Japanese Men Cook

A recent survey over at Nikkei regarding Japanese mens cooking habits reveal the following:-

- 80% of men cook - 50% of them cook more than once a week.
- 35% of men give "I want to make my family, wife or partner happy" as the reason why they cook.
- 60% of men and 90% of women say that men who can cook are cool.
- Dishes that men are good at cooking are:-
-1. Fly Lice
-2. Curry
-3. Fly Vegetebalu

As for me - when my waifu and I first got married, I used to get home before her so I would cook various dishes. My cooking skills have dwindled a lot but can still cook and prepare the following items extremely well.

- Instant Noodles. Add hot water and stick in a raw egg. Marvelous.
- Frosties. Thank the good lord they have Frosties over here. Add Milk n sliced bananas. I just learned today that they word for "milk" in Thai is "oppai." Marvelous.
- Spam. Open, slice and warm in the oven toaster. Yum
- Instant coffee/English tea. Brought up on tea back in the UK so can make a good cuppa tea despite the water here being soft (hard water back in the UK)
- Half boiled egg. 3 mins in boiling water will give you a nice boiled egg where you can dip your soldiers inside. "Soldiers" in this case meaning sliced toast and not you own platoon of soldiers.
If you spin an egg and it rotates fast then its hard boiled. If it spins slowly then its not boiled.

So how about you lads then eh? Do you cook? If so what are you good at?
And what do the ladies think? Are men who cant cook lame?

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