Japan's Kobe beef back on menus

AP ^ | December 30, 2006 | Libby Quaid

[untenured]

I had some in Japan, and it just melted in my mouth. Really extraordinary.
Foolishly, when I came home I tried to bring some steaks back and the Customs agents seized them.

[alisasny]

Oh please do forgive me. I know my brain read NZ but my head said Australia. I am so sorry for the confusion on that matter.


NZ is on my travel list sheet also. I am so damn silly : )))

Have you been to NYC? If so do let me know your coming so I can hook you up with the best of FOODS!!!!!!!!

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Sounds great...

Tastes even better! Crikey, all this steak-talk is making me hungry. Time to spark up the barbie I reckon. Gotta nice couple of sirloins aging down in the back of the fridge, plus a good handful of shrimp: sounds like a nice summer snack.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Have you been to NYC? If so do let me know your coming so I can hook you up with the best of FOODS!!!!!!!!

New York City is one of my favorite places on this planet. I was devastated by 9/11 -- I can't imagine the place without the WTC. New Yorkers are difficult to get to know, but the effort is worth it, definitely! Great people, great attitude, thoroughly entertaining good mates.

I have wonderful memories of NYC.

[alisasny]

One of my friends recently went to the TOP OF THE ROCK. She said it was better then the top of Empire and WTC combined. I must get there real soon. I never saw her say something like that. My hub works in NYC so its hard to convince him to go back in with his family but we manage to do so or I go with my gals or my kids.

[DTogo]

All that fat can thin one's wallet way too quickly. I prefer the bulk NY Strip slab from Costco.

Japan * ping * (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)

[B-Chan]

Gene & Georgetti's is my favorite steakhouse in the world. And I'm from Texas.

[B-Chan]

Texas cattleman Gary Yamamoto? How hath the mighty fallen?

Here in Texas, we don't care where a man's family comes from. It's what they do after they get here that matters to us.

Yamamoto, Garcia, Sapp, Czarnecki -- the last name is irrelevant. A man who lives life the Texas Way is a Texan, period.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Texans know a thing or two about good beef. Had a great steak in El Paso. If I think hard I can still taste it.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Yamamoto, Garcia, Sapp, Czarnecki -- the last name is irrelevant. A man who lives life the Texas Way is a Texan, period.

That's one of the things I like about Texans. Yer a good lot, not to be messed with. Not unlike Kiwis in that respect.

Cheers, mate

[Texas_Jarhead]

I gave some American raised Kobe as a Christmas gift. Not cheap.

[MoochPooch]

This has got me drooling for a steak salad. When the vinaigrette mingles with the beef juice -- mmmm! mmmm! good!

[denco]

Hey!!! Thanks for the alert on this. I have tasted the steak, but frankly we love our Angus Beef that is corn fed a little better! Ha The wind has died down a little and the humidity is higher so we are getting a little sleep.
There is nothing that scares you in this part of the world like a streak of that dark smoke in the sky. It is just unbearably dry and we have no forecast for moisture of any kind. Am glad about the new job for you and hoping all is going well. Now I must get caught up on the other thread!! Thanks again for your concern. Denco

[Christian4Bush]

A little off and on topic, about the "other" Kobe (Bryant):

In a Los Angeles game against the Toronto Raptors, Kobe Bryant scored (no this is not a misprint) 81 points. 55 in the second half.

(The Lakers won, 122-103, after trailing at one point in the game by 18.)

[NZerFromHK]

"Ouch! That's a fair snootful. Instead, come to New Zealand, try our steak (the lamb is even nicer) and enjoy our hospitality. We keep the good stuff for domestic consumption and export the rest."

Oops, I only saw this old thread now. To be honest and not badmouthing this country's produce, New Zealand beef along with Australian plays second fiddle to US beef. Not as tender, and the flavour are pretty much identical, Australian and NZ beef is considered not as good as its US counterparts. When you visit Hong Kong's meat wholesaler, you will notice US prime beef is more expensive than Australian or NZ beef. Of course Kobe steak is the most expensive if you can find it.

Having tasted heaps of steak at restaurants in starred hotels and at home both here in New Zealand and in the US, I have to agree with the general verdict on NZ and US beef in Asia.

Lamb from NZ is no doubt top rate though.

[Dinsdale]

Lamb from NZ is no doubt top rate though.

If you like old stinky lamb that is.

Otherwise find a local source. CA Sonoma lamb is far far better then the kiwi stuff.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[NZerFromHK]

The US produces lamb?? (A rhetoric question)

Seriously speaking, US lamb is pretty much anonymous, and if you try the NZ lamb fresh here, right in the country where it is produced, it is just fantastic.

[stands2reason]

Mite! Nihongo o hanashimasu!

[Xenalyte]

Mmmmm, mmmmmm!