Best Asian food?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Poll question: Best Asian food?

Disclaimers: I have never eaten Indian (except the occasional curry here and there) or Thai food.

Edit: Arab renamed to Middle Eastern

[xultar]

1. I'm gonna have to say Indian cuz Thai is too sweet sometimes. n/t

[Hoosier Democrat]

2. We eat either Chinese, Japanese, or Indian at least once a week

[Gato Moteado]

3. damn i can't choose.....

i love chinese, thai, vietnamese, indian, and middle eastern food but i can't pick a fave. they're all great.

[demnan]

4. Other

I love Vietnamese food! You haven't lived until you've had a bowl of Pho.

[VelmaD]

Totally agree that Vietnamese food ROCKS!

It's cold and rainy here and I'd give anything for a big bowl of Pho to warm up my tummy. :-)

[Kamika]

5. arab?? and you forgot korean!

Isn't arab food "arab" or "midle eastern" hardly asian. ?

And O M G you forgot korean food (even though it sucks)

[BiggJawn]

7. Hey...Bul Go Gi is good..

And I like MILD Kimchi, too.

[Kamika]

10. Try having it every day for about a year.

You'll be a convert. Believe me

[IronLionZion]

15. yeah kimchi blows

but that's because my three Korean roommates have filled our fridge with it and it really stinks up the place. And I've never seen a jumbo jar of Kimchi that did NOT leak. Man that smelly red juice gets everywhere!

Bul Go Gi is good and I like Korean noodles.

btw are you Korean?

[Kamika]

18. korean american

And work in a korean restaurant :p

[BiggJawn]

20. I can think of only ONE thing...

That I wouldn't mind having my face in every day for a year....

And it's not a "food item"...:evilgrin:

I hear ya, I get tired of stewed apples along about March. My Girlfriend makes 'em from Sept. to April...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. We call it Arab down here

Re: kafta, rice with lentils & fried onion, kibe, chilis or eggplants stuffed with rice and ground meat, kibe, esfiha, homus... generous use of mint leaves...

Edit: changed to Middle Eastern. And it IS Asia!

[BiggJawn]

6. "It's ALLLLLLLL Good, Chillruns!"

Never met an Asian Food I didn't like

[GOPisEvil]

9. You said it! It's ALL good!

[Loonman]

8. Vietnamese

Second only to Indonesian food.

[rucky]

21. Yes & Yes

Malaysian is on the top 5 as well.

[grannylib]

12. I voted Thai but I love it all...the hotter and spicier the better. eom

[arwalden]

13. Cats

[KamaAina]

25. No, that's the answer to "Worst long-running musical?"

:evilgrin:

[IronLionZion]

14. you forgot Vietnamese

even though its kind of boring. I like South Indian the best probably because I am South Indian.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. Not found here either

Lots more variety in the USA it seems.

[eyesroll]

16. Is there an all-of-the-above option?

My parents raised me with exposure to all kinds of cuisine. They had a rule in ethnic restaurants: No ordering the grilled cheese or the chicken fingers unless we tried something off the regular menu first. (I can't remember ever ordering a kiddie-menu substitute later, either.)

My dad tells me I really impressed the waiter, when I was about 3 or 4, and was able to identify the tofu in the soup. (We were apparently at a restaurant that got a lot of "ooh, honey, look, they're from China!" tourists. It was a Japanese restaurant.)

[LynneSin]

19. The kind I toss immediately into the Garbage Can

I won't touch anything from the Far East - YUCK!

But it's only because of a bad case of food poisoning, I can't stomach the stuff

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. Every time I've ever eaten Asian food, I've gotten sick...

No more for me.
Duckie

[DinahMoeHum]

23. You forgot Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian-Malay-Singapore ?

You're making me hungry again.

:9:9:9

[noonwitch]

24. It's all good

I like Indian, middle eastern and Thai food better than chinese or japanese food, however.

[Zero Gravitas]

29. Agreed

Me like food! Yum! :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. I like all of them, but

the best Asian food I've ever eaten was made by the Malaysian and Indonesian students at the college where I last taught. Every month during the school year, the Int'l Studies Department would give one of the nationality groups among the foreign students money to put on a dinner, which would then be free to the first thirty people who signed up.

Amazingly, few American students ever took advantage of this, but the faculty and staff sure did. The Malaysian/Indonesian night always got its thirty people signed up within hours of the announcement.

Beef satay, corn fritters, nasi goreng... YUM!

[On the Road]

27. I Love Them All

for the most part.

Real Chinese food can be great. I even love daikon and bitter melon. But they eat too many things that just creep me out -- intestines, feet, tendons, dried whole fish, shrimp, and jellyfish, etc. All the ligaments in a pork rib or a chicken breast. That blood tofu stuff.

Japanese is great, but sometimes goes a little too far in the strange raw sea creature department.

Same thing with Korean -- I like kimchi, bulgogi, Korean BBQ, and so forth. But Korean cuisine has a real taste for the bizarre by American standards. Hottest dish I ever tried was Korean sea cucumber that was passed around as being inedible.

Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Indonesian are all great. The lemon greass, coconut milk, bean threads, mulicolored curries -- never had a bad experience.

Inidan I love. They have some really authentic places in the DC area whose dishes virtually glow in the dark with spices. Not hot so much as intense.

And it's hard to go wrong with middle eastern, with the eggplant, lamb, chick pea and olive oil dishes.

I'm grateful they're all available. There's wonderful variety, at least in cities, if you go out of your way a little.

[jimbo fett]

28. Thai food is NASTY! It's like someone dug Chinese food out of a dumpster

and slapped it on a plate with some hot sauce.

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Them's fightin' words, boy!!

Thai food is EXCELLENT!

All Asian food, really, is excellent. Heck, pretty much all food all over the world is excellent. I bet even Inuit raw seal with congealed seal blood marinade is actually pretty tasty.

Everything but green peppers. Those suck.

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[Feanorcurufinwe]

31. Thai and Indian equally good.

I shoulda voted other instead of Thai.