So if I'm staying in Japan and someone offers me food how am I supposed to decline it?I really hate things like rice, soy, and tofu. That crap is full of estrogens and I don't want to eat it under any circumstances, but I don't want to be rude either.

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Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 05:09:32 No.1894

So if I'm staying in Japan and someone offers me food how am I supposed to decline it?

I really hate things like rice, soy, and tofu. That crap is full of estrogens and I don't want to eat it under any circumstances, but I don't want to be rude either.

Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 09:42:52 No.1895

>>1894
I recommend that you should say:

すみません、～は苦手で食べられないんです。
sumimasen, ~ wa nigate de taberarenain desu.
(sorry, I don't eat ~ because I don't like so much)

Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 19:06:32 No.1897

>>1895

Is that alright? It won't make an awkward situation, or make me look picky?

Anonymous 03/18/15 (Wed) 23:05:20 No.1899

>>1897
No problem. at least I guess it won't make you look rude.

Anonymous 03/19/15 (Thu) 12:04:10 No.1903

Don't turn down food.

If you must, do it for a better reason than pseudoscience.

And, if you must, do it in your own country.

You cannot go to Japan and avoid rice. It will not work.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 02:44:41 No.1907

>>1903

It's not pseudo science, and I don't like the taste either. I don't mind rice in particular, but it's an endless pile of bland.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 07:43:08 No.1910

>>1907
Fine, it's not pseudo-science, then. It's plain nonsense. Eating rice does not have any significant effect on oestrogen levels.

Also, you're American. Your rice is shit-tier. You know nothing about taste.

Stop being a fucking pussy and eat the rice in Japan.

Anonymous 03/20/15 (Fri) 20:34:43 No.1914

>>1910

It's not the rice itself, it's stuff they might put in it, like soy sauce.

Anonymous 03/21/15 (Sat) 13:37:46 No.1920

>>1914
Soy sauce tastes like urine (how i have first hand knowledge of this doesnt matter) and should be avoided. Soy "meatballs" is shit as well

Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 01:32:51 No.1922

>>1914
>putting soy sauce in rice
You've never actually eaten any Japanese food, have you?

Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 21:08:14 No.1926

>>1922

I've been to a Japanese restaurant that does hibachi, it was run by Japanese people, and they dumped soy sauce on everything they cooked right in front of me. That's about the extent of my experience.

Anonymous 03/22/15 (Sun) 23:00:22 No.1928

>>1926
中国人や韓国人が経営する日本料理店にしか行ったことがないんだと思ってた。
I thought you have only been to Japanese restaurants run by Chinese or Koreans.

Anonymous 03/24/15 (Tue) 15:38:17 No.1938

OP, you have no idea what you're talking about. It's impolite and bad manners to put soy sauce on white rice, there's no way anyone in a restaurant would have done that.

Anonymous 03/29/15 (Sun) 01:04:21 No.1942

>>1938

All I can tell you is that I didn't lie about anything.

Anonymous 03/31/15 (Tue) 22:25:04 No.1950

>>1928
That's probably what happened

Anonymous 04/12/15 (Sun) 23:31:46 No.2082

>>1894
> rise has estrogen
Source, please.

Anonymous 05/19/15 (Tue) 08:07:36 No.2257

>>1942

You aren't lying I'm sure, but if you're still around, the restaurant was probably cooking to generic clapper tastes.

No way you would dump soy sauce on rice like that.

source: azn

Anonymous 05/21/15 (Thu) 01:40:02 No.2270

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>That crap is full of estrogens

You do realize that dairy has actual estrogen and beer has more phytostrogens than soy, etc., right?

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 10:46:39 No.2396

>>1926

>hibachi

>>2257

>the restaurant was probably cooking to generic clapper tastes

Sounds about right to me.

Anonymous 06/16/15 (Tue) 05:12:09 No.2455

If you refuse food you will be ostracized and with good reason.