Focus on Ethnic Cuisine. What do you think is the best from each country?
By polachicago
@polachicago (18716)
United States
March 11, 2007 3:50pm CST
I am lucky, because in Chicago I am able to find ethnic food. However, when I think about each country and best food, I am thinking with stereotypes like: French-Wine, Italian-Pasta, China-Hot and Sour soup, Spain-Tappas, Japan-Sushi.
What is the best from you country?
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12 responses
@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
17 Mar 07
actually china is not famous by hot and sour soup, there is too many different kind of soup depend on where you go, it is more like china- tea with dum sum, everyone know that and like that in china, it been around for years and years
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
17 Mar 07
I don't eat meat...I visit chinatown twice a year...
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@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
17 Mar 07
you never have dim sum? you can get them in china town in chicago, i dont rembmer the name of it but they usally serve that for breakfast, it is bum with meat inside there is tons of different things that is dim sum sorry about the spelling maybe now you know i mean by dim sum right?
@Schnorrawaggle (688)
• Austria
15 Mar 07
Austria - Wienerschnitzel, and no it's not a hotdog.
It's not that tasty even, but it's what's famous. Gulasch, a Hungarian influence.
Being vegan, I love the bread here. Great fresh bread, whole grain with lots of different kinds of seeds in them. And it's never day old.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
16 Mar 07
This is what I like in Europe, small bakery with fresh bread....I like whole grain bread...
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
16 Mar 07
I have to stop by in Austria....:)
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@Schnorrawaggle (688)
• Austria
16 Mar 07
for non vegans there are also wonderful pastries and the best cakes ever here in Austria. And the best vanilla yoghurt on the planet.
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
17 Mar 07
Canadian bacon I think LOL I eat mostly Asian food which will be famous as spicy and sweet (not hot but just a lot of pepper and BBQ taste) I think we make the best fried rice but in general I like most kinds of Asian food
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
17 Mar 07
..good, spicy and sweet is good...
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
17 Mar 07
as you might know I love Italian food...I don't eat very much but I think we have such a good and various food here in Italy that I am really satisfied with it...
my favourite are pizza, mozzarella, italian icecreams, gnocchi alla sorrentina, pescespada alla siciliana (a particular kind of fish) or involtini di pescespada (another particular way of cooking this fish called pescespada), and fish how we cook it in the neapolitan coast..but I also love paella (it is a Spanish dish), tortillas and fajtas that are mexican dishes, muffins, norvegian salmon, smoked goat cheese (I tasted it in Norway and I fell in love with it), Norvegian strawberry marmelade, creme brule (A french way of cooking cream), French crepes, exotic fruits like mangos, papaya and so on
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
17 Mar 07
Ha, ha... Mariebea,you made me sooooo hungry...I would like to have it all now...except of pizza. People say that here in Chicago is the best pizza in the world. I am not big pizza fun.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
12 Mar 07
This is a little off the suject, well it about food, they have the best Hotdogs in Chicago, I was there several years ago and they put everything on you hot dog, onions tomatoes and all kind of things I never taste a hot dog that was so good untill I came to Chicago.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
12 Mar 07
I have to take your word for it, because I don't eat meat. Chicago has great food choices....
@Alexandria37 (5717)
• Ireland
11 Mar 07
We don't really have and Ethnic cuisine. The favourite here as far as I know is roast beef with mashed or roast potatoes and a selection of vegetables. We have Irish stew which is boiled lamb with carrots, onions and herbs, though I am not sure that this didn't originate in England.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
11 Mar 07
I think most food in Europe is what we call comphort food like mashed potatoes.
@patootie (3592)
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12 Mar 07
Twenty years ago I would have said the most 'English' like food would be a roast beef dinner with all the trimmings .. but England is now so cosmopolitan that one of the favourite meals is the English version of curry .. or pasta, pizza in fact just about anything that isn't traditional English food ..
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
12 Mar 07
It is nice to be cosmopolitan....I like international food
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@FrancyDafne (2047)
• Italy
12 Mar 07
I'm Italian and I have to say that in my country you can eat really very well.
It isn't good to speak by stereotypes, but you are not completely wrong: Italian-pasta is true, but we should add Italian-pizza (but the pizza is made with pasta, and so....).
You can find a lot of kinds of pasta here in Italy: penne, pennette, maccheroni, spaghetti, linguine, ditali, ditalini, stelline, penne rigate, tortiglioni, etc. and you can cook it in a lot of ways: con salsa di pomodoro, con il ragù, alla genovese, al pesto, etc.
If you'll happen to come to Italy I'll very happy to cook a good dish of pasta for you.
:-)
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
12 Mar 07
...Thank you Francy, I love Italian food and pasta. I can buy any kind of pasta in Italian store here in Chicago, but I don't know how to prepare good dish. I like linguine and penne. I always cook it with tomato souce.
You made me hungry for Italian food :)
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
12 Mar 07
I love falafel. I didn't know that falafel is from Israel..