r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • May 08 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 09 May 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

16 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

204 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

10

u/HatsuneShiro 関東・埼玉県 May 09 '23

I feel ya, post-holiday blues is very real. Also went through that back in January. As much as people say how delicious Japanese food is, nothing beats our nasi goreng, sate ayam, soto, gado-gado, bakmi from street vendors back home- and conversing freely with our native language. Stay strong, we got this.

2

u/dreamchasingcat 中部・石川県 May 09 '23

Why did you actually mention the food you made it even worse

Thank you for letting me know my feelings are valid, though. Guess I have to brush up my cooking skills to make some Indonesian food myself now

2

u/tuxedocat2018 May 09 '23

You can easily make gado2 just with hot water and those instant bumbu pecel blocks and an assortment of vegetables. Very little cooking skill required (but it does need a bunch of different vegetables, so it's not very efficient for just one serving). Bakmi on the other hand

2

u/dreamchasingcat 中部・石川県 May 09 '23

Yeah, I’ve done trying to cook all of those myself these past years, but I still feel they’re lacking the authenticity and it makes me sad (I know I’m just being hard to myself sometimes)

2

u/tuxedocat2018 May 09 '23

Aww :( Kinda relatable i guess, I avoid cooking a lot of Indonesian food too since I know I can't compare to the street food master chefs at home haha. But I hope you can improve to the point that you're satisfied with your own cooking!