Category: Grub Garage
what have you had, did you like it and what culture is it from? what is your favorite by culture or out of it all? least favorites?
I thought I'd start this as I had just tried Senegalese food for the first time for the folks who are staring at me, Senegal is a country in west Africa. quite interesting tasting stuff.
I love Indian food. They have a lot of flavorful vegetarian dishes, which is great for me. I also like Mexican food and sushi.
I admit that, growing up, the most "ethnic" food I ate was your typical nonauthentic Chinese fare...chicken balls, tai dop voy or however you spell it, chow mein and the like. Some was better than others, but most of it has been modified for a non-Chinese audience from what i'm told. The older I get, though, the more I find I want to branch out a little. This is problematic, however, since it seems like seventy-eight percent of the world loves tomatoes, sliced or diced or pureed in stuff, and I'm...just not a fan. I'll eat tomato sauce on pizza, or ketchup on a hamburger or hot dog, and I don't mind really smll soft chunks of tomato in something like chili...but much beyond that, and you can count me out. I want to experiment a little with Indian food, but so much of what they offer has tomato in it. I have found a really good curry I like, which contained lamb and was made with chick peas...comes fairly hot but not overwhelmingly spicy..Sushi is another one of those things I've always wanted to try, but just haven't gotten around to; I want to go somewhere that serves sushi with someone who knows it well, I don't like surprises when I bite into things.
Indians okay but not altogether my cup of tea but I ever really had indian food once, at a very young age.
SW try Japanese food, they don't do tomatos. I didn't see a single tommy toe when I was over there. I loved German food when I tried it, I do like Japanese and Mexican and Central American. Here's a beef I do have against us from the Left Coast. If you're from Florida you do better, but we only consider Mexican as Latin American food so all that really good central American food you get in the Cuban Restaurants in Miami, we mis that shit out here.
Lots of middle eastern and Greek food is really good also.
Anybody tried Balut or however you spell that from the Philippines? Or the Laotian equivalent? I have not, and not sure I have what it takes to try it: it's duck or chicken eggs that were fertilized, then they were incubated for a couple weeks and then hard-boiled. You get embryo and egg all in one there.
The one ethnic food I didn't get into that much, well, it's practically ethnic to us, is some of that southern American soul food. I mean, who puts black bean things in the spinach, and those hushpuppies are like deep fried, fossilized, I'm-not-sure-whats, and the way they did dumplings, kinda had the texture and taste of when you did a whole box of spaghetti in too little water when you were in college, that gummy brick type consistency. Lol different strokes and all that, but just sayin'. Oh, and the grits thing definitely reminds me of hand-feeding formula you use on baby birds.
When you travel, you learn that your own native food is ethnic to them. When I was in Japan my host father thought the grossest thing ever were things like ice cream and steaks with mashed potatos.
I love Indian but it's so fucking expensive.