What's Your Favorite Nationality of Food

[rexbobcat]

Kind of a random question, but I was just thinking about how I could eat Thai food literally every day for the rest of my life. I love the spices/spiciness and the emphasis on complex flavor profiles in every dish.

Plus they seem to use cilantro a lot, which I love. I would roll cilantro and smoke it if I could. #truth

 

[limr30 3]

Kind of a random question, but I was just thinking about how I could eat Thai food literally every day for the rest of my life. I love the spices/spiciness and the emphasis on complex flavor profiles in every dish.

Plus they seem to use cilantro a lot, which I love. If I could roll cilantro and smoke it, I would.

You probably could, y'know.

I love cilantro, too. I'll add it to just about anything.

I tend to like cuisines from warmer climates. I grew up on a Mediterranean diet and that food still feels the most familiar, but I tend to cook using a lot of Indian spices. I also love Thai and Moroccan, Mexican...

The heavier meals that you tend to find in colder climates, like German or Scandinavian food never really did it for me.

 

[Designer]

Mexican, although I would not choose to have that at every meal.

 

[runnah]

Japanese. I love sushi and the fact that every thing is so "light" tasting and not heavy.

 

[ronlane]

I would have to say Mexican but it's probably more like Tex-Mex than traditional Mexican. Although, Italian and Chinese would be high up the list too.

What nationality would you consider grilled steaks???? lol

 

[rexbobcat]

Kind of a random question, but I was just thinking about how I could eat Thai food literally every day for the rest of my life. I love the spices/spiciness and the emphasis on complex flavor profiles in every dish.

Plus they seem to use cilantro a lot, which I love. If I could roll cilantro and smoke it, I would.

You probably could, y'know.

I love cilantro, too. I'll add it to just about anything.

I tend to like cuisines from warmer climates. I grew up on a Mediterranean diet and that food still feels the most familiar, but I tend to cook using a lot of Indian spices. I also love Thai and Moroccan, Mexican...

The heavier meals that you tend to find in colder climates, like German or Scandinavian food never really did it for me.

I love Indian curry, but yeah I've never been big on German food, which is odd, since it's very hearty and I generally love that stuff. But mostly it's pretty meh.

 

[rexbobcat]

Japanese. I love sushi and the fact that every thing is so "light" tasting and not heavy.

I grew up in the Southwest where there's a big emphasis on meat dishes (steak and pork), soul food, and Tex-Mex, so I think that's probably why I really prefer richer, heavier dishes.

I like some sushi, but it seems like Japanese food often comes at a premium compared to other Asian cuisine (not just talking about sushi but in general). Otherwise I would probably eat more of it.

 

[sm4him]

I'm a pretty big fan of American food.
Even bigger fan of American SOUTHERN cooking.

I'm picky. Picky, picky, picky. As a kid, it's a wonder I even survived, I was so picky. As an adult, I've learned to eat--and enjoy--way more than I used to, but I'm still really picky, and not very adventurous about my food. I'm especially wary of sauces, because there is an extremely complex algorithm of rules that have to be processed for me to decide whether I find a particular sauce acceptable (example: sausage gravy is OK, but ALL salad dressing is automatically rejected, whether it's creamy, balsamic or something else…).
It's funny--I'll try a new restaurant, but once I've been a couple of times, I'll settle into a pattern and order the same thing Every. Single. Time. If it's a place I REALLY like, I might have as many as two or three menu options to rotate between. :lol;

That said, I tend to love most Mexican food. The spicier the better.
I love hot, spicy things…and yet, I do NOT like a lot of mid-Eastern food because…reasons.

We have a Thai restaurant here everyone just LOVES; one of my son's favorite places. I always HATED it, because there was NOTHING I could stand to take more than three bites of on the menu. But then I finally discovered their Massaman Curry, made as spicy as they'll make it and then some "extra spice" on the side (they have a sliding "spicy" scale from 0-5 that you can order from). I can't get enough of that stuff!!

I have a friend from Ethiopia--a couple of years ago, for Thanksgiving, she made this Ethiopian beef dish that was INCREDIBLE. Only problem is, I have no idea what it was or even what all was in it. But it was HOT and good.

 

[sm4him]

Sushi= NO. Call it what you want, but unless you COOK that fish, I ain't eatin' it.

 

[shefjr]

Sushi= NO. Call it what you want, but unless you COOK that fish, I ain't eatin' it.

You're missing out! When prepared correctly it's delicious.

 

[limr30 3]

Mmm, sushi.

 

[snowbear115 47]

I love sushi - it catches all kinds of fish to cook & eat.

I couldn't limit myself to a single nationality -- Italian, Thai, Chinese, Cajun, other Southern American, Tex-Mex/Mexican, British, French . . ."

 

[webestang6412 1]

Italian.....because I'm Italian.....

 

[runnah]

Japanese. I love sushi and the fact that every thing is so "light" tasting and not heavy.

I grew up in the Southwest where there's a big emphasis on meat dishes (steak and pork), soul food, and Tex-Mex, so I think that's probably why I really prefer richer, heavier dishes.

I like some sushi, but it seems like Japanese food often comes at a premium compared to other Asian cuisine (not just talking about sushi but in general). Otherwise I would probably eat more of it.

Americanized Asian food is pretty terrible. Lots of oil and and grease. Traditional Asian food is very light on oils and grease. Vietnamese food is particularly good.

Sushi was at one point a very luxury type meal but now is very common which has devastated the fish populations.

I do like steaks and BBQ quite a bit. Again tho I think Mexican food has been Americanized to the point of some of the traditional aspects being lost.

 

[weepete]

BBQ food.

I also like a lot of foods from a lot of different countries. I'd find it difficult not to have a full Scottish breakfast once in a while and I also like Indian food, Middle Eastern food, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Malasian dishes. I tend towards the spicy too