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Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:48 pm  |
What's your fav food of each culture? Obviously, we can't try everything and everything we try may not be authentic but just a general list would be nice:
French: Truffles and Morel mushrooms on a main dishes/ Pastries
Vietnamese: Pho
Latin: Ceviche
Indian: Butter Chicken
Chinese: Scheuan Beef
South East Asian: Satays
Thai: Coconut/Mango sticky rice desserts
Hawaiian: Haupia cake/ Panko fish dishes
One of my fav. dishes is avacado,crab,mango, scallop salad. I don't know what group it belongs to  |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:57 pm |
| Fish tacos, I could eat them 7 days a week. |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:07 pm |
I've never tried fish tacos. Sounds tasty!
I like:
Filipino - pancit
Thai - pad thai
Ukrainian - perogies (potato cheddar - home made, that is)
Indian - tandoori chicken
German - any of their wonderful breads!
Persian - it is this rice dish, where you have potatoes fried on the bottom and the rice is steamed, I don't recall the name
Middle eastern - their baklava, soo soo tasty!
That's all that comes to mind, right off the top of my head. I know there's many more, though (ugh, I am SO hungry now ... dinner will be ready in 30 mins). |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:14 pm |
Pho
Dumplings
Wonton soup
Sweet & sour soup
Stir fried noodles
Anything noodles!! I'm a noodle girl!!
Veggie beef rice noodle soup
Fresh sugar cane drinks
Thai tea!!  |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:12 pm |
* Mexican food -- I love authentic Mexican and even Tex-Mex. 
* Greek -- gyros, lamb dishes, etc.
* Chinese -- nearly anything, really!
* Italian -- anything parmesan! |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:16 pm |
I have to include that SPEGHETTI is my favorite food, and I can't live without it!!
Italian 
I also love beans.. Mexican food! 
I know curry sounds strange.. But I love my dad's curry!! |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:36 pm |
I LOVE to cook and eat so it's too hard for me to pick just one dish. Here are some of my favs:
Italian - Pasta (all kinds), Pizza, Cheeses, (and so many more)
Mexican - Mole Poblano de Guajolote, Fajitas, Enchiladas, Empanadas (so many more here too)
French - Crepes, Escargot, Chateau Briande, Coq au Vin, Cheeses
Cajun - Gumbo, Jamabalaya, Blackened Catfish
Mediterranean/Middle Eastern - Hummus, Baba Ganoush, Couscous, Falafel
Spanish - Paella, Tapas
Peruvian - Ceviche
Carribean - Jerk Chicken, Roti
Polish - Pierogis,
South African - Ostrich Steaks, Braii, Potjiekos
Indian - Samosas, Roti, Chutney, Curries
Thai - Green Curry Shrimp or Chicken, Pad Thai, Chicken Satay
I could go on and on... And let's not even mention desserts!!  Mmmmm I'm so hungry now. LOL |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:43 pm |
| wildflower wrote: |
I LOVE to cook and eat so it's too hard for me to pick just one dish. Here are some of my favs:
Italian - Pasta (all kinds), Pizza, Cheeses, (and so many more)
Mexican - Mole Poblano de Guajolote, Fajitas, Enchiladas, Empanadas (so many more here too)
French - Crepes, Escargot, Chateau Briande, Coq au Vin, Cheeses
Cajun - Gumbo, Jamabalaya, Blackened Catfish
Mediterranean/Middle Eastern - Hummus, Baba Ganoush, Couscous, Falafel
Spanish - Paella, Tapas
Peruvian - Ceviche
Carribean - Jerk Chicken, Roti
Polish - Pierogis,
South African - Ostrich Steaks, Braii, Potjiekos
Indian - Samosas, Roti, Chutney, Curries
Thai - Green Curry Shrimp or Chicken, Pad Thai, Chicken Satay
I could go on and on... And let's not even mention desserts!! Mmmmm I'm so hungry now. LOL |
You're making me soooo HUNGRY!  Now I have to go to the grocery store once I'm done watching my show!  |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:46 pm |
| poohlisey wrote: |
| You're making me soooo HUNGRY! Now I have to go to the grocery store once I'm done watching my show! |
Sorry! LOL  |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:56 pm |
Afghani: ashegooshti!!!
Indian: dosa, bindi bagee (okra)
Polish: borscht w/ mushroom dumplings, pierogi, tomato soup, white borscht, pickle soup, many more
Middle Eastern: foul muddammas (fava beans)
Chinese: dim sum, soup dumplings, duck noodle soup
Vietnamese: pho
Peruvian: spicy halibut ceviche down the street
Japanese: hiyayako (cold tofu)
American: bacon and eggs, mac n cheese, malted milk, frozen microwavable dinners! |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:16 pm |
Well, as a native Southern California girl, top of my list is:
- Mexican!
Next and in no particular order is:
- Italian (my Italian Mom's cooking - major drool!)
- American Bar-B-Que and Southern cooking which crosses cultures with Soul Food (my Southern Pa's cooking - major drool 2!)
- Greek
- Chinese
- Persian
- Spanish
- Peruvian
- French
- Thai
You could feed me almost anything from any of these ethnicities and I'd eat it. What I won't eat EVER - sushi (the raw kind)! The thought makes me *shiver*. I had a friend who got violently ill from sushi and I've never touched the stuff since. |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:25 pm |
| wildflower wrote: |
I LOVE to cook and eat so it's too hard for me to pick just one dish. Here are some of my favs:
Italian - Pasta (all kinds), Pizza, Cheeses, (and so many more)
Mexican - Mole Poblano de Guajolote, Fajitas, Enchiladas, Empanadas (so many more here too)
French - Crepes, Escargot, Chateau Briande, Coq au Vin, Cheeses
Cajun - Gumbo, Jamabalaya, Blackened Catfish
Mediterranean/Middle Eastern - Hummus, Baba Ganoush, Couscous, Falafel
Spanish - Paella, Tapas
Peruvian - Ceviche
Carribean - Jerk Chicken, Roti
Polish - Pierogis,
South African - Ostrich Steaks, Braii, Potjiekos
Indian - Samosas, Roti, Chutney, Curries
Thai - Green Curry Shrimp or Chicken, Pad Thai, Chicken Satay
I could go on and on... And let's not even mention desserts!! Mmmmm I'm so hungry now. LOL |
Do you know that chicken satay is originally Indonesian? I think it's the Thai restaurants that have made it famous as a Thai dish. I'm Thai and I didn't know that either |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:41 pm |
For me, I love:
Thai - Pad Thai, Kai Kua, chicken mint-leave dish, mango with sticky rice, coconut ice cream
Chinese - Kung Pao chicken, orange chicken, chow-mein noodles
Indian - Chicken Tikka Masala, Mango Lassi
Japanese - Spider rolls |
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Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:42 pm |
| marci65 wrote: |
* Mexican food -- I love authentic Mexican and even Tex-Mex.
* Greek -- gyros, lamb dishes, etc. |
OMG, I LOVE gyros, yummy! And authentic mexican as well as tex-mex is a favorite as well for me  (mmmm, Taco Bell and Chipotle ).
I'm Russian (born in Ukraine), so I love all the basics such as:
-boilion (made fresh with chicken and carrots)
-plov (rice/curry/meat dish)
-chibureki (huge deep-fried dough with meat inside)
-pilmeni (boiled in water- dough and meat)
ETC.
Vietnamese- Pho! (however I have a weird thing for texture of the foods I eat, so I have to get it with meats that are recognizable to me  ).
Chinese- Lo mein, sesame anything, fried/ steamed rice, dumplings
American- Steak, sweet potatoes, fish taco's (Del Taco's are pretty good), cotton candy, chicken pot pie.
The list can go on and on. I'll think of more later on =). Keep 'em coming everyone, your giving me ideas of what to eat this week! |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:51 am |
Just my very favourites, otherwise the list would be a heck of a lot longer:
English - sausages, pork pies, pies and pasties in general, mashed potato, sage and onion stuffing, jam rolypoly, spotted dick, regional cheeses, clotted cream, whole strawberry jam, sausage rolls, Bakewell tart/pudding, cheese scones, fruit and savoury crumbles, leek pudding, drop scones, steak pudding, onion gravy, battered sausage, Cumberland sauce (basically, anything that's really unhealthy - you get the picture)
Irish - champ, potato cakes
French - chocolates, pâtisseries of almost any kind (but especially chocolate), crème fraïche (especially on pizzas), tartes flambées, cherry clafoutis, interesting salads (but with unhealthy ingredients and not just rabbit food), chocolate mousse, regional cheeses, unpasteurised butter fresh from the farm, baguettes, sandwichs jambon beurre, Alsacien savoury cheesecake, confit de canard, champagnes, kir, crêpes and galettes de Sarazin, chestnut purée, French ice cream, fruit eau de vie, Calvados
Belgian - frites with mayonnaise, beer
Netherlands - Dutch pancakes, ketjap manis, waffles, battered bananas
Germany - NOT THE DUMPLINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE MADE OUT OF CONCRETE, various breads, regional cheeses (especially cambozola), beer
Italy - pizzas, creamy risotto, roasted aubergine slices, gelato, fresh pasta, carbonara sauce
Switzerland - Lindt chocolate
Austria - weiner schnitzel
Former Yugoslavia - those lovely meatball things that being with a "C"
Denmark - the wonderful, wonderful breads
Azores - special cow's milk cheese, breads, another meatball-type dish that I can't remember the name of, (absolutely not cozido, though - that's foul)
Chinese - (not sure whether half of these actually are really Chinese, or whether they're anglicised versions) crispy duck with pancakes, dim sum, crispy beef in rainbow sauce, sweet and sour, prawn crackers, chicken and sweetcorn soup, charsui buns, sesame prawn toasts, tea
Japanese - noodle soup, okonomiyaki, plum wine, adzuki beans
Vietnamese - porc au caramel, coconut flan
Canadian - poutine, caribou and game meat with fruity sauces like blueberry, tourtière, maple syrup, pretty much anything containing maple syrup, vinegar pie, sugar pie
American - burgers, buttermilk pancakes with syrup, barbecued stuff from the south (like you get in Virginia), pies and cakes in general, candied pumpkin, cornbread, the steak thing with cheese on top - is it Philadelphian?
Polish - Pierogis
Can't think of any more, but I'm sure I've missed loads out.
(Just edited to add the pierogis, stolen from wildflower's list. Had forgotten about those lovely delights.) |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:38 am |
Let's start with my favorite dishes from my country
Thai - Tom Yum with mushrooms, Hung Lay curry, Nam Prik Ong, Nam Prik of all sorts, and any Southern dishes (what can I say I'm a Southern girl )
Chinese - Ma Po Tofu, Chicken with Black Bean Sauce
Japanese - udon noodles soup, sashimi, onigiri (I think that's what it's called  )
Singaporean - Hainanese Chicken Rice (Singaporean-styled), Cha Kuay Tiew
Vietnamese - Pho, Clay Pot Beef
Italian - any pasta dishes really, pizza
French - pate, brie, camembert, bread
Swiss - Lindt white chocolate, Ovaltine
Greek - Moussaka
American - buttermilk blueberry pancakes, Taco Bells, Jack Daniel's
Canadian - maple syrup
British - roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, sheperd's pie, mashed potato with onion gravy, Carr's crackers, Johnny Walker blue label
Lao - papaya salad, jaeo dip with vegetables
Ethiopian - combinatio hot plate of meat marinated with spices
Belgian - Stella Artois, Delirium along with other beers
Mexican - tequila, taco, burritos, chimachanga for desserts
Maldivean - fish curry (don't know the name)
Indian - Palak Paneer, Malai Kofta, Chicken Madras
Pakistani - Chicken Biryani (similar to Indian one, but spicier)
Australian - Toohey's |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:39 am |
| Oh I missed out Lebanese - Hummus and Baklava |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:49 am |
| Oh blimey, I can't believe that I forgot Yorkshire puds! |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:05 am |
| majorb wrote: |
| Oh blimey, I can't believe that I forgot Yorkshire puds! |
I had no idea what they were until my boyfriend insisted we had to have some with roast beef. Now I have to have them every time we have Sunday roast Problem is I can't get to them to rise properly as we don't have Yorkshire pudding tin here in Thailand. My boyfriend is tempted to ask his mom to send him one from England. |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:19 pm |
| lynn2525 wrote: |
| majorb wrote: |
| Oh blimey, I can't believe that I forgot Yorkshire puds! |
I had no idea what they were until my boyfriend insisted we had to have some with roast beef. Now I have to have them every time we have Sunday roast Problem is I can't get to them to rise properly as we don't have Yorkshire pudding tin here in Thailand. My boyfriend is tempted to ask his mom to send him one from England. |
Mine are fantastic. They rise like enormous skyscrapers.
My aunt once automatically used lemonade in hers instead of water. They were monstrously huge. |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:58 pm |
| majorb wrote: |
| Oh blimey, I can't believe that I forgot Yorkshire puds! |
Mmm Yorkshire pudding! I remember when I was younger, I thought this was some sort of creamy pudding dessert. LOL Didn't find out what it really was until I started waitressing at an English Banquet Centre on weekends when I was in school. They made such great puds and excellent prime rib with jus. They were perfect for sopping.
There are so many other great foods listed here that I have yet to try. I am getting hugnry all over again and I just had a full dinner! |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:34 pm |
| majorb wrote: |
| lynn2525 wrote: |
| majorb wrote: |
| Oh blimey, I can't believe that I forgot Yorkshire puds! |
I had no idea what they were until my boyfriend insisted we had to have some with roast beef. Now I have to have them every time we have Sunday roast Problem is I can't get to them to rise properly as we don't have Yorkshire pudding tin here in Thailand. My boyfriend is tempted to ask his mom to send him one from England. |
Mine are fantastic. They rise like enormous skyscrapers.
My aunt once automatically used lemonade in hers instead of water. They were monstrously huge. |
Can you teach me how to make them? Please pretty pleaseeeeeee |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:42 pm |
| lynn2525 wrote: |
Let's start with my favorite dishes from my country
Thai - Tom Yum with mushrooms, Hung Lay curry, Nam Prik Ong, Nam Prik of all sorts, and any Southern dishes (what can I say I'm a Southern girl )
Chinese - Ma Po Tofu, Chicken with Black Bean Sauce
Japanese - udon noodles soup, sashimi, onigiri (I think that's what it's called )
Singaporean - Hainanese Chicken Rice (Singaporean-styled), Cha Kuay Tiew
Vietnamese - Pho, Clay Pot Beef
Italian - any pasta dishes really, pizza
French - pate, brie, camembert, bread
Swiss - Lindt white chocolate, Ovaltine
Greek - Moussaka
American - buttermilk blueberry pancakes, Taco Bells, Jack Daniel's
Canadian - maple syrup
British - roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, sheperd's pie, mashed potato with onion gravy, Carr's crackers, Johnny Walker blue label
Lao - papaya salad, jaeo dip with vegetables
Ethiopian - combinatio hot plate of meat marinated with spices
Belgian - Stella Artois, Delirium along with other beers
Mexican - tequila, taco, burritos, chimachanga for desserts
Maldivean - fish curry (don't know the name)
Indian - Palak Paneer, Malai Kofta, Chicken Madras
Pakistani - Chicken Biryani (similar to Indian one, but spicier)
Australian - Toohey's |
Lynne, I so love the southern curry at Thai Emporium Restaurant in Westwood, but when I went to Phuket in November, I could not find this dish anywhere! I was amazed. Actually I couldn't find the southern curry at any other restaurant in LA, except at the Emporium in Westwood. I wonder if they made up this dish themselves, or can you vouch for this dish as a real southern dish? |
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Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:57 pm |
| bkkgirl wrote: |
| lynn2525 wrote: |
Let's start with my favorite dishes from my country
Thai - Tom Yum with mushrooms, Hung Lay curry, Nam Prik Ong, Nam Prik of all sorts, and any Southern dishes (what can I say I'm a Southern girl )
Chinese - Ma Po Tofu, Chicken with Black Bean Sauce
Japanese - udon noodles soup, sashimi, onigiri (I think that's what it's called )
Singaporean - Hainanese Chicken Rice (Singaporean-styled), Cha Kuay Tiew
Vietnamese - Pho, Clay Pot Beef
Italian - any pasta dishes really, pizza
French - pate, brie, camembert, bread
Swiss - Lindt white chocolate, Ovaltine
Greek - Moussaka
American - buttermilk blueberry pancakes, Taco Bells, Jack Daniel's
Canadian - maple syrup
British - roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, sheperd's pie, mashed potato with onion gravy, Carr's crackers, Johnny Walker blue label
Lao - papaya salad, jaeo dip with vegetables
Ethiopian - combinatio hot plate of meat marinated with spices
Belgian - Stella Artois, Delirium along with other beers
Mexican - tequila, taco, burritos, chimachanga for desserts
Maldivean - fish curry (don't know the name)
Indian - Palak Paneer, Malai Kofta, Chicken Madras
Pakistani - Chicken Biryani (similar to Indian one, but spicier)
Australian - Toohey's |
Lynne, I so love the southern curry at Thai Emporium Restaurant in Westwood, but when I went to Phuket in November, I could not find this dish anywhere! I was amazed. Actually I couldn't find the southern curry at any other restaurant in LA, except at the Emporium in Westwood. I wonder if they made up this dish themselves, or can you vouch for this dish as a real southern dish? |
bkkgirl,
Do you remember what the dish is called? It's very possible that Thai restaurants create their own dishes and claim them to be authentic. Also, in the South we sort of divide our cuisine and dialect into upper South and lower South. Food can be quite different between the two parts of the South. Am I making any sense? When I was living overseas it was so hard to find Southern Thai food anywhere. I guess it's because there aren't that many Thai immigrants from the South. It's even hard to find good Southern food in Bangkok!!! |
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Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:18 pm |
| lynn2525 wrote: |
| Can you teach me how to make them? Please pretty pleaseeeeeee |
No. It's a trade secret.
j/k
I just throw 4oz plain flour, a pinch of salt, 2 eggs and half a pint of milk (or substitute up to half of that amount with water for a lighter version - if you're very adventurous, you might want to try lemonade like my aunt, or maybe sparkling water would do the trick) into a bowl and give it a really good beating until it's smooth and well aerated.
Then I leave the mixture for around half an hour. I have absolutely no idea why. It's just something you do with Yorkshire pudding batter, apparently. Probably something sciencey.
Meanwhile, you want to heat up your oven so it's nice and hot (200 C). I use a Yorkshire pudding tray, but a muffin tray would do nicely. You put a small amount of lard or beef dripping into each hole in the tray - about half the size of one of my thumbnails' worth. Then the baking tray goes into the oven until the fat is really, really hot. Make sure of this or you won't have as much success with the rising.
When the fat is ready, give the batter another good beating, then quickly take the tray out of the oven and pour the batter into each hole, almost filling them. Once again, as quickly as poss, so the fat doesn't cool down, replace the tray into the oven.
Mine usually take around 30 mins to cook, but just keep checking on them if you have a window in your oven. Try and be sure not to open the oven door beforehand unless it's a dire emergency, like the world's about to come to an end or something. (Although why you'd want to bother checking your Yorkshires if the world was ending, I do not know.)
Finally, enjoy your lovely Yorkshires with plenty of gravy and stuff.
You can also cook sausages in the oven in a big dish with a little fat to brown them, then pour over Yorkshire pudding batter and bake in the oven until brown and risen. This is called Toad in the Hole and is absolutely gorgeous. |
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