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I tried that making bread with rice cooker in Yakitate!! Japan.
total failure ?

(I wanted to try to make bread with rice cooker too, but I didn't do it. You confirm my suspicion, it's failure 🤢 )
It is one of the reason I don't try recipes from manga.
And for any japanese dishes,
It's hard to find japanese ingredients or cooking equipment. If any, they are expensive.
To make a real sushi, at least we need japanese sweet rice. I don't find any at local supermarket.
So far, ebi tempura is the only one of japanese dishes I can perfectly make.

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Yes! Onigri (Tuna fish with miracle whip stuffed inside with no seaweed strip, but whatever) once. It was really difficult to make to into balls! Even though I tried to follow the instructions and pre-wet my hands and stuff. It kept on sticking! It tasted really quite good.

Not really cooking in the strictest sense, but one time I got some hotdog and cut them to look like an octopus. They were a little lopsided, but they were cute!

I also baked a loaf of french bread to munch on while reading Yakitate!!!. That's a manga you just can't read without bread.

I do this for regular books too, not just manga. I've baked bread, made stew, cooked honeycakes, and once even tried to make a spiced wine (that didn't end up going so well). You just can't help getting hungry when characters are eating with such relish.

Of course I never follow the exact recipes a book or manga provides - those never seem to work. I get my inspiration from books/manga, though.

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Yeah, I have. Onigiri are so cute I had to make some. I followed the recipe my friend gave me and they turned out okay. My Japanese friend's onigiri taste way better than mine, though... I have also made sushi (makizushi), only it was kind of unorthodox. I can't stand seafood or avocados, so I put cucumber strips and green pepper strips and carrot strips in mine... and I don't have a sushi mat so I rolled it using a big Ziploc bag... it was tasty though. Oh, and I've made soba.

Also, I want to make melon pan so much, but I have the same problem as Aeylis--I can't find melon flavor anywhere. I heard that you can use other flavors like pineapple instead, but... I want it to taste like melon! I also want to make hanami dango and sakura mochi because it looks very cute, but I haven't gotten around to it yet... I'll do it eventually.

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Yes! Onigri (Tuna fish with miracle whip stuffed inside with no seaweed strip, but whatever) once. It was really difficult to make to into balls! Even though I tried to follow the instructions and pre-wet my hands and stuff. It kept on sticking! Did you put lots of salt in the water you dip your hands in? For some reason that makes it not stick. Also, you have to keep dipping your hands in the water again after each one or it'll start to stick again.

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Yes! Onigri (Tuna fish with miracle whip stuffed inside with no seaweed strip, but whatever) once. It was really difficult to make to into balls! Even though I tried to follow the instructions and pre-wet my hands and stuff. It kept on sticking! Did you put lots of salt in the water you dip your hands in? For some reason that makes it not stick. Also, you have to keep dipping your hands in the water again after each one or it'll start to stick again.

I put a little tiny bit, but obviously not enough. Thanks! I'll make sure to add more next time.

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One thing that annoys me about many manga, cooking shows, etc. is that they make so many things look difficult and complicated, when they really aren't.

I found Yakitate!! Japan to be really funny because they glorify the whole bread-making process so much and make it sound like you have to do EVERYthing just right or your bread will be terrible. Well - I never tried the rice cooker bread, but I've been making bread (by hand, in a bread maker, and dough in a bread maker shaped by hand and baked in the oven) for YEARS and your basic bread is pretty darn forgiving.

I know sometimes they exaggerate things to make it more impressive and interesting, but when they make it seem so complicated & difficult I'm afraid it discourages people from trying to cook. 😔

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Nope, I've never tried making something because of manga. Plus, I'm not a very good cook to begin with so I'd rather have someone else cook my food.

I can cook just fine, but I've never tried to cook anything I see in manga. What is up with those limited poll choices, anyway?

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I voted option 4, but then remembered reading a single page in Full Moon wo Sagashite when I was ~13 where they were eating "apricot tofu". I found a recipe online and made it. Wasn't that good. However, I'm quite the chef now. I've just never been a big fan of cooking manga. xD

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It's called melon pan, because it looks like a melon, not because it tastes like one. The one I had was prepackaged (which is supposed to be the inferior version) and tasted distinctly of lemon. Traditionally, though, I think that they don't have any fruit flavoring at all and are simply a white bun encased in a sugar cookie coating.

There is a pineapple bread that is also very popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong and I agree with deathbypenguin that it doesn't make so much a difference which one you put, they are very similar. As deathbypenguin said, it is not even traditionally made with melon. The name comes from the shape, which used to be football shaped. Later they made it circular to make it look like the rising sun. According to Japanese wikipedia, the originals were made in the early 20th century and they would often put bean paste or custard inside. Now there are many varieties with different types of fruit flavouring, including melon, strawberry and mango.

I think I have to admit I like the one with melon flavour the most though. I like the melon flavour they have in Japan a lot and am frustrated that you can't find it in the West. I make a type of sorbet with melon that achieves a similar taste though. If the bread is not flavoured, I personally prefer Liege waffles, a Belgian sugar waffle, which I find similar in some ways to melon pan. I lived in Belgium for a few years so I had the chance to eat lots of those.

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Nope, I've never tried making something because of manga. Plus, I'm not a very good cook to begin with so I'd rather have someone else cook my food.

I'll cook for you, Law. :'D

I actually remember trying to make onigiri, but the rice wasn't sticky enough.
I cooked some rice and tried rolling it into balls, which broke apart.
But I didn't care... I like plain rice so I ate it as it was.

But I guess it could have been because it wasn't the right kind?
When I started working at a supermarket, I found out there's a shitload of types.
All I've ever known and coocked was just random long rice from random Russian stores.

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not yet but id like to try spme of the recipes in addicted to curry

I have a Japanese cookbook (that's in a fun manga style), but sadly I've not yet gotten around to using it. 🙁

Um, about Yakitate! Japan... I would love to try and make some of the dishes, but they all seem impossible. Like, unrealistic-impossible, haha.

Picked No. 3. I have no cooking skills whatsoever, can't even microwave hot dogs without them splitting at the ends and getting all gross. 🤣 So I know better than to even try cooking something foreign like a bento or suishi 😔

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It's called melon pan, because it looks like a melon, not because it tastes like one. Yep, that's true, but I love melon flavor, so that's what I want mine to taste like.

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I make a type of sorbet with melon that achieves a similar taste though. Melon sorbet! That sounds amazing. I'll have to find a recipe for it somewhere and try making it.

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