Food Fight!

Italian for me, but only because I've eaten Italian food in Italy - and only Mexican here in Oz, so I feel like I should judge after eating in both countries?

( repost from me )


Edited by dreadpirateroberts - 22 Mar 2013 at 10:47pm

Know almost all from list but Southern US. Voted for Italian, not strange - Italians are known as food gods.

I spent a lot of time around Italy so I can compare authentic cuisine and that around Europe/Near East. I really ate fantastic spaghetti or lasagna here in Vilnius, in Scottish Aberdeen, Amsterdam or on Cyprus. And I have a long memories of disappointments having expensive dinner in tourists-populated places around Italy.

With Italian cuisine main rules are two:

1) If you're in Italy avoid tourist places at any price and try to stay for dinner in small provincial town in family run restaurant

2) Outside of Italy search for restaurant owned by original Italian ( better - newcomer for the country, who grew up in Italy)

Living decade ago in Aberdeen I was surprised by strange (Middle East) taste of dishes in Italian restaurant (advertised as only original Italian restaurant in town). The owner liked to meet clients on the door speaking mish-mash of Italian and English words. When one day we visited the place with my Italian friends and they naturally started to speak with him in Italian, after very few sentences he said he doesn't speak Italian, and he's of Iranian origin. He asked my friends do not open his secret (this restaurant was beloved place between young Aberdonian housewives waiting their husbands from weeks working on gas sea rigs)and we got Italian/Iranian dinner for free   

Edited by snobb - 23 Mar 2013 at 2:54am

I'll take the easy way out... mediterranean cuisine: which includes greek, lebanese, Italian, Spanish, maghreb (Tinisia to Morrocco), and French

BTW, one should be careful in some Northern European countries... italian restaurants are often not run by Italians, but Morroccans/Egyptians or Lebanese


I voted Mexican (which can include Tex-Mex)...

I love Indian foods!!!

There are a lot of restaurants of the Asian area in Japan. It is a Thai dish and a shop such as the Vietnamese food. The shop provides full-scale taste, but I like Indian foods personally. Seasoning and the alcohol are splendid.

Kingfisher Beer!   And the rum from India is good. 

^ I expect your choice should be more Italian than Greek/Middle East, at least "Mediterranean" is usually umbrella for Italian, Dalmatian and other South European coastal cuisine. Greek food is close but more spicy and in many cases more fat and salty, trout is associated really with Mediterranean,not Greek ( probably goat cheese is Greek cuisine trade mark). Middle East is even more spicy, less fresh vegetables, much heavily cooked, more fat and salt, no trouts or any fish. More lamb 

For the Greek/Mid east category I was thinking feta cheese, hummus, falafel, slow cooked lamb on a rack, pita bread, olives, rice wrapped in grape leaves, yogurt with mint etc.

Edited by js - 27 Oct 2013 at 10:02am

Mexican food for me. Love it