Every country's culinary delights!

[The_Mark]

Leipäjuusto with cloudberry jam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leip%C3%A4juusto

Let's have some mämmi for dessert.

[Kagemusha]

Let's have some mämmi for dessert.

I doubt our foreign friends are sophisticated enough to ever put mämmi in their mouths.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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I'm tempted.
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[Shahed]

I'd eat it, no problem.

[The_Mark]

You say that now, but when push comes to shove, will you eat the mämmi or your own words?

Here comes one of my many favourites: Kalakukko.

[Viking]

This year selling more than ever. (70,000 units to be precise).

[Fragony]

The delights of colonisation;

Rijsttafel from Indonesia;



Roti from Suriname. Friend of mine has this really 'mamma', a goddess in the kitchen. Best roti ever.



Pom, same place.

[Shahed]

Great stuff !

I've eaten locust, ants, snake, brains, heads, chicken feet, lamb feet (?), goat & ox balls... among other delicacies... So this Finnish pudding does'nt scare me at all. ;)

[Fragony]

This year selling more than ever. (70,000 units to be precise).

That a head? Looks like it

[Bijo]

That a head? Looks like it

I was just going to say the same thing. Damn, I wouldn't eat that, not even if I would be given a million euros.... well, maybe two million. Ah, what the hell: one million would be good too.

[Shahed]

The picture is linked. Click it...

[Fragony]

I was just going to say the same thing. Damn, I wouldn't eat that, not even if I would be given a million euros.... well, maybe two million. Ah, what the hell: one million would be good too.

Well I am an adventurous eater, I will at least try everything. Did you know that fried jellyfish is quite tasty? Try restaurant Dim Sum in Rotterdam, genuine chinese stuff, no babi pangang there mister.

@Sinan, feet are a german thing too, in Germany and France it's quite common, in germany it's known as 'Eisbein', pork instead of lamb though, it's pretty good. Also eaten testicles by the way, the local turk sells them, told them they were nuts and he has his wife prepare me some, it's a bit squishy, not really any taste, guess it's an absorber. Great thread, love talking about food.

[Viking]

That a head? Looks like it

Yup, it's a lamb's head.


edit: 3k, yay

[Fragony]

Yup, it's a lamb's head.


edit: 3k, yay

Congrats!! So is it any good? Nothing but muscle so should be good tender meat.

[Bijo]

Well I am an adventurous eater, I will at least try everything. Did you know that fried jellyfish is quite tasty? Try restaurant Dim Sum in Rotterdam, genuine chinese stuff, no babi pangang there mister.

Dim Sum in Rotterdam? You mean that Chinese restaurant whose employees like to discriminate and use prejudices on everyone who enters? Haven't been there in a long time. In fact, now that you mentioned the name, I was thinking of boycotting them. Ain't I terrible? Perhaps I should first pay them some visitation before I do so, though. Maybe they've changed.

[DemonArchangel]

Did you know that fried jellyfish is quite tasty?

Hell yeah! Jellyfish is also good in cucumber salads as well.

[Fragony]

You mean that Chinese restaurant whose employees like to discriminate and use prejudices on everyone who enters?

Probably the one, don't find any dutchies there just chinese, heard about bad service but have yet to see it, great fun.

[Viking]

Congrats!! So is it any good? Nothing but muscle so should be good tender meat.

Admittably I've never tasted it. Personally I'd much rather have some of Norway's real national cuisine:




Pizza Grandiosa, here the meat and onion version.

[Banquo's Ghost]

There's some good and simple food that is traditional in Ireland - one of my favourites is Colcannon.

In comparison to France however, we are not really on the same planet. I'm not even going to make a token effort to challenge Louis, however aloof he is pretending to be (on the understanding that he buys me dinner at Le Gorille Blanc next time I'm in Paris...)

What we need is an Italian, preferably from the south, to take up that particular gauntlet.

A memorable meal for me was the Mongolian dish of boodog - marmot roast. On the endless steppe, after a hard day's ride and a short but lunatic hunt, and surrounded by some of the most kind and hospitable people In have ever met, it was a moment of near heaven.

Not yet available in Tesco.

[Shahed]

Good reference there Banquo!
Going to have to try that, one day, on the steppe.

[Bijo]

What you need is food that is Chinese and/or Indonesian. You won't need any other kind of cuisine. Away with food that is Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and so on! Just eat Chinese and Indonesian.

[Ser Clegane]

As the season for it is coming - a typical dish from the Northern parts of Germany:
Grünkohl with Pinkel



Add to that a good beer and some Korn

I just hope that we will manage to get some Pinkel this year to have our annual Grünkohl-dinner with friends (usually we get the stuff from my parents in law but this winter we will not manage to visit them and we haven't found any Pinkel yet in Frankfurt)

[Papewaio]

A memorable meal for me was the Mongolian dish of boodog - marmot roast. On the endless steppe, after a hard day's ride and a short but lunatic hunt, and surrounded by some of the most kind and hospitable people In have ever met, it was a moment of near heaven.

What no black plague?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Weisswurst, just one reason to love Bavarians.

Here's another reason.

Currywurst is damn decent also.

The breaded shrimp here (not German in origin, but very good)

The best sausage in the world.

[El Diablo]

Paua (abalone) fresh out of the sea, fried on a hot plate with butter and garlic.

A summer delicacy at the beach.


Yum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paua

You can also make some nice jewlery out of the shells as well. I prefer to just eat them though...

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Just devoured some Tandır Kelle (roasted sheep head), with some natural yoghurt.
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[IrishArmenian]

Always a classy choice, Mouz!
Was the yogurt immediately with the sheep head or after or what?
I think I need to refer to Baba, but I believe Turkish*/Armenian/Georgian food has to break many, many kosher laws.

[Peasant Phill]

In comparison to France however, we are not really on the same planet. I'm not even going to make a token effort to challenge Louis, however aloof he is pretending to be (on the understanding that he buys me dinner at Le Gorille Blanc next time I'm in Paris...)

What we need is an Italian, preferably from the south, to take up that particular gauntlet.

I think Belgium could rise to the challenge but we rather share the same cuisine as the French so that probably doesn't really count.

Belgian cuisine FTW

[The_Mark]

So, in addition to their brilliant beers:

Belgium is the nation of Gourmands rather than Gourmets which translates into big cuisine rather than fine cuisine. In reality this means that along with big portions, you get pretty good quality and a kind of unpretentiousness. The word Gourmandise originally meant gluttony, but like in France it has taken over the above meaning. It is often said Belgium serves food with the quantity of Germany and the quality of France.

I'm a taker. Belgium, I love you.

[Fragony]

Does bring the asterix and obelix feeling, when on a market in a flemish town there are so many roasted chickens and people buying them. Great country when it comes to food, now if they would kindly try to at least mask the desire to throw the plate in my face it would be ace.