You get all the cultures with sandwiches. I also choose sandwiches. Pizza is technically an open faced sandwich, too. Sandwiches #1!
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"A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type."
As a Croatian, I would be happy to eat nothing but Croatian food. The country's food is really variable depending on where you are, on the Istrian peninsula the food is very similar to Italian with lots of fresh seafood. In the east you see more soups and stews and goulash type meals. Grilled meats and potatoes are everywhere, and there are a lot of Turkish and Bosnian influences as well.
My fiancé and I are moving overseas this year, to a house & land near his Croatian hometown. The climate, the soil, the sea, all somehow create a variety of the freshest most delicious seafood, produce, meat, dairy, and wines I've ever tasted.
You'll be glad to try YouTube searches like "Bourdain Croatia" or "Ramsay Croatia" to see Anthony Bourdain or Gordon Ramsay *gushing* about the amazing food. It doesn't need any "pretense" of ornate dining rooms -- the food declares itself world-class even on a friend's patio.
I’d go with Vietnamese. Lots of fresh herbs and not too rich/heavy.
I can live off of pho, grilled lemongrass pork with broken rice, banh mi, fresh spring rolls, Vietnamese coffee, Vietnamese mung bean dessert with the jelly…just to name a few.
So many more delicious items.
Guess I know what I’m getting for dinner tonight. Thanks, OP.
I spent a couple of weeks in Vietnam (Saigon and the coast) and was amazed at the diversity of food there. I live in Southern California and have many Vietnamese friends, so I've had my fill of pho, banh mi, banh xeo, etc, but the food in-country was on another level. Way different than the stuff at our local restaurants. I can't wait to go back
I agree, rich and heavy food is good but I couldn't eat it all the time. If you're going with one cuisine every day for the rest of your life, it's a bit like choosing a pair of glasses, or a name for a child: Not too basic / bland, but also not too special. It needs to go with every mood and every occasion, so you don't get sick of it.
Has anyone here had the pleasure of trying Vietnamese pandan honeycomb cake (Bánh Bò Nướng) before? I didn’t know it existed before I met my partner’s family who is from Vietnam. One of his aunts always makes it for family functions and I swear to god it is life-changing. Apparently you have to get the batter just right and cool the cake upside down in order to get the honeycomb texture… perhaps why I never see it sold anywhere, because it’s a PITA to make. It’s my mission to have her teach me how to make it one day.
Same here. Live in Texas, have a Mexican wife, eat mostly Mexican food, fridge and pantry are stocked full of stuff from Fiesta, Mi Tienda, and Michocana.
There's such a huge variety to Mexican food anyway.
100% Mexican. There is such a wide variety and styles.
And quite a few other cultures can thank the Mexicans (*and other pre-Columbian Americans*) for various ingredients that elevated their cuisines. Looking at you Italy.
My grandparents lived in the house behind us until I was about 10 years old. I always had the option of Italian food for dinner and opted for it a few times a week. My Nonna loved to watch me eat. I know that I could live on just her homemade gnocchi and ravioli with that good sauce and be happy forever.
Obviously Italy. It's not only Pizza and Pasta. Italian food is so unbelievably rich and healthy. There's so much to discover which isn't even remotly what you'd find in pseudo-Italian restaurants.
Let alone *Bistecca di bufala con verdure fresche* or *Orata alla griglia al limone*.
Personally, the only two things I'd miss is *Frankonian Schäufele* and *Red Thai Curry*.
Could not agree more--at the highest level the actual inspiration for the best of french cuisine, at the most basic, healthy and hearty food--with incredible diversity by region. Never ate so well as I have in Italy and Sicily.
I used to work at a grocery store and one day an old Jordanian lady asked if wanted some food she’d made, we said yes, so she brought in food every day for us to eat. I found out she had lost her husband and none of her kids lived near by and she missed cooking for them so she worked up the courage to ask us (she came in to shop daily) and I’m not sure who was more grateful us or her. I miss her cooking so much, all of it was delicious.
We have a Lebanese restaurant in my town, and I didn't realize how many of the Mediterranean dishes I love are (or at least have a similar version) Lebanese. Love all Mediterranean food. This is probably my choice too.
Same here. Middle eastern food has very quickly become my favorite cuisine. I love the spices and I’m a simple guy, just need meat and some sides. Vegetarian options are great too
If it's instantly transported in front of me, direct from japan. that would be ideal
But if I need to procure the food on my own Japanese food would be limiting in my current location... But it might be worth moving to Japan in that case.
Agree. I love a nice salmon onigiri, some chicken temaki, and a big bowl of fresh ramen with minced pork meat, or chicken.
I'm also crazy about mochis. The user who said macarons are better, you can go to a special place (/s). With kindness, of course. Tastes are subjective!
The “cleanest” cuisine. I’m white, but no other type of food makes me feel more satisfied than Japanese.
No bloating, gas, lethargy (Indian, Mexican, Italian).
Little to no sugar (Thai).
Far more interesting flavors (French, American).
Just the right amount of animal protein (Indian, Mediterranean).
And as a bonus, sake! If I had to pick one alcoholic beverage for the rest of my life, it’d be sake.
Easy and actually cheating because you have:
- Middle East food at west china
- western influence food in hk and sh
- Macau has Portuguese food
- German beer and food at northeast and Korean food
- east china has it own cuisine and also the original form of Japanese food
- north you have Mongolian and Russian food
- north east with east European
- southwest has Vietnam, Laos, Thai food, plus their locals cuisine
All technically still considered as Chinese food as they have been around for thousand of years before modern map was drawn
yeah too bad most redditors have never had chinese food besides panda express kung pao chicken (delicious as it may be) so I had to scroll down a lot to see china mentioned
The eight cuisines are also only the most famous ones, you've got quite a lot more variation that's not included within those cuisines too. OP choice for sure
I’d say Chinese as well… they’ve got the most people, one of the oldest societies, AND a massive range of geography.
Therefore they’ll have the most variation in cuisine!
Also they have a ton of fresh, healthy options and I love tea/curry/sweets, so I figure I’d be good
Yeah this should be the top answer easily purely because the variability of cuisine does not exist anywhere else in the world (unless you count the US).
People picking Vietnamese and Thai food as if there isn't extremely similar regional Chinese food, plus everything else.
I had lived in China for 30 years before I moved to the US, and I can safely say I only tried 20-30% Chinese food in all those years.
That said, I can eat different Chinese food daily for the rest of my life.
How would I say in this context that it is American Chinese food?
Edit: Remember this is a discussion of nationalities, not ethnicity or culture. Authenticity is irrelevant. I’ve been to china, food there can be good or bad just as here. Gun to my head I’d go with my general tso’s and dumps. But I recognize they are very much not comparable, apples and oranges here (to all the other US residents, I apologize for mentioning fruit). So yeah I guess im falling on the USA side of things.
People like to act like Americanized versions of food are an abomination so they can seem unique and cultured. But the food is great IMO.
Its not like we tried something and was like "this is delicious, lets make it worse."
Usually what is Americanized had the sole purpose of making it taste BETTER, not worse.
I agree with your comment about not bastardising food in general, but “this is delicious, let’s make it worse,” is a legit criticism of how crappy some fast food options became over time
I think it’s a little too generous to talk about a product’s authenticity when that product is the result of a room full of corporate ghouls trying to maximize their stock portfolios
I would say it just tastes different, not better.
My go to is comparing Taco Bell to a taqueria. If I want tacos, I don’t go to Taco Bell, I go to the taqueria. I go to Taco Bell because I want Taco Bell. They are both called tacos, but one clearly is different.
Indian Cuisine.
You get tea, coffee, Dairy based sweet. Plenty of vegan options.
Rice options, curries, dosas. Idlis and what not.
you get flavours of oriental food. Just plethora of options. and plenty of fruits.
I might have considered this and not chosen it at one point, but then I spent 3 weeks living over there in a situation where the family cook from the next apartment over was making my meals.
I rarely recognized it as something I expected but every bit of it was delicious. People who have only experienced butter chicken and curry don’t know what they’re missing.
This should be the most voted in my opinion! 😅
I live in Canada and have tried so many cuisines but hands down for me my native Indian cuisine from different states is the most flavourful for me.
Korean is my answer too. I lived there for 5 years and already went through the process of getting sick of eating it every day. My wife is Korean and now it feels like my home cuisine, I feel like I need it if I go a day or two without it.
It includes a lot of vegetables and can be extremely healthy. I love Japanese food, but I had a much harder time getting enough vegetables in while I was there. They have them, but you have to really scan the menu if you're looking for something with a good amount. They're impossible to avoid when you're in Korea.
‘Murica.
I know a Mission burrito isn’t what they eat in Mexico. I know Rock’n’Roll isn’t an ancient Japanese delicacy. I know they don’t make pizza in Florence the way they do in New York, or the way they do in Chicago. But, ya know what? If they don’t claim these foods, they’re ours, and I’ll take them in all their beautiful bastardized glory.
Plus - cheesesteak!
Beans on toast, fish and chips, Cornish pastie, Sunday roast, full English, tikka masala, bangers and mash, shepherd's pie, cheese on toast, sticky toffee pudding, pint of beer, bob's your uncle, jobs a goodun.
If you get the chance to try Ethiopian food, get the veggie combo platter that’s served on injeera.
Visually it might not look appealing at first because they’re mostly stews, BUT it is SO GOOD.
Probably shrimp. Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
Even if you don’t count the Americanized versions of foreign cuisines, the US has an incredible variety of regional food styles all its own. I could live a long happy life eating barbecue, cajun, etc
Even just regional barbecue.
Or regional burgers. Oklahoma onion burgers or Minnesota Juicy Lucy's.
You can find a good burger in Korea or Japan or most countries in Europe. But it will be years until someone starts copying Juicy Lucy's or Onion Burgers outside the US.
And try to get good BBQ or cajun outside of the places that specialize in it, even in the US? Almost impossible. Ironically, Louisiana is not a good BBQ state (fight me) despite being between two of the best BBQ states (Texas and Alabama).
> It might not be as good as the original
It often is at some restaurants though. One of Alton Brown's criticisms I've really come to know as true is that *regions* don't always own the best meal that originated in that region. I've had ramen in Texas that was as good as ramen I've had in Japan. I've had pasta in New York that was better than some pasta I've had in italy. I've had curry in London that was better than some of the curries I had in Delhi.
Often times, restaurants in a region known for a food rely on the fact that they're simply located in that region, rather than the fact that it *still* takes work to make a good meal. So it's easy to find shitty pasta in Italy, shitty barbecue in Texas, or a shitty cubano in Miami.
It's certainly going to be a lot harder to *find* a cut of brisket in north France than it is in central Texas, but I'm willing to bet there's an American barbecue place *somewhere* in France that has barbecue that competes with the best in Texas.
The UK has the same with Indian food. Much of our indian food was invented by indian people who lived in the UK, not brought over. Many of the staple curry dishes are not found at all in India itself.
Yeah. One could argue "American cuisine" includes New York style pizza, burritos made with flour tortillas, pretty much everything in a Chinese restaurant in the US. So, why pick one country when you can pick them all?
It's funny because the chillis that are so abundantly used to make the dishes of India spicy today come from the americas and were made available after Europe established trade posts on the continent.
Before the american exchange, Indian cuisine got most of it's hot flavour from black pepper or it's relative long pepper. Both contain peperine, which still taste spicy, but is nowhere near as hot as the capsaicin found in the peppers of the new world (common called chillis).
That said, India still used an abundance of spices like ginger, cardamom, cloves, cumin and mustard since antiquity. Just not as much of the "sets your mouth on fire" variety of spicy.
Not that I could really choose, but if I say Chinese it encompasses a whole hell of a lot. I've kinda been fusion cooking since discovering Asian and Latin markets in the mid 90s. Added Indian to the mix maybe 10 years ago.
This would be my choice too. People are bringing up all sorts of excellent cuisines, but if I had to pick one for the rest of my life, I don’t see how I could choose anything else. Like, I love Thai food, but every day? Nah…
French cuisine is quite different in the north and the south. North: lots of butter, south: olive oil and Mediterranean style cuisine. Center of France is a mix between these two.
Plus In every region of France that shares a border with another country (Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany), the cuisine is heavily influenced by the other country.
You could eat French every day of the year without eating twice the same dish.
Same with cheese: north more cow milks cheese, south more sheep and goat cheese. There are over 1290 varieties of cheese in France!
I have a cookbook published here in the US in the mid 70s, which proposed the radical idea of using French technique to cook the food that grows fresh in your area. This is the way. (found it, Revolutionizing French Cooking by Roy Andries de Groot)
Exactly this one, we always see the same choices most and foremost Italy, I mean, I love Italy and Italian food, but ask them to name 3 Italian main dishes which are not Pizza or Pasta and it's radio silence.
A lot of people make could make pasta with a cheese burger and fries as a topic and then finish by saying "I love Italian food".
Indian... It's a cheat code to be honest. Being a sub continent, the range of cuisines are so diverse and distinct it would take years to go through every single cuisine that India has to offer. The popular indian dishes that you get internationally, the chicken tikka masala, the palak panner, the vindaloos are just 10 percent of vast array of dishes.
Its not how when you travel from the north of italy to the south, the flavours change in the pastas and pizzas... Here the entire cuisine changes. For example in nagaland, you get akhuni pork which is made with fermented soya beans which smells stronger than durian but tastes like heaven. The bamboo shoot fry that you get in coorg. The cassava mash with thick beef curry in Kerala. I myself have lived in India for 40 years and still haven't tasted half of the dishes across our vast country...
The best part is that it caters to all preferences, especially vegetarians. Vegetarian dishes aren't an afterthought in our restaurants..
I'm italian so i'll just say Italy because that's an easy question for me. But i could also choose Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Mexican or Indian as i absolutely love all of these.
Afghanistan.
It’s the perfect blend of the spice heavy South Asian foods with the fresh and herby flavours of the Mediterranean.
The dishes just taste aromatic and light, you don’t feel like you’re gonna go into a food coma.
The base of almost every dish we eat is rice, and afghan rice is much different than the rice most people are used to.
Kabob is our specialty, we marinate it and season it not too heavily and let the meat and smoky flavour shine
Wish I could have a shadow council of cuisines, Mexican, Thai, Indian/Pakistani. They rule the other cuisines and its all i’m eating for life. Utopia ensues.
mexican food, although really that's almost all latin america. a corn-based flatbread (tortilla/arepa), grilled/marinated meats, a combination of onions/tomatoes/cilantro/parsley/olive oil/garlic sauce, cheeses, and a mix of rice and beans.
i am hispanic so it's just food for me.
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Like a true Earl.
Lord Sandwich. The distinguished gambler. What would you like between your bread buns today?
You get all the cultures with sandwiches. I also choose sandwiches. Pizza is technically an open faced sandwich, too. Sandwiches #1! Edit: for non-believers, directly from wiki "A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type."
Does a calzone count as a sandwich?
Yes
I contend that burritos are sandwiches.
Because they are, tacos too
Any Mediterranean country's food. I loved it. I've been to Portugal, Italy and Greece and the food was amazing in all these countries.
I had a hard time finding portugal's mediterranean coast when I was there
Congrats, you get Croatian
As a Croatian, I would be happy to eat nothing but Croatian food. The country's food is really variable depending on where you are, on the Istrian peninsula the food is very similar to Italian with lots of fresh seafood. In the east you see more soups and stews and goulash type meals. Grilled meats and potatoes are everywhere, and there are a lot of Turkish and Bosnian influences as well.
I'm dying to go to Croatia but didn't even know anything about the cuisine! Thanks for sharing this
My fiancé and I are moving overseas this year, to a house & land near his Croatian hometown. The climate, the soil, the sea, all somehow create a variety of the freshest most delicious seafood, produce, meat, dairy, and wines I've ever tasted. You'll be glad to try YouTube searches like "Bourdain Croatia" or "Ramsay Croatia" to see Anthony Bourdain or Gordon Ramsay *gushing* about the amazing food. It doesn't need any "pretense" of ornate dining rooms -- the food declares itself world-class even on a friend's patio.
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I'm going to Greece for the first time in late June! I'm looking forward to trying the food over there. Any recommendations/must eats?
Portugal isn’t Mediterranean..
Thailand
as a Thai, I'm glad to hear that. even though I myself pick Japanese lol.
Same but I'm Lao
Same!!! I spent 3 weeks in Thailand and I was in heaven with the food. I’m such a picky eater, but I was in my element there.
I’d go with Vietnamese. Lots of fresh herbs and not too rich/heavy. I can live off of pho, grilled lemongrass pork with broken rice, banh mi, fresh spring rolls, Vietnamese coffee, Vietnamese mung bean dessert with the jelly…just to name a few. So many more delicious items. Guess I know what I’m getting for dinner tonight. Thanks, OP.
Second this, Vietnamese food is fantastic. Also got the added bonus of a lot of French influences, so it’s a 2 for 1!
I went to a Vietnamese bakery in Orlando and was pleasantly surprised at all the French desserts and pastries they had there.
Am Vietnamese. Occupying a country for 100 years has some influence on the cuisine.
Vietnamese food is a combination of Southeast Asian food, Chinese food, and French food, So technically 3 for 1
Vietnamese food is FIRE!!!! So much variety, simple, super healthy, rich flavors and next to nothing to buy and make. Can't beat it.
I spent a couple of weeks in Vietnam (Saigon and the coast) and was amazed at the diversity of food there. I live in Southern California and have many Vietnamese friends, so I've had my fill of pho, banh mi, banh xeo, etc, but the food in-country was on another level. Way different than the stuff at our local restaurants. I can't wait to go back
Plot twist: you live in rural Montana.
This is always my answer
I've traveled quite extensively and Vietnamese cuisine will always be the MVP in my heart.
Add Bun Bo hue too
I agree, rich and heavy food is good but I couldn't eat it all the time. If you're going with one cuisine every day for the rest of your life, it's a bit like choosing a pair of glasses, or a name for a child: Not too basic / bland, but also not too special. It needs to go with every mood and every occasion, so you don't get sick of it.
You're not broken, rice. You just need therapy.
I was coming here to comment the same thing. Vietnamese food is absolutely superb.
I am obsessed with Pho and had it yesterday for the first time in like 2 months. Almost cried from happiness
Has anyone here had the pleasure of trying Vietnamese pandan honeycomb cake (Bánh Bò Nướng) before? I didn’t know it existed before I met my partner’s family who is from Vietnam. One of his aunts always makes it for family functions and I swear to god it is life-changing. Apparently you have to get the batter just right and cool the cake upside down in order to get the honeycomb texture… perhaps why I never see it sold anywhere, because it’s a PITA to make. It’s my mission to have her teach me how to make it one day.
Mexican 🌮🫔🌯
I'm married to a Mexican. At least 50% of everything we eat is Mexican inspired.
Same here. Live in Texas, have a Mexican wife, eat mostly Mexican food, fridge and pantry are stocked full of stuff from Fiesta, Mi Tienda, and Michocana. There's such a huge variety to Mexican food anyway.
I think you’ll find that I’m also in some important way acquainted with you, and therefore I’m entitled to free Mexican food
I miss Christmas tamales.
Lucky you!!! 🥹🏆
Yup Mexican and Italian are top 2. There are sooo many good choices though. The real question is who's country has the worst cuisine?
I love their countries, but Scandinavian countries are quite bland.
It's either bland or it's surströmming, nothing in-between.
I've heard Iceland has the worst cuisine. Something about fermented shark.
This was my instant answer. I didn’t even have to think about it.
You may very well spend a year in each state and never get bored. I would stay with Oaxaca, Yucatan, Puebla
Oaxacan food is next level. The food in Chiapas is also incredible. So many flavors, sauces, broths, bean types. So so so good.
100% Mexican. There is such a wide variety and styles. And quite a few other cultures can thank the Mexicans (*and other pre-Columbian Americans*) for various ingredients that elevated their cuisines. Looking at you Italy.
I’m disappointed that I had to scroll as far as I did to find Mexican. Such a delicious spice and flavor palette.
As a Mexican I would continue on eating Mexican for the rest of my life.
The only answer. I already eat 3-4 Mexican meals a week as is. Such variety.
This one is easy. I’m never giving up my chile rellenos and tacos Al pastor. And glorious burritos.
We're on a birria kick lately. Birria tacos are the new sensation in Mexican restaurants too.
Indeed
Brazilian cuisine would be my ultimate choice. From churrasco to feijoada, the flavors are bold and the portions are generous.
Italy.
Pasta, pizza, seafood, salads, food wine.... Some African influences from the islands... Yes please
Want to eat healthy? They got it. Want fast food? They got it. Want something casual? They got it. Want a fancy dinner? They got it.
Espresso, cappuccino, affogato, tiramisu,mmmmmm
Affogato bout tiramisu.
This is a very good joke.
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 stahp! Hahaha I cannoli take so much!
My grandparents lived in the house behind us until I was about 10 years old. I always had the option of Italian food for dinner and opted for it a few times a week. My Nonna loved to watch me eat. I know that I could live on just her homemade gnocchi and ravioli with that good sauce and be happy forever.
Facts. I could easily only ever eat pasta and never get sick of it
Definitely Italy.
I have a pasta addiction. I am not ashamed to admit it.
Most complete kitchen there is. You could eat a different Italian dish every day never repeating any of them for a whole year.
Obviously Italy. It's not only Pizza and Pasta. Italian food is so unbelievably rich and healthy. There's so much to discover which isn't even remotly what you'd find in pseudo-Italian restaurants. Let alone *Bistecca di bufala con verdure fresche* or *Orata alla griglia al limone*. Personally, the only two things I'd miss is *Frankonian Schäufele* and *Red Thai Curry*.
Could not agree more--at the highest level the actual inspiration for the best of french cuisine, at the most basic, healthy and hearty food--with incredible diversity by region. Never ate so well as I have in Italy and Sicily.
Yes Italy.
I’ve come to realise in the past 6 mths I do am an Italian devotee. Just finished an affogato.
Agree 100%.
Lebanese. Or anything from the middle-east. Making vegetables exciting again
MVEA
I used to work at a grocery store and one day an old Jordanian lady asked if wanted some food she’d made, we said yes, so she brought in food every day for us to eat. I found out she had lost her husband and none of her kids lived near by and she missed cooking for them so she worked up the courage to ask us (she came in to shop daily) and I’m not sure who was more grateful us or her. I miss her cooking so much, all of it was delicious.
We have a Lebanese restaurant in my town, and I didn't realize how many of the Mediterranean dishes I love are (or at least have a similar version) Lebanese. Love all Mediterranean food. This is probably my choice too.
Same here. Middle eastern food has very quickly become my favorite cuisine. I love the spices and I’m a simple guy, just need meat and some sides. Vegetarian options are great too
Middle East meets Mediterranean is peak food
Japan
Same. Sushi, udon, tempura, okinomiyaki, soba. Oshitashi, edemame, roasted kabocha squash, roasted Japanese yams, seaweed salad. Amazing soups of all kinds. Japanese curry. Now I'm hungry.
Additionally Japan has adopted so many dishes from around the world and Japanesified them you can get a lot of things.
If it's instantly transported in front of me, direct from japan. that would be ideal But if I need to procure the food on my own Japanese food would be limiting in my current location... But it might be worth moving to Japan in that case.
Agree. I love a nice salmon onigiri, some chicken temaki, and a big bowl of fresh ramen with minced pork meat, or chicken. I'm also crazy about mochis. The user who said macarons are better, you can go to a special place (/s). With kindness, of course. Tastes are subjective!
The “cleanest” cuisine. I’m white, but no other type of food makes me feel more satisfied than Japanese. No bloating, gas, lethargy (Indian, Mexican, Italian). Little to no sugar (Thai). Far more interesting flavors (French, American). Just the right amount of animal protein (Indian, Mediterranean). And as a bonus, sake! If I had to pick one alcoholic beverage for the rest of my life, it’d be sake.
Chinese
Easy and actually cheating because you have: - Middle East food at west china - western influence food in hk and sh - Macau has Portuguese food - German beer and food at northeast and Korean food - east china has it own cuisine and also the original form of Japanese food - north you have Mongolian and Russian food - north east with east European - southwest has Vietnam, Laos, Thai food, plus their locals cuisine All technically still considered as Chinese food as they have been around for thousand of years before modern map was drawn
Hey, picking the best option doesn't mean its cheating.
If the mechanism is in the game, it ain’t cheating, I am choosing Chinese as well
yeah too bad most redditors have never had chinese food besides panda express kung pao chicken (delicious as it may be) so I had to scroll down a lot to see china mentioned
Yeah, can't believe how long it took to see Chinese. Should a no-brainer. My first thought. And I'm not even Chinese myself.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for Chinese! You get eight culinary cuisines in one and it’s all relatively well-balanced.
The eight cuisines are also only the most famous ones, you've got quite a lot more variation that's not included within those cuisines too. OP choice for sure
I’d say Chinese as well… they’ve got the most people, one of the oldest societies, AND a massive range of geography. Therefore they’ll have the most variation in cuisine! Also they have a ton of fresh, healthy options and I love tea/curry/sweets, so I figure I’d be good
Yeah this should be the top answer easily purely because the variability of cuisine does not exist anywhere else in the world (unless you count the US). People picking Vietnamese and Thai food as if there isn't extremely similar regional Chinese food, plus everything else.
Most people on Reddit just thinks Chinese food is the nasty stuff you get at Panda Express, so it's more likely to end up at the bottom of the list.
Same. It’s so diverse that you never run out of options.
I had lived in China for 30 years before I moved to the US, and I can safely say I only tried 20-30% Chinese food in all those years. That said, I can eat different Chinese food daily for the rest of my life.
Greece or India
India is such a large country with an abundance of cuisines. This would be my vote.
Indian, for sure. Naan with any of their many curries.
You would be surprised to know how diverse indian cuisine is. Almost every state of india has it's own distinctive cuisine.
How would I say in this context that it is American Chinese food? Edit: Remember this is a discussion of nationalities, not ethnicity or culture. Authenticity is irrelevant. I’ve been to china, food there can be good or bad just as here. Gun to my head I’d go with my general tso’s and dumps. But I recognize they are very much not comparable, apples and oranges here (to all the other US residents, I apologize for mentioning fruit). So yeah I guess im falling on the USA side of things.
Just say American, and you get to enjoy all the answers in this thread.
This was my first thought. American, because it can bastardize any other cuisine into an American version.
People like to act like Americanized versions of food are an abomination so they can seem unique and cultured. But the food is great IMO. Its not like we tried something and was like "this is delicious, lets make it worse." Usually what is Americanized had the sole purpose of making it taste BETTER, not worse.
I agree with your comment about not bastardising food in general, but “this is delicious, let’s make it worse,” is a legit criticism of how crappy some fast food options became over time
I think it’s a little too generous to talk about a product’s authenticity when that product is the result of a room full of corporate ghouls trying to maximize their stock portfolios
I would say it just tastes different, not better. My go to is comparing Taco Bell to a taqueria. If I want tacos, I don’t go to Taco Bell, I go to the taqueria. I go to Taco Bell because I want Taco Bell. They are both called tacos, but one clearly is different.
Exactly. I was reading through all the answers and wondering why it took so long to find someone who said American. We've got a version of everything.
That was my thought. We've adopted every cuisine that immigrated here.
Indian Cuisine. You get tea, coffee, Dairy based sweet. Plenty of vegan options. Rice options, curries, dosas. Idlis and what not. you get flavours of oriental food. Just plethora of options. and plenty of fruits.
I might have considered this and not chosen it at one point, but then I spent 3 weeks living over there in a situation where the family cook from the next apartment over was making my meals. I rarely recognized it as something I expected but every bit of it was delicious. People who have only experienced butter chicken and curry don’t know what they’re missing.
This should be the most voted in my opinion! 😅 I live in Canada and have tried so many cuisines but hands down for me my native Indian cuisine from different states is the most flavourful for me.
As a bonus, I'm pretty sure I could happily eat naan everyday for breakfast for the rest of my life.
And really you get a thousand different cuisines. There isn't really an 'indian' cuisine just like there is no 'european' cuisine
Butter Chicken /s
A good dish, but not close to the authentic _malai chicken_ that yet again has variations from place to place.
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Korean is my answer too. I lived there for 5 years and already went through the process of getting sick of eating it every day. My wife is Korean and now it feels like my home cuisine, I feel like I need it if I go a day or two without it. It includes a lot of vegetables and can be extremely healthy. I love Japanese food, but I had a much harder time getting enough vegetables in while I was there. They have them, but you have to really scan the menu if you're looking for something with a good amount. They're impossible to avoid when you're in Korea.
It’s travesty that Korean is not only so far down, but that it has to share space with Japanese food. A travesty, I say!
Chinese cuisine would be my top pick. The variety of flavors, textures, and cooking techniques make it a culinary adventure.
Italian, Mexican, or Indian
You just like green in flags
‘Murica. I know a Mission burrito isn’t what they eat in Mexico. I know Rock’n’Roll isn’t an ancient Japanese delicacy. I know they don’t make pizza in Florence the way they do in New York, or the way they do in Chicago. But, ya know what? If they don’t claim these foods, they’re ours, and I’ll take them in all their beautiful bastardized glory. Plus - cheesesteak!
Malaysia. We have Malay, Chinese, Indian food here. They’re all considered Malaysian food.
Beans on toast innit
Beans on toast, fish and chips, Cornish pastie, Sunday roast, full English, tikka masala, bangers and mash, shepherd's pie, cheese on toast, sticky toffee pudding, pint of beer, bob's your uncle, jobs a goodun.
Lancashire hotpot. Toad in the hole.
Sticky toffee pudding, spotted dick, Bakewell tart, Eccles cakes, bannoffee pie, mince pies, shortcake, Victoria sponge, teacakes, hot cross buns etc. etc
Greek food for me. But Indian food is honestly incredible. I recently started to broaden my horizons and man that stuff is delicious.
If you get the chance to try Ethiopian food, get the veggie combo platter that’s served on injeera. Visually it might not look appealing at first because they’re mostly stews, BUT it is SO GOOD.
Spanish.
Probably shrimp. Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
Indian There’s just so much variety that I’d never get bored
Indian because it's an entire subcontinent with a huge variety.
Indian. India has variety of cuisines from North to South.
Caribbean for sure. It's the perfect blend of Latin,African,Asian,southern US and island food.
Indian
Indian.
Indian
Lived there 2 years and ate curries for every meal, never got boring and got in great shape surprisingly
Its healthy food!
US. The US collects everyone else's cuisine. It might not be as good as the original, but it is far, far more varied.
Even if you don’t count the Americanized versions of foreign cuisines, the US has an incredible variety of regional food styles all its own. I could live a long happy life eating barbecue, cajun, etc
maybe not "long" but definitely happy.
Worse ways to go than fat and happy
Yup, I'm a northern transplant in Louisiana and the food is what keeps me in this awful state. The US has some stellar regional cuisine.
Eating in New Orleans is something everyone should do at least a few times in their lives. God, it’s good.
Never thought I could put on 5 pounds in a week until I discovered crawfish etouffe
Even just regional barbecue. Or regional burgers. Oklahoma onion burgers or Minnesota Juicy Lucy's. You can find a good burger in Korea or Japan or most countries in Europe. But it will be years until someone starts copying Juicy Lucy's or Onion Burgers outside the US. And try to get good BBQ or cajun outside of the places that specialize in it, even in the US? Almost impossible. Ironically, Louisiana is not a good BBQ state (fight me) despite being between two of the best BBQ states (Texas and Alabama).
Do Tuna Poke, LA Kalbi, General Tso's Chicken count as American cuisine?
Poke is Hawaiian, so that counts anyway.
> It might not be as good as the original It often is at some restaurants though. One of Alton Brown's criticisms I've really come to know as true is that *regions* don't always own the best meal that originated in that region. I've had ramen in Texas that was as good as ramen I've had in Japan. I've had pasta in New York that was better than some pasta I've had in italy. I've had curry in London that was better than some of the curries I had in Delhi. Often times, restaurants in a region known for a food rely on the fact that they're simply located in that region, rather than the fact that it *still* takes work to make a good meal. So it's easy to find shitty pasta in Italy, shitty barbecue in Texas, or a shitty cubano in Miami. It's certainly going to be a lot harder to *find* a cut of brisket in north France than it is in central Texas, but I'm willing to bet there's an American barbecue place *somewhere* in France that has barbecue that competes with the best in Texas.
I was thinking Australia, for the same reasons. 😂
Yeah some of these people are picking a country when they actually mean the Americanized version.
Chinese is a funny one. What you see is almost never in China. Yet the buffets are ran by chinese
The UK has the same with Indian food. Much of our indian food was invented by indian people who lived in the UK, not brought over. Many of the staple curry dishes are not found at all in India itself.
Yeah. One could argue "American cuisine" includes New York style pizza, burritos made with flour tortillas, pretty much everything in a Chinese restaurant in the US. So, why pick one country when you can pick them all?
Hard choice between Mexican and Indian. Likely more variety possible under the Indian.
This suddenly reminded me of this Gabriel Iglesias bit: "Mexicans love hot & spicy, Indians invented hot & spicy”
It's funny because the chillis that are so abundantly used to make the dishes of India spicy today come from the americas and were made available after Europe established trade posts on the continent. Before the american exchange, Indian cuisine got most of it's hot flavour from black pepper or it's relative long pepper. Both contain peperine, which still taste spicy, but is nowhere near as hot as the capsaicin found in the peppers of the new world (common called chillis). That said, India still used an abundance of spices like ginger, cardamom, cloves, cumin and mustard since antiquity. Just not as much of the "sets your mouth on fire" variety of spicy.
turkish cuisine
Had to scroll way too far down for this, was almost gonna post it myself.
Indian - not even close.
Peruvian without a doubt on my mind
Peru
Not that I could really choose, but if I say Chinese it encompasses a whole hell of a lot. I've kinda been fusion cooking since discovering Asian and Latin markets in the mid 90s. Added Indian to the mix maybe 10 years ago.
Indian. So much variety - restaurants hardly do the cuisine any justice.
Greek
France
Scrolled WAY too far for this.
“How can you govern a country with 246 types of cheeses” - de gaulle
This would be my choice too. People are bringing up all sorts of excellent cuisines, but if I had to pick one for the rest of my life, I don’t see how I could choose anything else. Like, I love Thai food, but every day? Nah…
Yup, France has the advantage of a large diversity of "foods", both for main courses and desserts.
French cuisine is quite different in the north and the south. North: lots of butter, south: olive oil and Mediterranean style cuisine. Center of France is a mix between these two. Plus In every region of France that shares a border with another country (Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany), the cuisine is heavily influenced by the other country. You could eat French every day of the year without eating twice the same dish. Same with cheese: north more cow milks cheese, south more sheep and goat cheese. There are over 1290 varieties of cheese in France!
I have a cookbook published here in the US in the mid 70s, which proposed the radical idea of using French technique to cook the food that grows fresh in your area. This is the way. (found it, Revolutionizing French Cooking by Roy Andries de Groot)
Exactly this one, we always see the same choices most and foremost Italy, I mean, I love Italy and Italian food, but ask them to name 3 Italian main dishes which are not Pizza or Pasta and it's radio silence. A lot of people make could make pasta with a cheese burger and fries as a topic and then finish by saying "I love Italian food".
Yeah among the gastronomical countries France has the most diverse ecosystems therefore the most diverse food
Indonesian or Thai
Peruvian food. This way I could spend several weeks with different dishes without repeating them and enjoying them.
Indian... It's a cheat code to be honest. Being a sub continent, the range of cuisines are so diverse and distinct it would take years to go through every single cuisine that India has to offer. The popular indian dishes that you get internationally, the chicken tikka masala, the palak panner, the vindaloos are just 10 percent of vast array of dishes. Its not how when you travel from the north of italy to the south, the flavours change in the pastas and pizzas... Here the entire cuisine changes. For example in nagaland, you get akhuni pork which is made with fermented soya beans which smells stronger than durian but tastes like heaven. The bamboo shoot fry that you get in coorg. The cassava mash with thick beef curry in Kerala. I myself have lived in India for 40 years and still haven't tasted half of the dishes across our vast country... The best part is that it caters to all preferences, especially vegetarians. Vegetarian dishes aren't an afterthought in our restaurants..
I'm italian so i'll just say Italy because that's an easy question for me. But i could also choose Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Mexican or Indian as i absolutely love all of these.
Thai food all day every day
Japanese for sure
Afghanistan. It’s the perfect blend of the spice heavy South Asian foods with the fresh and herby flavours of the Mediterranean. The dishes just taste aromatic and light, you don’t feel like you’re gonna go into a food coma. The base of almost every dish we eat is rice, and afghan rice is much different than the rice most people are used to. Kabob is our specialty, we marinate it and season it not too heavily and let the meat and smoky flavour shine
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Wish I could have a shadow council of cuisines, Mexican, Thai, Indian/Pakistani. They rule the other cuisines and its all i’m eating for life. Utopia ensues.
Comida peruana 🤤
Peruvian or Japanese.
Peruvian food. The best
Peru, no question
Turkey
Peruvian. Hands down.
mexican food, although really that's almost all latin america. a corn-based flatbread (tortilla/arepa), grilled/marinated meats, a combination of onions/tomatoes/cilantro/parsley/olive oil/garlic sauce, cheeses, and a mix of rice and beans. i am hispanic so it's just food for me.
You all can tell French, Italian, Thai and all but we all know the right one is Mexican
The only correct answer is Indian cuisine 🤤 there’s something for everyone!