Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).
Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.
Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it’s essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves
According to the internet, American foods best known abroad are cheeseburgers, hot dogs, and fried chicken.
If we go for by country then it would be Canadian food so poutine would be the best known.
Thick cut fries and cheese curds with chicken gravy poured on top.
If my historical culture then it would be Irish and Ukrainian so potatoes either in perogy form or mashed form with sausages on the side.
If we go for by country then it would be Canadian food so poutine would be the best known
Thick cut fries and cheese curds with chicken gravy poured on top.
If my historical culture then it would be Irish and Ukrainian so potatoes either in perogy form or mashed form with sausages on the side.
Blood. /s
Interesting to see a lot of AI images here though. I won’t get into how to discern AI images, but there’s one really interesting thing they all have in common.
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Not “my culture”, but the region where I now live. Green chile on everything.
Chicken green chile stew:
Chile relleno with red chile sauce:
Pepperoni green chile pizza:
Green chile ice cream, it’s very chilly:
And, here’s what you get if you ask for chile cheese fries. Because “chile” sounds like “chili”, but they’re not the same thing:
Based. Green chiles are best chilies.
Czech Republic. Schnitzel (řízek) and beer. Yes, we stole it from Germany 😂
Also rohlík, a really weird piece of bread that looks like this:
Actually delicious tho.
Oh and more beer. Also, did I mention beer? Yeah, even more beer. Beer for breakfast, lunch, dinner and as a midnight snack. Not even joking. I’m an exception tho, as I don’t drink at all.
A list for those interested:
Egypt - Koshary
Czech - Vepřo knedlo zelo
Newfoundland - Jigg’s Dinner
Vietnam - Pho
Canada - Poutine
Canada (Nanaimo) - Nanaimo Bar
Ukraine/Eastern Europe - Borscht
Spain - Paella
Germany - Mischbrot
Sweden - Surströmming
Cuba - Cuban Sandwich
Switzerland - Raclette
British - Fish and Chips
Norway - Lutefisk
Mexico - Tacos
Slovakia - Bryndzové halušky
Poland - Pierogi
US (San Diego) - California Burrito
US (Southern) - Biscuits and gravy
US (Seattle) - Seattle Teriyaki
US (Native American) - Frybread
US (Philadelphia/South Jersey) - Cheesesteak
US - Cheeseburger
Ireland - Ulster Fry
Netherlands - Hagelslag
Australia - Vegemite
India - Chicken Biryani
Korea - Kimchi
Catalonia - Pa amb tomàquet
Japan - Sushi
Malaysia - Haianese Chicken
Iran - Kalle-pache
One of my favorite from China is biangbiang noodles
Yogurt.
Phở
A barbecued sausage in a piece of white bread, purchased from a tent out the front of a hardware store (it is the glue that holds a multicultural Australia together)
Probably poutine, pretty good when done well
Fish and chips. And despite all the jokes about British food, you really do owe it to yourself to learn just how good this meal can be when cooked well.
Samin Nosrat argues, in her book of the same name, that all cooking comes down to salt, fat, acid, and heat. Fish and chips is the perfect synthesis of this theory. It is cooking stripped down to this core idea. Done right, it is an absolute delight; beautifully flaky fish cooked to delicate perfection within a crunchy shell of light, crispy batter. Malt vinegar brings acidity to cut through the fat and salt. Everything works in harmony. There are contrasts in texture to enhance the melding of flavors.
Fish and chips, done well, is culinary perfection. But it is very hard to do well. There is nothing to hide behind. It is cooking stripped to the essentials, which means that those essentials have to be perfect. Most people outside of the British Isles have probably never had a good fish and chips in their lives, and even in the UK there are plenty of bad examples.
Anyway, those pickled chicken feet sound incredible. I had paper wrapped duck feet once and those were absolutely delicious.
I like fish and chips but in the US it’s so expensive, it’s about 17 USD for a 3 piece
I’d like to visit the UK once since I heard the old school edm scene is still pretty alive there
We don’t call it EDM here, that is a dirty “word” ;) but yeh, there are still some great nights depending on where you are. I went to an old skool hardcore night recently that was fucking sick and most big towns and cities you can find decent drum and bass nights. Plenty of Jungalist nights in that same vein too.
If you are in Brighton, Bristol or London you can find decent proper dubstep nights (not that American brostep crap) and I’m sure there are others out there.
I’m certain all kinds of flavours of house and techno etc are out there too just less my wheelhouse.
The best part about all of these nights though, at least in my area of interest, they are all taking place in small, dark and dingy clubs with absolutely sick sound systems. The way it should be! You haven’t lived until you are chewing your face off at 5 am standing next to the bass bins feeling the music course through you whilst having a life altering epiphany xD
Haha yea edm is a funny word. People who listen always like to say edm is not a genre, it’s just a label, but whenever I tell someone who doesn’t listen about things like frenchcore or dnb they get confused, so I just default to edm.
I’ve been following this scene in the UK for a while and it seems fun
Haha yeh I get you, it is definitely used more in the US as here the general populace tend to know what the bigger genres such as dnb, house etc are so dont need a catch all concept.
Ah Dom Whiting, yeh I know that guy. I remember seeing his videos years ago when he only had a few people following around. He was in my city this year and I joined in the ride for a bit. Absolute chaos but mad vibes! Definitely need more of that in the world these days!
Tacos.
Not the “hard shell” variety that is sold in the USA. There is a whole universe of tacos all over Mexico: beef, pork, goat meat, sheep meat, boiled egg, rice, hot peppers, shrimp, crab, octopus, many insects and larvae (chapulines, ant eggs, mosquito eggs, caterpillars), nopales (prickly pear), many kinds of herbs, sausages, etc. The list is almost infinite.
Those all sound delicious. I think the insects and larvae might be a weird texture for me but I’d still give it a try.
Tacos are great, never tried the more exotic ones though, except nopale. My college had it once for some reason but tbh it just kinda tastes like the seasoning they put LOL
“Exotic” is a strong word for nopales. (Nopal is the singular, not nopale) You can get it at every grocery store in the Seattle area. And yeah it doesn’t have a strong flavor on its own. Kinda like green beans?
I can vouch for ant eggs (escamoles) and roast grasshopper (chapulines), they’re tasty but a lot harder to find around here.
Maybe niche then? Didn’t realize exotic had a negative connotation
I don’t remember the last time i saw cacti for sale in a supermarket. Though in all fairness I go to asian ones maybe 70% of the time and standard american ones for the rest
I don’t think exotic is negative, it’s just too commonly available for me to think of it as strange or foreign. Even the Asian groceries around me carry it.
They do here too, the leaves and the fruit of the tuna, but it’s probably exotic outside of the Americas.
Poutine. Fries topped with gravy and chewy cheese curds.
