Your favorite ethnic/geographical cuisine?

[Donkeyboy75]

I realize there are varietals within each category, but I only have ten choices! If other, please specify!

[boobooday]

1. I LOVE Thai food

Oh the peanuts, the hot peppers, the noodles! The soups!

YUUUUUMMMMM.

Now I have to go tomorrow.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Donkeyboy75]

4. Shit! I meant to put Thai on there.

Sorry, chief.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. A second vote for Thai...

which really would;ve made a better third Asian choice than Korean, at least in my opinion...I'll take prik khing over kimchi any day, thank you...

[Donkeyboy75]

7. You're right. Mea culpa

[LadeJarl]

8. Indian is my first followed by

Indonesian. If you have never had the pleasure of eating a Rijs-tafel, you have missed a culinary world-class experience! :)

[Donkeyboy75]

9. Noted. I'll make sure to try rijs-tafel.

How is that pronounced?

[sangh0]

44. It's pronounced

"Waiter! Just give me one of everything"

[LynzM]

16. Second that!!!

We just got a Thai place about 3 blocks from our house... YUM!

[starroute]

23. Southeast Asian in general

Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese. It's all good.

[are_we_united_yet]

2. Italian

I like the best!

[tishaLA]

3. Thai?!

In fact, I'm waiting for it to be delivered RIGHT NOW.

[the Kelly Gang]

27. Thai and Vietnamese..nothing better !

[dudeness]

28. in full agreement here..

:)

[Barad Simith]

30. Yes. The correct answer is Thai.

I had swimming angels and coconut soup tonight at Thai Ocean in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood.

[Lisa0825]

6. I think Mexican food is one of the things that keeps me in Texas!LOL

I loooooooooove Tex Mex! Even when I spend 2 weeks in Mexico, I come home and have Tex Mex!

Don Pico's in Clear Lake has terrific fajitas and top shelf margaritas! yum!!!!

:loveya:

[LadeJarl]

10. Texas Ethnic then..

Since Tex-mex is far from mexican food and I guess best classified as Texas Ethnic :toast:

[Lisa0825]

11. yeah, I know it is different, but I am sure most Chinese and Italian food

in the US is way different than food in those countries too:-)

But I have tried Mexican food in several US states, and it is nowhere NEAR as good as Tex Mex!

[Bridget Burke]

31. Tex-Mex is one of the original "fusion" cuisines.

The other southwestern states have their own versions. Outside the southwest, beware.

Of course, Texas also has restaurants boasting foods of "interior Mexico"--familiar to readers of Diana Kennedy & Rick Bayless. According to Houston Press food writer Robb Walsh, Rick wanted to include a chapter on Tex-Mex in his first book; he was told that was too un-hip.

We've got even more places opened by recent immigrants to feed even-more-recent immigrants--& smart gringos. Lots of places serve Northern style food, heavy on the meat, but other regions are represented. For example, cuisine from the Yucatan features black beans, pulled pork & pickled red onions. And there are lots of Mexican seafood restaurants, making the best of our Gulf Coast location.

For the interested, check out Robb Walsh's "Six Part History of Tex-Mex": www.houstonpress.com/special/texmex.html

Now I'm hungry for that other local specialty--the Mexican Breakfast.

[bratcatinok]

26. TexMex is the thing I miss the most

about Texas. So far I haven't found a good Mexican food restaurant here in Oklahoma. I haven't found any decent hot sauce, they either put sugar in it and it's too sweet or else it's so hot that it has no taste. I want to be able to taste the ingredients in the hot sauce as well as enjoy the heat.

They also don't understand mole, it's either baseball nacho cheese sauce or chili on the enchiladas. No seasonings in the meat for tacos or enchiladas. The pico de gallo is out of a jar which is silly because pico is so easy to make. The fajitas are okay but the guacamole is so full of onions and tomatoes that it's almost as if the guacamole is a salad dressing.

Grumble, grumble, gripe, gripe!

You know you're in trouble when Taco Bell is the best TexMex you can find.

[Rowdyboy]

12. Italian food is the most complex, seriously delightful cuisine

known to man. I've never met an Italian dish I didn't like!

[lazarus]

13. I love 'em all

But I had to vote for Ethiopian, because everyone should try it.

[Donkeyboy75]

15. Mmm, injera. Possibly the best bread in the world.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

14. Eastern rim/ Pacific/Hawaiian...

Not quite easily catagorizable.

[chaska]

17. I'm so glad you relieved me of the choice between Indian and Thai.

[DBoon]

18. Ethiopian!

Injera with all those spicy stews. YUM!

[Renew Deal]

21. You like to eat with your fingers?

I had it once in NYC. The restaurant was the onlyone I have been to with living Dragon flys on the inside.

[DBoon]

24. Fingers are OK.

I eat pizza with my fingers, along with "chips and dip" at Mexican places.

Haven't met the dragonflies at my restaurants in Los Angeles. Don't think I need the extra protein.

[NJCher]

19. I voted Japanese

But I would have voted Thai if you'd had it in the listing.

Still, it's pretty close.

In NJ, Italian isn't considered ethnic. It's daily fare.


Cher

[Renew Deal]

20. Greek

[IronLionZion]

22. Real Indian food rocks!

Not the half-assed American palate-pleasing bastardized creamy narrow-minded crap you find in restaurants here in the US of A.

Homemade is awesome! also the stuff you get in India is wicked!

The craziest thing of all is that real Indian food won't make a caucasian person sick. The crappy stuff in restaurants is what does it. Some of them keep stuff long after it should have been thrown out.

[Donkeyboy75]

25. I don't find that to be true.

If you live in a large enough city, you'll find restaurants run by first-generation immigrants. I am lucky living in Chicago. To find a good restaurant, you just have to get a recommendation from someone who knows what's up, or find the place highly frequented by those who come from the area.

In fact, I found the food I can get in good restaurants in Korea town in Chicago to be indistinguishable from that found in Seoul. And my Korean friends agree!

But I do think you find crappy knockoffs everywhere. Chinese being the most frequently bastardized, in my opinion.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

39. i live in nyc

and i still think the indian food is second rate

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. i so agree

whats with all the cream in the food in this country?

[IronLionZion]

40. This is a creamy country

Americans love their cream

[Donkeyboy75]

41. Gorge on some Korean food.

Not a drop of cream in sight.

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. Gotta go with Mexican.

I can never ever get enough! After that...Middle Eastern.

[Love Bug]

32. Vietnamese!

Mmmmmmm......

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

33. Italian

But non-vegetarian Indian/Pakistani follow closely behind. While I love biryani, tandoori and kebabs, I cannot forsake my pasta!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. My kingdom for a bowl of pho---Vietnamese please

I have to go get some now!

[BigMcLargehuge]

35. Portuguese

If you haven't tried real Portuguese food, you are definitely missing something.

[GOPisEvil]

36. Southeast Asian, Mediterranean, Tex-Mex and real Mex, Southern USA...

...basically I like food. A lot.

Ooooh...Japanese, Sze-chuan Chinese too.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. KAFTA! RAW KIBE! MEATMEATMEATMEATMEAT

Yum

(I actually tossed a coin to choose between ME and Japanese. ME won.)

[RebelOne]

42. Actually, anything that is hot and spicy.

So that would include a multitude of ethnic foods.

[HawkerTyphoon]

43. Indian

is my favorite, followed by Thai. Give me spice! (No, Maud-dib, not that kind of spice) -- Vindaloo.

[redqueen]

45. Chose Mexican

But Middle Eastern, Indian, Italian and Chinese are so good... and I now want to try Ethiopian after reading some of these responses. :)

Ahhh, the Lounge... always with the hunger-inducing food threads!