Best food

[miho]

I voted for other cause there ain't Croatia. Or at least Balkan area. We have a different cuisine of mostly meat. We eat a lot of barbeque and something that there isn't a word in english language.
Looks like this:


We call it ćevapi u somunu. Basically it's mixed meat grilled on a barbeque and put in the bun which was soaked in the fat from the barbeque. The onions are added for flavour. It's very tasty.

[Dutch_guy]

why does everyone forget to put Holland on such a list.

As for the poll, I can't decide really..so hard.

Everything mentioned so far in this thread sounds great.

[Ser Clegane]

*starts to drool, thinking about all the delicious dishes from various countries*

While I live the Indian/Asian cuisine and there are lots of great dishes from almost any country/region on the list, overall I would have to go for Italy.

The great selection of Italian dishes along all courses of a full meal ranging from antipasti to dessert, combined with great drinks to accompany every single course (I just love Italian wine), would make the Italian cuisine something that I could live with every day for the rest of my life (at the expense of gaining considerable weight while indulging it)

[Tribesman]

Variety is the spice of life

[Fragony]

So many people like italian! I find the italian kitchen rather boring, it is so 'minimal'. You get a bowl of pasta and most of the time that's it, one taste for an entire meal! I do love that *young cow* + tunadressing thing though, the restaurant I live above has the best EVER and ever and ever.

[Somebody Else]

I would say Italy, but China's got more variety than you can shake a stick at. Lamb shashliks in Inner Mongolia, dim sum down in Hong Kong, spicy dishes from Shinjiang, hairy crab in Shanghai, Uiger muslim things from the west - the list goes on.

[Ser Clegane]

You get a bowl of pasta and most of the time that's it,

Boy - are you going to the wrong Italian restaurants

[Beirut]

I have a hard time paying high prices for Italian food in restaurants. Any half-decent cook can make noodles and sauce at home in fifty different ways and they all taste great. Unless its cannelloni stuffed with lobster with a nice truffle sauce, I don't want the plate to cost more than about ten bucks.

I'm not dissing Italian food, it's wonderful stuff! Just that paying high prices for it is a bit much.

[Ser Clegane]

I have a hard time paying high prices for Italian food in restaurants. Any half-decent cook can make noodles and sauce at home in fifty different ways and they all taste great.

Indeed - if you go to a good Italian restaurant it would actually be a bit of a waste just to eat pasta.
The pasta/pizza combo is fine for making something relatively quick and easy at home or if you are looking for some tasty and filling food at a reasonable price.
It's the long and slow 4-5 course diners that make Italian cuisine so enjoyable, IMHO.

Now I am getting really hungry...

[Fragony]

Boy - are you going to the wrong Italian restaurants

I live above one of the most renowned Italians in the netherlands (and save the snappy remark ), but you will have to agree that italian is low on variety, it may be 'refined' but compare it the wealth that is the french cuisine for example. Italian is a 'less is better' kind of kitchen, that is fine once in a while but a whole year nothing but Italian? It would bore me to death.

[Ser Clegane]

but a whole year nothing but Italian? It would bore me to death.

True - my remark probably was rather unclear. I have no real desire to eat food from one country exclusively - if I had to choose one cuisine to eat for one year, it would be Italian though.