Yakisoba - Mark Bittman | The New York Times

Mark Bittman recreates an everyday Japanese fast food recipe.
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Yakisoba - Mark Bittman
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[@vincentbrown1872]

I have loved Mark's simple and clear cooking instructions for a long time and forgot about him in this new world of cord cutting and streaming . I'm so glad to find him again ,

[@SuzanneBaruch]

For the sauce: 2 T ketchup 4 T soy sauce 2 T Mirin 4 T Worcestershire Sauce a dash of hot sauce

[@patrickcavins3231]

I think a really fun thing to add as well for a twist, a fat dollop crunchy peanut butter :)

[@Chocaholic1709]

I love this dish! I make it at least once a week it's so delicious. Doesn't matter what it's called as long as it's tasty, that's what I think!

[@maitrayee22]

Excellent ! Delicious ! I enjoy the simplicity of your cooking style. Thank you so much Mr. Bittman !!

[@richinoable]

Thank you, Mark Bittman. You can't do it wrong. It is ALL RIGHT. Turned myself into a cook, rather than a recipe-following zombie, as a result of this philosophy. Thanks again, Mr. B.

[@ronnyhgain]

I´m still full of that fantastic dish! Thanks for the recipe Mister Bittman! Greetings from Mannheim, Germany!

[@tomfurgas2844]

Lots of experts here. Fact is, if the dish tastes good it's right. Of course Bittman's version is Americanized. So what? He's adapting a Japanese recipe, and making his own version. Anyway, how does one know that the Japanese would "never" use this or that ingredient? I had a friend who lived and worked in Japan and she said they adapt and change dishes all the time, to suit ones tastes.

[@PoliticalWeekly]

Do you know the song at the beginning?

[@selinnium]

If this were fast food in America... hm... some things might be a little different. This looks absolutely delicious!

[@jessicaantle1778]

This man is a genius Put that in your pipe and smoke it Chef Ramsey YAAAAAKIIIISOOOBAAA

[@negitube]

I understand that he mentioned in the beginning that there are many varieties to Yakisoba, but being Japanese, I must say.. this looks NOTHING like a yakisoba served in japan. he's using the wrong kinds of noodles, the cabbages are cut too thinly, and the sauce.. !! Oh well, as long as it tastes good, I guess it's ok.

[@TheRamstoss]

A sunny side up to top would be really great here.

[@tomoyuki2181]

looks yummy

[@StephanieRoze]

It's 3am, I'm watching cooking videos, and I'm getting hungry as shit -_-

[@OzorioWill]

It's so cool this recipe man!!! I live here in Brazil but I like so much Yakisoba, sometimes I cook with different igredients, but ur recipe it's amazing!!! So good this yakisoba.

[@CURIOUS0111]

Looks good!

[@picketypucketypum]

I'm cooking this once a week and everytime it tastes different ^^

[@Rambalac]

+mentalman60 You stationed in Japan and could not understand simple thing? Yakisoba is never made from buckwheat noodles and on Okinawa "soba" means only egg noodles.

[@robertfunk2796]

7 years later....Rambalac, you are impolite & miss the point....understand that?

[@GiGiGoesShopping]

Scallions on the diagonal would be more authentic.

[@MrOTETUKO]

似ているけれど… やっぱり大幅に違う気がする。皆さん、日本で本物の焼そばを食べてみてね。 美味しいよ。保障する。

[@Phal222]

Great job chef. Love it. Lots of haters here.

[@nativesun7661]

Please! Save all your qualifiers - I'm well aware of both the denotations and connotations of that particular term ("Hen na Gaijin") - It most definitely implies a "strange, usually obnoxious and monolingual foreigner" - frequently used to disparage americans (some of whom ARE both obnoxious and monolingual - but that's besides the point!) staying in Japan. I'm saying just because you don't like this particular recipe don't start throwing slurs around buddy. You know what you did.

[@OzorioWill]

What are the sauces that he uses??? I didn't undestand... can someone tell me??? ;D

[@mentalman60]

I was stationed in Okinawa and yaki soba was an awesome meal after party'n and this dosent even come close to it, I understand there's different variations but atleast use soba noodles and not top ramen

[@CreationalFunction]

your voice starts high pitch then it starts to go low pitch lol

[@xavierpaquin]

@OzorioWill Ketchup, Soy Sauce, Mirin and Tabasco (or Sriracha)

[@blockydrums846]

i'm now in heaven

[@daviddimalanta259]

Mark Bittman eating a shoe and a lace with an aglet...good!

[@MsMarisis]

does anyine know if 'the minimalist' has a g+ account?

[@AngryKettle]

This looks good, it does, but cabbage should be thicker and that type of noodles doesn't seem to suit yakisoba. it doesn't look fried enough. I get that it's his way, but there is more to cooking than recipes, as he knows, and it would be better for him to work on it a bit more.

[@Rambalac]

Meg Shimatsu ***** bigbuddha65 Bud3236 That's right noodles, yakisoba is made of egg noodles.

[@amaliagubangco684]

Why ginger?this is not a YAKISOBA!!!there is no ginger in yakisoba!!!

[@larvalangel]

+amalia gubangco ^and... we now have the twelfth answer!!

[@Joint145]

Watched whole video hoping he's going to eat it...

[@sirhana]

meat without marinaete?!

[@quityojibbajabbaa]

i love yaki soba, but way to ruin it, this looks gross

[@daviddimalanta259]

"YUCKY SOBER"

[@Dreklo_]

@dlwilliam no im from china and i enjoy eating dog.

[@amakuza11]

the American way. ALL the way...

[@chrisownz1]

yikes

[@bibbeny]

Don't cha just love it when amateur cooks tell a master chef HE is wrong. LOL. They more likely never been to Japan. BTW. You did it wrong. Just kidding.

[@FreddieIsMyMoto]

I guess this is the 11th way of making yakisoba. Ew btw.

[@serfcity1]

That really isn't yakisoba, but more like American style top ramen that has been improved with some extras. I love Mark Bittman but he really shouldn't be screwing with other people's classic dishes.

[@theuglykwan]

But it is screwing around that gave us yakisoba in the first place!

[@nicholejones680]

Dude anyone can make their food however they want too. Have you seen what ppl are doing to pizza? To mac and cheese? To hamburgers? To bagels???? It's called innovation. Let the man live and if you don't like it, guess what, you don't have to eat it!!! But don't for a second think you have the right to tell someone what they can and can't do with food......

[@Dreklo_]

i prefer dog in my yakisoba.

[@bhorowitz2534]

/watch?v=wDy1Twcj4cs for some non-revolting yakisoba. this stuff just looks disgusting.

[@daNdyPM]

Mark...you can't taste the sauce with your finger ! ! ! (4:13) (and then you grab the noodles with the same hand...how disgusting?) Use a spoon maybe?

[@bjewel3751]

Ew he used instant noodles 🤮

[@melonbarmonster]

Junkfood

[@fritzpipedorowalter]

LOL! as a foreigner who lived in japan for years i certainly do know how to use this expression. it does not correspond with racism...but what do you know about that...obviously hardly anything. and about "good food is for everybody": this shit bittman produces in this video could never be regarded as "good food"...so please start making some sense!

[@nicholejones680]

I've literally made this recipe a million times many different ways and they are all great in their own way. Who do you think you are to tell someone what tastes good or not? Gtfo with that yokel nonsense

[@fritzpipedorowalter]

"a looot of ginger...this is 3Tbs, you could use a loooot more"