burger King afterwards
SuperGoy2000
July 17, 2026 12:02 pm
all the disgusting things about China (and most of Asia outside of Japan, Korea and Taiwan) and wet markets is 100% true. many disease outbreaks. just because they used wet markets to lie about covid doesn’t mean that the concept of filthy, zoonotic wet markets is wrong.
it’s very rare. spent time in japan and this is something basically old people in villages still eat from back when they were dirt poor. the tradition isn’t surviving (except puffer fish).
Sashitori is definitely more of a kyushu thing so if you haven’t been to kagoshima or miyazaki, you’d be unlikely to see it. Edo era holiday food. It has spread to kumamoto too. izakaya or specialist restaurants will have it, can be sold in grocery stores too, typical southerners!
You can say the same thing about Koreans and boshintang but I somehow don’t expect this level of explaining for Koreans vs what Japanese get. I ate a lot of weird shit in Japan, it’s there if you seek it out. Just like dog stew in Korea
Horomonyaki was invented in the 1920’s, it’s not terribly traditional, kind of like izakaya food. Horse, i’d try if cooked, it just sounds like buffalo or something. Sashimi is a bit off, but it’s not really any different from carpacchio (also a fairly modern invention). Torisashi is also like carpacchio, it has been blamed for about 500 cases of food poisoning a year, but it’s not like chicken feet or something. Tuna eyes are weird and i’ve never seen those on the menu anywhere, certainly something you’d have to seek out!
Whether or not offal is traditional wasn’t the point. The point was the Japanese absolutely will eat weird offal and have their own dishes for it you can find and they will present it to you if that restaurant serves it
The backup camera is the one fancy thing on newer cars that I’d really like to have
I went to a Chinese wedding in NYC and they served some of the most crazy nasty shit. Pretty sure they just pulled it straight from the river.
Used to work in the industry. We called them Chinese fire drills cause all the chinks were gone from the wedding by 9pm.
that’s just smart!
My Italian cousin married a jeet lady. Catered vegan Indian food, no other option. My table ran across the street to a Wendy’s in the middle of the reception because we were so hungry.
Chinese food for Chinese people looks like alien food most of the time.
My father was telling me about a wedding he attended as a guest (one of his cousins was getting married) where they served a massive table long submarine sandwich. My grandfather afterwards took their group to Burger King afterwards
all the disgusting things about China (and most of Asia outside of Japan, Korea and Taiwan) and wet markets is 100% true. many disease outbreaks. just because they used wet markets to lie about covid doesn’t mean that the concept of filthy, zoonotic wet markets is wrong.
Stinky tofu, when i first smelled it… Well, they weren’t kidding!
plant-based foods are the least of your worry in China (they are gross though), it’s the animal diseases (barf)
man, watching you guys drive around during prep was sooo long ago.
Bring it back for old time’s sake!
Your view of Japanese food is informed by what you’ve eaten in America. Here’s an example of Japanese delicacies they actually eat in Japan.
Raw chicken
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torisashi
Grilled offal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horumonyaki
Raw horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat#Japan
Tuna eyeballs
https://youtu.be/e_sLPSBIKig
Makes pufferfish look benign, don’t it?
it’s very rare. spent time in japan and this is something basically old people in villages still eat from back when they were dirt poor. the tradition isn’t surviving (except puffer fish).
Sashitori is definitely more of a kyushu thing so if you haven’t been to kagoshima or miyazaki, you’d be unlikely to see it. Edo era holiday food. It has spread to kumamoto too. izakaya or specialist restaurants will have it, can be sold in grocery stores too, typical southerners!
Popular YouTuber accidentally got it served to them by picking a random restaurant in Tokyo
Timestamp 3:44
https://youtu.be/olW5dvXo4R0
Well if there’s one place you’ll find anything, it’s Tokyo too LOL
You can say the same thing about Koreans and boshintang but I somehow don’t expect this level of explaining for Koreans vs what Japanese get. I ate a lot of weird shit in Japan, it’s there if you seek it out. Just like dog stew in Korea
Horomonyaki was invented in the 1920’s, it’s not terribly traditional, kind of like izakaya food. Horse, i’d try if cooked, it just sounds like buffalo or something. Sashimi is a bit off, but it’s not really any different from carpacchio (also a fairly modern invention). Torisashi is also like carpacchio, it has been blamed for about 500 cases of food poisoning a year, but it’s not like chicken feet or something. Tuna eyes are weird and i’ve never seen those on the menu anywhere, certainly something you’d have to seek out!
Whether or not offal is traditional wasn’t the point. The point was the Japanese absolutely will eat weird offal and have their own dishes for it you can find and they will present it to you if that restaurant serves it
I guess, my point is mainly that you can get anyone to eat weird stuff, from carpaccio to trotters!
Sounds offal
I would never take my car to an automatic car wash, those brushes scratch the paint like nothing else. Maybe touchless, i guess.
Sven needs to go visit Mike and christen the new car with an episode of prep! It’s been like 100 episodes since we’ve seen him in the studio.
Don’t allow this, Mike. He’ll fart in your new car.
First! Hopefully…