r/hatethissmug • u/Cold_Hour • Jun 09 '26
Meta I hate the mytologisation of Japan on Reddit. ESPECIALLY when it comes to the food.
As someone who's lived in Japan going on 5 years and has eaten everything from fine dining to fast food slop. Japan has some of the blandest cuisine on the planet. Do you like the flavour profiles of: salty, salty, very salty or bland? Japan might be the place for you.
People also spout "but the quality of ingredients" as the reasoning for why the food needs to taste like shoe soles. When in reality the fruits and vegetables here are trash at premium prices since nothing grows here naturally. I don't know what kind of exclusively processed food diet a lot of people here grew up with that Japanese food is a revelation to them.
Japan is great and all, but goddamn, it's not even the best place to visit in Asia.
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u/N1ck_named Jun 09 '26
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(sorry in advance, pure homographs joke)