What is your Countries National Food Meal?
By jennybianca
@jennybianca (12912)
Australia
March 7, 2007 8:40pm CST
Australia's national meal would be a BBQ. Thse can be very elaborate.Lamb chops, sausages, steak and rissoles are favourites. Fancier bbq food would be marinated chicken and shaslicks.
Very often sliced potato and onion is bbqed too.
A bbq can not be missed without salads. Often a large array of salads are prepared.. potato salad, coleslaw, rice salad, pasta salad,waldorf and garden salad are favourites.
We nearly always have garlic bread with our bbq's too.
So what is your countries favourite, or natyional meal?
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35 responses
@mamaida (48)
• Singapore
8 Mar 07
Hi Jennybiance,
In Singapore there is no national meal, as our country is multi racial, we are us of eating everything from chinese, indian, malay and even western. We also enjoy italian like pizza and pasta, Korean kimchi and bulgogi, Japanese sushi and shasimi. What you want to eat you name it, we have all here.
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@pramodthakur (2365)
• India
8 Mar 07
In our country India, Rice Pulse and Wheet made food are are national food. It is eaten in all part of India. Somewhere rice/pulse is used in bulk and in some part wheat and pulse are used in bulk. Potato/onion are also the part of vegetables. It is mixed with other veg while cooking. Here we generally prefer fried vegetable instead of boiled. Only sick person prefer boiled veg.
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
9 Mar 07
I love going to Indian restuarants, but I don't know if the food is authentic, as yu describe. I like all the ingredients yiu mention.
@GardenGerty (160949)
• United States
8 Mar 07
It depends on who you ask, I guess. Beef seems to be the most desired meat, either burgers, or a nice steak. Grilled is great. If I say hamburger, I would say fries and a soft drink. Not well balanced or healthy. If I said steak, I would put it with a baked potato, green salad, cold drink, hot rolls or garlic bread, and pie for dessert. I could be completely off, though, so I hope other Americans will pitch in their thoughts.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
8 Mar 07
Well, I like the sound of grilled steak with baked potato and a green salad. Not so sure aboput the hamburgers and fries.
I hope other people respond too, apart from being interesting, I hardly get any responses nowadays. I'm not sure why?
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@liranlgo (5752)
• Israel
8 Mar 07
my country has two national food meals and they are called:
falafel and humus
wonderful you should try it
also because in my country there are so many people from different origins also:
shakshuka- which is eggs, onions and tomatos all together- that is also very good
and kuskus- that is a marocan food but almost everyone in my ountry eats it:)
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@prestocaro (1251)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I love falafel!! It's one of my favorite "sandwich"-y types of foods. It's sooo good on a hot day, smothered with yogurt and cool cucumber salad. YUM! I think I'll make some this week (it is unseasonably warm here in TX)
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@deathninja (39)
• Malaysia
8 Mar 07
in malaysia national food is rice all the thing we eat with rice
eat beef,fish and chicken all with rice..
but there are other type of food we eat it call
budu some kind sos made by a small fish,
belacan some kind of spice
tempoyak make by durian fruit
and many more.
i say it can be say a national food
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
9 Mar 07
Once when I stayed with my friend, whose husband is Malaysian, i ate lots of their food. It was delicious, but quite hot.
@deathninja (39)
• Malaysia
9 Mar 07
yes many Malaysian people like to eat hot food.
i also like to eat hot food event if when i has a lot of hot food i will have
some problem in my digesting system..
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@reeze_828 (137)
• Philippines
22 Mar 07
I'm from the PHILIPPINES and our national food is the rice and "adobo". Adobo is a sauted chicken or pork in garlic, vinegar and soy sauce. What a simple recipe right but it really taste good! We also have our national fruit which is the "mango". I'm sure your familiar with mangoes.
Have a nice day!!!
@hikarushidou (843)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
wow! i love BBQ! id have to try your BBQs if that's your national food once i get there! here in the philippines, the national food is what we call TAPSILOG. TApa, SInangag, and itLOG. Tapa is the beef, sinangag is garlic rice and itlog is eggs. yummy!
@prestocaro (1251)
• United States
10 Mar 07
oh that sounds so good -- I'm going to try to make my own version :)
@kakahelmy (11)
• Indonesia
8 Mar 07
My country, Indonesia, have no national meal, because every region has its own characteristic food ant taste. It makes us always found something new when you travel around my country. So why dont you try to spend your weekend in my country. And, it is for sure, save in here... hehe... :)
@prestocaro (1251)
• United States
8 Mar 07
barbecue is cooking meat over coals. the word barbecue (BBQ) can be used to describe both the food produced and the means of cooking. most do it with coals on the bottom, a grill or spit over that, and you place the meat on the grill or spit. others first smoke the meat and then finish it on the grill for a flame-broiled taste. it is delicious!
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@nancyrowina (3850)
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8 Mar 07
They say ours in Britain is fish and chips, but apparently curry is taking over as most peoples favourite dish. Personally I like mashed potato and things like pies and meat with them that seems very British to me.
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@chloe9013 (532)
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10 Mar 07
Hehe i was just browsing back after my post and noticed you also agreed to meats pies and chips ^_^. I dont think curry will ever be classed as a national food as it is an imported taste if you get me. It might be a favorite but its not english, English food is simple and delisisous with everything you need, meat, carbohydrates (Potatoes!) and veg :)
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@sunchild2000 (511)
• Romania
8 Mar 07
Here we call one of our national food are "sarmale". It's hashes meat with rice and some spices, along with egg and some other ingredients 9can't remember them all). This compost is then rolled in leafs of cabbage (pickled cabbage), then boiled in water mixted with tomato paste and other ingredients that I don't remember, so the water will become a delicious sos. It's served with "samtana" (it's like yoghurt, but more tasty).
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@KarenO52 (2950)
• United States
22 Mar 07
You're making me hungry! Your national meal sounds exactly like what we have in the summer, along with corn on the cob. I've never heard of rissoles or shaslicks though. I grew up in Chicago, where we had great Chicago style hot dogs, pizza, and good chinese food. In the winter we have a lot of meat with mashed potato and gravy dinners. I also like to cook Mexican, Italian, and Stir-fry dinners. We like to do gulf shrimp cajun style and fried or broiled fish too.
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@juskoday (183)
• Philippines
21 Mar 07
I don't know what the national meal is per se, but the one most often identified with Filipino culture overseas is called "Adobo". It's a simple meal to make using common ingredients, making it perhaps the most accessible meal out there. It's either pork or chicken with onions or potatoes cooked in a salty-sour sauce based on vinegar and soy sauce.
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@lingli_78 (12822)
• Australia
9 Mar 07
for me, i am from indonesia and my national food meal will be sayur asam (sweet and sour soup) and gado-gado (it is kind of salad but mixed with peanut sauce dressing)... another very favourite meal is called rendang (beef meat)...
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@jhartana (1084)
• Australia
9 Mar 07
In my home country Indonesia, rice will be needed on most of the meal. We can add vegetable, meats, soups and others. Commonly Indonesians always use chilli to eat. Since there are so many cultures differ from one area to another in Indonesia, food traditions will be different too.
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@qouniq (1966)
• Malaysia
11 Mar 07
My country national food meal will goes to Rice. We have a different types of rice in our meals. We also have one food called 'ketupat' and rendang for malay peoples- this is the most famous dish during our big day - eid days. The ketupat made from the stciky rice(glutenous) which cooked with the coconut milk in the young coconut leaf. and the rendang - chicken cooked with the spices and coconut flake (grated). Ketupat also nice to be eaten with the peanut gravy - which cooked with the spices.
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@p3halliwel2005 (3156)
• Philippines
9 Mar 07
I guess ours is Adobo and Sinigang...Adobo is pork marinated in vinegar and soy sauce with garlic and onions on top ..Sinigang na Baboy is Pork simmered in water and you put flavor mix or tamarind, calamansi, we put vegetables in it also and salt and patis..I am getting hungry nowjust thinking of it..lol.:)
@nidlove (15)
• Philippines
8 Mar 07
the old time favorite is ADOBO... either pork or chicken... if u wanna try, here's how to make it:
u will need:
meat, (pork or chicken)
vinegar
soy sauce
pepper corn
laurel leaf
a bit of sugar to taste
simmer the meat with the ingredients till tender. u can have it dry cooked or with a little gravy sauce. try and cook a small amount first... thanks and happy filipino cooking!
