American Chinese food is its own thing. Think of its relation to authentic Chinese as similar to that between Tex-Mex cuisine and Mexican food. Done well, it’s great, but it’s kind of disgusting when poorly executed.
Definitely agree on the top 4, but not in that order.
Imo:
- Indian
- Italian
- Mexican
- Chinese
Edit: actually we agree on the top 6, but it’s a big gap down to Greek and Thai
My OH agrees with my top 3 ordering, but 4th place for her is traditional English (roast dinner, steak and ale pie, steak and chips etc)
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I have nfi what that is but I’m excited by it. It girds my English loins and conjures up visions of gentle summer days of dastardly games like cricket.
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Stargazy pie
Just finished that story. Some crazy shit. In addition to bribing USC, they bribed the DMV and maybe the organ transplant system.
Chinese is the only one I don’t have much real experience with in its home country. I went on a two-week bus tour of China with my extended family, which was cool considering there was no way they were going to see China any other way.
But most of the time we were at these cattle-call tourist restaurants with a giant round table and a rotating serving platform in the middle. After a while, some of us started betting on if the “big fish” would come out before the desert, or not. But we did manage to hit a few decent places, including Szechuan and the best dumplings in Shanghai - which were insane.
I was just going by all the food shows I watch, and mainly Bourdain who has some quote that goes like “In the heart of every great chef is a Chinese cook”.
He certainly seemed to think China was the motherlode of cuisine.
What do you mean by great? The tastiest? Most influential? I highly doubt you’d enjoy “Chinese food” in China (obviously that would differ so much depending on the region) more than any other cuisine.
I enjoyed dumplings and spicy Szechuan food, and the street food wherever we went. I’d really like to spend time exploring the best of all the different regions.
I also really like most Americanized Chinese food. I’d love to explore the actual authentic source of kung pao chicken, spring rolls, hot/sour soup, sweet and sour pork, peking duck, moo shoo pork, etc.
I’m not saying you won’t enjoy some, of course you would. But my bet is that if you go on a month long food tour of each of those countries/cuisines, it’s very unlikely that you would rank Chinese at the top imo (I don’t actually mean you specifically, just Westerns in general)
You don’t want to know and I’m upset with you for pointing it out. It’s horrific. Grunching so I don’t know if it’s been answered but I’m going to tell you because you made me suffer
It’s sticking objects down your dick hole
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Maybe so. I’d like to find out.
Mexican cuisine in Mexico compared to American Mexican cuisine is like night and day. And I like both, which is the crazy thing.
But I like American Mexican cuisine in a comfort food kind of way, whereas the Mexican version just blows me away in a foodie way. And I know I just scratched the surface of great cuisine in Mexico.
I’ll stick to docking TYVM. Just need an uncircumcised partner.
sigh gotta update the Death Pool
RIP
This is true. Chinese food in America really should be considered American adaptations of food from Chinese-speaking Countries.
As for Chinese food in China, mixed feelings. I wouldn’t touch seafood there with a ten foot pole. Germaphobes and people who care about western etiquette should steer clear because slurping and bone-spitting can be very unappealing. But going to a place with fresh, hand-pulled noodles… I’m getting hungry thinking about it.
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I don‘t think Germany has anything that can be considered a national dish. It‘s all very regional. Currywurst is a popular fast food item but based on the witnessed enthusiasm for it I can already guess with some confidence Mrs.J wasn‘t in the southern half of Germany.
German food won‘t come close to any global top 10 lists. It has its moments but the competition is too stiff.
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True. I guess southern Germany eg Bavaria is more traditional German fare?
Google suggests sauerbraten as best candidate for the German national dish.
Not quite. Bavaria has traditional Bavarian fare.
Going to Bavaria is colloquially called „crossing the white sausage equator“ because instead of Bratwurst Bavarians prefer Weisswurst. A very popular traditional dish is Weisswurst with sweet mustard and Pretzels. You‘ll be hard-pressed to find it outside of Bavaria.
I did some googling regarding a German national dish and according to a poll the most popular dishes are: roasted potato wedges, potato pancakes, veal roulades, pork roasts and Schnitzel.
Giving a short description of German cuisine as „meat and potatoes“ sounds very accurate to me.
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Japan not being top 3 is a huge leak.
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