Hubs sent me this YouTube video and tells me that things like Brazilian pizza also exist. So anyone more traveled than me, have you ever had anything particularly interesting?
Edit: It’s also interesting to me how English adjective order affects this. The video is, for instance, describing Indian Chinese food, not Chinese Indian food. I’m sure other languages have something similar.
Look at this Scotch egg! Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
I had pretty good baguette in London.
This question is basically tailor made for the UK.
Only because the US is cheating. Somebody commented that and I agree.
Do döner kebabs in Austria count as a Turkish food?
No, it counts as German food
Depends on where the dönertier was raised.
NYC is cheating
Toronto too. Or LA. I know a lot of Koreans that say the best Korean food in the world is in LA.
I moved to New Zealand six months ago, and I have had exactly one truly bad meal since I’ve been here. I haven’t eaten any Maori food, so I guess all the food I’ve eaten has been from another country.
The one that surprised me the most was KFC. We moved from one state away from Kentucky, and we had to come here to have truly good KFC.
I was expecting the Chinese food to be good here, but it’s really good. So is the Korean, Indian, and Malaysian food. The fish and chips are good. The burgers are great, even from McDonald’s. The absolute best was Filipino food from a tiny little restaurant in a random strip mall near Sylvia Park. That food changed my life.
In fairness, I have had a couple of “fine” meals—as in, “well, nothing special, but it was fine.”
The one bad meal was Pad Thai made by Thai people at a Thai restaurant down by the beach. It was just way too sweet, which makes me wonder if they saw me and made it “for a white guy” or something.
Wondering where you’re were coming from (e.g city or rural), because what you described has basically been my experience in every US city I’ve spent time in. One of my favorite aspects of multicultural city life tbh
City, but a small one. And yeah, food was good, but the floor and average were both lower there.
I had a blintz in Bali.
Paint my fence!
Vietnam has amazing French food. Especially top tier baked good like croissants. Up there with the best in Paris.
I would never have guessed, this is what I made this post for.
I mean it makes sense given that Vietnam was a French colony up until Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnam wanted out after WW2
History was always my weak point. It’s interesting but I could never keep up with the names and dates.
I had amazing ramen in Estonia. It was run by a Japanese lady though so I’m not sure that counts.
I had an excellent home-made lasagne in a restaurant in Gent, Belgium.
Was the restaurant attached to a home?
Nope. It was on the main square and was called 't Vosken.
Now I’m genuinely confused what made it homemade…haha
Because they made it themselves, I guess.
Isn’t making things themselves what restaurants are supposed to be doing? Not always, but a good restaurant would, at least.
Can I ask in which one? I’m planning to go to Gent soon
Certainly! It was: 't Vosken, Sint-Baafsplein 19. I’ll try to upload a photo.
Thank you very much! I saved it already and really appreciate the effort :)
You’re very welcome. Make sure you have the Dame Blanche with cream for dessert!
I had some really good Chinese takeaway noodles in Athens. Bonus: 500mL Heineken’s were a €1.50.
Indian food in the UK. I don’t think this will surprise anyone, though.
Absolutely. I was just recalling in an earlier thread a dinner I had in Cornwall near Tintagel, at a family run Indian place. I was keen on trying vindaloo, but the owner talked me down to madras - and I was glad, because that madras was at the perfect edge of my hotness tolerance and was delicious. The vindaloo probably would have been too much for me.
Yep. Vindaloo from a good Indian is evil 😃
Disappointed that I failed the Dave Lister test tho. OTOH it means I still have more than one taste bud.
Brasil everything, pizza, hamburgers, sushi, pasta. They add their own style to international food and it’s awesome.
Brasilian BBQ is awesome.
Had the most amazing burger in Japan. I’m not sure what they put in their food, but EVERYTHING there tastes amazing.
Perhaps Ajinomoto?
Maybe! But msg is used basically everywhere so why would it be so much more amazing in Japan haha.
Native production ig?
I had an AMAZING ramen bowl in NY, I think the name of the restaurant is Ivan ramen, it was the best food I’ve ever had, not just the best ramen ever, I highly recommend it if you find yourself in NY, hopefully when the orange in power is no longer in power
We’re gonna be embargoing America for a LONG time after the Commander in Cheese is gone. We’d need to be sure we’re not going to be rounded up and sent to the camps.
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I studied abroad for a year in Fukuoka, Japan (beautiful city, off the beaten path for foreigners), and the options where I was were pretty limited in terms of foreign restaurants. However, at some point, us international students discovered this little Turkish shawarma place hidden away somewhere, and it was absolutely delicious, very filling (in a way Japanese food generally isn’t), affordable, and unlike any of the other options. The word spread quickly through the I-house, and many of us became regulars (although it seemed mostly ignored by the locals). We were there so often we got to know the owner, who spoke English, he was ethnically Turkish, but had actually come from Germany and decided to move to Japan and open a restaurant. Over several months while we were there, we watched the place get noticably nicer, more decor, the guy started importing Turkish rugs to sell out front, etc.
Unfortunately, as our second semester came to a close, we went there one last time to say goodbye to the owner and his delicious shawarma. He said like, “Damn, you’re leaving? I don’t know what I’m going to do.” I’m pretty sure we were almost single-handedly keeping his business going, and it would take several months for the next exchange students to arrive and no guarantee they’d find the place or fall in love with it like we did. We didn’t really have a way of leaving a message for that next group, to say, “Hey, check out this shawarma place,” and I never did find out if the business survived us leaving.
Funny enough, this was how I learned what shawarma was, just before the first Avengers movie came out (dating myself here).
I’m surprised you say Fukuoka is off the beaten path since it’s like the biggest city in Kyushu with international airports, schools, and whatnot. Was it not a popular destination for foreigners back when you were there? I know it’s always been a popular spot for Japanese people.
Do you know if the shop is still around?? I might be going for work next month, and I’d love to get some good shawarma.
I meant “off the beaten path” relative to places like Tokyo or Kyoto. Fukuoka is still a good sized city, but my experience is that most Westerners haven’t heard of it. Japan is a homogeneous country in general, so outside of big tourist destinations, you’re unlikely to just bump into another foreigner on the street, and occasionally like a little kid would stare at me in awe (I did also stand out because of my height, and found it amusing). Like I said, beautiful city, and definitely recommend it.
Do you know if the shop is still around?? I might be going for work next month, and I’d love to get some good shawarma.
Well, I got curious and did some googling. I’m pretty sure the place I went to was called Pasha and unfortunately it closed down. However, there’s actually a place that looks pretty similar (I thought maybe it was the same one at first) called Kafe Toruko that you might check out.
