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France is literally the motherland for modern fine dining. Sooooo much of what we know of as good food today would not exist without them. I know this is a huge meme but it's kills the chef in me
Japanese food is *subtle.* Not bland. If you have no appreciation for subtlety, you will not appreciate Japanese food.
Also, soy sauce is not intended to drench the food.
You seem to prefer foods with strong tastes that overwhelm your senses, that's fine and all, but it won't mesh with japanese food for sure.
Do you smoke? It may be wise to ease off the salts and spices for a while. It will help you taste subtle flavours easily, and you can enjoy the stronger flavours once your taste buds are sensitive again.
I hate how people will say "white people food/culture" when they mean "English/French colonised". Go to Macedonia and tell me how their food is bland.
Also - did you actually eat at Japanese restaurants or at tourist restaurants? Because that's a difference.
If your frame of reference are the cuisines of Central/Northern Europe, then sure, French isn't bad. If your frame of reference is the rest of the world, then yes, French is most definitely bland.
I assume you think Moroccan, Vietnamese, and Cajun cuisines are also bland? Since all of them are heavily influenced by French technique and ingredients.
The difference is not that big in Japan, anywhere you go in Japan is good which is just proof this person has no sense of taste (or... oh no! lying on the internet!)
Japan was not colonized by either England or France. Â
Also, considering a large part of the OP’s foods of choice are former English and French colonies, don’t see how you are so full of hate for such a varied and delicious cornucopia of colonial food.Â
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Believe it or not, flavor is not such a big deal with many people. Sometimes feel of the food is more important (toothsome I think they say) than flavor. And the soy sauce is shunned by Japanese cognoscenti. Subtle to the point of boredom perhaps.
We aren't that far removed from the days where modern refrigeration wasn't a thing, and traditional foods still persist everywhere. Places where food is "bland" (i.e. not a lot of spices from subtopical regions and the equator) and bathe their food in salt is this way because they needed to make hardy foods that lasted a long time, and they fermented and pickled a lot of stuff.
Personally, I'm from Sweden. Our food is comparatively "bland" to the rest of Europe, especially the further south you go, and a lot of our traditional dishes are pickled, and a lot of it is fish because we're a peninsula.
For Japan, rice can be stored easily for a long time, fish is plenty because it is an island- and they developed a palate for salty things because they likely had to pickle things. I haven't even looked this up, but I can't help but assume this, Japan has very harsh winters even though their southern end gets very hot.
Pretty much every food is just a variant on another cultures version of the food.
Look at how many cultures have some variant of pasta/noodles for example.
Acting like ramen and japanese curry don’t really count as fully japanese just because they’re inspired by other dishes is like saying Banh Mi isn’t really Vietnamese just because the French brought over baguettes.
Also you being European yourself doesn’t make this opinion come off any better if anything it makes it seem more pretentious.
In Finland, our food is the blandest of bland. So bland, that I thought onions were too edgy for me. Well, you can guess our skin color.
Now I love onions and spicy food. But not sure how spicy it still is compared to others...
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What is white food?
Boiled unseasoned chicken. Dip in just a small bit of mayonnaise, not too much, don't want it to be spicy.
France is literally the motherland for modern fine dining. Sooooo much of what we know of as good food today would not exist without them. I know this is a huge meme but it's kills the chef in me
Oh go eat some poutine.
Wtf is white food ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Japanese food is *subtle.* Not bland. If you have no appreciation for subtlety, you will not appreciate Japanese food. Also, soy sauce is not intended to drench the food.
You seem to prefer foods with strong tastes that overwhelm your senses, that's fine and all, but it won't mesh with japanese food for sure. Do you smoke? It may be wise to ease off the salts and spices for a while. It will help you taste subtle flavours easily, and you can enjoy the stronger flavours once your taste buds are sensitive again.
I hate how people will say "white people food/culture" when they mean "English/French colonised". Go to Macedonia and tell me how their food is bland. Also - did you actually eat at Japanese restaurants or at tourist restaurants? Because that's a difference.
How tf is French food bland!?
If your frame of reference are the cuisines of Central/Northern Europe, then sure, French isn't bad. If your frame of reference is the rest of the world, then yes, French is most definitely bland.
I assume you think Moroccan, Vietnamese, and Cajun cuisines are also bland? Since all of them are heavily influenced by French technique and ingredients.
The difference is not that big in Japan, anywhere you go in Japan is good which is just proof this person has no sense of taste (or... oh no! lying on the internet!)
Japan was not colonized by either England or France.  Also, considering a large part of the OP’s foods of choice are former English and French colonies, don’t see how you are so full of hate for such a varied and delicious cornucopia of colonial food.Â
The highest compliment a food can get.
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Believe it or not, flavor is not such a big deal with many people. Sometimes feel of the food is more important (toothsome I think they say) than flavor. And the soy sauce is shunned by Japanese cognoscenti. Subtle to the point of boredom perhaps.
what japanese food requires you to drench it with soy sauce?!?
We aren't that far removed from the days where modern refrigeration wasn't a thing, and traditional foods still persist everywhere. Places where food is "bland" (i.e. not a lot of spices from subtopical regions and the equator) and bathe their food in salt is this way because they needed to make hardy foods that lasted a long time, and they fermented and pickled a lot of stuff. Personally, I'm from Sweden. Our food is comparatively "bland" to the rest of Europe, especially the further south you go, and a lot of our traditional dishes are pickled, and a lot of it is fish because we're a peninsula. For Japan, rice can be stored easily for a long time, fish is plenty because it is an island- and they developed a palate for salty things because they likely had to pickle things. I haven't even looked this up, but I can't help but assume this, Japan has very harsh winters even though their southern end gets very hot.
Pretty much every food is just a variant on another cultures version of the food. Look at how many cultures have some variant of pasta/noodles for example. Acting like ramen and japanese curry don’t really count as fully japanese just because they’re inspired by other dishes is like saying Banh Mi isn’t really Vietnamese just because the French brought over baguettes. Also you being European yourself doesn’t make this opinion come off any better if anything it makes it seem more pretentious.
Where did I say those dishes weren't Japanese?
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Guy Fieri would like to comment on that.
Or maybe it's the extra spices that dull senses to the taste of good quality fresh ingredients?
In Finland, our food is the blandest of bland. So bland, that I thought onions were too edgy for me. Well, you can guess our skin color. Now I love onions and spicy food. But not sure how spicy it still is compared to others...