Hubs sent me this YouTube video and tells me that things like Brazilian pizza also exist. So anyone more traveled than me, have you ever had anything particularly interesting?
Edit: It’s also interesting to me how English adjective order affects this. The video is, for instance, describing Indian Chinese food, not Chinese Indian food. I’m sure other languages have something similar.
Pizza in Austria. From a shed, somewhere high up in the Alps. No inside seating just a guy selling street food pizza at freezing temperatures. There were plenty of people standing in line in the snow so I figured it should be good and my goodness it was.
Fair enough. Austria is right next to Italy so maybe it doesn’t really count?
There was a place I only went to once, closing night of it, that did amazing Mediterranean food. Probably as authentic as they could try to make it here in the states. It was to die for it was so good.
Otherwise, close by to where that place used to be is an Indian restaurant that has the best vindaloo I have ever had.
I had the best wonton soup I’ve ever had at some random Chinese restaurant in Montreal
It had little crispy bit of i think cracklins floating around in it
All of the food we had in Montreal was great, and this was just some random place we stopped in for a quick bite on our way somewhere
I had pretty good baguette in London.
This question is basically tailor made for the UK.
Only because the US is cheating. Somebody commented that and I agree.
Look at this Scotch egg! Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Do döner kebabs in Austria count as a Turkish food?
No, it counts as German food
Depends on where the dönertier was raised.
idk man the doner kebab I had in Berlin was way better than in Istanbul. Istanbul still had excellent food, just not the kebab for whatever reason. Maybe we just didn’t try the right place.
NYC is cheating
Toronto too. Or LA. I know a lot of Koreans that say the best Korean food in the world is in LA.
I had a blintz in Bali.
Sounds like a 1930s tap dancing song.
Or a 70s rock song
🎶 Bali Blintz Bali Blintz Bali Blintz Bali Blintz 🎵
Are you ready Steve? Uh huh.
Andy? Yeah. Mick? Ok.
Alright, fellas, let’s go!
Paint my fence!
I had an excellent home-made lasagne in a restaurant in Gent, Belgium.
Was the restaurant attached to a home?
Nope. It was on the main square and was called 't Vosken.
Now I’m genuinely confused what made it homemade…haha
Because they made it themselves, I guess.
Isn’t making things themselves what restaurants are supposed to be doing? Not always, but a good restaurant would, at least.
Indian food in the UK. I don’t think this will surprise anyone, though.
Absolutely. I was just recalling in an earlier thread a dinner I had in Cornwall near Tintagel, at a family run Indian place. I was keen on trying vindaloo, but the owner talked me down to madras - and I was glad, because that madras was at the perfect edge of my hotness tolerance and was delicious. The vindaloo probably would have been too much for me.
Yep. Vindaloo from a good Indian is evil 😃
Disappointed that I failed the Dave Lister test tho. OTOH it means I still have more than one taste bud.
I moved to New Zealand six months ago, and I have had exactly one truly bad meal since I’ve been here. I haven’t eaten any Maori food, so I guess all the food I’ve eaten has been from another country.
The one that surprised me the most was KFC. We moved from one state away from Kentucky, and we had to come here to have truly good KFC.
I was expecting the Chinese food to be good here, but it’s really good. So is the Korean, Indian, and Malaysian food. The fish and chips are good. The burgers are great, even from McDonald’s. The absolute best was Filipino food from a tiny little restaurant in a random strip mall near Sylvia Park. That food changed my life.
In fairness, I have had a couple of “fine” meals—as in, “well, nothing special, but it was fine.”
The one bad meal was Pad Thai made by Thai people at a Thai restaurant down by the beach. It was just way too sweet, which makes me wonder if they saw me and made it “for a white guy” or something.
Well, I had the exact opposite experience with KFC. In Europe KFC is crispy, crunchy, seasoned, delicious. When I was in Kentucky we stopped at the supposedly first KFC. Holy greasy bland chewy chicken, batman! Didn’t try KFC again the whole trip.
Yeah, I don’t know what the US malfunction with KFC is. Obviously capitalism, but beyond that.
Wondering where you’re were coming from (e.g city or rural), because what you described has basically been my experience in every US city I’ve spent time in. One of my favorite aspects of multicultural city life tbh
City, but a small one. And yeah, food was good, but the floor and average were both lower there.
puerto rico is not really a country, but it did have the absolute best hummus pizza I’ve ever had. the food there in general was top notch.
Vietnam has amazing French food. Especially top tier baked good like croissants. Up there with the best in Paris.
I would never have guessed, this is what I made this post for.
I mean it makes sense given that Vietnam was a French colony up until Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnam wanted out after WW2
History was always my weak point. It’s interesting but I could never keep up with the names and dates.
I had something in Germany they told me was from Austria that was just ham steaks with eggs and potatoes in an incredible red sauce.
I don’t remember what it was called, nor where it actually originated from. But fuck, I wish I knew what that sauce was because the rest of it was super simple and something I can get easy at home. It’s not the same without the sauce, tho. It wasn’t spicy, it wasn’t BBQ and it wasn’t ketchup. It was just pure deliciousness.
I had something in Germany they told me was from Austria that was just ham steaks with eggs and potatoes in an incredible red sauce.
It sounds a bit like Tiroler Gröstel but with Gulasch Sauce. Gulasch is usually it’s own dish, but you could use it as an addition to another dish.
I had some really good Chinese takeaway noodles in Athens. Bonus: 500mL Heineken’s were a €1.50.
