What is your underrated cuisine that you think people should try before they die?
For me, it’s Ethiopian food. I’ve mentioned it before, but I don’t eat meat, and Ethiopian cuisine naturally has a lot of vega(n) dishes. I discovered it when I randomly went to an Ethiopian restaurant in the city.
You’re served these big plates with pancake like bread called Injera. They have a soury-sweet taste and are a delicious side dish to your meal.
You’re supposed to rip a piece of the Injera and use it as a tool to pick up the food on the plate.
The meal consists of lentils, chickpeas, kale, pepper, cabbage, veggies and fruits, which does not sound special at all to be honest, The real magic is in the spices, which are probably something you have never tasted before if you haven’t eaten Ethiopian food yet.
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What is your favourite, underrated cuisine?
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There’s some bomb Afghani restaurants nearby that serve amazing foods. Really anything from that region is mind blowing.
second the persian food
It’s not one specific cuisine, but all the diversity in Chinese food. In the UK (and also other western countries) almost all Chinese take-aways / restaurants sell food primarily from Guangdong province (spring rolls, dumplings, chow-mein). This means most of Chinese cuisine is forgotten
Edit: same for india, most indian shops in uk are from bengal.
Chinese food is great as well. Actual Chinese food, that is. I´ve got some Chinese friends living here and whenever they make food, it looks nothing like the stuff we get in Dutch Chinese restaurants., which is basically tailor made food to cater to Dutch people (so just meat with sauce, basically). Chinese people do things with tofu that shouldn’t be allowed.
There’s this great Indian place near where I live and everytime someone mentions they like ‘spicy food’, I send them there. People come to the conclusion they never had actual spicy food.
Asian food and asian fusion restaurants in the West are disastrous for sure.
It really is abysmal how food can be that tasteless.
If you want true ‘fusion’ food. Just come to my country of Malaysia. We had cross cultural contact with the 2 regions (India and China) with arguably the highest density of food diversity for centuries, mixed with our own local and SEA inspired dishes. (And even some middle eastern influenced dishes).
I also do hate the word ‘spicy’ because it doesn’t describe the varying different types of spiciness you experience from like chili, or peppercorns, or even just the ‘amount’ of spices. The spiciness you get from typical Indian food is vastly different from Malay or even Chinese dishes or even Arab (ie. Arabian peninsula) food.
The only good restaurant in my city is from Kerela (southern india, also based but thats unrelated). The food slaps because its not tasteless english-““indian”” food, it has actual flavour
Vegetarian and I adore the Ethiopian food I’ve had as well. It was a little bit of a tiny culture shock not being given a fork or spoon, but the food was delicious and the experience enjoyable. The only awkward part was perhaps running out of injera whenever there was still food on the plate haha.
I love it and think, in my area at least, flan is an underrated desert. Just ridiculous how good it is – a bit like a wet cheesecake.
The meals I had in Peru were also phenomenal. Fujimori was a fuck but something interesting his presidency brought was a lot of Japanese-Peruvian fusion places that had delectable combinations, utilizing Japanese serving styles and Andean spices and the like, just wonderful.
The lady where I eat Ehtiopian food makes sure that you never run out of injera. I’m a bit scared to turn it down actually. But at least I get to take home a bag of leftovers that can feed you for multiple days somehow.
My cooking lacks a good South-American cuisine, so I might give Peruvian food a shot
Ethiopian food is so fucking good it’s a shame it costs so much where I live (oh and that my country killed and enslaved them for decades)
Thai. The best place in the (my) world closed down during the pandemic and I’ve sworn to hunt down the chefs and see where they are now. I should probably extend that to Southeast Asia in general and include Vietnamese. Simply my two favorites, followed by Indian, Mediterranean (not differentiating between Greek, Turkish, Levantine, Moroccan, etc. for ease), Caribbean, and Creole.
Any specific dishes?
Not necessarily cuisine but I feel cabbage is an underated plant in general. Broccoli and cauliflower are both part of the cabbage family too. All of it tastes amazing when you lacto ferment it, stir fry it, steam it, etc. I love me some cabbage. Like I totally get the plight of cabbage merchant from ATLA. Respect the cabbage. Embrace the cabbage. Get the cabbage farts.
get some cabbage, make curtido for pupusas, or saurkraut
Ethiopean food is the tops. If given the choice; I would pick Ethiopean food over authentic Italian. Which is brave of me; I know.
Otherwise, Mediterranean food goes mad hard.
As an Italian I would pick Ethiopian food 100% percent of the times lol
No disrespect to Italian food though. It’s incredibly good.
Great. Now I’m food-horny.
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I’m not sure if it’s underrated, but I fuckin love korean food.
Cuisines of the many ethnicities and nationalities in Russia. Caucasus cuisines - i.e. Georgian. Siberian stuff - Buryat buuzy. And many, many more.
Italian is not really underrated, but I think it has to be my favourite. Authentic Italian, that is. Pizza and pasta isn’t bad, it’s just a tiny tiny percent of what they do and cook with.
In general Mediterranean cuisine is some of my favourite.
It’s incredibly healthy apparently
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best thing about living in Toronto is Ethiopian restaurants, I really miss it
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Fried popcorn shrimp
I would do a public speaking bit for those things
I like ethiopian food too, but something about the injeera put me off. something about the texture I think.
Persian I would consider underrated.
Middle eastern and north african food as well.
