Will you cook foreign food?

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@youless (112586)
Guangzhou, China
September 20, 2011 2:44am CST
I like cooking and I like to try making foreign food, such as pizza, cake and so on. Sometimes I even think that I am good at cooking foreign food. Do you like cooking foreign food? If so, which food do you like to make?
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@kelly10 (678)
20 Sep 11
I'm not a good cook but I enjoy cooking Chinese or chinese inspired foods. I enjoy making stir frys and often just use whatever is in the fridge or cupboards and experimate bascially, so I rarely use a receipe book. One dish I do like cooking which is Japanese not Chinese is Teriyaki beef and I make the sauce from scratch and I always enjoy this dish when I do it
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
Yummy. I wish I could master how to cook the chicken fried rice like a restaurant does.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
The sauce is so important. It can decide which your dish is delicious or not.
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@kelly10 (678)
20 Sep 11
Yes, leave for quite a few hours, other wise it just ends up a big soggy mess. Plus remember you can add but not take away, so if you add sauce whilst frying add a little at a time
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• United States
20 Sep 11
Carribean foods are what I'm experimenting with right now. I recently made a couple of rum cakes and this Carribean zucchini bread. Now I don't know if Carribean zucchini bread is different than any other, but it really was good.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
21 Sep 11
It is very special for you to make Carribean food.
• United States
21 Sep 11
It is not special per say, I just like some of the spices that you get with that type of food. It's yummy! Here in the US Kelly you can find some Carribean places to eat. But I always like to try new things so I wanted to try a curried chicken or something like that. I think it'll be good.
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@kelly10 (678)
21 Sep 11
I've always wanted to try Carribean food, but I must honestly say that I don't really know what the food is like. Where I live in the UK there are no Carribean restaurants so it would mean travelling which sort of defeats the object due to the added cost of transport. The reason I've not tried it myself is I know some ingrediants are not easy to come by and I wouldn't really know it I've cooked it correctly.
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@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
23 Sep 11
i love froeign foods best. I love this stuff called red gravy. It african. Its served on top of rice with veggies/beans and meat of choice. Meat part can be optional. I usually have some in my frig at all times. I love chinese foods too. but dont know much about cooking that.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Sep 11
It sounds delicious.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Sep 11
It sounds delicious.
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@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
24 Sep 11
It is and in fact some africans will put it ontop of other foods that i never would have thought of.
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• United States
20 Sep 11
I do cook a great deal of "foreign foods" and enjoy experimenting a great deal. I do like variety as the same ole, every day stuff at times can be a drag.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
21 Sep 11
It is interesting to make the foreign food.
• United States
21 Sep 11
Hi patners! I do a lot of cooking and can cook pretty much almost any type of food from several different countries. I can create dishes with left overs too. I do enjoy cooking and savoring the different types of foods all the time.
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• United States
21 Sep 11
Oh yes youless it is a lot of fun to create them as it makes us proud to be a bit adventurous. LOL patners, practice makes perfect and hope you too continue to enjoy cooking.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
20 Sep 11
I guess, i have been cooking some foreign foods already, at home. I cooked carbonara and spaghetti which are of Italian origin. I cook stir fried noodles, which are of Chines origin. I think it would be nice to cook foreign cuisines. Its the ingredients though that are hard to find , because some could only be found from the places of their origin.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
I fix spaghetti and chili too.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
You must be good at cooking
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
20 Sep 11
Well, i can cook delicious foods indeed. Though, i haven't cooked many intricate meals, but i think i can , if given the chance and the cookbook as guide.
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@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
20 Sep 11
Yes we do sometimes. My aunt makes the best pizzas ever I absolutely love her cooking. And we do also BBQ sometimes along with the burgers and sausages. Foreign food are good
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
Yummy. I will be right over. Tell your aunt to set an extra plate.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
I love pizza
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• South Korea
20 Sep 11
Hehe sure guys. We'll have enough for everyone
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
Those foods that you mention are not foreign foods to me since I am in america. I have cooked foreign foods though, like chicken fried rice and so on.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
You all do too. I love the chicken fried rice.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
America's got the talents
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@Galena (9110)
20 Sep 11
I love to cook all kinds of food. I've made japanese, indian, chinese, hungarian, moroccan. I love trying out cooking new kinds of food. but my favourite food to cook is New Orleans style. I make the best Jambalaya and Gumbo you can get in South West England. in my personal opinion
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
I'm coming over to your house to eat then LOL.
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@Galena (9110)
20 Sep 11
hehe. when I make my Gumbo, the more the merrier. I don't seem able to make it in portions suited to less than about 8 people. it only feels right making it in the biggest pan I have, filled right to the top. a small gumbo is a sad thing. that's why my freezer is usually full of the stuff, and I'm always giving away tubs of it to people just after I've made it. everyone at work gets a message asking if they want me to bring some in for them. they all seem to love it when they have it.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
You are very talented
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@derek_a (10873)
21 Sep 11
Yes, I enjoy cooking different dishes wether foreign or not. But I like to know what ingredients are going into the meal. I sometime buy pre-packaged foriegn meals but will look to see what ingredients are written on the pacakge. I like to cook Chinese food and Indian food, not so much pizza because I do not eat too much cheese for health reasons. _Derek
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@Galena (9110)
22 Sep 11
the beauty of making your own pizza is you can use whatever you want. and you don't need much cheese to make a pizza yummy. I like to make a bread dough, use a smear of tomato paste, some fresh tomatoes, peppers, fresh torn basil and spinach, sliced onion, garlic, and even with just a small amount of goats cheese crumbled on top it will be delicious, and fairly healthy with all that fantastic fresh veg on it. some pizzas have no cheese at all.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Sep 11
I am glad to hear that.
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@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
29 Sep 11
I love cooking foods of all kinds and am always looking for new recipes from everywhere. Mostly, I like Italian and French. But any kind of Asian food is great and delicious. I love Greek, Mexican, German, Hungarian, Indian as well. I like to try recipes that are simple and interest me from many cultures, as in the Belgian Waterzoi. Easy for me to do is spaghetti and meatballs, pizza and most Italian dishes. Anything of Julia Child's French cooking recipes is great, such as her beef ragout and Pomme de Terre potato casserole. Greek Avgolemono and salads are easy. Love Hungarian goulash, Swedish meatballs, tacos, enchiladas, spatzles and red cabbage, cause they're not too hard to make. I've even made homemade sausage. But, notable failures are sushi, Ming Tsai's mom's dumpling wrappers, homemade tortillas. A lot of work and my talent wasn't so good there. I love lumpia, but have never tried to make it. I guess I just love food and will try to make any recipes that interest me and are not too hard. Then they become part of my repetoire.
@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
30 Sep 11
It seems that you are very professional to cook different food
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@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
30 Sep 11
I'm just a "professional eater"! Bad joke, I know. But I do love to cook a variety of dishes and I've learned a few techniques to enable me to do so.
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• United States
21 Sep 11
I love cooking period whether it be traditional or foreign food. Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies. I cook traditional american food, cuban, italian, chinesse and ofcourse my kids favorite any type of desert that involves Chocolate...
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Sep 11
We shall exchange our recipes
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• United States
22 Sep 11
Sounds like a plan!!!
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@edbuex (169)
• Uganda
22 Sep 11
matooke
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
23 Sep 11
I don't understand
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@edbuex (169)
• Uganda
24 Sep 11
hahahhahhahah am so so sorry my dear... its a type of food here in Africa u guys call it banana some people kip it ripens and eat it as yellows but here in Africa we cook it due to its differences,,,there are those for yellows and others for cooking......hope you got me now bye good day
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@vikku2001 (258)
• India
20 Sep 11
Hello youless Yes surely I will cook foreign food if I will have all the ingredients and recipe.I love to eat new dishes and learn how to make new dishes.It makes me feel good when I cook.It is good to try some foreign food as they must have something different from your taste and to change this taste you must try that.You can learn something new from these foreign food and apply it to your own dish and serve to your family members and make happy too.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
Same here. I do not know how to cook many foreign dishes. I would rather go out and buy it already cooked. Yummy.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
Sometimes I found it is not easy to find all the foreign ingredients.
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• India
20 Sep 11
yes it is difficult to find foreign ingredients and easy to get a cooked one from shop but rather if you try to find ingredient by spending a little more than your usual food then it is possible to make so many famous dishes and it will be cheaper than cooked one.
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20 Sep 11
Chinese food is the best
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
I am so glad to hear that
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
yep... chicken fried rice... yummy!
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@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
21 Sep 11
Steph, don't forget to eat your favorite chicken rice with soy sauce. It makes the chicken rice tastes more delicious...
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@aaidjs (1149)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
21 Sep 11
hi my friend...for me your way of cooking is very very unknown..i went several times in Chinese restaurants and i found good food there but cant say what was serve and how that prepared that meal!! For me pasta,pizza,fry fish,cooking meat,soup etc.is everyday food...nothing special just traditional food in my family..and my friend its easy to learn it...you are welcome to ask me all you want to know about traditional Italian kitchen and about traditional Croatian kitchen 2
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Sep 11
Perhaps the Chinese chefs want to keep secret to their recipes only
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@goldeneagle (6745)
• United States
24 Jan 12
I don’t cook very often. I like to cook, but the hours I work make cooking impractical for me most of the time. Thankfully, my dad loves to cook. I work nights, so my dad will usually cook something and leave it on the stove for me. I wish I had time to cook more, because I would certainly cook many types of foreign foods, since foreign foods such as Chinese and Mexican are some of my favorites…
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Jan 12
I am glad that you will cook Chinese food since I am a Chinese
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Sep 11
When my daughter was small(she is going to be 40 in October) I used to cook nearly everything from scratch. I made bread and noodles. I tried chinese food and loved it. I made the sauce that you put on the ribs. It is so good! Don't know what they call it. Used to make it all the time.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Sep 11
I used to make it all the time. No need for a recipe. It is delicious. One of my favorites.
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
21 Sep 11
In fact, i do loves to cook a few types of foreign food. Chinese food would be my top priority since my mother had taught me how to cook it since i was young. I had also learned through my mother on how to bake cakes and cookies. In fact, most of the time, we ate a lot of foreign food in our home. Now, i am also trying to learn to bake pizza, when i have the time. Have a nice day, Youless.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
21 Sep 11
I remember you have many kinds of sauce at home
@myfb2009 (8296)
• Malaysia
21 Sep 11
Yup, i learned from my mother on what types of sauces fit for what type of cooking. That's why, many types of sauces available in my kitchen. Later, plan to buy cheese for making pizza topping.
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@syoti20 (5292)
• Philippines
20 Sep 11
For me I don't have discretion on what food to cook and to eat. As long as no poison is involve on it. As well as not wasting them.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
LOL. You are very easy to please.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
You are easy to be content
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@Zamara69 (130)
• United States
20 Sep 11
Only if I enjoyed cooking as much as eating. If I knew how to cook I would like to cook foreign food such as Phillipine, Chinese, Indian and Arab cuisine.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Sep 11
I have tried cooking the chicken fried rice but the restaurant does it so much better.
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Sep 11
I like cooking and I also like eating
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