Foods from other cultures

[Conskeeted7]

I love Lebanese and Greek food. Mexican food from real Mexicans is also good. I'm not talking about Don Pablos or Taco Bell...LOL

[SummerChild]

I love Ethiopian! My other favorite is North Indian.

Originally posted by Ideal08
What foods/meals of other cultures have you learned about, in college or just in life, that you never knew about? Did you try it? Do you like it? Do you still eat it? What WON'T you try?

Well, one of my closest friends from college is of Polish descent. She hipped me to perogies. Man, yall, these are the bomb!!! They are kinda like filled dumplings. I like the potato ones. You boil them, then you saute them in butter. Scrumpdidliumptious!

At good ol' Witt, we used to have a festival called Crossroads, where the International students (and in early years, we Black students made soul food) would have booths and food from their respective countries. Oh, it was so fun and interesting to taste the different foods!!

As far as what I won't try, I'm not foolin' with animals that we consider domesticated over here. I'm not eating anyone's dog or cat. At least not to my knowledge, lol.

One of our HS student workers is Eritrean (Eritrea is a little country above Ethiopia that I knew nothing about) and he was telling me about his culture and what not. I asked him about a popular dish (since he told me about an Eritrean restaurant), and he said Tibse (TIB-see). So I'm excited to go to the restaurant and try that.

Share, share, share with us your experiences with different kinds of cuisine!!!

(Guess who has nothing to do at work today? LOL!)

[emeraldAKA99]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
You know, I was watching this video of this lecturer, Harry Wong. Anyway, he said that what WE call Chinese food is NOT Chinese food. So that General Tso Chicken, Sweet and Sour Pork and the like is NOT really Chinese food.

FYI

My best friend lived in Asia for a year, and she always talks about how we have made up some Chinese dishes over here...Orange Chicken, Honey Lemon Chicken and most everything else they sell at Panda Express and Manchu Wok in the mall.

[Pecan]

I saw this thread and I had to reply!

I love Thai, Indian, Crucian (food from St. Croix, USVI), real Mexican (my favorite food), and Italian.

To those that are curious about conch: I've had it and it is really good, if it is seasoned well. My boyfriend and his family are crucian and his mother made some conch for me. Like I said, if it is seasoned well its good, just kinda chewy.

[DaddyzLilGrl]

I love, love, love Thai food especially jasmine rice and any dish with rice noodles.








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[DPiece7]

I LOVE:

Thai food- theres this restuarant around here that has this pineapple fried rice dish with chicken, shrimp, pineapples, fried rice, and pecans....mmmmm

Jamaican food- patties (chicken or beef), jerk anything, rice & peas, plantains

Liberian- casava leaves

And of course, Italian, Chinese, Mexican...

Lately my friends have tried to get me to try Indian and Mediterranean... i hated the Mediterranean food, but I still havent tried Indian... im nervous

[Tickled Pink 2]

Originally posted by Pecan
....just kinda chewy.

That just killed the notion completely for me.