I’ve found some restaurant, but most of them cannot make any Japanese cuisine. Can anyone recommend me one, please?
Thanks in advance!!

All Japanese Restaurants and Bars in Phuket.
Try this site. Have a nice trip.

http://www.discoverythailand.com/directory_japanese_restaurants_and_bars_phuket.asp

It seems like most of the Japanese restaurants I know are being run by Chinese people. Sometimes they have a Japanese Sushi Chef, but the fried food is often premade frozen. If you mention Soba to them they have no idea what you are talking about. Caucasians can’t get away with opening a Chinese or Japanese restaurant, so why should Chinese be able to get away with making Japanese?

What, you do honestly think there are French citizens at your local French restaurant cooking away? Chances are, most of the line cooks have never even been to Europe, much less study cooking in France.

If you read ‘Kitchen Confidential’ by the boisterous Antony Bourdain, he explains that his personal preference for cooks were from Eucador because they don’t miss work, their food is consistent and they don’t talk back. Of course this led to him having to learn a bit of Spanish in order to get the cooking done in his French restaurant, but he admits it’s a lot of fun (for him, anyways…)

It doesn’t matter what ethnicity the cook is. So long as his food is good, what more do you need?

I do ask that if you say that if you’re running a Japanese restaurant, you actually serve Japanese food and actually know what Japanese food is. Finally, never, EVER, try to fool your customer.

One Japanese restaurant I went to took an hour to get me a simple sashimi dish because the waitress didn’t know what sashimi was. Apparently she thought it was a fried dish so she kept giving my order to the line chefs in back, instead of the sushi chef. The manager profusely apologized for that, and gave me the meal for free.

Another so-called Japanese place tried serving me bul gol gi, while claiming it was a chicken teriyaki bowl. Bul gol gi is a Korean beef dish btw… Yeah, turns out the chef was Korean. Worse still, he figured I (a caucasian) wouldn’t know the difference…in a city heavily populated by Asian restaurants of all types. Unfortunately, not only do I know the difference between Korean and Japanese cuisine, but I also know the difference between chicken and beef. The real tragedy was that if the place just said it was a Korean restaurant, they would still be in business. But trying to pass Korean food off as Japanese food in an area like that? Bad, bad idea.

Yet another place claimed to have never heard of katsudonburi, which is a fried pork cutlet that’s sliced, then tossed with some onions and a soy sauce mixture before being served over a bowl of rice. They had other doburis, and they also served the pork cutlet as a dinner, yet the chef refused to believe that someone would actually put the two items together despite his decades of training in Japan…yet he couldn’t speak any Japanese…or English for that matter.

At the same time, one of my favorite sushi places is run by a nice Chinese couple, and the Ranch 99 (Chinese grocery chain) largely employs Mexican and Hispanic people to run their registers. They can even speak a little Chinese. Hey, if you can do your job well, what does it matter what your ethnicity is?

I’m working on a TV show about a man who eats delicacies from around the world and even though it turns my stomach, I need to find any Japanese restaurants in the UK which sell Live Lobster Sashimi or Drunken Shrimp for us to take him to so he can talk about why this is such a delicacy.

For the Lobster Sashimi, try Saki Food Emporium, here is a restaurant review for them: http://www.gastronomydomine.com/2008/03/saki-london-ec1.html

it’s horseradish and green food coloring. real wasabi is expensive and those japanese restaurants would go broke providing real wasabi.
i’m not insulting, i’m not being silly, but you are ignorant, Mike L.
i have a racial bias? Wow, you really are a moron. I hope they ban you again.

Yes, I, too, knew about that.
Both my stepfather and a friend are professional sushi chefs, each working in a different, high-end sushi restaurant. These Japanese restaurants actually import directly from Japan all of their fish and real Wasabi roots (not a paste or powder or premixed "tubes," but rather the actual roots, which must be scraped off the root to make it fresh for every meal). They have designated employees who drive out to the Denver International Airport at least once a week to pick up their supply shipments. Unlike the imitation horseradish, real Wasabi taste is much less stringent and actually has a sweet undertone to it.

They don’t go broke over providing real Wasabi, or the freshest possible fish imports, because they charge customers off-the-roof prices for their sushi. Each meal, per person, averages $300 in those restaurants. It’s so crazy to pay that much for sushi, that’s why I only go there once a year—-after I get my annual tax refunds. XD They give merely 15% for employee discounts.

I recently went to a Moto japanese restaurant and they give you shrimp sauce to put on your salad and your meal. would love to get a recipe for this! Can anyone help?

INGREDIENTS
1 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons white sugar
3 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons melted butter
3/4 teaspoon paprika
3/8 teaspoon garlic powder

DIRECTIONS
In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, white sugar, rice vinegar, melted butter, paprika and garlic powder. Mix well, cover and refrigerate

I enjoy manga and anime a lot and I would like to try some Japanese food. I would love to try Okinamiyaki, onigiris, taiyaki, sushi, or anything you would recommend from the restaurant.

There’s a good one in either Canton or Plymouth (which are right next to each other). I have never personally been to it, but my uncle is in love with it. He has lived the past 11 years in Japan, and Kurt says that this restaurant’s food is as authentic as you can get for a midwestern Japanese restuarant.

i absolutely love green tea when i get it in sushi/japanese restaurants, and then when i go to the store and buy the tea bags of green tea.. it does not taste the same at all!

does anyone know where i can find that great tea that they serve at japanese restaurants? the stuff that they pour out of the tea pots and it has some green tea leaf flakes at the bottom?

okay thanks!

I think you answered your own question!!

You are trying tea bags, but the restaurant is serving loose tea.
Even if the teabags were the same brand, they wouldn’t be as good.

Do you have a Peet’s Coffee & Tea shop nearby? Try their brand. Excellent!

Or, next time you go to your favorite Japanese restaurant, ask them for the brand name.