Did Dragon Ball introduce you to Asian food?

[Gonstead]

Although...it's fine at McDonalds and such...

It all depends on the type of food really.

Sometimes I eat Pizza with a knife and fork depending on how it was cooked even though it's perfectly ok to eat it with your hands.

[Piccolo Daimao]

I guess I made a derp there.

I did, too. I think it's because westerns often get "Don't eat with your hands!" drilled into them at an early age. Although...it's fine at McDonalds and such...

Well, for certain foods, I often eat with my hands at home and at some restaurants. But my sister recently told me that it's bad-mannered to eat with your hands at a place like Nando's. But obviously, you'd look like a pretentious twat if you tried to eat a burger with a knife and fork.

And I only used the chopsticks because 1) it was something new (even though I have a pair at home that came with the flat that I never even use with noodles and stuff), and 2) because I didn't want to look culturally ignorant.

[tinlunlau]

Being Asian myself, that thought has never crossed my mind. In fact, the question in the original post sounds kinda stupid and laughable.

[Insertclevername]

Dragon Ball may not have introduced me to Asian food as a whole, but I sure do get hungry for a Japanese cuisine every time I watch an episode where they are chowing down on food.

[Bussani]

This thread makes me hungry every time I read it.

[Haji]

I seen onigiri for the first time on DBZ. But most other Asian or Japanese foods no. I love Japanese food and I somehow learned how to use chop sticks easy. If you can pick up a small piece of candy, like a skittle with chop sticks, you can eat any bite sized food with them.

[SilverPlaqueVII]

As a Filipino, I was in a confident nature eating Asian and Norh American cuisines. Since I am no fan of sushi, I bought also so many liberties tasting Chinese and Filipino foods despite the fact that I really hold the Saiyan's nature of eating in a gluttonous fashion but not really that much. Every time I go to a all-you-can-eat buffet, I am still carrying my Saiyan tactics of eating styles like Goku and the other Saiyans has been.

I am Asian...so no.

Ditto. Did they show the types of food Goku ate? I would love if Kanzenshuu got a guide on that! Please make it happen!!

Watching the world tournament eating scene...

- Noodles
- Dumplings
- Some sort of yellow substance on a plate. Corn maybe?

I'm only counting food he ate directly, not what was seen on the table.

And then there's that one scene at the restaurant in Dragon Ball...

- Beef Ramen
- Onigiri
- Some sort of meat slices.

I'm no good at identifying oriental food, so I described what I did see on screen. There's still some food I couldn't identify.

So yes, they do show the types of food he eats.

Just imagine if he got the munchies after getting high, especially for Saiyan levels of eating.

Add the Jump Tour '08 when Goku and Vegeta ate the Sushi and Pork Chiasu.

[MCDaveG]

Nope.... It was Chinese restaurants where I started to wonder if they're really eating this s**t in Asia and then went on search of REAL Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese food.

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Being Asian myself, that thought has never crossed my mind. In fact, the question in the original post sounds kinda stupid and laughable.

Yeah, I find it hard to imagine Asian food as a "foreign concept" since I've been eating the stuff even before I could walk.

[TripleRach]

My family isn't Asian, but my mom made fried rice fairly often when I was a kid, along with a few other Chinese recipes every once in a while. (I'm not Mexican or Italian either, but I could say the same thing about some of those foods; it was just one of many types of food that was normal to us.) Then when I got old enough, I started doing some of those recipes myself. Nowadays I probably cook fried rice for dinner at least a few times per month. And of course there's Chinese restaurants, too. But I haven't had much besides (Americanized) Chinese food.

Dragon Ball actually did introduce me to a few specific food items, though. Like pilaf, which I've ordered at restaurants a few times solely because of the DB character. I also really want to try gyouza/jiaozi sometime.

Being Asian myself, that thought has never crossed my mind. In fact, the question in the original post sounds kinda stupid and laughable.

It's possible he grew up somewhere with little or no Asian food available.

[SSR223]

While I was always pretty partial to chinese food as a growing child-- Dragon Ball didn't really cement my love for asian cuisine. However, it did help with my budding interest in Eastern-Pacific culture in general. Though... every time I watch that scene where Goku pigs out at the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai, it gives me a massive craving for take-out/chinese buffet :d

[Daimo-Rukiri]

Nope, raised(sorta) in Japan so I got to try some weird yet yummy foods.
Not a fan of octopus..

[MCDaveG]

What I really don't like are Japanese bean fillings!!!! Damn......
But not more than dango with soy sauce.

But I guess, different continents, different tastes.

[dbboxkaifan]

Ate the spicy noodles yesterday but I think it overcooked so some of them got too blacky and uneatable.

I'll be more careful next time.

Gonna go eat some vegetable soup now.

[tinlunlau]

My family isn't Asian, but my mom made fried rice fairly often when I was a kid, along with a few other Chinese recipes every once in a while. (I'm not Mexican or Italian either, but I could say the same thing about some of those foods; it was just one of many types of food that was normal to us.) Then when I got old enough, I started doing some of those recipes myself. Nowadays I probably cook fried rice for dinner at least a few times per month. And of course there's Chinese restaurants, too. But I haven't had much besides (Americanized) Chinese food.

Dragon Ball actually did introduce me to a few specific food items, though. Like pilaf, which I've ordered at restaurants a few times solely because of the DB character. I also really want to try gyouza/jiaozi sometime.

jiaozi or "dumplings" as Anglo-speaking people would call it, is pretty common for me. I swear, I've start eating less dumplings ever since i saw the movie "Dumplings" (look it up, it's a movie starring Asian-American actress Bai Ling). What you should really try are "guo tieh" (pot stickers) and "xiao long bao". I love how there's always soup oozing out every bite of a "xiao long bao".

Another tip for you folks out there, try not to ask for a fortune cookie whenever you dine in Asia. Nobody eats that stuff over there.

[sonikku956]

As a Jamaican American with significant Chinese and Indian heritage, I grew up eating Asian and Jamaican foods. My favorite restaurant was Rice Bowl (before the owner changed the name), and it was a Chinese-Jamaican restaurant.

Also, I'm a green Dragon Ball fan, so I guess not.


EDIT: I meant Chinese Jamaican restaurant.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Also, I'm a green Dragon Ball fan, so I guess not.

What's a "green Dragon Ball fan"?

[StarRot]

To be "green" - new or inexperienced.
So, a new fan.

As for the topic, I grew up near a large Asian community, so knowing/eating such food is common.

[sonikku956]

Also, I'm a green Dragon Ball fan, so I guess not.

What's a "green Dragon Ball fan"?

I've only became a fan in October.

[Piccolo Daimao]

To be "green" - new or inexperienced.
So, a new fan.

Ah, OK.