Spicy food does not mean good food or more interesting food, eastern European food is almost never spicy but it’s almost always really good and hardly bland as most westerners would cower in fear at the sight of some marinated fish or some such.
I used to live in Japan, and let me tell you, a lot of typical Japanese cooking is unexpectedly quite lightly seasoned. I don’t mean all food, but especially common things like rice and fish dishes.
It lets you taste the food itself more than the seasoning. If you start with good ingredients, you don’t need to dress it up as much.
Yeah the western dichotomy of “bland” and “spicy” is only an accurate representation of their own view of the world and has little to do with the truth.
You should check out Korea or China for much better food, though. Japanese food isn’t bad but it is terribly boring. Even most of the interesting Japanese dishes have Chinese origins.
Spicy food does not mean good food or more interesting food, eastern European food is almost never spicy but it’s almost always really good and hardly bland as most westerners would cower in fear at the sight of some marinated fish or some such.
I used to live in Japan, and let me tell you, a lot of typical Japanese cooking is unexpectedly quite lightly seasoned. I don’t mean all food, but especially common things like rice and fish dishes.
It lets you taste the food itself more than the seasoning. If you start with good ingredients, you don’t need to dress it up as much.
Yeah the western dichotomy of “bland” and “spicy” is only an accurate representation of their own view of the world and has little to do with the truth.
You should check out Korea or China for much better food, though. Japanese food isn’t bad but it is terribly boring. Even most of the interesting Japanese dishes have Chinese origins.
Nah, Japanese food is definitely better to my taste. Korea has kimchi but idk what else is even notable. Chinese food is trash.
Bulgogi, Kimbap, Tteokbokki, Jjajangmyeon and so many more good Korean dishes.
If your opinion of Chinese food is based on takeout, I can promise you haven’t had real Chinese food.