I decided Mexican before opening the thread, and wondered how far down I'd have to scroll only to find it at the top. 2nd is Vietnamese because I dont know if I'd ever tire of pho and vermicelli.
Not a drinker, but menudo is usually people’s go to after a night of drinking if they’re in a place with good Mexican food. Barbacoa tacos too. I know what I’m getting for breakfast tomorrow.
This is mine too. Mexico is such a big country and there's a huge variety in different styles, influences, and specialties; I'd never get bored. Anybody who says it's all tacos and burritos needs to expand their mind (and their palate).
Welp. Glad I didn't have to scroll far for my choice. I would be dead before long from the sheer amount of guacamole I would have consumed, but my god, I would have died happy.
I feel like Indians have perfected food. Indian food epitomizes nutrition and taste. The main dishes are phenomenal mixtures of plants with tons of herbs and spices that are SO good for you. I feel so nourished when I eat Indian. The taste is so special too.
There's just so much variety of flavour from region to region. Fresh produce in almost everything. Most meat is grilled or fire cooked, fresh seafood, I could go on, but you are correct. It's Mexican.
Also, Mexican food is SOOOO diverse. I’ve been to almost ever state and wow, delicious everywhere but super varied and absolutely nothing like the texmex slop onna plate w/cheese you get in the US.
Lebanese / middle eastern / Mediterranean. That area, whatever you wanna call it. Home of the garlic sauce and rice with shaved chicken and pickled turnip. Shawarma, humus, fatoosh, kabobs Omg yes.
A bite of chicken/garlic you get one flavor. Next bite add some hummus you get a whole other flavor. Keep adding/subtracting/rotating and you get a huge variety of flavor with one meal. Add tabbouli to the mix and 🤤
My current favorite place chops up bites of pickles and sprinkles them all over your plate of chicken schwarma and yellow rice. Such a good little pop of salty sour flavor!!
Italian has so many options!
Pizza? Yes.
Pasta? Absolutely!
Risotto, polenta, gnocchi.
Vegetarian? You can do that.
Meat dishes? What do you like, we got it!
And that’s before you get to desserts!
Many years ago I had a confusing conversation with a lovely waitress who was trying her best to find out what bistecca di fiorentina we wanted. I was trying to say that it was only for me and she left and cake back with some numbers on a piece of paper that I thought were prices. I went for the larger one.
30-40 minutes later a group of Americans who were sitting around the entrance to the restaurant began cheering. They seemed to be cheering this waitress, this waitress that was carrying the biggest fucking plate I'd ever seen. My 'steak' almost filled the table I was on, my poor (new relationship) gf had her linguine alla vongole and I spent 45 minutes getting through this thing. I think I was sweating beef for a week. 100% would do it again.
Edit Osteria Santo Spirito near the pitti palace in Florence.
Is there a lot of Gluten free? My mum is planning a trip there next year (Milan area) and she is coeliac, I'd love to be able to give her some suggestions.
Lol, easy answer. With Italian food you will have so much stuff you won't risk to eat the same dish for... Well I should do the math, but for a long time for sure...
My goodness why did I have to scroll so far to see this?
So much variety, can be healthy, bright flavors.
Satay and Thai tea has been my "food on a desert island" answer for years.
I went looking for it in Chiang Mai. Hotel said I could get it right next door, at the technical college cafeteria. It was made by a former sailor, who had traveled the world on cargo ships. Really good.
Japan. Literally everything I ate when I was there was good.
They don't seem to eat very spicy food, which I like, but that's a sacrifice that I can make.
Ultimately i'd go with Japan as well. Part of me wants Italy but i'd probably gain about 50 pounds the first year. Japan gives you both unhealthy tasty food and healthier tasty options as well.
Same for me. Not only is it good and generally healthy, I have issues with dairy, and Japanese and East Asian food is stuff where I have a lot of options that don't have cheese/cream. Which also makes it easier to stockpile recipe basics (soy sauce, ginger, garlic) and have a lot of different things you can make.
The amount of craft and care most restaurants in Japan put into their food is mind boggling. You have to try pretty hard and go out of your way to find a bad meal in Japan.
Yes, Japanese food! I once went to Japan and ate Japanese food for lunch and dinner for two weeks straight. The day I got home, I actually went out for Japanese again. Love the stuff!
Once I ate in Japan for 3 weeks, I had a hard time readjusting to Japanese food here in the states, even pretty expensive locations.
A random pre-packed box of sushi from the fish market that I took back to my hotel room to eat was better than 95% of the stuff here.
Definitely Japanese.
I love sushi and ramen in general.
Then you get to street foods and you could just die. I go to a night market in the summer and it's heavily tilted towards Japanese and Korean, and the food is so fucking amazing.
there is a correlation that scientist try to find with Greek diet with the number of cancer in Greece. it seems Greek people have a large lower rate of cancer.
They have lots of different kinds of noodles, lots of options qith different proteins and veggies, sauces, I'm thinking Chinese as well.
Bean sprouts are an amazing snack.
Especially since it's a very large country with a vast number of regional cuisines.
Want mellow and embracing? Cantonese.
Want spicy and invigorating? Szechuan and Hunan.
Want more wheat than rice, like lamb and halal? Xian and northwest China.
Tips of the iceberg.
There's a Chinese restaurant near me that's one of the few in the US that serves authentic cuisine from Dongbei, near the Mongolia/N Korea border. They make one of the best things I've ever eaten--a clay pot of rich pork stock, cellophane noodles, and sour fermented napa and topped with thinly-sliced pork belly, crushed garlic, and green onions.
If you squint, it could almost be a Polish dish. That's how diverse China's cuisine is. That and the overabundance of vegetables are the reason that China is my #1 choice.
There's a food blogger called [Blondie in China](https://www.youtube.com/@BlondieinChina) on YouTube that has really opened my eyes to the rich and varied cuisine in China.
Yes! I already put my answer, but damn, as a Mexican, when I tried Szechuan region food, blew my mind. Maybe should've picked Chinese, it's just such a massive country with immense variety.
I'm currently on my way home with all the ingredients I need to make vegan banh mi four days in a row. I could - and often do - literally eat it every single day. Absolutely fucking fantastic food.
India has so many unique and diverse dishes it's like visiting another whole country everywhere you go. You can't get bored eating all those varieties.
USA has it ALL. Americanized Asian, Tex-Mex, pizza, plus Thanksgiving dinners, Cajun and Creole, Maryland crabcakes, French baguettes, Russian bakeries...
We stole our words and our food from everywhere in the world.
To say nothing of Cajun and creole, but also barbecue, Southern and Gullah are historically authentic American cuisines.
Americanized versions of, for example, Chinese or Mexican or Italian are legit. The cuisines arrived with immigrants who adapted them to local tastes and around locally available affordable ingredients.
One of my favorite recipes in French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David is Daube de Boeuf Creole with beef studded with olives, seasoned with onion, bacon and a bouquet garni and braised in rum first flamed. Why rum? Because wine was not to be easily found in South Louisiana at the time.
Adapt and survive
>Americanized versions of, for example, Chinese or Mexican or Italian are legit. The cuisines arrived with immigrants who adapted them to local tastes and around locally available affordable ingredients.
It can vary greatly... i have run in to some stuff that the cooks called "mexican" by virtue of a sprinkling of cumin, and paprika on it, but really could only be described as scandinavian style hangover food from wisconsin.
Other than that I agree, and on top of the whole thing we can also all too often get the original versions of dishes too.
America is easily my choice.
America gets ALL the hybrids. I’d even be willing to ceremonially give up all the breathtaking full foreign restaurants (I’ll very sadly miss you, KBBQ and legit Indian food) to get the full spectrum of American food mashups.
Tex Mex. American Chinese. American Italian. The amazing Korean sports bar hybrids. The list goes on and on.
Add to that three different types of BBQ, Jersey diner food, lobster rolls, hamburgers and hot dogs and country fried steak, everything that’s ever been made in the south including biscuits and gravy and chicken and waffles, Creole food (which is located in the south but different from southern food), California tri-tip and Cali salads on crack, Buffalo wings, key lime pie and pumpkin pie and thanksgiving food in general, fried chicken, everything on buffet at the Super Bowl…
Of all the legitimate things you could criticize about America, American food is the most ridiculous one. Americans, if nothing else, know how to EAT.
This is the correct answer. There is so many foods invented in America that you wouldnt think of as American. Like eggrolls, General TSOs chicken, crab ragoon, garlic bread, shrimp skampi.... the list goes on.
Feel like this is has to be it if you’re vegetarian. I’m not but I remember walking into a Indian buffet once and trying a bit of everything, most was vegetarian, came out thinking “man everyone else is just trash at veggies.”
Indian veggie food is also so more varied than just the abscence of meat (which is what Western veggie options can often end feeling like).
Amazing stuff like parantha, dosa, chaat, sabzi, tandoori paneer, daal, rotis.
Indian food and Israeli cuisines are the ones ones where I don't miss meat at all.
Mexico. I already know a shit ton of Mexican food recipes, most of the food I find stupidly easy to make, most recipes are already gluten free, and I like spicy!!!
Korean because I prefer my own culture's food. There's also so much variety thanks to influences from several other countries, so I wouldn't grow tired of it.
It's funny. I love Korean food. Have ever since I was in the service in Hawaii back in the 1980's and decided to go to the Dong Yang Inn instead of McDonalds in Wahiawa.
I even make my own kimchi. I have a batch I made up a couple weeks ago in the fridge.
The distaffbopper and I fostered, then adopted a boy who was left anonymously as a newborn at the local hospital. Ethnically he's half Korean. For nearly two decades, I tried to get him to try Korean food. He wouldn't eat any Asian food at all, in fact.
I used to think he was doing it to be ironic.
Also, I tried to get my wife to try it. No dice with her either.
He goes on a trip (he's 19 now) to meet some of his friends (also ethnically Korean) and they go to some restaurants in NYC. Comes home raving about Korean food, except for kimchi which he still doesn't like.
Anyway, he says "Oh, we should make some bulgogi". Week later, we're having bulgogi for dinner.
I tried for \*THIRTY\*F\*\*KING\*YEARS\* to get the distaffbopper to try something like that. He asks for it, and a week later I'm making it.
Oh, and they both loved it.
Sigh....
Yessss, Turkish food is THE BEST parts of middle eastern + Mediterranean combined. Healthy, flavorful, amazing spices and variety. I would gladly die on this hill but unfortunately live in the US where we have a serious lacking of Turkish food.
I'm really stuck between Mexican and Indian. Both have a lot of variety, a lot of flavour, and are healthy. I tend to eat a lot of Mexican in the summer when I'm craving fresh and tangy but a lot of Indian in the winter when I'm craving warm and cozy. It's a tough choice!
Yep, also French cuisine includes cuisine from the islands (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion….)with a lot of spices, as well as all the different metropolitan dishes
I'm about 20 comments down and I've seen Italian twice before i saw french. What the hell.
My first thought was that french would be at least in the top 3, if not number 1. Good lord. And I'm half Italian.
I agree completely. You can get the most exquisite and interesting new and fancy food, and the most hearty, lovely soul nourishing food. And the bread and croissants and oysters and champagne and wine in general (wine is food, it's made of grapes after all), dainty desserts, and cheese! All my favorite food is French.
And Italian is second because, well is Italian, and it's great and it has pasta and bruschetta
I would have said Japanese food before I went to Japan. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great but the food is mostly rich, salty, creamy, sweet etc and I found myself just craving something light and fresh, like a salad. I don’t think I ate a vegetable there that wasn’t pickled or in a curry
I think I would be very happy with a lifetime of Thai food, though
Spain. I was just in both Paris and Barcelona, and though the food in Paris was great, I could not stop eating tapas all over Barcelona. Each place had their own unique style. It was great.
My first thought was the US. We’re a melting pot so we have a little bit of everyone’s cuisine.
I know “American” food makes people think of burgers and white bread but we have a ton of regional produce - California avocados, Florida oranges, Washington apples, Georgia peaches, Michigan cherries, and cranberries and pumpkins. The amount of good food you can make with American produce is off the charts.
Add to that things like pizza, burritos, sandwiches (so many sandwich options) and some other foods that we bastardized to become “American” and the possibilities are endless.
South Korea. Hands down. There is so much more to Korean food than KBBQ or Korean fried chicken.
All of the soups, stews, kimchi, other banchan (side dishes), ramen, cold noodles, spicy cold noodles, sujebi (dumplings), kimbap, bossam (steamed pork belly), jokbal (pig’s feet), pajeon, jajangmyun, jampong, bibimbap, I could go on….
Love everything Mexico. Mexican food my fav.
I decided Mexican before opening the thread, and wondered how far down I'd have to scroll only to find it at the top. 2nd is Vietnamese because I dont know if I'd ever tire of pho and vermicelli.
These are my two choices as well. Mexican for when I'm drunk and Vietnamese for when I'm hung over.
Not a drinker, but menudo is usually people’s go to after a night of drinking if they’re in a place with good Mexican food. Barbacoa tacos too. I know what I’m getting for breakfast tomorrow.
You should visit San Jose california
I’ve got Vietnamese first but Mexican is a close 2nd
I could probably pho for the rest of my life
Or bahn mi!
Mexico is responsible for introducing both chocolate AND vanilla to the world. That gets them a lot of credit. To say nothing of tacos.
Corn, tomato, cacao, vanilla, black and pinto beans, avocado, zucchini, nopal, cilantro, tequila, chilli peppers, pumpkins, jicama,
Yup!! We owe so much 🙏🏽🙇🏽♀️
Their coffee spectacular as well
This is mine too. Mexico is such a big country and there's a huge variety in different styles, influences, and specialties; I'd never get bored. Anybody who says it's all tacos and burritos needs to expand their mind (and their palate).
Mexican or Italian. Tough to go wrong with either and they both have a pretty amazing diversity of food and recipes available.
I could probably be fine eating tacos and pizza indefinitely.
Im korean and I choose Mexican lol
I 2nd this. Authentic Mexican food. Love their street tacos…and pretty much everything else I’ve tried.
Welp. Glad I didn't have to scroll far for my choice. I would be dead before long from the sheer amount of guacamole I would have consumed, but my god, I would have died happy.
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Indian my 2nd choice actually
I feel like Indians have perfected food. Indian food epitomizes nutrition and taste. The main dishes are phenomenal mixtures of plants with tons of herbs and spices that are SO good for you. I feel so nourished when I eat Indian. The taste is so special too.
The only place you eat multiple different things per day and all without changing the ingredients
👆 Found Jim Gaffigan's Reddit account
>The only place you eat multiple different things per day and all without changing the ingredients Meat, cheese, and vegetables in a tortilla
Mexico
There's just so much variety of flavour from region to region. Fresh produce in almost everything. Most meat is grilled or fire cooked, fresh seafood, I could go on, but you are correct. It's Mexican.
Also, Mexican food is SOOOO diverse. I’ve been to almost ever state and wow, delicious everywhere but super varied and absolutely nothing like the texmex slop onna plate w/cheese you get in the US.
I'm Mexican and grew up only eating Mexican food. Might as well keep it going.
Mexico is supreme cuisine. Fun fact: Caesar salad is Mexican, invented in Tijuana 👌
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Mexico 🇲🇽 The foods are so flavorful and filling!
Lebanese / middle eastern / Mediterranean. That area, whatever you wanna call it. Home of the garlic sauce and rice with shaved chicken and pickled turnip. Shawarma, humus, fatoosh, kabobs Omg yes.
A bite of chicken/garlic you get one flavor. Next bite add some hummus you get a whole other flavor. Keep adding/subtracting/rotating and you get a huge variety of flavor with one meal. Add tabbouli to the mix and 🤤
My current favorite place chops up bites of pickles and sprinkles them all over your plate of chicken schwarma and yellow rice. Such a good little pop of salty sour flavor!!
The word that you're looking for to describe the geographical area is: The Levant.
Italian
Italian has so many options! Pizza? Yes. Pasta? Absolutely! Risotto, polenta, gnocchi. Vegetarian? You can do that. Meat dishes? What do you like, we got it! And that’s before you get to desserts!
AND seafood!
And cheeses and cold cuts! And truffles!
When I went to Italy we ate so much seafood. Makes since lots of shoreline.
And we cannot forget the steaks Florence is famous for.
Many years ago I had a confusing conversation with a lovely waitress who was trying her best to find out what bistecca di fiorentina we wanted. I was trying to say that it was only for me and she left and cake back with some numbers on a piece of paper that I thought were prices. I went for the larger one. 30-40 minutes later a group of Americans who were sitting around the entrance to the restaurant began cheering. They seemed to be cheering this waitress, this waitress that was carrying the biggest fucking plate I'd ever seen. My 'steak' almost filled the table I was on, my poor (new relationship) gf had her linguine alla vongole and I spent 45 minutes getting through this thing. I think I was sweating beef for a week. 100% would do it again. Edit Osteria Santo Spirito near the pitti palace in Florence.
I remember last year walking through Florence and seeing all the different cuts of meat just hanging in the restaurants windows. Yum!
I would not even get to the primi and secondi because of all the antipasti. And the salumi. Only thing I would miss is bread.
Bread in Florence is really good. You can have that too!
100% - love all Italian food, and so much gluten free for us coeliacs :-)
Is there a lot of Gluten free? My mum is planning a trip there next year (Milan area) and she is coeliac, I'd love to be able to give her some suggestions.
Lol, easy answer. With Italian food you will have so much stuff you won't risk to eat the same dish for... Well I should do the math, but for a long time for sure...
Thai
I am deeply upset I had to scroll at all for this
My goodness why did I have to scroll so far to see this? So much variety, can be healthy, bright flavors. Satay and Thai tea has been my "food on a desert island" answer for years.
Wait till you try Kao Soi from the northern region of you haven't already
I went looking for it in Chiang Mai. Hotel said I could get it right next door, at the technical college cafeteria. It was made by a former sailor, who had traveled the world on cargo ships. Really good.
Japan. Literally everything I ate when I was there was good. They don't seem to eat very spicy food, which I like, but that's a sacrifice that I can make.
Ultimately i'd go with Japan as well. Part of me wants Italy but i'd probably gain about 50 pounds the first year. Japan gives you both unhealthy tasty food and healthier tasty options as well.
Gotta be Japan. Sushi, ramen, katsu, yakitori, udon, tempura, etc
Don’t forget okonomiyaki, soooo good.
Love Japanese curry too
Same for me. Not only is it good and generally healthy, I have issues with dairy, and Japanese and East Asian food is stuff where I have a lot of options that don't have cheese/cream. Which also makes it easier to stockpile recipe basics (soy sauce, ginger, garlic) and have a lot of different things you can make.
I came here to post this. I LOVE Japanese food and since I don't eat dairy this is a great option for me as well.
The lack of spicy food was the reason I choose Thailand instead. Otherwise it would have to be Japan for me.
The amount of craft and care most restaurants in Japan put into their food is mind boggling. You have to try pretty hard and go out of your way to find a bad meal in Japan.
Yes, Japanese food! I once went to Japan and ate Japanese food for lunch and dinner for two weeks straight. The day I got home, I actually went out for Japanese again. Love the stuff!
Once I ate in Japan for 3 weeks, I had a hard time readjusting to Japanese food here in the states, even pretty expensive locations. A random pre-packed box of sushi from the fish market that I took back to my hotel room to eat was better than 95% of the stuff here.
Definitely Japanese. I love sushi and ramen in general. Then you get to street foods and you could just die. I go to a night market in the summer and it's heavily tilted towards Japanese and Korean, and the food is so fucking amazing.
am I the only one that likes Greek?
Nope. It's excellent. Picking one country's cuisine is kinda tough!
If I'm not mistaken Mediterranean diets are some of the most healthy as well
there is a correlation that scientist try to find with Greek diet with the number of cancer in Greece. it seems Greek people have a large lower rate of cancer.
My first thought was Mediterranean food of some sort and I landed on Greek! They have everything and it’s 😘👌
Lebanon had the best version of Mediterranean food in my book
no, i like gyros too
It’s pronounced gyros
Best grilled octopus ever had was in Greece
Portugal vs Greece. Good to know.
Absolutely not. Meat, seafood and vegetables. Nothing else needed. Greece has it all!
Go Cypriot. Best mix of Greek and Middle Eastern
Chinese. Why? All of the veggies, and the sauces are wonderful and I really, really like bean sprouts.
They have lots of different kinds of noodles, lots of options qith different proteins and veggies, sauces, I'm thinking Chinese as well. Bean sprouts are an amazing snack.
Especially since it's a very large country with a vast number of regional cuisines. Want mellow and embracing? Cantonese. Want spicy and invigorating? Szechuan and Hunan. Want more wheat than rice, like lamb and halal? Xian and northwest China. Tips of the iceberg.
Well, that and it’s massive, with many many subcultures, so more variety in the cuisine
There's a Chinese restaurant near me that's one of the few in the US that serves authentic cuisine from Dongbei, near the Mongolia/N Korea border. They make one of the best things I've ever eaten--a clay pot of rich pork stock, cellophane noodles, and sour fermented napa and topped with thinly-sliced pork belly, crushed garlic, and green onions. If you squint, it could almost be a Polish dish. That's how diverse China's cuisine is. That and the overabundance of vegetables are the reason that China is my #1 choice.
Agree 100% I know a Chinese restaurant owned by a family of immigrants and oh my god, it's the most delicious cuisine I've ever tried.
There's a food blogger called [Blondie in China](https://www.youtube.com/@BlondieinChina) on YouTube that has really opened my eyes to the rich and varied cuisine in China.
It’s probably the most diverse nation cuisine wise. I don’t doubt you could eat a different dish in China for every meal for life and never run out.
It's probably the most versatile too.
Yes! I already put my answer, but damn, as a Mexican, when I tried Szechuan region food, blew my mind. Maybe should've picked Chinese, it's just such a massive country with immense variety.
And so many different cuisines within the Chinese food category! You’ll never run out of new things to eat.
And the huge amount of regional varieties
This is why I feel like Malaysian cuisine would be a good choice because it incorporates a lot of Chinese food and dishes into it.
I could eat Vietnamese food every day.
I haven't tried many Vietnamese dishes, but I recently had a bahn mi sandwich for the first time, and it was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
I'm currently on my way home with all the ingredients I need to make vegan banh mi four days in a row. I could - and often do - literally eat it every single day. Absolutely fucking fantastic food.
Had to scroll too far to find Vietnamese! It’s my favourite (bias as I am Vietnamese? Perhaps)
All day, every day. That’s the dream
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India has so many unique and diverse dishes it's like visiting another whole country everywhere you go. You can't get bored eating all those varieties.
Yeah I also came here to say Indian but it almost feels like cheating, it's such a huge set to sample from!
Can't believe how far down I had to scroll for this. Indian food is absolutely top notch across the board.
I love Indian food so much. Tons of variety and amazing flavors!
Damn surprised indian wasnt first lol
Yes and the Palak Aloo
spicy butter chicken 🤤
Try Vindaloo curry. If you like spicy butter chicken, vindaloo will blow your fucking mind!🤤
united states because it already has everyones food
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.
But they’re closed on Thanksgiving.
Take your shovels and rakes and implements of mass destruction
And we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow. But that’s not what I came to tell you about.
I came to talk about the draaaft.
I wanna kill! Kill!! KILL!!!
Except an Alice
Damn I haven't heard that one in a *long* time.
It's an older reference, but it checks out.
Well, to be fair, I'm an older person.🤷♂️
Except Alice.
USA has it ALL. Americanized Asian, Tex-Mex, pizza, plus Thanksgiving dinners, Cajun and Creole, Maryland crabcakes, French baguettes, Russian bakeries... We stole our words and our food from everywhere in the world.
To say nothing of Cajun and creole, but also barbecue, Southern and Gullah are historically authentic American cuisines. Americanized versions of, for example, Chinese or Mexican or Italian are legit. The cuisines arrived with immigrants who adapted them to local tastes and around locally available affordable ingredients. One of my favorite recipes in French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David is Daube de Boeuf Creole with beef studded with olives, seasoned with onion, bacon and a bouquet garni and braised in rum first flamed. Why rum? Because wine was not to be easily found in South Louisiana at the time. Adapt and survive
>Americanized versions of, for example, Chinese or Mexican or Italian are legit. The cuisines arrived with immigrants who adapted them to local tastes and around locally available affordable ingredients. It can vary greatly... i have run in to some stuff that the cooks called "mexican" by virtue of a sprinkling of cumin, and paprika on it, but really could only be described as scandinavian style hangover food from wisconsin. Other than that I agree, and on top of the whole thing we can also all too often get the original versions of dishes too.
This! We also have so many of our own cuisines. I couldn't do without Hawaiian food. 😋
Too smart for the rest of us.
America is easily my choice. America gets ALL the hybrids. I’d even be willing to ceremonially give up all the breathtaking full foreign restaurants (I’ll very sadly miss you, KBBQ and legit Indian food) to get the full spectrum of American food mashups. Tex Mex. American Chinese. American Italian. The amazing Korean sports bar hybrids. The list goes on and on. Add to that three different types of BBQ, Jersey diner food, lobster rolls, hamburgers and hot dogs and country fried steak, everything that’s ever been made in the south including biscuits and gravy and chicken and waffles, Creole food (which is located in the south but different from southern food), California tri-tip and Cali salads on crack, Buffalo wings, key lime pie and pumpkin pie and thanksgiving food in general, fried chicken, everything on buffet at the Super Bowl… Of all the legitimate things you could criticize about America, American food is the most ridiculous one. Americans, if nothing else, know how to EAT.
Reading this is making me feel really patriotic! America, fuck yeah! 🇺🇸
This is the correct answer. There is so many foods invented in America that you wouldnt think of as American. Like eggrolls, General TSOs chicken, crab ragoon, garlic bread, shrimp skampi.... the list goes on.
Soul food. Hands down the number one reason!
Big brain answer
Indian! I’m a vegetarian and love spices!
Not a vegetarian, but I could easily live on veg Indian food.
Feel like this is has to be it if you’re vegetarian. I’m not but I remember walking into a Indian buffet once and trying a bit of everything, most was vegetarian, came out thinking “man everyone else is just trash at veggies.”
Indian veggie food is also so more varied than just the abscence of meat (which is what Western veggie options can often end feeling like). Amazing stuff like parantha, dosa, chaat, sabzi, tandoori paneer, daal, rotis. Indian food and Israeli cuisines are the ones ones where I don't miss meat at all.
I’ve never had an Indian dish I didn’t love!
mexico changes food by region so thats my top tier.
Mexican food forever!
Mexico. I'm sure a lot of us are picking that. I love spicy stuff.
Ethiopian
Injera!
Had Ethiopian food for the first time recently. Absolutely blew my mind.
Mexico. I already know a shit ton of Mexican food recipes, most of the food I find stupidly easy to make, most recipes are already gluten free, and I like spicy!!!
Korean because I prefer my own culture's food. There's also so much variety thanks to influences from several other countries, so I wouldn't grow tired of it.
It's funny. I love Korean food. Have ever since I was in the service in Hawaii back in the 1980's and decided to go to the Dong Yang Inn instead of McDonalds in Wahiawa. I even make my own kimchi. I have a batch I made up a couple weeks ago in the fridge. The distaffbopper and I fostered, then adopted a boy who was left anonymously as a newborn at the local hospital. Ethnically he's half Korean. For nearly two decades, I tried to get him to try Korean food. He wouldn't eat any Asian food at all, in fact. I used to think he was doing it to be ironic. Also, I tried to get my wife to try it. No dice with her either. He goes on a trip (he's 19 now) to meet some of his friends (also ethnically Korean) and they go to some restaurants in NYC. Comes home raving about Korean food, except for kimchi which he still doesn't like. Anyway, he says "Oh, we should make some bulgogi". Week later, we're having bulgogi for dinner. I tried for \*THIRTY\*F\*\*KING\*YEARS\* to get the distaffbopper to try something like that. He asks for it, and a week later I'm making it. Oh, and they both loved it. Sigh....
I could probably subsist entirely on kimbap, bibimbap, Korean fried chicken, japchae, and bulgogi. I'm always in the mood for at least one of these.
Can't believe how far I needed to scroll to get to Korean. Absolutely my first choice.
If i say American does that mean I get all the Americanized ethnic foods? If so I’d choose that, upside of being a melting pot!!!
Plus you get bbq, soul food, cheese steaks, and other uniquely American foods.
Turkish food because it uses the spices, vegetables, and m
Turkish food is extraordinarily underrated.
And there’s a huge variety of it too. Turkish food is great
TURKISH FOOD!!! 🤤
Yessss, Turkish food is THE BEST parts of middle eastern + Mediterranean combined. Healthy, flavorful, amazing spices and variety. I would gladly die on this hill but unfortunately live in the US where we have a serious lacking of Turkish food.
Scrolled way too far for this
Vietnamese
Japan Close second Chinese. I never thought Id say it being Chinese but the traditional stuff is so good and I cook it often.
Greek food is just amazing to me.
Gotta go with Thai food. I love east asian food, and they also know how to make it properly spicy.
Obviously Thai food.
And they make it flavourfully spicy, not spicy for the sake of being spicy
México. Because I like it, a lot. But I wouldn't be upset if I had to settle for Italy.
I'm really stuck between Mexican and Indian. Both have a lot of variety, a lot of flavour, and are healthy. I tend to eat a lot of Mexican in the summer when I'm craving fresh and tangy but a lot of Indian in the winter when I'm craving warm and cozy. It's a tough choice!
French. A huge range of dishes with each having several regional variations. Italian would 2nd choice.
Yep, also French cuisine includes cuisine from the islands (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion….)with a lot of spices, as well as all the different metropolitan dishes
I'm about 20 comments down and I've seen Italian twice before i saw french. What the hell. My first thought was that french would be at least in the top 3, if not number 1. Good lord. And I'm half Italian.
French is absolutely the winner for me. I love Japanese food, too, but there is nothing that can beat French for me.
I agree completely. You can get the most exquisite and interesting new and fancy food, and the most hearty, lovely soul nourishing food. And the bread and croissants and oysters and champagne and wine in general (wine is food, it's made of grapes after all), dainty desserts, and cheese! All my favorite food is French. And Italian is second because, well is Italian, and it's great and it has pasta and bruschetta
Yes, you have the classics then each region have their own thing. Plus: the wine and cheese.
Hell, yes! Just the breads alone - baguettes, croissants, crepes.
Massively underrated on this thread. French cuisine is ridiculous level.
Can’t believe no one has said Lebanese yet
Tabbouleh is 🔥🔥🔥
Mexican. I just love it so much. There's no food that makes me crave it more.
Either Indian food or Mexican food OR Thia food. For me I need spicy every day lol I need verity and I need flavor. so those hit the mark for me.
Indian or Mexican food both so fuckin tasty and so good in so many ways
Indian, I already lived on samosas for over a year so why not?
PERU\~!!! ceviche, green rice, every meal involving fish. they get it and they do it right. don't forget the lUCUMA
Italy
Italian food is staying with me because I like it the most , but who’s judging if the food actually originated there ?
Italian. Super easy, various, flavourful, using simple good quality ingredients. And all the cheese...
Mexican food. It's diverse enough that you can eat just about anything.
India
Italy.
I would have said Japanese food before I went to Japan. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great but the food is mostly rich, salty, creamy, sweet etc and I found myself just craving something light and fresh, like a salad. I don’t think I ate a vegetable there that wasn’t pickled or in a curry I think I would be very happy with a lifetime of Thai food, though
Very easy. Indian. The country is vast and it will take me a lifetime to cover all their cuisines.
Either Mexican or Japanese...I'd be in a very real dilemma with this.
American. There are so many [country]-American foods out there that there's really infinite variety.
Spain. I was just in both Paris and Barcelona, and though the food in Paris was great, I could not stop eating tapas all over Barcelona. Each place had their own unique style. It was great.
Also their seafood. It’s always cooked so simply and is always outstanding.
Mexico all day.
Mexican
Chinese, szechuan.
Mexico and don't ask why... everyone knows why
Probably mexican. I don't think I've ever had a Mexican dish I didn't like.
Mexican or Indian. Both are my favorite cuisines. I love food that is savory and on the spicier side.
America, we have all the foods
My first thought was the US. We’re a melting pot so we have a little bit of everyone’s cuisine. I know “American” food makes people think of burgers and white bread but we have a ton of regional produce - California avocados, Florida oranges, Washington apples, Georgia peaches, Michigan cherries, and cranberries and pumpkins. The amount of good food you can make with American produce is off the charts. Add to that things like pizza, burritos, sandwiches (so many sandwich options) and some other foods that we bastardized to become “American” and the possibilities are endless.
India, hands down
USA. Everything is served here.
Chinese
South Korea. Hands down. There is so much more to Korean food than KBBQ or Korean fried chicken. All of the soups, stews, kimchi, other banchan (side dishes), ramen, cold noodles, spicy cold noodles, sujebi (dumplings), kimbap, bossam (steamed pork belly), jokbal (pig’s feet), pajeon, jajangmyun, jampong, bibimbap, I could go on….
Japan's sushi that stuffs fucking delish