The Best Cuisine?

[Banquo's Ghost]

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.

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.

[Andres]

Belgian cuisine = French quality + German quantity

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 (take two garlic cloves instead of one).

[Louis VI the Fat]

Belgian cuisine = French quality + German quantity

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]

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]

Mussels in Brussels?

...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]

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

[Fragony]

Burgers!!! 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.

[Moros]

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! (most) Dutch fries are like (most) dutch beer.

...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]

Now you've gone to far! (most) Dutch fries are like (most) dutch beer.



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]

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.

[Moros]

There is a Duvel as well.

Ah un connaisseur! Yeah apparantly I missed that one..

[Tristuskhan]

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]

Ah un connaisseur! Yeah apparantly I missed that one..

I love everything about Belgium; except for the firefighters.

(re: News of the Weird)

[Fragony]

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

[Moros]

Dutch fries are better imho

Tututut!
Go get some food out of a wall you... Puh!

[Fragony]

Tututut!
Go get some food out of a wall you... Puh!

At least we don't consider a visit to a frietkot going out.

[Pannonian]

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.

[Subotan]

This.

Om nom nom nom

[Thermal]

Chinese may be our winner then

[Megas Methuselah]

Thanks for excluding hardy Cree cuisine.

[ajaxfetish]

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

[bobbin]

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

[AlexanderSextus]

This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky

you apparently haven't tried sam adams or jack daniels

[Louis VI the Fat]

This made me laugh, there is no way in a million years i could bring myself to say that americans improved beer or whisky

All the Americans did was add water to beer and whiskey.

Which ruined beer and improved whiskey.

[bobbin]

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.

[jabarto]

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]

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]

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]

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...