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What foods do you like most and what nation do they originate from? I'd say Mexican or Italian, Mexican is the best though, Chilli, Fajitas, Delicious!
Sasaki Kojiro
01-24-2010, 20:22
I'll say american, not just for our native (so to speak) foods but because of our improvements to foreign foods like pizza, beer, whiskey, chinese food, tacos, etc.
Evil_Maniac From Mars
01-24-2010, 20:28
American, because the Americans flexibly adopt and combine the cuisine of other nations into a very appetizing fusion. And BBQ is delicious.
Crazed Rabbit
01-24-2010, 20:30
American - steak, BBQ ribs? Oh man that is delicious.
Mexican and Chinese are honorable mentions.
CR
Samurai Waki
01-24-2010, 21:44
American, the food you were raised on, is generally the food you like the best. Honorable mentions to Chinese, and Vietnamese.
Indian cuisine by far, could eat it every day, don't care about the sweets but a good spicy curry with a lassi mango drink dear god so good. But I still like plain dutch food like my grandma makes it best, best soup ever, or a good beef stove dear god.
Anything and everything between Lebanon and India.
Strike For The South
01-24-2010, 22:09
I would say American considering most of the "Mexican" options you listed aren't really Mexican.
Oh and FTR, Pulled pork and ribs are not BBQ.
I would say American considering most of the "Mexican" options you listed aren't really Mexican.
Are you sure? What cuisine are they then? It seems this Brit has been misinformed. :egypt:
Strike For The South
01-24-2010, 22:40
Are you sure? What cuisine are they then? It seems this Brit has been misinformed. :egypt:
Well Chili con carne is the official state dish of Texas and really got its start in San Antonio in the late 1880s. Where it comes from is sort of a mystery but you can barley find it in Mexico.
Nachos were made in the border town Piedras Negras to feed the hungry wives of soliders in the 1940s. Nacho in Mexico is a nickname (short for Ignacio) Many Mexicans will find nachos just as forigen as you.
Burritos are really only popullar in Northern Mexico and they tend to much smaller on the go food. The Burritos you eat are heavily Americinized.
Fajitas are a Texas dish. In the 30s when cows were butchered the throw away cuts (including skirt steak from which fajitas are made) were given to the hands whom were mainly Mexican vaquereos (See imported labor was cheaper back then to!)
Fun fact: Fajita=faja which is spanish for belt. Reffering to how tough the meat was.
Really that whol catagorey should be renamed Texas.
Aemilius Paulus
01-24-2010, 23:20
Seriously, American is the most popular cuisine? :inquisitive::dizzy2:
I mean, fast-food is great, but to call it a cuisine would be a bit of a stretch IMHO... That and the fact that pizza is too Italian to be considered American :tongue:. Hamburgers and French fries (the thin ones - not the thicker 'steak' fries which are found all throughout Europe as well as US) are pretty American though, in the sense that they are most popular and widespread in their American environment, as opposed to their original location.
Hosakawa Tito
01-24-2010, 23:24
My favorite cuisine is what's on my plate when the dinner bell rings. we need a fork & spoon smiley...
A Very Super Market
01-24-2010, 23:30
My experience with Chinese food is limited to home-made delicacies, with alluring dishes like boiled vegetables, boiled meat and tofu, their subtle tastes combined with the richness of white rice.
Eating at home is boring. I don't suppose the French walk around their gardens and snatch up any snails they see, but American cuisine is truly national. The only place where the experience eating at home is only a few decorations short of a restaurant.
Well Chili con carne is the official state dish of Texas and really got its start in San Antonio in the late 1880s. Where it comes from is sort of a mystery but you can barley find it in Mexico.
Nachos were made in the border town Piedras Negras to feed the hungry wives of soliders in the 1940s. Nacho in Mexico is a nickname (short for Ignacio) Many Mexicans will find nachos just as forigen as you.
Burritos are really only popullar in Northern Mexico and they tend to much smaller on the go food. The Burritos you eat are heavily Americinized.
Fajitas are a Texas dish. In the 30s when cows were butchered the throw away cuts (including skirt steak from which fajitas are made) were given to the hands whom were mainly Mexican vaquereos (See imported labor was cheaper back then to!)
Fun fact: Fajita=faja which is spanish for belt. Reffering to how tough the meat was.
Really that whol catagorey should be renamed Texas.
Well Texas and Mexico are in a similar area, just think it Central America. :creep:
Why the German food hate? German food is fantastic. Although the best meal that I ever ate was a lobster risotto in a Brasserie in Paris...hmm I can taste it now
Well Texas and Mexico are in a similar area, just think it Central America. :creep:
HAHA, OH WOW :laugh4:
Warluster
01-25-2010, 00:54
I don't think that unless you have visitted the country in question it is possible to judge the cuisine. If your eating Chinese in Australia, theres a 99.99% chance that it has been Westernized, and that goes for other countries as well.
My favourite cuisine is Chinese (I'm heavily biased with this though, I've been studying the language for five years now...) as in Chinese foods they do so many diffrent dishes, and really use the flavours more then any other country I've been too. From what I've had in Aus/UK the foods all taste diffrent, but don't really hit you like the strong Chinese tastes.
Second would be French food, only because of the chocolate crepes and excellent drinks.
My favorite cuisine is what's on my plate when the dinner bell rings.
:laugh4: That could be anything!
Louis VI the Fat
01-25-2010, 00:57
British. :book:
Seriously, American is the most popular cuisine? :inquisitive::dizzy2:
I mean, fast-food is great, but to call it a cuisine would be a bit of a stretch IMHO... That and the fact that pizza is too Italian to be considered American :tongue:. Hamburgers and French fries (the thin ones - not the thicker 'steak' fries which are found all throughout Europe as well as US) are pretty American though, in the sense that they are most popular and widespread in their American environment, as opposed to their original location.
Excuse me never heard of a fritkot/frituur have we? Fries are tyically belgium and it's full of food shops which sell it as their main product. Before the time of Mc donaldses which sadly put a lot fo them out of bussiness there was one or more in every little village and dozens on city markets and one in every city block.
Also fastfood isn't cuisine. Hamburgers are german btw. Ever heard of the city of Hamburg?
I'll say american, not just for our native (so to speak) foods but because of our improvements to foreign foods like pizza, beer, whiskey, chinese food, tacos, etc.
Better pizza? euh...no. And what about Italian pasta, antipasta, wine,...
Beer? Hounestly?
Whiskey? You never tried real whiskey in Scotland yourself have you?
Chinese? What american makes chinese? Noone except chinese. And I'd say they don't make it any different in Canada or Europe.
Tacos, hmm perhaps. Not a taco man myself. But cuisine is not the right word.
Give me the french and Belgian cuisine. That's much better. Though the british one is underrated. You just have to watch out where you go, but you can find great places everywhere in England. if you look. Nothing wrong with Italian either actually. German lacks refinery at times, but the quantity makes it up. But as Belgium is like Germany (beer + quantity) combined with French quality. I'd say though small and everything, it's not a bad place foodwise.
Aemilius Paulus
01-25-2010, 01:53
Excuse me never heard of a fritkot/frituur have we? Fries are tyically belgium and it's full of food shops which sell it as their main product. Before the time of Mc donaldses which sadly put a lot fo them out of bussiness there was one or more in every little village and dozens on city markets and one in every city block.
Of course I do - that is what I was referring to when I spoke of the 'other' European dishes. I have been to Amsterdam (numerous times, but mostly transit), and I have tried them. My point was that the international popularity of the item was lower than that of pizza. Now, fried potatoes are one of the most widespread dishes in the Western world so... Look, I did not like the second part of my post either - I do not know enough on this topic, and I generalised too much. My apologies. But yes, like I said, I have heard of, seen and tasted the frituur.
Also fastfood isn't cuisine.
My point precisely.
Hamburgers are german btw. Ever heard of the city of Hamburg?
OK, Moros, I understand why you may have posted this, and I do not take offence, as I should have further elaborated my post, but I am not an idiot, I can assure you. I do not think anyone in the Frontroom does not know the origin of hamburgers... Yes, I knew that too, but my point was that French fries and hamburgers became famous after America appropriated them. Namely the hamburgers - french fries, or more broadly, fried potatoes in various forms, as I said, are a common fare in all potato-growing/consuming nations.
Better pizza? euh...no. And what about Italian pasta, antipasta, wine,...
Beer? Hounestly?
Hehe, so right. But American pizza is not a dish, not by my standards. Just fast-food. And in Italy, it was a dish. American pizza has the convenience and standardisation on its side. Of course, its gustatory qualities leave much to be desired...
How about the whole list? Every country has delicious food, but if I had to pick then Indonesian and Chinese would be high on my list.
I live with some Chinese and they have invited me join them for a few meals celebrating Chinese new year, and another that had something to do with the moon. I love hot pot. :yes:
I've also tried Indonesian food when I was studying the language in school and I loved it.
Beefy187
01-25-2010, 02:22
I don't think that unless you have visitted the country in question it is possible to judge the cuisine. If your eating Chinese in Australia, theres a 99.99% chance that it has been Westernized, and that goes for other countries as well.
My favourite cuisine is Chinese (I'm heavily biased with this though, I've been studying the language for five years now...) as in Chinese foods they do so many diffrent dishes, and really use the flavours more then any other country I've been too. From what I've had in Aus/UK the foods all taste diffrent, but don't really hit you like the strong Chinese tastes.
Second would be French food, only because of the chocolate crepes and excellent drinks.
:laugh4: That could be anything!
You live in Brissy? I know a really good Chinese restraunt near Toowong... I miss the place :shame:
First for me would be Japanese. Raw food :2thumbsup:
Chinese and Italian coming close 2nd and 3rd.
Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, Turkish would come after that and they are all good too :2thumbsup:
Samurai Waki
01-25-2010, 03:08
It has to be said there really shouldn't be the option of American Cuisine up there, I know Moros went on a rant about something involving fast food (there's American food, and AMERICAN FOOD!!!) By which I mean, theres Cheetos, Pepsi, and a whole host of reduced in lard snack items that originate here, but to quote Tony Bourdain "American Cuisine is whatever is cooking."
CountArach
01-25-2010, 03:28
My votes go to Thai, Chinese and British. Thai is good for the curries. Chinese is good for pretty much everything. British food is more what I am used to at home, but I also like the idea of large, hearty meals that are just designed to fill you up and are based on whatever you can get your hand on. Oh, and Yorkshire Puddings are great...
pevergreen
01-25-2010, 03:41
Australian. :snobby:
Balkan. Holy crap do they make tasty food. There's a Balkan resturant near where I live, run by some old Bulgar. Tastiest food I've ever had.
Other than that, Indian, I've grown up on the stuff. My dad and also my neighbours make a mean curry. And Spanish food is great as well, there's an excellent Spanish resturant fairly close to me as well.
Cute Wolf
01-25-2010, 05:24
I Love pizza, pasta, and Tiramisu above all else :yes:
aimlesswanderer
01-25-2010, 07:10
Here in Sydney you can get all sorts of good food from all over the place. Just choose the best from each.
Tristuskhan
01-25-2010, 07:32
Mongolian summer food: fresh cheese, milk, yoghurt made of sheep, cow, goat, mare, camel or yack milk, fermented mare milk. Dairies, dairies, dairies.
pevergreen
01-25-2010, 08:24
Mongolian summer food: fresh cheese, milk, yoghurt made of sheep, cow, goat, mare, camel or yack milk, fermented mare milk. Dairies, dairies, dairies.
I nearly mistook you for khaan, and as per my usual "hes changed his name again" routine, I was going to refer to you as fishkebab.
So I will.
~:wave:
Burgers!!! :2thumbsup: And pizzas!
And then noodles and stuff.
Traditional Indian food is good, but sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. When one has to eat dal, roti and sabji each day it gets old. Furthermore, the food served in restaurants etc isn't the actual Indian cuisine we eat here.....They normally use a lot more oil (a lot) and spices, and fry stuff.
Banquo's Ghost
01-25-2010, 14:11
The clue is in the title. Cuisine.
Almost all nations have several outstanding dishes. Only France has created true art in food as well as having a tradition of wonderful simple recipes.
Nonetheless:
Mongolian summer food: fresh cheese, milk, yoghurt made of sheep, cow, goat, mare, camel or yack milk, fermented mare milk. Dairies, dairies, dairies.
:yes:
The very best meal I have enjoyed was Mongolian stone roasted marmot. Mind you, I was mind-numbingly hungry at the time, and the company was magical.
Belgian cuisine = French quality + German quantity :2thumbsup:
I also love Indian, Italian and Turkish food.
Your poll really needs Turkish food in it. It's absolutely great.
The most recent dish I prepared was Izmir Köfte (http://www.turkishcookbook.com/2007/09/izmir-kofte.php) (take two garlic cloves instead of one).
Louis VI the Fat
01-25-2010, 15:44
Belgian cuisine = French quality + German quantity :2thumbsup:
Twice, Belgian food has managed to move me to tears, so good was it. But then I cry easily, especially when it involves food.
A perfectly preserved mediæval city. During the day, discovering the limitless local art treasures, a thousand years of rich history. At night, moules, frites, bière.
Heaven. Belgium is a place of pilgrimage. A sacred destination, this virtual garden of Eden.
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Mussels in Brussels?
Scienter
01-25-2010, 17:19
I voted Japanese, I can't live w/o sushi! I also love Mexican, French, Thai, Chinese, Indian, and Lebanese. I'm glad I live in an area where all of my favorite foods are easily obtained.
KukriKhan
01-26-2010, 06:05
Mussels in Brussels?
:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:
...and there isn't a beer in sight.
I like cowboy food: whatever ya brung with ya, mixed with whatever ya find local.
e.g. Tonight I made kielbasa fried rice: Hot-fry the celery and onion, add kielbasa, stir, add canned "chop suey" veggies (bamboo, chestnut, mini-corn, beansprouts), add egg & rice 'n spice, stir, drizzle sesame oil at the end.
Big hit. Tonight.
It has failed before, using frankfurters, and keeping it hot too long, so the bamboo is soggy, and the mini-corns just sad. So I, teh cowboy stove-guy learned: veggies? thin meat? rice? cool: cook quick and moving.
So, I guess I have no fave, as I like it all. Especially that somebody else ran it down and killed it, or went out every day and watered it, then put it on my plate for less cost than I earnt today, doing whateveritisIdo.
So yeah: cowboy food.
Owen Glyndwr
01-26-2010, 10:07
Let's see:
Italian: Love Italian, so good
Mexican: Only as far as TexMex, haven't tried traditional Mexican yet
French: I like the pastries, but that's about it
Chinese: Love it!
Thai: Love it even more than Chinese! (One of my favorites cuisines)
Indian: It's so-so for me. Haven't had enough of it to formulate an opinion
Spanish: Really interested in trying this some time.
British: I like Fish and Chips. I really love the Full English, so good...
American: Can't say no to my home country. I'm not nationalistic as say, my Persian or Indian friends, but I still love it. (Is texmex american or mexican? Never quite sure...)
EDIT: This thread needs moar Canadian Bacon
Burgers!!! :2thumbsup: And pizzas!
And then noodles and stuff.
Traditional Indian food is good, but sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. When one has to eat dal, roti and sabji each day it gets old. Furthermore, the food served in restaurants etc isn't the actual Indian cuisine we eat here.....They normally use a lot more oil (a lot) and spices, and fry stuff.
We had a small restaurant here runned by an Indian couple, nothing more then tables and seats and language mixups, and they only served the more spicy traditional Kashmir stuff, yes I could eat that every day. Roti the same where you live? It's a dish suri-dutchies make, pancake, bit like a nan, wrapped around chicken with pieces of potato and some veggies.
Of course I do - that is what I was referring to when I spoke of the 'other' European dishes. I have been to Amsterdam (numerous times, but mostly transit), and I have tried them. My point was that the international popularity of the item was lower than that of pizza. Now, fried potatoes are one of the most widespread dishes in the Western world so... Look, I did not like the second part of my post either - I do not know enough on this topic, and I generalised too much. My apologies. But yes, like I said, I have heard of, seen and tasted the frituur.
Now you've gone to far! :wall: (most) Dutch fries are like (most) dutch beer. :no:
:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:
...and there isn't a beer in sight.
Yes there is. 3 leffe blond and what looks like a lachouffe. But it could as well be another blond beer using the same or a similar glass type.
Vladimir
01-26-2010, 18:32
Now you've gone to far! :wall: (most) Dutch fries are like (most) dutch beer. :no:
Yes there is. 3 leffe blond and what looks like a lachouffe. But it could as well be another blond beer using the same or a similar glass type.
There is a Duvel as well.
DemonArchangel
01-26-2010, 18:42
Anything in a triangle formed from Istanbul to Jakarta to Tokyo is excellent food.
However, I have to give the prize to Chinese food. Real Chinese food, because it's so tasty.
There is a Duvel as well.
Ah un connaisseur! Yeah apparantly I missed that one..
Tristuskhan
01-26-2010, 20:55
Yes there is. 3 leffe blond and what looks like a lachouffe. But it could as well be another blond beer using the same or a similar glass type.
My absolute favourite beer. No easy to find though.
Vladimir
01-26-2010, 21:22
Ah un connaisseur! Yeah apparantly I missed that one..
I love everything about Belgium; except for the firefighters. :laugh4:
(re: News of the Weird)
My absolute favourite beer. No easy to find though.
Good beer indeed, but after just one I am pretty drunk, the clumsy kind.
(most) Dutch fries are like (most) dutch beer.
Dutch fries are better imho, but Belgium mayo > everything
Dutch fries are better imho
:snobby:Tututut!
Go get some food out of a wall you... Puh!:pleased:
:snobby:Tututut!
Go get some food out of a wall you... Puh!:pleased:
At least we don't consider a visit to a frietkot going out.
Pannonian
01-29-2010, 12:27
Mussels in Brussels?
Don't knock it. Just scoff it.
Chinese, for being able to make just about anything edible, and often even tasty. The French are too elitist in their ingredient-choosing. There's no glory in winning the Champions League with Real Madrid. A manager who can do it with the Basildon 2nd XI (Essex Reserves Sunday League) deserves far more credit.
This. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/video/2010/feb/02/butcher-pig-pork-italian)
Om nom nom nom
Chinese may be our winner then :wink:
Megas Methuselah
02-03-2010, 21:58
Thanks for excluding hardy Cree cuisine.
ajaxfetish
02-04-2010, 05:02
American food (not so much the fast variety) is great. I also love Italian and Mexican, though I've only had them in America. The Chinese food in America is awesome. The Chinese food in China was forgettable (and sometimes inedible). I still dream sometimes of the Turkish kebab I had in Spain, and have to hang my pillow up to dry in the morning.
Ajax
I'll say american, not just for our native (so to speak) foods but because of our improvements to foreign foods like pizza, beer, whiskey, chinese food, tacos, etc.
Beer? Hounestly?
Whiskey? You never tried real whiskey in Scotland yourself have you?
This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky:laugh4:
AlexanderSextus
02-17-2010, 23:40
This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky:laugh4:
you apparently haven't tried sam adams or jack daniels
Louis VI the Fat
02-18-2010, 00:55
This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky:laugh4:All the Americans did was add water to beer and whiskey.
Which ruined beer and improved whiskey.
you apparently haven't tried sam adams or jack daniels
Sam Adams no but Jack Daniels yes, it's foul and tastes like paint stripper.
I'm not saying there aren't very good american beers or whiskeys around but I wouldn't call them an improvement over some of the stuff we get her. That said coming from Scotland, I am a bit biased.
I'm a food racist. I love Italian, like American (oh my god are chicken tenders great), and can stomach some Mexican and Chinese. That's about it.
AlexanderSextus
02-18-2010, 04:34
Sam Adams no but Jack Daniels yes, it's foul and tastes like paint stripper.
I'm not saying there aren't very good american beers or whiskeys around but I wouldn't call them an improvement over some of the stuff we get her. That said coming from Scotland, I am a bit biased.
Paint Stripper? You must've been drinking the green label.
Next time Add some ice to it. (It's not scotch so it's okay to add ice)
Sam Adams also has released a Noble Hop Pilsner based on an old german recipe and it is an excellent beer.
Centurion1
02-18-2010, 17:11
This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky
your killing me. yeah im not a big american beer man myself. But whiskey. Psh leave scotch to the scottish. Wild Turkey is a real mans whiskey jack daniels is for the plebians.
Now scotch on the othert hand......... my father drinks only well aged glenfiddic and i cant blame him.
American Pizza is so superior to Italian form, We have refined. Im going to forgive you AP because you live in the south and they dont understand pizza. Go to Chicago and New England to taste true pizza.
Again with burgers we refined them.
American Cuisine is mostly foods from other places yes.... but we made it better.
Now i love thai, mexican (preferably tex-mex), vietnamese (mmmmmm fresh rolls with a good rice paper), chinese, and japanese (though thats been aqcuired thanks to a friends mother). Basically anything eastern but not really korean im not big on garlic..... lol.
Burt the key to america is you can go out anywhere and get almost anything you want. I live in a relatively small town and we have,2 thai, 1 vietnamese,4-5 legitimate chinese (not panda express....),2 indian, 3 japanese places filipino, a tex mex place 2 normal mexican places, god knows how many burger joints, a turkish place, a greek place (ironically next to each other), and probably some more places i do not frequent.
I do live in a relatively diverse area because of military.
Prince Cobra
02-18-2010, 18:35
Well, I join the club of the Italian food and the Mexican one. I also adore Indian, Chinese and Thai, though I must admit I have only tasted the adapted version of them... Well, I hope one day I can taste the real version... I love hot and spicy food. Most of the others I have never tasted...
Sasaki Kojiro
02-18-2010, 18:58
American Cuisine is mostly foods from other places yes.... but we made it better.
Exactly. Pizza is no longer an italian food, it's an american food. They have traditional pizza in italy just like the amish have traditional horse and buggy's instead of cars.
Reverend Joe
02-18-2010, 19:07
I've gotta go with American, and I voted Mexican because, as Strike pointed out, Texas food is awesome. Though I still maintain, Strike, that any West Coast "pulled pork" crap will never comapre to genuine NC-style barbecue, which must be smoked all day in a giant smokehouse, NOT pre-packaged and sold in your local TGI Friday's.
This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky:laugh4:
I'll grant that the whisky is a matter of taste (although even the best Scotch still tastes like turpentine), but Beer? I'm sorry, but Europeans have no idea how to make beer. The stuff you cann "beer" is more like a crappy soup, or maybe some sort of sewage byproduct. I feel like I should be pouring it over ice cream as a crappy novelty topping.
Edit: almost forgot, black and white puddings are surprisingly good. But other than that, I would never touch any food that comes from the British isles. Anyone who considers the congealed remains of a boiled pig's skull to be an acceptable dish needs a serious lesson in cuisine.
Meneldil
02-18-2010, 19:14
I'll grant that the whisky is a matter of taste (although event he best Scotch still tastes like turpentine), but Beer? I'm sorry, but Europeans have no idea how to make beer. The stuff you cann "beer" is more like a crappy soup, or maybe some sort of sewage byproduct. I feel like I should be pouring it over ice cream as a crappy novelty topping.
Thanks for the laugh :dizzy2:
As Banquo said, the title of the topic says all. But since I'm obviously biaised, and have to provide a non-nationalist answer, I'll say Italy, Belgium or Switzerland, because it's pretty much the only civilizations that make edible food. Germany and Spain are okay-ish, the rest of the world is a sad place food-wise.
Strike For The South
02-18-2010, 20:28
I've gotta go with American, and I voted Mexican because, as Strike pointed out, Texas food is awesome. Though I still maintain, Strike, that any West Coast "pulled pork" crap will never comapre to genuine NC-style barbecue, which must be smoked all day in a giant smokehouse, NOT pre-packaged and sold in your local TGI Friday's.
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I know what you people do and still maintain its not BBQ.
The brisket is the main BBQ meat, followed by Suasge, then Turkey.
Weebeast
02-18-2010, 21:37
You guys mind naming the dish? It's kind of hard to learn about new dishes if you sort out your list by countries. It's like telling me to pick a restaurant, look at the menu and order everything. Come on internet dwellers. You're supposed to be like the Aliens all advanced and stuff.
Anyway, I don't eat these everyday obviously but if I were to make a short list of food I can only eat for the rest of my life it would be this:
1. Siomay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siomay).
2. Fried rice seafood combo. I like all the Asian variants (Chinese, Indo, Malay, Thai, etc) but usually the Thai one tastes the best. Chinese is too bland. Indonesian/Malay is too sweet. Thai is just right!
3. Of course fried chickens. The fact that Colonel Sanders catered to fat Americans does not make it any less cuisiney. Sometimes good food can be simple and as easy to make as submerging it in boiling fat. Dip it in Asian hotsauce instead of ketchup yum.
For the most part I usually like dish that has animal products and or unhealthy but not to say I hate vegetables. I love the green leafy ones like spinach and watery ones like cucumber. I am curiously attracted to bitter ones like Brussels sprouts and bitter melons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_melon)
Dessert:
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepes
Drink:
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Iced_Tea
Veho Nex
02-18-2010, 22:41
Burgers rice and lots of pasta, mm mm finger licking good.
Azathoth
02-18-2010, 23:02
I picked almost everything, mainly because every single one of those options can be included in American. The Chinese (East Asian in general) food here is great, but have you seen some of the stuff they actually eat in East Asia?! Blurgghh...
In fact, most of the food they serve in Chinese restaurants here would look pretty weird back in the home country.
Reverend Joe
02-19-2010, 05:34
I know what you people do and still maintain its not BBQ.
The brisket is the main BBQ meat, followed by Suasge, then Turkey.
In that case, if we should ever meet I challenge you to a duel. Especially if you rank sausage and turkey above pork.
Strike For The South
02-19-2010, 05:37
In that case, if we should ever meet I challenge you to a duel. Especially if you rank sausage and turkey above pork.
Challenge accepted....You yellow belly
I'll grant that the whisky is a matter of taste (although even the best Scotch still tastes like turpentine), but Beer? I'm sorry, but Europeans have no idea how to make beer. The stuff you cann "beer" is more like a crappy soup, or maybe some sort of sewage byproduct. I feel like I should be pouring it over ice cream as a crappy novelty topping.
I feel I've got to get in on this duelling business too, You sir have besmirched the name of my homeland, if we ever cross paths prepare to meet the fury of a haggis flying straight onto your bonce!
Pah! to your "beer", I produce better drinks when I go to the toilet in the morning.:clown:
Edit: almost forgot, black and white puddings are surprisingly good. But other than that, I would never touch any food that comes from the British isles. Anyone who considers the congealed remains of a boiled pig's skull to be an acceptable dish needs a serious lesson in cuisine.
What is dish is that?, never heard of anything like that before. Ps if you like white pudding you might like haggis, its kinda the same but spicier.
I only have American cuisines, so I don't know what a Mexican cuisine would be like. I do have an Italian Aunt though, and she is pretty nice. Unfortunately she had no children, so I don't have Italian cuisines either...
Reverend Joe
02-19-2010, 19:15
Pah! to your "beer", I produce better drinks when I go to the toilet in the morning.:clown:
Jesus, no wonder your beer tastes like crap. ~;p
What is dish is that?, never heard of anything like that before. Ps if you like white pudding you might like haggis, its kinda the same but spicier.
That would be Hog's Head Cheese, as it was explained to me. Apparently there's more to it than just that, but regardless it involves boiling a pig's skull and eating what comes off and out of it. Compared to that, American scrapple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple) sounds like a prime cutlet. And I will be sure to try Haggis given the chance.
I've got to vote other, as Korean food isn't listed.
Yes but we mean food that's dead
Yes but we mean food that's dead
:laugh4:
Centurion1
02-20-2010, 16:47
I've got to vote other, as Korean food isn't listed.
what garlic and rotten cabbage.
what garlic and rotten cabbage.
Never had Korean food? lol, seriously, it is really good.
Centurion1
02-20-2010, 20:33
Never had Korean food? lol, seriously, it is really good.
Yeah i actually have, my school has a foreign exchange program with s. korea.
its okay.....
OMG. People here need to CLEARLY try out Argentinian cuisine. They make the best meat in the whole world BY FAR. It wins this contest top down.
I really want to try Korean food.
I really want to try Korean food.
You definitely should, it is really good. There is a Korean lunch box by the campus where I live that is run by two Koreans and has food shipped from Korea. I asked my Korean friends if it was authentic food (ei, like food that they would be likely to eat at a place in South Korea) and they said that it was.
I was a little afraid to try it at first because I had eaten Chinese food (which I still have not recovered from) and made the assumption that since they were so close together their culinary traditions must be mostly the same. :P Luckily it was quite different from Chinese food.
Centurion1
02-22-2010, 01:30
OMG. People here need to CLEARLY try out Argentinian cuisine. They make the best meat in the whole world BY FAR. It wins this contest top down.
see the thing is my grocery serves argentinian grade beef. so itsa not the food just a well developed breeding program.
argentinian beef is VERY good though, nothing quite matches up, not even strikes longhorns. :wink:
Vuk you dont like chinese? strange...... try it again and get like general tso's and some fried rice.
Samurai Waki
02-22-2010, 01:41
Why try cow from some place...erm when I live in a place where they outnumber us some three to one. I'm not saying Argentian beef is bad, I'm sure it's great... but Beef isn't something we don't have a huge shortage of. Besides, if it came down to the contest between Cows I'm not sure you can do better than Wagyu Beef.
Awesome. It's just there are no Korean restaurants near where I live.
Centurion1
02-24-2010, 04:05
Why try cow from some place...erm when I live in a place where they outnumber us some three to one. I'm not saying Argentian beef is bad, I'm sure it's great... but Beef isn't something we don't have a huge shortage of. Besides, if it came down to the contest between Cows I'm not sure you can do better than Wagyu Beef.
Where do you live. Well Argentinian beef is just so heralded.
No Korean where I live either, what do they eat? You've said Koreans nice Vuk but not told us precisely what food they have. :grin:
Centurion1
02-25-2010, 02:48
No Korean where I live either, what do they eat? You've said Koreans nice Vuk but not told us precisely what food they have.
read my post. kimchi and garlic. im not even exaggerating that much.
I can say we have a good quality of Beef. I say from experience.
In fact, we almost have not national cuisine, we have huge lots of Italian and Spanish influence in our food. But I haven't had the possibility to travel to Spain yet, I would compare it, then.
No Korean where I live either, what do they eat? You've said Koreans nice Vuk but not told us precisely what food they have. :grin:
Hot Dogs Garlic and stuff.
Garlic and stuff.
Wow, blown over by the...variety...
:sick:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Korean.food-Hanjungsik-01.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Korea-Seoul-Insadong-Sanchon-02.jpg/800px-Korea-Seoul-Insadong-Sanchon-02.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Korea-Seoul-Sosim-Vegetarian_restaurant-01.jpg/800px-Korea-Seoul-Sosim-Vegetarian_restaurant-01.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Gimchi.jpg/800px-Gimchi.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Korean.cuisine-Bulgogi-01.jpg/800px-Korean.cuisine-Bulgogi-01.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Korean.food-Namul-02.jpg
OM NOM NOM NOM
In other news, I'm going to a Korean restaurant on Saturday. I discovered one in Manchester
In other news, I'm going to a Korean restaurant on Saturday. I discovered one in Manchester
Whereabouts? There's a few nice places in Manchester that serve oriental cuisine.
One of my favourites was Umami (more of a Japanese flavour though), which is located on Oxford Road, beneath The Footage pub and next door to a Subway (or is it an estate agents, I forget). I know Oxford Road is studentsville, but there's some great places along there that are worth a peek, and they're pretty good value for the money. :3
Anyways, to answer the poll, I don't feel there *is* a best cuisine. Each one has it's own positives and negatives, some are more about presentation, others about portion size. I ultimately voted for my favourite, Italian; Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and British are not far behind. :3
Whereabouts? There's a few nice places in Manchester that serve oriental cuisine.
Koreana, just off Deansgate, near Kendal's. We didn't go however, as it's closed at Saturday lunchtime and Sundays, for some reason. Instead, we went to Chaophraya, a Thai restaurant that was really good.
Tampopo, Wasabi, and most of all Wagamama are the best retaurants for Asian food :yes:
One of my favourites was Umami (more of a Japanese flavour though), which is located on Oxford Road, beneath The Footage pub and next door to a Subway (or is it an estate agents, I forget). I know Oxford Road is studentsville, but there's some great places along there that are worth a peek, and they're pretty good value for the money. :3
I'll have to check that out then. And yes, Oxford Road is studentville. You can tell by all the SWP posters you see mushrooming around Manchester Met.
And yes, Oxford Road is studentville. You can tell by all the SWP posters you see mushrooming around Manchester Met.
Yup, I know all about that road; it's claimed three years of my life thus far, and there's another three yet to be lost to it. Man Met <3
I need to explore it more. And btw, who puts up those SWP posters?
Students, generally; I worked one year just milling around Man Met's campus handing out flyers for some non-descript student night, watching people take my flyers and then bin them soon after or throw them on the floor. Soul-crushing job.
Youll be amazed the lengths we'll all go to so we can fund our next boozy night out.
So the SWP pays people to put up those posters? LOL
Pittance, yes, but it's not really a job, is it?
As for other eateries in Manchester, you should avoid the likes of Buffet City and such. Sure, you can eat however much Chinese you want for a nice price, but the digestive aftermath doesn't bear thinking about; I was sick for days afterwards.
Sunday Roast is the best ever.
If you disagree, it only means...
1) You cannot cook.
2) It was done by some one who cannot cook.
Why try cow from some place...erm when I live in a place where they outnumber us some three to one. I'm not saying Argentian beef is bad, I'm sure it's great... but Beef isn't something we don't have a huge shortage of.
I really don't see what's so special about Argie beef. Here in Australia beef is cheap and plentiful. And it's even cheaper when you buy local beef from the Chinese butchers because they don't like/use the bits that Caucasians do (the rump especially) so they sell it even cheaper.
Home-style Portuguese chicken piri-piri. When I was young(er) we would go to Portugal every year, and we'd drive from Faro to this little Portuguese restaurant on a little embankment in this smallish town. And we'd order the local chicken. Nothing in my life has ever compared to that. Maybe it's just the memories of a kid, but it was just fantastic. I've tried to emulate the way they make it. I can get the sauce and the grilling right, but the chickens we get here are just not scrawny or tasty or juicy enough.
Sunday Roast is the best ever.
If you disagree, it only means...
1) You cannot cook.
2) It was done by some one who cannot cook.
If done with everything (roast potato and mashed :grin: yorkshires, selection of veg, and some good meat) Then I agree.
Anyone have a taybarns near them? Its expensive to get in but you eat as much as you want, I could literally get 10 plates of food and only have to pay the entering fee, which equates to about £8 I think. More on weekends.
If done with everything (roast potato and mashed :grin: yorkshires, selection of veg, and some good meat) Then I agree.
Anyone have a taybarns near them? Its expensive to get in but you eat as much as you want, I could literally get 10 plates of food and only have to pay the entering fee, which equates to about £8 I think. More on weekends.
Hah, I hate mashed potato, but...
Beef/Lamb/Turkey/Goose/Etc joint
Sausage meat (generally in a ball shape)
Roast Potatos
Yorkshire Puddings
Veg (Carrots, Green Beans, Sweetcorn, etc) [I hate Sprouts too, so none of them]
The gravey is optional, I prefer my crisp lovely yorkshires, yorkshire puddings, etc, for them not to be poisoned by gravey.
A little gravy must be added to the plate under all circumstances. Mashed potato if mashed well (so its not lumpy) and with liberal amounts of butter and milk stirred in, is divine. And chipolatas/sausage based meats can be nice, though generally we only do that at christmas (well only last christmas actually, but still) stuffing is a nice addition too.
Hah, I hate mashed potato, but...
Beef/Lamb/Turkey/Goose/Etc joint
Sausage meat (generally in a ball shape)
Roast Potatos
Yorkshire Puddings
Veg (Carrots, Green Beans, Sweetcorn, etc) [I hate Sprouts too, so none of them]
The gravey is optional, I prefer my crisp lovely yorkshires, yorkshire puddings, etc, for them not to be poisoned by gravey.
That's okay Beskie, you know that I'll eat the mashed potatoes if you don't. :D
Pittance, yes, but it's not really a job, is it?.
It still make me lol though, that a Trotskyite Party has to resort to capitalism to spread it's ideology.
As for other eateries in Manchester, you should avoid the likes of Buffet City and such. Sure, you can eat however much Chinese you want for a nice price, but the digestive aftermath doesn't bear thinking about; I was sick for days afterwards.
I've never heard of that place, but I'll be sure to avoid it now. Thanks for the heads up about what comes back up.
I've never heard of that place, but I'll be sure to avoid it now. Thanks for the heads up about what comes back up.
To be fair to them, I was going through a vegetarian phase when I ate there, and absolutely nothing on offer agreed with me or my stomach; it's like vegetarianism just isn't an option if you're going to eat Chinese food, but I was forced to go by friends.
The food might be more palatable for the discerning meat-eater, but I can't vouch for that. :3
Arthur, king of the Britons
03-03-2010, 02:43
Bah food....
Had an Irish lamb-rollade yesterday, I don't know what herbs they put on it, must be local. But it was delicious, best lamb I ever had.
Had an Irish lamb-rollade yesterday, I don't know what herbs they put on it, must be local. But it was delicious, best lamb I ever had.
The uproar if the Welsh saw this post :smartass2:
The uproar if the Welsh saw this post :smartass2:
Stuffed lamb is pretty good as well ;)
Stuffed lamb is pretty good as well ;)
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