What is your favorite Japanese food?

[Sugarflower]

Our small asian market only carries the chocolate giant pocky. Hopefully I can snag a box sometime soon when I get a chance to go there again. I didn't even know there was a pumpkin or sweet potato flavours. Those sound so good!!!!
I've had the coconut and the strawberry ones and love those. Somewhere close to our area is supposed to be a small japanese market. I'll have to go there to see what pocky they sell.

That Boba tea looks so yummy! I think it's time for a trip to the Korean bakery tomorrow.

[kittens]

OMG! You are talking about pocky???? I loooooove them!!!

Talking about chocolate, I loooooooooooooove coron (I know this name makes you laugh ) They are pretty goooooooooooooood

Talking about sweet, I loooooooooooove also mochi esp kusa mochi

[Zag]

Pocky can be found in dozens of varieties. The most popular flavors include Chocolate, Strawberry and Almond. Some of the more unusual flavors include the seasonal flavors of Honey (spring) and Kiwi Mango (summer). There is also the bittersweet version of chocolate Pocky called Men's Pocky. There are also regional flavors of Pocky such as Grape (Nagano), Yubari Melon (Hokkaido), Giant Mikan (lemony, sold in Kyushu), Powdered Tea Azuki Bean (Kyoto), Kobe Wine (Kobe). There are also such flavors as Banana, Coffee, Caramel, Marble Royal Milk Tea, Melon, Milk, Cream Cheese, Berry, Coconut, and Pumpkin.

Some other unique Pocky flavors include Black Sesame and Green Tea, two popular Asian cuisine items cleverly incorporated into a delicious Pocky stick. There is also Soybean Flour flavored Pocky.

You will sometimes find Pocky in different themes or categories, such as Decorer Pocky and Mousse Pocky.

Green Tea is good, cream cheese is a little clingy for me.
My favorite chocolate is DARS.

[Ms. Poe]

Sukiyaki...Bar None.

[Elfstalker]

Anything with sake (raw salmon) is my friend. I also love the tobiko nigiri- those little flying fish eggs that are nice and salty.

I also like fresh Japanese seaweed with a touch of vinegar.

And yes, sukiyaki is good.

Oh, and mochi! Every year the Japanese group here makes mochi the traditional way- pounding hundreds of pounds of rice.

[Cloud]

I can't think of anything. You think of something.

[Zag]

Oh, and mochi! Every year the Japanese group here makes mochi the traditional way- pounding hundreds of pounds of rice.

Here as well, in the traditional wooden stump, with the wooden mallet. And everyone gets to try, gaijin or no.

[Keropi]

I have a very limited range in what I feel like eating (for all types of food). So I guess I mainly like the basics: beef teriyaki, chicken teriyaki and chicken katsu. The katsu must to have the breading stick to the chicken. If the breading falls off a katsu it becomes like an onion ring with it's outside falling off...not good.

Finding a place that sells chicken katsu that I like is not easy and I tend not to order it just because it usually doesn't turn out the way I like. I even didn't care for the katsu at that nice Japanese restaurant we ate at near ?Portland, Oregon. I made the mistake of ordering it from them twice because I had forgotten I ordered it from them when I was there ten years earlier.

I also like enjoy gyoza.

[usamamo]

Sukiyaki...Bar None.

Absolutely. I love Sukiyaki, it is my favourite Japanese food. My mum is the only one who will eat it with me. The other half screws his face up at the thought, especially the raw egg.

I also love Sushi. Whenever I am in town I head to the Sushi bar and eat till I can't fit anything else in. My favourite is Salmon. Yum yum.

I have bought some of those pocky stick things, but I have not opened them yet.

[hobbywhelmed]

Oh, pocky, in all it's many flavors....

There's an oriental supermarket about 15 minutes from my job. If I can make it there before closing, I'll stock up on Pocky. AND Japanese gummies - much better than our gummy creations. Not as chewy or sticky, but a lighter gel. And the flavors! Green grape, muscal(> red) grape, peach, apple, orange, strawberry, more! REAL flavors, not candy-type pseudotastes.

Regular-food wise, point me towards a large pot of steamy white sticky rice and leave me alone for awhile!

I do like the folded-omelette sushi. Raw fish, however, I'm not big on. Teriyaki, good, shrimp tempura, --pork cutlet - tonk-something, miso soup with just about anything in it, most kinds of ramen, soba noodles! (And then we start sliding into the world of dumplings of any kind, any place, any time!)

Alas, I fail, though, as an afficianado of wasabi. I don't know what it tastes like. I can't get it any closer than my nose. It smells like - feet....

[kittens]

I was re-reading xxx-holic and watanuki was saying he was cooking buri daikon It is for winter but I loooooooooooooooooooooove buri daikon

Also my another addiction of Japanese food is furikake I used to buy so many when I was in CA.... Prob I used to have one bottle a day.....

I am addicted to salt.....

[crackpot27]

Ongiri ...or maybe I just have Fruits Basket on the brain
Though I do like pocky...now I'm hungry
My Japanese food expieriences have been limited so these might just be favorites because I've had little else

[yoshito]

Also my another addiction of Japanese food is furikake I used to buy so many when I was in CA.... Prob I used to have one bottle a day.....

I am addicted to salt.....

^_^ Used to get lots of this sent from my grandparents in Hawaii. Best stuff on earth. Good thing the CA markets carry it now, although it is hard to find the Ochazuke Nori one (when I find it, usually buy about 3 bottles of it).

Dang, now I'm hungry for some... on hot rice... darn you kittens...

[Not Sir Phobos]

Unagi Nigiri and mixed tempura platter. Miso soup is a must but all places make it different, you never know if you're going to get good miso or not.

[Cloud]

I think Miso soup is more than that.