Food around the world!
 

I love food! Especially new stuff I never eat before but if I would name a country were the food is always good I would say Greece!!! What's your favorite native food???? I love to hear new stuff to try :))

Greece food! I've never tried it D:

Native food, hmm..American food? What is that? American versions of food from other countries, and steak and burgers? Haha, I wouldn't say I have a favorite American food xD.

Hmm, but since my family's Chinese, I got to eat a lot of that as a kid. I love steamed winter melons. They look like this but without the meat stuffing xD :
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Oh how cool you're Asian!!! And this really looks delicious! I really love Asian food too its just tasty!!!

That winter melon sure looks interesting. I'm not sure if I've tried it before or not.

As for Greek food, I've had gyros, hummus and baklava, which are all pretty tasty. :)

Is baklava Greek? Iam not sire about xD but gyros is sure tasty and Greek yogurt my altime favorite is still stuffed wine leaf's

Hm. I would say Chinese. I like Chinese food. I have had French chocolate and it is super sweet compared to American chocolate. I think it's actually Belgian chocolate because I was in high school and my French teacher was from Belgium.

Chinese and Japanese I really like too!!! Mh sweeter chocolate thank usual sounds pretty weird! Isn't chocolate still really sweet? Only chocolate wich is sweet and I like os kinder chocolate from germany ;)

I've never tried any other. Just Belgian. I couldn't eat it. It's sweeter than American dark chocolate. And of course everyone has had pocky, but I want to go to Japan so bad and just try different kinds of foods. That would be cool.

Winter melon is really soft. Kind of like soft turnips in turnip soup, but without the turnip taste and more full than stringy?

I like Japanese food too. Mostly whatever matcha stuff they have though xD. I love their matcha ice creams.

I really like Asian cuisine. Particularly chinese, japanese, thai, and vietnamese.

I like potstickers, eggrolls, sushi, curry, and pho.

Sushiiiiii <3 if i could i really would eat sushi every single Day!!!!!

You ever had winter melon tea? Best shit ever when it's hot as holy hell in Taiwan.

Man, but I used to mistake winter melon for daikon in soups, and would get really upset because I'm not a fan of winter melon in anything other than tea form.

As for my favorite cuisines, hm. Cajun stuff is great, but I have a pretty low spiciness tolerance, unfortunately. German food's nice. Occasionally a bit too hearty/heavy for me, but I could probably make a dinner out of just kielbasa and sauerkraut. Or ham shank.

Traditional Hakka dishes are among my favorites, as are Taiwanese dishes. (My mom makes the best Taiwanese food and that's a /fact/, dammit.) I've had almost everything listed under "Regional Specialties" and "Typical Dishes" on the wiki page, and my dad's parents live just down the street from the main/founding store of Dashi/Daxi's famous dried tofu.

/bragging rights

There's winter melon tea? I need to find a way to try that now :3!
Espy's Taiwanese?

I'm not sure what's considered "Canadian" food, minus ketchup chips and "brown" gravy. The stereo types would be smoked salmon (west coast), candied salmon, Maple Syrup (Ont. and Quebec), etc. Distinctive stuff would include things like Saskatoon berries (prairies mostly, I think) and maybe salmon berries? Not totally sure. I've had moose but it's not common unless you are a hunter or know one.

Seal flipper pie I've heard as alternatively a staple food in Newfoundland or a joke for tourists. Native American cuisine is becoming a thing and that also covers salmon thing but also things like bannock.

My favourite "ethnic" foods would be general Greek food (going from what I've had here. I like the seasonings) and sushi. Never been to Japan, or anywhere else in Asia, but I lived in Vancouver for a time and it's probably easier to find a sushi joint than it is a fast food chain restaurant.

I'm also a fan of typical British pub food; bangers and mash, Yorkshire puddings, meat pies, fish and chips, etc. Meat and potatoes generally make me happy.

Yeah. It's not really tea as much as, you mix winter melon into a pot of water with sugar, and let that saturate and cool into basically a giant melon-flavored sugar block. And then you stick a bit of that in boiling water and let it cool.

And, um, yes. Least, my parents are.

Ohh, I find that pretty cool since I feel I don't often see people with asian cultures online xD.

I looked up a bunch of pictures and saw a lot of brown sugar--so that's why there was so many pictures of that!

I looked up winter melon tea too.

I recognize the yeo's brand from the soybean drink. XD

I am not too adventurous when it comes to trying new things though.

I like to stick to my standard asian drinks of soybean,mango,lycee, pink guava, or coconut juice.

Heh, yeah, there are a few Tris oldbies who are of Asian heritage.

Going back to Pittsburgh tomorrow and I'm going to miss my mom's cooking :| I don't have cooking utensils, so I can't really make my own even though my dorm has a kitchen.

Today evening we eat again greek food!!! Iam so exited!!!!!

All this talk of greek food is making me hungry for baklava. But the only place that I can find it is at Walmart around the holiday. Unless I make it myself and that might turn out into a disaster. Not to mention labor intensive. We do have a Pita Pit in our city, maybe they will have some there.

-searches up baklava-

Oh wow, that looks tasty!

I think I eat food a lot without knowing where in the world the food comes from xD

Hrm, I suddenly want samosa. Like.../good/ samosa.

Indian food is good when I'm so inclined. Butter chicken and chai are the two big things I like. My uni had an all you can eat fund raiser thing for a school in India. Just little things like various pakora, chai in a pot (a student made it from a recipe on the internet) and this bright orange sugar dessert that looked like neon light tubing that I couldn't get the name of. I returned several times for more tea and to bring some goodies up to my room mates.

-searches for Indian orange sugar desserts- is it jalebi?

I like Indian curry with Naan bread. Japanese curry with rice.

Japanese curry with rice is great. It's my go-to (when I actually have instant rice) whenever I don't want to go out and/or get campus food.

I went to an indian buffet once. The only thing that really stood out for me were the curries (Tikka masala), naan bread, and the dessert, Gulab jamun. It was tasty, but very sweet.

The existence of so many different types of naan bread is something I find really cool xD. There aren't many salty bread-things around, normally. I guess I can find some in Asian bakeries, but those aren't plain/normal/everyday/usable-as-rice-or-something looking.


I started liking Japanese curry before I ate it from watching anime of characters eating a plate of curry on one side and rice on the other at their schools xD.

I think one of my favorite Japanese dishes is omurice <3

Yup, that looks like it. And Naan is a wonderful thing!


I'm never sure how much ethnic food I have is actually authentic, since, with the exception of a couple trips abroad, everything I've had has been local so for all I know it's been Westernized to a degree, but from what I hear about some places the cuisine is pretty close. A childhood friend of mine who taught English in Japan has given me the run down on a good Ramen place to go so I'm going to try that when I'm in the city, next.

Ohh ramen <3

The only thing I know I've had that's authentic is Japanese food--since the Japanese food that I like I've tried there. I've only ever had Japanese curry in Japan, and omurice once in America and twice in Japan.
Convenience store onigiri tastes a lot better from a Japanese family run store here in America than from Japanese convenience stores though :o

There's an observation in social geography that immigrant populations can often have or put more effort into some things than they would back in their country of origin because a conscious effort is made to hang onto it. For example, Cape Breton Fiddle is a style of fiddle playing that has gone extinct back in Scotland and now exists in Cape Breton because of the efforts made my Scottish immigrants to keep it going. There might be more effort put into traditional food by an immigrant because of sentiment, or perhaps because it's not as easy to get the ingredients and one wants it to be worth the effort.

Foods and such can change from little things like local supply. For instance, colcannon is an Irish dish with potatoes and cabbage. It is also listed as being made with bacon, but that didn't happen until it arrived in North America because of the easy access to pig meat here. When I had it in Ireland, no bacon.

That's really interesting :o. It makes sense too, since a culture's suddenly something that's really a part of someone's identity.

I like poutine, just like my sister! Potions is Canadian and I'm proud of it.