Does anybody (in WA) know of a good Japanese grocery store? Preferably south of the river.

Ahh, now I see how people get confused thinking that Perth is WA. Try Bagot Road, Subi.

Yes, foolishly I was thinking that as I typed it but kept going anyway
Subi is a bit further than I wanted to go but will make the effort if it is a decent shop. I'll check it out. Thanks ThinkaBowtit

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Toph said..
Does anybody (in WA) know of a good Japanese grocery store? Preferably south of the river.

You better not be looking for whale meat!

Rite Price Foods on Cantonement Street Freo are pretty good. I've bought all sorts of japanese produce from them in the past, from foods to sake to stoneware.

Arigatou Gozaimasu

Just cook chinese but put that smelly fish powder in everything

Look for Korean shops, they often have Japanese stuff.
Sorry I can't offer more.

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Mark _australia said..
Just cook chinese but put that smelly fish powder in everything

Uh? Not had much Japanese food then, have you?

^^^ no cos most things are smelly fishy
I am sure they have other stuff, probably aussie Jap takeaway is limited and not authentic.

I have a theory the Chinese invented the 'base' recipes.

Chinese dish plus chilli = Indo
Chinese dish plus coconut = Thai
Chinese dish plus fish powder = Japanese

Chinese dish plus prawn crackers and deep fried bits and red syrup crap = aussie Chinese

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Kamikuza said..

Mark _australia said..
Just cook chinese but put that smelly fish powder in everything

Uh? Not had much Japanese food then, have you?

Kamikazi. (Is that out of taste?)

Care to elaborate, as in give some ideas of things to try?

The only Japanese dishes I have tried I didn't enjoy, but am open to trying other things, especially on the recommendation of someone with experience.

Whale, or dolphin meat, is probably hard to come by here. I do have a very close friend that I could take on a trip to Shark Bay, and try Dugong, is that worth a shot? Quite legally.

Would cernainly get some funny looks at the cleaning table.

Regards,

There is an asian supermarket at Market city on South St Canning Vale. Has eberything asian, by far the biggest range I have seen of any store. Watch out for Saturdays as the joint can get packed.

I love hearing old guys who only eat steak and chips, bag out other cultures' foods, when they have no idea what they're talking about and have a palette as sophisticated as fussy two year old child.

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Mark _australia said..
Just cook chinese but put that smelly fish powder in everything

I appreciated the humour Mark

I will give the markets at Canning Vale a go first and then work my way from there. If at worse I end up in Freo or Subi, then I will just have to sit down and have lunch and a beer, so it's not all that bad.


I would think that at the end of the day all I would be cooking is westernised version of Japanese. So if I really looked hard enough I would find most things in Coles or Woolies.

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kiterboy said..
I love hearing old guys who only eat steak and chips, bag out other cultures' foods, when they have no idea what they're talking about and have a palette as sophisticated as fussy two year old child.

I love people a thousand kilometres away claim to have totally figured out another person they've never met

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Mark _australia said..
^^^ no cos most things are smelly fishy
I am sure they have other stuff, probably aussie Jap takeaway is limited and not authentic.

I have a theory the Chinese invented the 'base' recipes.

Chinese dish plus chilli = Indo
Chinese dish plus coconut = Thai
Chinese dish plus fish powder = Japanese

Chinese dish plus prawn crackers and deep fried bits and red syrup crap = aussie Chinese

I guess it depends what you mean by "Chinese food"... as you said, it's probably Aussie-fied what-the-takeaway-imagines-is Chinese food.

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RockyDude said..

Kamikuza said..

Mark _australia said..
Just cook chinese but put that smelly fish powder in everything

Uh? Not had much Japanese food then, have you?

Kamikazi. (Is that out of taste?)

Care to elaborate, as in give some ideas of things to try?

The only Japanese dishes I have tried I didn't enjoy, but am open to trying other things, especially on the recommendation of someone with experience.

Whale, or dolphin meat, is probably hard to come by here. I do have a very close friend that I could take on a trip to Shark Bay, and try Dugong, is that worth a shot? Quite legally.

Would cernainly get some funny looks at the cleaning table.

Regards,

Not my name

What have you tried?

Tonkatsu, udon, tempura, ramen, gyoza (those two are from China and Japanified), makizushi, soba and zarusoba, to name a few. Okonomiyaki is probably my favorite thing to eat out. But the best advice is to get yourself to a teppan restaurant. Meat!

Fish is used as a dish eg. grilled; I've not noticed fish powder in anything. Mostly, Japanese food is like tapas, with little dishes of various stuff like rice, miso soup, fish of some sort, pickles and watery sauces, served on their own.

I've been served whale before, for school lunches, but not dolphin. The big thrill is that you're being told you're eating something special - it really is nothing special.

Unless someone has been trying gross you out with grotty stuff like crab brains.

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Mark _australia said...

kiterboy said..
I love hearing old guys who only eat steak and chips, bag out other cultures' foods, when they have no idea what they're talking about and have a palette as sophisticated as fussy two year old child.

I love people a thousand kilometres away claim to have totally figured out another person they've never met

It's easy to figure someone out when they splash their steak and chips views all over this website.

Or those who claim to be so much more enlightened and cultured than the rest. Nice.

^
Or those who return from a well deserved time out, and take out their customary HW trolling in the open forum.

Regards,

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RockyDude said..

Kamikazi. (Is that out of taste?)

Not my name

What have you tried?

Tonkatsu, udon, tempura, ramen, gyoza (those two are from China and Japanified), makizushi, soba and zarusoba, to name a few. Okonomiyaki is probably my favorite thing to eat out. But the best advice is to get yourself to a teppan restaurant. Meat!

Fish is used as a dish eg. grilled; I've not noticed fish powder in anything. Mostly, Japanese food is like tapas, with little dishes of various stuff like rice, miso soup, fish of some sort, pickles and watery sauces, served on their own.

I've been served whale before, for school lunches, but not dolphin. The big thrill is that you're being told you're eating something special - it really is nothing special.

Unless someone has been trying gross you out with grotty stuff like crab brains.

Sorry Kami, but your location showing Japan, and your username, I thought it would be OK. No offence mean't and I don't think it was taken.

Thanks heaps for your advice. I will need to take a copy of those options to a restaurant, and try them all over time.

I have a good friend that regularly travels over there for skiing trips, and although he loves the beer there, the food is normally Aussie as possible for him.

The name of the place is Nisecko/Nisacko, not sure, but the Gopro footage he has is awesome.

My parents were good friends with a family, the father of which, always considered that the blueys here came with their own dipping sauce, in the upturned shell, which he referred to as "crab mustard"

That kind of put me off offal for many years.

Thanks again for the info, Kami. and Regards,

I had meat from around the spout of a whale once. Twas delish! Just like pig's trotters.

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RockyDude said...
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Or those who return from a well deserved time out, and take out their customary HW trolling in the open forum.

Regards,

What time out are you talking about Milsy?

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Mark _australia said...
Or those who claim to be so much more enlightened and cultured than the rest. Nice.

Speaking about yourself in the third person doesn't suit you.

^

Slow learner for sure. Why didn't I get the "third person" thing too?

Shame really, there were a lot of posts you have made over the years that I agreed with against the opinion of many.

Maybe life offshore isn't your thing, get a real job where you can "chill" a bit.

Grow up a bit, and things will work out for you just fine.

Regards,

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Kamikuza said..

RockyDude said..

Kamikazi. (Is that out of taste?)

Not my name

What have you tried?

Tonkatsu, udon, tempura, ramen, gyoza (those two are from China and Japanified), makizushi, soba and zarusoba, to name a few. Okonomiyaki is probably my favorite thing to eat out. But the best advice is to get yourself to a teppan restaurant. Meat!

Fish is used as a dish eg. grilled; I've not noticed fish powder in anything. Mostly, Japanese food is like tapas, with little dishes of various stuff like rice, miso soup, fish of some sort, pickles and watery sauces, served on their own.

I've been served whale before, for school lunches, but not dolphin. The big thrill is that you're being told you're eating something special - it really is nothing special.

Unless someone has been trying gross you out with grotty stuff like crab brains.

Sorry Kami, but your location showing Japan, and your username, I thought it would be OK. No offence mean't and I don't think it was taken.

Thanks heaps for your advice. I will need to take a copy of those options to a restaurant, and try them all over time.

I have a good friend that regularly travels over there for skiing trips, and although he loves the beer there, the food is normally Aussie as possible for him.

The name of the place is Nisecko/Nisacko, not sure, but the Gopro footage he has is awesome.

My parents were good friends with a family, the father of which, always considered that the blueys here came with their own dipping sauce, in the upturned shell, which he referred to as "crab mustard"

That kind of put me off offal for many years.

Thanks again for the info, Kami. and Regards,

Kamikaze (divine wind) is what the suicide guys repurposed for themselves. Originally invoked for a fortuitous storm that wiped out an invading flotilla.
Kamikazi could be divine house fire, I guess...
Kamikuza I made up and is a bastardized version of divine stink

Donburi is good too. It's just rice with stuff on top; like most Japanese food, it's simple and tasty.

Pussy! There's good stuff he'll miss out on...
We once got taken to a restaurant whose specialty was tofu - everything was tofu. I was dreaded it, but it was eye-opening cos everything was really good and I quite like tofu now.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the sardine restaurant...

The local beer here is like watery lager, I'm not a fan. Thankfully spirits are cheap!

dunno, could be anywhere. Great skiing to be had jsut about anywhere, so long as you don't mind the trees!

Yeah that kanimiso... bitter as, I ****ing hate it. I think they eat a lot of crap here simply cos it freaks people out. Like raw horse meat... It's basashi if you want to try it.

Oh you can get all kinds of offal here too - horumon is what to ask for, then you'll have to decide on which bit to eat. Edible if prepare by a good teppan chef, just a bit boring IMO.

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Kamikuza said..


Kamikaze (divine wind) is what the suicide guys repurposed for themselves. Originally invoked for a fortuitous storm that wiped out an invading flotilla.
Kamikazi could be divine house fire, I guess...
Kamikuza I made up and is a bastardized version of divine stink

Donburi is good too. It's just rice with stuff on top; like most Japanese food, it's simple and tasty.

Pussy! There's good stuff he'll miss out on...
We once got taken to a restaurant whose specialty was tofu - everything was tofu. I was dreaded it, but it was eye-opening cos everything was really good and I quite like tofu now.
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the sardine restaurant...

The local beer here is like watery lager, I'm not a fan. Thankfully spirits are cheap!

dunno, could be anywhere. Great skiing to be had jsut about anywhere, so long as you don't mind the trees!

Yeah that kanimiso... bitter as, I ****ing hate it. I think they eat a lot of crap here simply cos it freaks people out. Like raw horse meat... It's basashi if you want to try it.

Oh you can get all kinds of offal here too - horumon is what to ask for, then you'll have to decide on which bit to eat. Edible if prepare by a good teppan chef, just a bit boring IMO.

Thanks for that Kami...

I have no idea whether you are a Japanese national or immigrant, emmigrant, to me it doesn't matter a bit.

I won't, however, refer to you as "divine stink", if that's OK with you. Kami will have to suffice.

I love trying new foods, and will give these a shot. Being brought up in a household with a limited budget, and therefore with a limited amount of ingredients, trying new things as a kid is not something I experienced, and as such, I am open to new flavours. I tried to get this through to my kids too, but it's hard on a "custody roster".

Niseko I think it was, and my mate was a good enough skiier to film himself with a Gopro on a stick dodging trees and "the fallen" along the way.

Looked like "Fun on a stick"

Regards,

Yakitori
Ika Keso Age
Tako Su

sashimi with wasabi and soy...

I don't mind being called God ;)

Funny thing is, I hate cooked fish but am quite fond of sushi!

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harry potter said..
Yakitori
Ika Keso Age
Tako Su

sashimi with wasabi and soy...

Classics! I like chicken knuckles too...

"I don't mind being called God ;)"

Is that what "Kami" means? God?

If so, what does "kamikazi" mean? If my spelling is wrong, you get my meaning hopefully.

Regards,

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RockyDude said..
"I don't mind being called God ;)"

Is that what "Kami" means? God?

If so, what does "kamikazi" mean? If my spelling is wrong, you get my meaning hopefully.

Regards,

Yup. Techincally, anyway. If you're talking about the major deity you should be polite and add -sama (polite version of san ie. John-san) so God would be kamisama, while god is kami.

An interesting aside - the word for upwind/windward is kazakami... but the characters and not wind+god, but wind+up

Answered the rest a few posts up :D

Kaze is wind. Well, sometimes... the same character can also be read as "fu" as in taifu... Typhoon. Get it?

Oh hell dude, I mean Kami, I mean Kazi, I mean... i'm not sure now....

Don't let this turn into a God thread pleeeeeease..

I need lessons in Japanese, obviously.

Interesting learning new languages, I'm trying to learn from a young Spanish girl at work, quite challenging, but fun also.

I might send you a PM sometime soon for some tuition.

Thanks for your explanation, I'll be able to make sense of it after I learn a bit.... first!

Regards,