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I'm not sure what you're asking here... Are you saying that certain towns do not have (outside of an Asian place) local reasonable fast food outside of chains?
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More asking what you've found in your local spot that's outside of restaurant chains that is good, fast, cheap, delicious.
The issue with these local mom & pop Italian places is the dishes cost twice that of Olive Garden (so about 150% of Carrabas.) There aretonsof great Italian places downtown in Cincinnati but I never go because the meals are like $25 a person. I don't find the food good enough to justify paying that much. The only food I splurge that much on is sushi.
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Oh gosh, in Little Rock we have plenty of local BBQ places, like 100 Pizza places, a few fried seafood places, and then the really good soul food / cafeteria places that are basically meat & 2s or meat & 3s. A couple downtown I don't even know the name of just know what street they're on. There are like you say a lot of locally owned Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Indian places around that are fast, cheap, and really good compared to American owned.
Our local Italian places are actually more expensive now that Tenks mentions it. That is strange compared to the other stuff.
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The local japanese takeout place makes the same tasting sushi as the expensive place near my work.
All tuna rolls taste the fucking same, etc. Granted, if it's already made sushi the texture will be different but from a takeout place to an actual sushi bar? All the fucking same taste.
Yep, I'm the McCheese of sushi.
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This biggest difference in most of those sushi places is the ratio of shit. There's one place around here that will give you some rice, about 90% cream cheese, and a pathetic little piece of fish. Go down the street and for the same roll price you get a completely different composition. Same goes with the quality of the nigiri also.
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I tried to explain to the morons I call friends that the sushi they pay more for isn't actually more sushi. It's more fucking rice with the same amount of fish. The fish is what costs more yet they are paying more for rice.
"It's bigger". Yeah, bigger with more shit that costs not even pennies to stuff in the roll.
"It's bigger". Yeah, bigger with more shit that costs not even pennies to stuff in the roll.
This is true. I find most "mainstream" sushi restaurants (ie: the ones packed) are the ones that load in a bunch of filler. I'm partly convinced people just love the idea of eating sushi but don't actually like it.
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Like I said earlier, I don't even like sushi, but cream cheese on sushi? wtf?
What do you mean by quality of the nigiri Intrinsic? nigiri is a style, not an ingredient. Unless you really like your food to be beautiful, but it all tastes the same.
If you're in Tokyo, this is the place to go for expensive sushi. How many Taco bell Tacos for one meal here?GINZA KYUBEY |Edo style sushi|Menu guide of Ginza headquarters
What do you mean by quality of the nigiri Intrinsic? nigiri is a style, not an ingredient. Unless you really like your food to be beautiful, but it all tastes the same.
If you're in Tokyo, this is the place to go for expensive sushi. How many Taco bell Tacos for one meal here?GINZA KYUBEY |Edo style sushi|Menu guide of Ginza headquarters
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I just meant in the same way as the roll. The amount of fish vs. rice and the wild degrees of difference in places around here.
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Cream cheese in sushi is very, very common in the west. I'd say half of the house specialty rolls at the sushi place I go to have cream cheese in them. I don't like it because if you get cream cheese in the sushi literally all you can taste is cream cheese. It is the ranch dressing of the sushi world.
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We already had this argument. Rolls loaded with mayo and cream cheese and avocado of course are largely the same, because mayo and cream cheese and avocado taste the same! Same thing with soy sauce; you soak that shit in soy sauce, of course every roll is going to taste the same... it's going to taste like soy sauce.
If you want to say that a piece of tuna sashimi is the same from place to place then I think you're wrong but it's a retarded argument, just like arguing about the "worth" of food from one place to another.
If you want to say that a piece of tuna sashimi is the same from place to place then I think you're wrong but it's a retarded argument, just like arguing about the "worth" of food from one place to another.
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Never heard of it in Australia, it sounds fucking awful.
Are seasoned fries a new thing from McDonalds in America? If they have the butter soy flavour packet ever, get them, but your fingers will smell like popcorn afterward.
Travelling McDonald's - McDonald's Around the World: Butter Soy Sauce Shaka Shaka - Japan - June 2013
Edit: The Mayo Wasabi sauce for McNuggets is amazing too, but I wish they had sweet and sour.
I wouldn't say its awful. It is a change of pace. Generally when I go with my wife we order 3 "plain" rolls (ie: tuna / spicy tuna / salmon ... things like that) then 2 "speciality" rolls which are generally some form of deep fried with some cream cheese in there with shrimp tempura and salmon and the like. She loves the latter I prefer just the plain rolls with some nigiri.
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Yeah in the article they say that this has been big in Asian markets for awhile and they are trying to transition it to the U.S.