Which countries (not USA) has the best dishes?

[Sequoia]

You can certinaly choose more than one. Recipies welcome. Holiday fare is cool too.

[Skittles]

1. fuck the haters - I like ENGLISH FOOD

fish & chips, steak and kidney pie, shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding - MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[Synicus Maximus]

7. You are a very sick person

[Skittles]

8. IT IS GOOD FOOD I TELL YOU

I spent some of my childhood in England and I still LOVE that food

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Don't they serve Spotted Penis, or something?

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"They're not...," MFM whispered while glancing over each shoulder
fearfully looking for stalking Britpersons, "They're not... cannibals,
are they?"
.

.

[Skittles]

16. DO NOT LIKE

no, no

[meow2u3]

32. That dish sounds like a symptom of an STD

:puke:

[tango-tee]

34. Wow. My ex-husband in a can.

Who'da thunk it?

[Skittles]

60. YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK SOME SPOTTED-DICK-EX-HUSBAND ASS, TANGO-TEE??

LEMME AT THIM

[Tailormyst]

30. I love it too.

And Irish food :) Shepard's pie is total comfort food.

[flvegan]

10. Proper fish 'n chips is the one single meal I miss the most as a vegan.

I have very British blood, and if they can ever veganize a fried haddock filet, I will be the fattest vegan on earth because I will gorge on it until I explode.

[sarge43]

21. Second that

After work I would pick up an order of fish and chips (wrapped in The News of the World, enhanced the flavor), hose it with malt vinegar and wash it down with a ginger beer. No doubt the beginning of the mega hips I have today, but damn that was good eatin'.

[janx]

18. . . .

:rofl:

Fish and chips aren't bad though.

[RebelOne]

29. English food is boring. I have eaten in the British Isles

and the food there is nothing to write home about.

[JCMach1]

44. With the exception of a couple of deserts

:puke:

[Haole Girl]

2. I submit India-

I'm too tired to post each pic again, so I'll use my original thread (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9185808).

Of course Italy has great food, too!

:-)

[KG]

3. China?

[jobycom]

22. Yeah, I like China dishes better than melmac or paper plates, too. nt

[MrScorpio]

4. Turkey and Greece

Yummers

[GoCubsGo]

11. Add Italy to that...

Any of the Mediterranean countries that use lots of garlic and oregano are good with me. I could eat Turkish/Greek/Italian every day an not get sick of it.

[Arugula Latte]

42. Yep, Mediterranean food ... and also Thai.

:9

[treestar]

5. China

There are Chinese restaurants all over the world. Where I live, there is one in every mini mall!

Americans, at least, love Chinese food. I have an Indian friend who can recognize whether or not the people running the restaurant came right from China or spent some time in India!!!

I went to London and found there were Chinese restaurants there, too.

The whole world loves Chinese food.

[whistler162]

6. Native dishes - Scotland and England of course

[EndersDame]

9. Tejas!

Its like another country! But specifically I love Tex Mex food. I know interior Mexican is more gourmet .Tex mex is my comfort food . I even tried Cali styled Mexican food and New Mexican food but it was just not right

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I think Japan has the tradition of making the most elegant and beautiful pottery.

[Common Sense Party]

14. Argentina. Best beef in the world. Tasty empanadas.

Excellent ice cream. Pretty good pasta.

[Throd]

15. Spain

[sakabatou]

17. China

[rcrush]

19. I like Thai food

Curry is yummy.

[Inchworm]

20. I like tacos

:P

[lazarus]

23. Viet Nam

I love me some pho. It's great stuff.

I second and third the above votes for English food (Scottish, too).

[JCMach1]

45. Vietnamese is scrummy when done right!

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

24. Italy, but I'm biased...

tortellini in capon broth...

cotolette alla milanese o alla bolognese

real ragu`, good egg pasta...

real parmigiano, with a glass of lambrusco (I'm from Bologna, so I am even luckier in gastronomy than others).

[redwitch]

56. My friend's daughter is in Bologna for a year.

They went to visit her over Christmas and had amazing food. Alas, the trains did not run on time.

[nuxvomica]

25. Italy

Risa Milanese – a traditional Sicilian holiday dish

1 pound ground pork
fennel seed
red pepper flakes
garlic salt
salt
pepper

2 cans crushed tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
chopped basil
olive oil
clove garlic
a little wine or vodka

River brand white rice (Don't use Uncle Ben's or any instant rice. It'll be disastrous.)
5-6 boiled eggs, sliced
1 raw egg

Mix the pork, fennel seed, red pepper flakes, garlic salt, salt and pepper to taste, using you hands.
Break the meat mixture into small chunks and brown them in a deep frying pan in the olive oil. Put them aside.
In a pot on the stove, add the chopped basil to the crushed tomatoes and get the whole thing cooking over medium heat. Salt to taste.
In the same frying pan with the oil and meat drippings, brown a few cloves of garlic, turn up the heat and add the tomato paste. Stir it rapidly to avoid burning and add the vodka or wine. Keep stirring and once the color has changed to orange and all the deep red has gone, dump the whole pan into the pot of crushed tomatoes, stir it up and let it continue cooking.
In another large pot, cook about 8-10 cups of the rice according to instructions. When it's cooked, mix in the browned meat chunks and several cups of the sauce so the mixture is reasonably firm but not dry. (The remaining sauce can be used later with pasta.)
In a large, deep casserole dish, preferably Pyrex, alternate layers of the rice-meat-sauce mixture with the sliced eggs. When the dish is filled, smooth out the top so that it's perfectly level and pour the beaten egg on top, spreading it out evenly. Put the whole thing uncovered in the oven at 375-400 degrees and bake for an hour or two depending on how deep the dish is. It’s ready when the raw egg is well cooked and crispy and there is bubbling up from the bottom of the dish.
Serve immediately but save any leftovers cuz it’s awesome reheated the next day, especially for breakfast.

[Deep13]

26. Netherlands

Delft

[bif]

27. England makes the best dishes

[CBR]

28. Morocco and Thailand. nt

[RebelOne]

31. France and Jamaica

France has the best food that I have eaten in my limited out-of-country travels. And Jamaican food is good because it is spicy, the way I like it.

[CBR]

33. I forgot about Jamaica. I totally agree. I love it. nt

[LeftyMom]

36. I adore Ital food.

There was a great food cart here that sold it, unfortunately it didn't last very long. I miss their greens, I can't get mine to come out as tasty.

[LeftyMom]

35. India.

But I could also make a case for Vietnam, Ethiopia, Thailand or Mexico.

[cleveramerican]

37. I would vote for Italian

food is like a religion there, to be contemplated and savored.

and the coffee and desserts are awesome too.

[Shell Beau]

38. No question! Italy of course.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

39. Germany

Loves me some sauerbraten, or a wurst served hot from a street vendor's cart.

Or Italy, France. Edible food there, too.

Bon apetit!

:hi:

[katkat]

48. Germany

Streusel. Apple kuchen.

[SteppingRazor]

40. Of all the countries I've visited, Greece and Turkey had the best food.

I mean, you could literally not go wrong in Istanbul or Athens. Just stop in any restaurant and -- poof! -- amazing, to-die-for meal. It was almost eerie.


As far as what cuisine I like here at home, I definitely have Italian more than anything else. High-end Italian makes for a great night out, and the delivery stuff is good when you're too lazy to cook.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

41. You mean plates, like porcelain, or actual food?

I can't stand spicy stuff like they have in India. It gives me weird stomach aches.

[Blue_In_AK]

43. India, hands down,

followed by Thailand. I like the spicy stuff. The thing I like about Indian food is that there's such a huge variety. I have at least 10 Indian cookbooks and the food from each of them is entirely different although unmistakably Indian.

It's fun to cook.

[JCMach1]

46. Lebanese, Indian, and Luxembourg, yes Luxembourg

They took the best stuff from France and Germany and left out the crap!

[kwassa]

47. Thailand, China, Vietnam, India, Lebanon, Greece, Morocco, France, Spain, west African, Ethiopian

Korean, Mexican, some Russian .... and good Italian, not the run-of-the-mill stuff.

[lazarus]

58. yes to Ethiopian

I also love Eritrain (sp?) and Somali food. We're lucky enough to have restaurants here in San Diego that serve all three. They're very similar, but have subtle differences.

[LostInAnomie]

49. I've heard Cuban food is very good.

I don't know from experience, but that is what a few of my friends say.

[cordelia]

53. I love Cuban food.

Your friends weren't steering you wrong.

I lived in Miami for about 10 years, and Cuban food is one of the things I miss most. There are some decent Cuban places in Atlanta, but it's just not quite the same to me.

[kwassa]

72. yes, there are some great Cuban places in Los Angeles

I miss the marinated pork and black beans, rice, and plantains ....

[katkat]

50. Royal Copenhagen

[Manifestor_of_Light]

51. I like modern Bavarian, myself.

Rosenthal and Hutschenreuther.

[proteus_lives]

52. Why can't we include the US?

[AsahinaKimi]

54. JAPAN

Simple and elegant!

[Randall Flagg]

55. Louisiana...

[Vidar]

57. Growing up, my love was Italian. These days, I'm more partial to Thai & Indian.

[wickerwoman]

59. Another vote for China.

No other country has such a huge variation of world-class cuisines. Sichuan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hunanese, Fujian and Zhejiang-styles are all completely different- like the difference between Mexican and Greek food different. And even the minor cuisines like Xinjiang and Guangxi blow most other countries' food out of the water.

You have to really, really try to find a bad restaurant in China (dodgy hot-pot restaurants next to hotels, aside). The food you get off street carts in China is better than 99% of the food you find in American restaurants.

[begin_within]

61. Persian and Vietnamese are my favorite

Salat-eh-Olivieh, the best chicken salad in the world



Spring rolls with hoisin sauce and chopped peanuts - yum!

[JI7]

62. i love Mexican food

[Burma Jones]

63. A simple plate of fresh fruit in Costa Rica is one of the best things I've ever eaten

Pineapple, Mango, Papaya and some other stuff I did not recognize, the likes of which I never had in the USA....

[ThomWV]

64. There is a well established Porcelain industry in Japan

[deoxyribonuclease]

65. China and Vietnam

Mexico a close second

I'd love to visit France and try the cuisine there.

[applegrove]

66. Italian. I love alfredo sauce.

[katkat]

71. alfredo sauce nom nom n/t

[Odin2005]

67. It's a tie between Thailand and Greece.

[JanMichael]

68. India. As a vegetarian Indian food rocks.

They can make chick peas, cottage cheese, anything taste great!

[crim son]

69. I love curry so anywhere they mix

chilis with the warm spices has fantastic food. I do also love good Italian and French food. German, not so much. British, I'll take their roasts, meat pies and fish and chips and leave the rest. And I love Tex-Mex food but have only eaten in the Yucatan peninsula area of Mexico and I really didn't like the native food very much.

[Kaleva]

70. Estonian dishes are microwave and dishwasher safe.

[Kali]

73. Mexico

tiene el mejor!

[caitxrawks]

74. costa rica=gallo pinto=orgasmic

It's basically rice and beans x10 with a sauce called Salsa Lizano. It's one of my husband's home country's few signature dishes. You can buy Salsa Lizano online or at pretty much any Caribbean Hispanic grocery store. It's extremely savory, the flavor is hard to describe. My mouth is watering thinking about it. It has rice, cilantro, onions, garlic, black beans, red bell pepper, salt, oil, and the Salsa Lizano. We haven't bought any of it in awhile, but we keep all the other ingredients at home. It's just not the same without the sauce. If you ever want to look it up, it's very easy to make. It's usually served with a fried egg, and it's eaten as a breakfast meal =D