Let's talk food

"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion) 04/30/2018 at 19:31 • Filed to: None

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What does your area specialize in? What’s cheap? What’s expensive? What can you not find anywhere, done halfway decently?

My area is a Teriyaki meca. This is great for me, as I’ve come to view Teriyaki as the largest of the food groups necessary for a healthy life. Woo-hoo! There are four teriyaki places right down the street from me. As in, I can open my door, walk for 2-3 minutes and arrive at any of them. It’s fantastic. There are an ADDITIONAL nine teriyaki joints within a mile of my home. A new thing that’s popping up around here is more and more places are opening up on Sundays so it’s much easier to get Teriyaki every day. Add in the Ubereats/amazon restaurant/grubhub/etc. Offering delivery for them and it’s honestly a vision of culinary perfection and convenience that I had five years ago.

They’re not all created equal though. I’ve probably been to 60 different teriyaki places within the greater Seattle area in the last ten years... And the very best one, that consistantly wows me? Teriyaki plus, which is one of the four locations within a 5 minute walk from my condo. I can honestly say I consider that place a perk of my housing location.

Super large portions, great meat, they’re not at all stingy with the sauce, and the employees are both friendly, and have been there for years. I tend to put more faith in businesses that aren’t a revolving door of new faces.

The only downside in my mind is the lack of Teriyaki Salmon, which seems to be about 50/50 around here as far as whether or not it’s served at a teriyaki joint picked at random.

Everyone always speaks of about the awful places, but the good ones tend to get less attention at times. I’ll do my part to get the good places a bit more attention. Here are some of the many 5 star reviews.

And two bad reviews...

As a (former) small business owner I know the power of reviews. Unfortunately Google doesn’t seem to have a way to flag bad reviews, which these both are. Why? Well, I’ve lived here for 11 years and sorry Evelyn, but Teriyaki Plus has never moved. It’s incredibly simple to find with very clear directions in all major navigation systems, and it irks me that my favorite spot for food is saddled with your 1 star review because you’re directionally challenged. And Mr. Jamil... I can’t speak for your other remarks (even the best place could occasionally let a subbar dish go out) but the grill marks are certainly not fake. You can plainly see the grills they use from the ordering counter. Smh.

Okay... On to the next question! What is cheap in the Seattle area... Honestly I’m unsure. Maybe another local Oppo could chime in?

What’s expensive though is Pizza. By far the priciest pizzas on average of any major city I’ve been in. Some of them are really good.. But still. It’s strange. What would you expect to pay for a large pepperoni pizza delivered to you by either a local chain or one-off pizzeria? Definitely over $20 here, sometimes around $25. Yikes. Not including delivery fees of course.

As for what’s hard to find.... Good fish and chips! Drives me nuts. We’re a coastal City for crying out loud. There’s Spuds (the one local to me at least is terrible, and insanely expensive), and Ivars. Neither of them are too common. Fish and chips offered at “American” style restaurants and pubs aren’t generally the greatest either. I’m a subpar chef (using the term loosely). It’s sad when my attempt at fish and chips is orders of magnitude better than what I can pay $35 for at a restaurant.

Oh also BBQ is very hard to find around here. Even bad BBQ is rare. Guess it’s just not popular around here?

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Found a Gizmodo media piece on the Seattle Teriyaki phenomenon. The article is good, but the comments really show what Teriyaki means to locals.

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:35

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BBQ and Nashville Hot Chicken. Nashville BBQ has been on the up and is always rated well.

AestheticsInMotion > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 04/30/2018 at 19:38

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I wish this was a BBQ place. The best I’ve had was actually on an OPPO cruise.

So when you say Nashville hot chicken...? What exactly does that mean

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:40

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McD, TacoBell, Subway, KFC, Burger King, Starbucks and this super high-end restaurant called Olive Garden.

MM54 > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:42

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There is nothing exceptionally good in the area, but there’s a lot of good options. I didn’t know there was such thing as a teriyaki shop. That sounds amazing (I’m also incredibly hungry right now).

There is a BBQ place a few miles from here that’s really good, though.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:42

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South Carolina? Low country/Gullah food. Mostly shrimp based, it’s fantastic. Some locals will say BBQ, but SC style barbecue has the color and acidic taste of vomit(not joking). There is world class barbecue in the state, but it’s not SC style(See: Scott’s Variety Store which has been featured both by Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern)

Good seafood is hard to find in my specific area, but I don’t live on the coast. Luckily I’m there for work fairly often.

Good pizza is hard to find, as well. The best place is 45 minutes away.

One cheap thing that SC does incredibly well is fried chicken.

Nothing is really crazy expensive here.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:42

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i’d kill for a good curry round here (in my town that is) got a bazzillion italian places tho... soo pizza and pasta are cheap and plentifull

and then theres the fried fishy man (in his fried fishy van).... to die for :)

so so very good

AestheticsInMotion > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 04/30/2018 at 19:43

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Burger King added frosted lemonade to their menu around here a few weeks ago. I’m a recovering lemonade addict and I’ve been trying to get some. But... 5 visits spaced out between three weeks and “the machine has been broken” each time.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:44

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Here in Vermont we are a state of foodies. If you are willing to travel a half hour or so you can get really good almost anything... Except sushi. We are a land locked state without a strong transport infrastructure, seafood is never really, REALLY fresh when it gets here, and I have had world-class sushi at Michelin-starred restaurants so I know what sushi can be, and it cannot be had in Vermont. There’s good BBQ though, really excellent French, topnotch Italian, good Japanese and really high-class Chinese, excellent pizza, one (just one) really good Indian restaurant, Nepali, Sudanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican (including really, really good burritos), etc... But unless you’re OK with mediocre sushi (I am, because I love all food), don’t bother.

AestheticsInMotion > MM54 04/30/2018 at 19:44

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Seems so strange to hear that. My friend who moved down to California says he never sees teriyaki shops either. He spent a summer working here at one just to learn how to make it!

AestheticsInMotion > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/30/2018 at 19:45

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Ohhhhhh fried fish van! Yes please. Count me in

AestheticsInMotion > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 04/30/2018 at 19:46

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I’ve never had good fried chicken. KFC when I was younger, and occasional failed attempts at home. Someday... Shrimp based dishes sounds pretty great too

Spanfeller is a twat > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:47

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I honestly don’t think you can find bad food in Mexico City regardless of discipline if you look well enough. A store that surprises me is Yamasan; they do relatively cheap noodles and they fucking rock at it, just make sure they lay off the salt. Mexican food I’d say Los Danzantes and Dulcinea are about on par with eachother when it comes to quality expensive Mexican food, cheap Mexican food I’d look no further than El Bajio or Toks.

Plus streetfood is really good, but my silly belly cannot handle it so I refrain from it.


I’ve never gone to Pujol which is famously the first restaurant in Mexico City to have attained a Michelin Star.

AestheticsInMotion > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/30/2018 at 19:47

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I like your cheddar

AestheticsInMotion > Spanfeller is a twat 04/30/2018 at 19:49

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I would love to go down just to do a street food tour thing. Maybe throw in some architecture and national parks (or whatever the Mexican equivalent is)

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:49

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Steak. But this is Montana...

http://www.whitefishlakerestaurant.com/

Authentic Montana steak house, if you ever find yourself in Anaconda: https://m.yelp.com/biz/barclay-ii-anaconda

Our non ‘merican ethic food is pathetic.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:49

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I live in the sticks so to speak and there’s not a single Teriyaki place here. Sometimes I wished in a major city just for the variety in food.

There are some excellent Mexican and BBQ places tho.

feather-throttle-not-hair > MM54 04/30/2018 at 19:49

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I think a lot of locals don’t realize that Teriyaki is a regional Seattle thing. You can get it in portland, and maybe a little in california, but its like....EVERYWHERE in Seattle (had it for lunch today even!)

Definitely give it a try if you ever visit. I’m jealous of your BBQ scene though. OP speaks the truth when he says there isn’t a lot of BBQ here.

TheJWT > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:50

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I’m in Brooklyn so there are lot of really mediocre pizza places and a handful of really good ones

Tekamul > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/30/2018 at 19:51

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Im super curious what the one good Indian place is, because my first thought was “there’s no Indian”

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:51

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That exactly.

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/30/2018 at 19:53

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Best cut, go.

I feel dirty saying this, but to this day the best “steak” I’ve had was cut up fillets mignon bites mixed in with potato chunks served in a bowl of steak juices and other flavorings. At a somewhat high-end breakfast place of all things.

There are apparently some pretty good places for steak locally, but I’ve yet to try anything in the high price bracket. Oh, with the exception of a few brazzilion steak houses which were phenomenal. Truly an experience everyone should have at least once. I’ll remember the place if I’m ever around there!!

OPPOsaurus WRX > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:53

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Fish and chips, lobster, chowda

Spanfeller is a twat > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:54

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National parks, surprisingly we copied yall in that respect.

A surprisingly tourist friendly place to look at design is San Miguel de Allende, it also has great food, but nothing beats Mexico City; it just happens that if you come here you need a really comprehensive plan or else you’re gonna be overwhelmed... we are the city with the most museums in the world after all.

Architecture wise I guess it depends what you’re looking for, we have great architecture from the colonial era,we also saw a lot of european minded archtecture and planning during the porfiriato , there was a big push for 80s architecture after the 85' quake which isn’t my favorite but it’s certainly attractive and predominates a lot of city landscapes, and now we’re having a skyrise extravaganza in Reforma which is certainly going to be amusing in a few years when they finish the newest buildings.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:55

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I mean, for fast food, KFC isn’t bad. But it’s not overly special. Good fried chicken is a health food, mental health, but health. It puts you in a better place.

Low country boil, Shrimp and Grits, and Shrimp and Okra are all simply fantastic when done right.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 19:58

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mmmmmm

(damnit... now im hungry... this is problematic as its 2 am here.... doh)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:01

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For me it’s BBQ. But really not so much since we have a bunch of hipster foodie places now that are seriously good.

But yeah if I had to choose it’s BBQ. Most of the old south will probably fight me on this but i’m still claiming it.

AestheticsInMotion > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 04/30/2018 at 20:01

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That’s NSFW

gin-san - shitpost specialist > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:03

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Ottawa is a strange city in that you have a pretty wide selection of restaurants but nothing that I think you really need to come to the city for. On the other hand, when I travel a big part of why I want to travel is to enjoy the food. Japan and Korea are my favourite places, and I want to go back just so I can eat.

Ottawa has a lot of Pho places and a lot of shawarma places. I’d say that we probably have some of the best shawarma anywhere, but there’s also a lot of mediocrity in this regard, too. Same goes for the pho.

Ottawa does have Japanese restaurants, but I think it really lacks excellent Japanese food. Sushi in general is mediocre, even at expensive places. Ramen is almost non-existent (although I just found out there is a well-rated place that I’d never heard of before), and stuff like soba, tonkatsu, okonomiyaki is just impossible to find. Even Japanese fast-food and French bakeries are far better than what I’ve found in Ottawa.

There are a handful of good places, but really I find that it’s an overall mediocre food scene; nothing really exciting, prices are usually high and then you get reamed with 13% tax and are expected to tip 20% which is absolutely fucking absurd.

AestheticsInMotion > OPPOsaurus WRX 04/30/2018 at 20:03

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I’ll trade you Nirvana heritage for good fish and chips

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:04

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lol.. sorry

if it helps... its tormenting me as much as it is you

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:05

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Tender fucking loin.

TheRealBicycleBuck > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:25

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South Louisiana? Easy. Cajun and Creole. The prices range from cheap to ridiculously expensive. Specialties include Gumbo, Crawfish Etouffe, Boudin, Jambalaya, Red Beans and Rice, and Beig n ets. Oh, and don’t forget the Crawfish boil.

I have to admit that I really love the food in Louisiana and I’ve found that you just can’t get it anywhere else.

Vítor > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:34

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We have a fuckton of pubs and bars (704 registered in TripAdvisor triple of London, and many more off the grid) and some top notch American, Italian, French and Japanese/Chinese restaurants (some really good German, Portuguese and Arab cuisine as well) but if you are craving any other ethnic food, even Mexican, you are in for a bad time.

It’s annoying, but then I look at everything the food culture does right here (pão de queijo, burgers, pasta and pizza, pão de queijo, steak houses, pão de queijo) and I consider a worthy compromise.

Also, if you are a vegetarian you won’t have much trouble finding stuff, but if you are a vegan, you will either die of hunger or poverty because that’s a very expensive lifestyle to follow here

AestheticsInMotion > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/30/2018 at 20:46

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I can see that. I eat out at a lot of new places, but I couldn’t think of a place to go to get ANY of what you just listed.

There is a place with “$1 Chinese food” in a seedy city ten miles south of me though. I’m not brave enough to try that

interstate366, now In The Industry > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 20:48

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South side of Richmond has lots of good local Italian places and a few good BBQ places. Asian places can be hit and miss.

AestheticsInMotion > Vítor 04/30/2018 at 20:49

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Bar hopping in London sounds like a worthy vacation plan.

I just realized I’ve never tried an American place in another country. I’ll have to do that next time I travel. And yeah, strangely enough the vegan movement usually seems to be adopted by the well-off...

AestheticsInMotion > gin-san - shitpost specialist 04/30/2018 at 20:51

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The pricing scares me. I’ve yet to visit Japan, but a good friend spends 9 months of the year there as an English teacher and absolutely gushes over the food

Vítor > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 21:04

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American burgers are truly something else here in Belo Horizonte.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 21:06

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Uhhhhhh. We have an Applebee’s and a Perkins, that is not open 24 hours. Plenty of fast food. The bars have burgers and fried stuff, sometimes pizza. Couple Mexican places, one Italian and one Chinese place.

Desperately needing Thai, Greek, someplace with falafel and hummus and pita, and pretty much everything else.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Tekamul 04/30/2018 at 21:08

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Taste of India in Middlebury.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 22:29

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You’re right about Teriyaki, and I think it’s the cheap food here. Something about this place makes it hard for any cheap food to get a good foothold and that thing might be the ubiquity of teriyaki joints, with which even picky people are totally comfortable. Seattle also has an unusual amount of Thai food, which is often hard to come by elsewhere. I am surprised by the relative lack of Indian food when this area has so many Indians. We also have very little decent Chinese food.

In the SGV (eastern valley of Los Angeles), it used to be tacos & elotes, but it’s now bahn mi and pho. Chinese of all varieties is also readily available in this region. The tacos have moved to a closer circle around East LA and the South Central region, along with fruit stands. In the South Bay they do Peruvian, which isn’t particularly cheap, but is uniquely available.

The entire LA area has been a core hamburger region since before they were popular everywhere.

In San Diego, it’s all about taco shops. Taco shops are the equivalent of teriyaki shops, but they’re cheaper.

Chicago is Chicago dogs and Italian beef sandwiches.

Salt Lake City has pastrami burgers from nearly ubiquitous Greek burger shops. Not dirt cheap, but all over like teriyaki shops. They also have *berto taco shops (similar to SD, only lower density) and taco carts like they have in Mexico (otherwise rare in the US for some reason).

Maine is probably the lobstah roll. It’s shocking how many places have these; no clue how everywhere seems to have fresh shelled lobster meat on hand.

Aside from San Diego’s taco shops, though, I’m not sure any of these have quite the level of ubiquity of Seattle’s teriyaki shops.

wafflesnfalafel > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 22:48

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agree on your teriyaki assessment

other than that... maybe beer?

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 04/30/2018 at 22:56

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*chuckles* A Mexican that cant handle street food... My in-laws also can’t handle it (and fear it), but they are the definition of white bread.

I’m a pasty gabacho that burns in minutes in the sun and has lived most of his life in places with zero street food, yet I can eat almost anything. I wander the streets of Mexico eating tacos and drinking aguas frescas I order in my horribly broken Spanish...and have never come down ill from any of it. My body looks like I belong in Northern Europe, but my digestive tract belongs in a barrio.

Spanfeller is a twat > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 04/30/2018 at 23:08

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Even some teas upset my stomach, it is quite delicate and I worry a lot about what it goes into it.


Plus, fun fact, 15% of Mexicans are, as you say “white bread”

shop-teacher > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 23:15

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I had no idea a “Teriyaki restaurant” was even a thing. I thought that was a sauce, but they have whole restaurants of the stuff?

I’m from Chicagoland, so we do deep dish pizza and Italian beef. You can’t swing a dead cat (isn’t that a weird saying?) without hitting a beef shack or a pizza place.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 04/30/2018 at 23:18

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But what is the food that is everywhere that you don’t find elsewhere? I’d have said “locavore”. Before it was available outside the state, you could seemingly find really good food of this style everywhere. Vegetarian and meat-eating. Every little rural town seemed to have at least one little restaurant that served this type of food.

The definition of basic Vermont food in my mind was a pork sandwich (the pig came from a nearby farm) spiced with spices grown on the porches of the house on bread baked there with vegetables from the porches or nearby farms and cheese from a nearby farm. It was fabulous and came from a place with the most curious juxtaposition of support for the second amendment combined with environmentalism. Coming from the western US, this was all very foreign to me.

AestheticsInMotion > shop-teacher 04/30/2018 at 23:20

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It’s huge! “let’s get teriyaki” is a common phrase that means let’s go to one of those teriyaki places and stuff ourselves on cheap, tasty meat and rice

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 23:23

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The teriyaki shop as exists here simply doesn’t exist elsewhere to my knowledge. I’ve never seen it anywhere else and definitely not in California (it would compete with tacos and burgers, which are too deeply entrenched to dislodge).

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 23:25

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I tried to acquire some of those nacho fries and failed. I do not live or work near a Taco Bell. Just can’t suffer through food there if they don’t have what I’m looking for. It’s the only food I’ve encountered that my guts don’t like to process.

shop-teacher > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 23:26

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I like cheap tasty meat. Hard pass on the rice though. I hate rice.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 23:27

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KFC makes a “decent” rendition of it. Ask for whatever you want as “Nashville Hot”. I usually do just their 3-piece tenders. It actually got me to go there more in the last year than I had in the preceding 25 years combined.

Obviously, you’re better off going to Nashville for it, but it at least gives you an idea.

AestheticsInMotion > shop-teacher 04/30/2018 at 23:29

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Hmm. I would never in a million years eat it plain, and I’ve never found another dish I’ve liked it in... But sticky rice with (seattle style) teriyaki sauce.... Oh man. To die for

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > Vítor 04/30/2018 at 23:32

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man I love pão de queijo. In Austin TX the only place I know to get it is one vendor at a saturday farmer’s market 

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/30/2018 at 23:32

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“you just can’t get it anywhere else.” Houston does a pretty good imitation... 

shop-teacher > AestheticsInMotion 04/30/2018 at 23:32

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More for you. Gimme the meats!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 04/30/2018 at 23:54

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No, they’re not just white skinned, they’re afraid of spice. I don’t know how they eat anything in Mexico at all. These are people that think ketchup is spicy.

Are you allergic to something in these “teas”?

Spanfeller is a twat > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 04/30/2018 at 23:56

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Okay that’s just too much!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 05/01/2018 at 00:05

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For examples: Kielbasa is too much with some mass produced exceptions. My wife won’t eat decent pepperoni because it’s too spicy. The spiciest peppers they’ll use in cooking are bell peppers (poblanos are far too spicy). They used to stare at me when I ate jalapeños and chile rellenos, but just accept that I’m weird now.

Spanfeller is a twat > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/01/2018 at 00:06

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I don’t know your area but a relatively tame chilly you can have are pimientos de padron... Common in spain so its whitebread proof

Vítor > itranthelasttimeiparkedit 05/01/2018 at 00:15

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Pão de queijo is love, pão de queijo is life. The cafeteria across the street from my college sells a pão de queijo the size of my fist stuffed with either chicken or pepperoni and there isn’t a better snack than that. The student-friendly price of R$4,00 (just over a $1) just seals the deal

AdverseMartyr > AestheticsInMotion 05/01/2018 at 00:17

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Well, I’m in Okinawa, so the specialty I can think of right now is Okinawan Soba. Think Ramen, but a different broth, and way better noodles with some slow roasted ribtips or thick cut bacon topped with ginger and a local style of chili oil or pepper flake.

You can’t get a ‘decent’ frozen pizza here, and I think the only good pizza (I don’t have military base access) to be found is a little 5 table restaurant in Chatan. so far anyway.

Cheese - you want a little taste of actual Cheddar - 100 grams is probably ¥500 ($5). The only thing you can find easily is some sort of processed cheese product.

punkgoose17 > AestheticsInMotion 05/01/2018 at 09:12

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In Pittsburgh the restaurants are Pizza places most people take out or order in. There are tons of local places; chain pizza places usually fail.

In the grocery store their are tons of perogies. A dozen different flavors and at least 4 different brands last time I checked.

TheRealBicycleBuck > itranthelasttimeiparkedit 05/01/2018 at 09:36

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I’m a native Houstonian currently living in Louisiana, although work has me back in Houston most of the week these days. I’ve tried to get a taste of Louisiana here in H-town, but I haven’t found a decent place yet. The biggest problem is the crawfish. Once frozen, they’re never the same.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 05/01/2018 at 12:17

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True... I’m so used to it I hardly notice unless it isn’t that way for some reason...

4kc > AestheticsInMotion 05/01/2018 at 21:25

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I’m pretty sure at least half the teriyaki places in Seattle are fronts. I’ve been to far too many that take 40 minutes for a regular chicken teriyaki plate that ends up being cold. There are some crazy good ones though

gin-san - shitpost specialist > AestheticsInMotion 05/02/2018 at 05:56

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Flights are expensive, but if you’re willing to put up with small Airbnb apartments the accommodations can be cheap. I only spent a lot on a one night stay at a ryokan/onsen which is a traditional Japanese hot spring spa and hotel, complete with traditional dinner and breakfast.

Food is a funny thing there since it’s possible to go from convenience store food to $300 Michelin-starred omakase dinners from a sushi master.

However, it’s definitely within reason to have extremely satisfying meals for less than $10.