Japanese Naval Cuisine

A Japanese TV show opens up a popular new cookbook of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force recipes[海自レシピお艦(かん)の味元気が出る! 安くて美味しい力めし] and makes some curry, paella, and tomato stew:

Japan’s Navy is known for its good curry, and the studio guests agree that it tastes pretty good. [If you're too lazy to buy the book and cook it yourself, you can buy Navy Curry anywhere around Yokosuka.]

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11 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 10, 2010 at 6:20 am

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yokakashi

あのﾊﾟｴﾘｱがうまいそうだ。日本海軍は料理の天才ですね。
Anonymous

What’s the name of the announcer at 8:55? HOT!

Tbrot

Hard to say whether she is hot or not, she doesn’t look up at the camera. Possibly she is of mixed Japanese caucasian descent?
nagoriyuki

She’s Hélène Hayama(葉山エレーヌ). Her mother is French.
Why don’t you make a comment about the HOT curry as well? haha

ProudAmerican

Japanese soldiers cannot fight these days, but at least they can cook good.

pixel_bomber

They are fighting pirates nowadays (unfortunately not the Sea Sheppard ones).

http://www.bartamaha.com/?p=25793

cambio

looks delicious… but surely they have more Japanese dishes for the navy boys?

by the way, I was watching this with a Chinese co-worker. she claimed that the
Japanese Self-Defense Force… well… the Chinese words for those two words, “self-defense”
sounds exactly like “masturbation” in Chinese… anyone speak Chinese here to confirm
her story? or was she just pulling my leg?

ProudAmerican

simplified Chinese: 自慰队; traditional Chinese: 自慰隊 (zì wèi duì) – A pun on the homophone “自卫队” (zì wèi duì, literally “Self-Defence Forces”, see Japan Self-Defense Forces), the definition of 慰 (wèi) used is “to comfort”. This phrase is used to refer to Japanese (whose military force is known as “自卫队”) being stereotypically hypersexual, as “自慰队” means “Self-comforting Forces”, referring to masturbation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_slang
Tbrot

According to friends, the Catonese phrase is funnier. Mandarin is meh…

Tbrot

Naval grub is generally pretty good except for maybe the Russian navy. Gotta keep the sailors happy to avoid mutiny.
Rob A

That looks far more appetizing and healthier than 90% of the food I have seen in various branches of the American military.

MREs and crappy canteen grub is all over the place here, unless you have a very skilled cook who is actually interested in culinary arts. Then they might whip you up something better when they cook.

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