Favourite Type of Ethnic Food?

I gotta go with Mexican, which I never get tired of! :9

But I think I'll let him thaw out first.

Although I'm not big on ethnic food I love Sushi.

Italian would be 2nd

Yum! :9

It could be Ty's Thai tie.
:thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
(dodges tomatoes)

he thought Thailand was the name of a men's store! :evilgrin:

But that's cuz I are one.

I love Chicken Mole! :9

I like Italian, too.

I love living in LA...so many great ethnic restarants.

particularly Lebanese.

Though if you HAVE to pick only one, I agree with you about the Mexican.

Redstone

Eastern European. In my little city of McKeesport, PA we have an International Village every summer for 3 nights. I love stuffed cabbage and really enjoy sampling the stuffed cabbage at each Eastern European booth, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, etc. as well as Haluski, Pierogi, Kolbassi, etc.

Also like the Greek booth for their lamb dishes, Baklava, honey balls, etc.

Plus all the desserts at all the booths.

Also like German food, Italian, Mexican, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.

Mexican, Thai, spicy Chinese, such as Cantonese. Nothing like Chinese hot mustard to clear out your sinuses. And Italian with hot pepper flakes.

yummy

Gotta go get my injera fix every week. And eating with your hands... too much fun!

A friend of mine was married to an Ethiopian and he used to cook for us. Spicy and delicious.

Then mexican.

I love hot and spicy foods !

Love it, love it, LOVE IT!

:D

Unless some brat throws up. :silly:

I live in a small town with a terrific Thai restaurant, but that's about it. Bugger. I really miss good Indian food.

:P

hmm?

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:sigh:...

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I never tire of it either. :9

:hi:

... but in each case when it's good it's really, really good - and when it's bad it's horrid.

I have "benchmark" meals I order when trying out a new restaurant.

For Mexican, I just get enchiladas. If you can't make them right, you probably can't make a decent chile relleno or carne asada :)

For Indian, it will be a vindaloo or curry.

For Chinese, the hot and sour soup is the test. Any place with good soup will probably have good food :)

I usually get beef curry or 9 vegetable curry when trying an Indian place for the first time.

Nachos are usually my Mexican "test dish", or chicken enchiladas

Mexican is a very close second

I don't consider Italian or French particularly ethnic any more, but I love both.

I also like Greek/Middle Eastern food

Inclusive of Greek and Lebanese. Mmmmmmmm!! Indian is a close second, though.

But my parents are Korean and I grew up eating rice, pulgogi, congnamul (soybeans), chopchae, and tofu (we call it "tubu" in Korean). And when I cook at home, I make a lot of rice and fish or Korean-style stir-fry with tons of soy sauce and sesame seed oil. Yummy!

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Pad Thai is also good

I don't like all Korean foods, but I like a lot of them.

I used to like cabbage kimchi--there are about 20 different varieties of kimchi--but after catching non-gonorrheal urethritis from a bad batch of kimchi I tend to shy away from that variety.

especially korean BBQ. Yum

The traditional way is to grill over an ondol briquet--a round hunk of charcoal six inches in diameter by six inches high with holes bored in it for better airflow that is used in your furnace.

Ahh! :scared:

I used to play fast and loose with my kimchi. You can get it at any restaurant in Korea--the Koreans live on this stuff--and it's so good when it's not been canned like you get it in the US.

Anyway, one Saturday I went to Munsan to take pictures, and around lunchtime I was a bit hungry so I stopped at a little eatery to have a quick bite. I got some kimchi, ramyon and tea.

On Tuesday, I woke up to find a really nasty discharge, kinda like a gonorrhea discharge. Gonorrhea isn't an airborne bacterium, so I knew it wasn't that especially since it didn't hurt when I peed, but I figured I better go get it checked out. Off to Room 2.

I'll spare you the description of getting checked for the clap.

The doctor explained to me that there's a lot of bad kimchi floating around the ROK. Koreans can eat it and it won't bother them because they've built up resistance to it, but Americans can't. "But how can you tell?" You can't, really, except by eating it and waiting for the drip to come on.

I'll take bean-sprout, cucumber and radish kimchi any day.

no thank you, i can live without korean food :D

One of the things I love about Chicago is the variety of ethnic foods. YUM!

Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Indian.

Where's flaming youth?

Actually Swedish Meatballs are the greatest!

I don't know how anyone can eat it, but apparently my ancestors lived through it somehow! :)

I don't understand. I guess it's supposed to be a treat. :crazy:

And way, way back when I ate meat, I loved Swedish meatballs, too. :thumbsup:

I sometimes think i'm mexican on the inside.

Love Thai, Arabic, North Indian, Italian, Mexican.

When it comes to food, I'm not extremely picky, but the above can be good, but the problem is many of the cheap Asian restaurants aren't good.

mmmmm :)

I could eat it every day.

chinese is a close second.

aka "Rodizio". Typically a dozen or so various cuts of various meats/fowls/sausages, sea-salted and flame broiled on skewers.

Diners self-serve at salad bar well stocked with veggies, rices, beanses, lol, pastas, hot mains, etc.

Servers move about the room with the skewers, slicing the meat onto your plate.

best part...ALL YOU CAN EAT !!

better still?...CHEAP !

Meat eaters Heaven.

Be sure to bring your portable angioplasty kit.

Es schmeckt gut! Sauerbraten, spätzle, rouladen, schnitzel, würst, and die Bier, na klar! I also like Mexican food (and yes, I actually liked Chi-Chis, and I miss it), Italian food, Chinese food, Japanese food, and Spanish food. Actually, I'll eat ALMOST anything (emphasis on ALMOST).

I can't get enough of those flapjacks and maple syrup.

Often mistakenly referred to as "cajun".

Tho I don't have a consistent favorite, so my answer to this question is subject to change without notice.

As long as it has lots of garlic in it!

Then Middle Eastern and Greek

I like most food.

and Ethiopian food which has always seemed like an oxymoron to me.

I don't care for most Thai food but I would literally kill for lemongrass soup - especially right now.

Khash.

there are a few plain old restaurants that serve it (one is in the food court at Ala Moana Center) as well as a number of "local style" places that serve a Hawaiian plate as a special on Fridays.

The menu: Kalua pig (pulled pork) and/or laulau (pork wrapped in taro leaves, with a chunk of fish thrown in), and of course poi (made properly, it is not sour or icky and can be grayish rather than purple, depending on the variety of taro used).

Your side dish is lomilomi salmon, small cubes of fish mixed with tomato, etc. Or, if you're lucky, there might be poke (POH-kay), raw fish marinated in a soy-based sauce (as served at Opihi's renowned DU lu'aus and available at all local supermarket fish counters). For dessert, a cube of haupia (coconut pudding) and a heaping side dish of aloha (no extra charge). 'Ono! (delicious)

always involved Spam. :evilgrin:

it is everywhere, even at McDonald's. One establishment uses Spam as a pizza topping.

And yet, even we must bow before the true kings and queens of Spam -- the people of Guam. The power tends to go out rather frequently out there, so canned meat fits their lifestyle nicely. They eat so much of the stuff that Hormel makes a special garlic Spam just for Guam (pop. 110,000).

I can't stand the Spam at all. Those Guam folks are crazy.

Of course, it isn't "ethnic" to me, but rather the food I grew up with. I don't cook it that often, but I eat tons when I go back to Louisiana.

For ethnicities not my own, I love Mexican, Thai and Indian.