Which foreign cuisine reigns supreme?

Which foreign cuisine reigns supreme?

  • Italian

    Votes: 59 34.7%

  • Chinese

    Votes: 5 2.9%

  • Japanese

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • Thai

    Votes: 18 10.6%

  • Mexican

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • Indian

    Votes: 34 20.0%

  • Moroccan

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Portuguese

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Greek

    Votes: 12 7.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 16 9.4%
  • Total voters
    170
1. Portuguese food in Portugal is not what we get served here as Portuguese food, theirs does not have the spiciness. It is good but not WOW good.

2. Greek food is good but also the same as the above.

3. I had some great seafood meals in Sicily, great pizzas in Napoli, great T-Bones in Florence but I think because we make it at home a lot it is not WOW anymore.

Here is my toss up between Thai and Indian but I will go with Indian, both serve WOW food.

4. Thai food is tasty and blew me away when I went there the first time in 2000, I still go there and only eat that Thai food. (I classify a 7-11 toasty after a hard night as Thai food.)

5. But travelling a month through India and eating the most incredible dishes just blew me away. I will go back to India just for the food.
 
The cuisine you grow up with is always the best.
 
saor said:
You can tell the amount of people with kak food taste when Italian is voted so high.
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And we Italian lovers can say the same about people voting for Thai food :p
 
I like Indian food in South Africa. But I would never eat Indian food in India. Or Chinese food in China.

Those two nations tend to take shortcuts when it comes to food hygiene.
 
Since I have not travelled the whole world and eaten all the signature dishes, I will refrain from claiming what is the best since I have too little information. If MyBB would like to sponsor some authentic dishes from around the world, I would be able to give an informed opinion.

But we can safely exclude British Cuisine.
 
rh1 said:
I like Indian food in South Africa. But I would never eat Indian food in India. Or Chinese food in China.

Those two nations tend to take shortcuts when it comes to food hygiene.
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In my month long travels through India I did not get Dehli Belly once and I ate everything, street food included.

My wife though broke a piece of ice from an ice block at a market to put into her cocktail and got it, she was man down for a couple of days.
 
rh1 said:
Since I have not travelled the whole world and eaten all the signature dishes, I will refrain from claiming what is the best since I have too little information. If MyBB would like to sponsor some authentic dishes from around the world, I would be able to give an informed opinion.

But we can safely exclude British Cuisine.
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There is no such thing as a signature dish. Dishes have variations by region, town or even the granny who prepares them.

The signature dishes sold to tourists are either from tourist traps or they're not really typical and may be tailored to foreigners' taste.
 
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rh1 said:
I like Indian food in South Africa. But I would never eat Indian food in India. Or Chinese food in China.

Those two nations tend to take shortcuts when it comes to food hygiene.
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The Chinese food sold in SA is tailored to local peoples' taste. It's not like the food bought over there. It's like eating the sushi here and eating sushi in some small Japanese place in a smaller town and not a tourist trap. ;) Not the same thing, or even better, the sushi a housewife prepares.
 
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Mirai said:
The Chinese food sold in SA is tailored to local peoples' taste. It's not like the food bought over there. It's like eating the sushi here and eating sushi in some small Japanese place in a smaller town and not a tourist trap. ;) Not the same thing, or even better, the sushi a housewife prepares.
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Spar makes better sushi than the Chinese / Taiwanees.
 
rh1 said:
I like Indian food in South Africa. But I would never eat Indian food in India. Or Chinese food in China.

Those two nations tend to take shortcuts when it comes to food hygiene.
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I am also too shiit scared. First, your fear of dying, then after a while, you're scared you won't die anymore.
 
RedViking said:
None. They all throw a bunch of sugar in everything.

/Spits
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Wait what? Where? From that list, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Moroccan (which I can’t believe has no votes, to me it’s a very close tie to Italian), Indian and even Chinese (excluding the sauces) don’t really have much if any sugar added to their cuisine. Adding sugar is very much a USA thing.
 
RedViking said:
Spar makes better sushi than the Chinese / Taiwanees.
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The sushi you eat is tailored to specific tastes in SA. The Chinese (Taiwanese are Chinese like the White Russians were still Russians like the Bolsheviks were Russians) make also sushi for locals here. Sushi is Japanese however and sushi Japanese people eat is different to the stuff they make for tourists. Koreans also have their varieties of sushi too and I don't mean the raw fish but the "onigiri". Koreans have their own version called Samgak-gimbap but it has a different taste.

Now you're also getting into what's better. Judgment of food is subjective because taste is subjective. Some people prefer boerewors to top shelf cuisine.

One can also see that PnP sometimes imports chocolate from certain European countries. The chocolate they import I think is pretty meh, there are much nicer varieties out there from less popular sources but they import stuff which is super sweet and I can't even find on the supermarket shelves there when I stock up with confectionery when abroad.
 
Oh and the worst thing is FUSION.

You want to eat traditional food but instead get served a mix of French and Japanese and both are made for non-local tastes'. That's a chimera of taste but it's not what you often want. You could say I want to eat like Gerard Depardieu or some French farmer in the 1980s but now you serve me an abomination for the tattooed up Zoomers who have empty heads and empty souls.
 
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