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Which country has the best cuisine?

  • 17-09-2013 07:37PM
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 46


    Curious to hear the thoughts of food connoisseurs.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Italy. \thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    France

    /thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Curious to hear the thoughts of food connoisseurs.
    France, obviously.

    Everywhere else has food in their own language.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭Sugar Free


    By no means a connoisseur but (authentic) Vietnamese food is fantastic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Italy


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    India
    Phillipines
    Vietnam
    Mauritius
    Greece/Turkey
    Morocco

    So many!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Lebanon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    Italy. Not even close. Asian food, especially Thai and Malaysian, is absolutely horrible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    India
    Phillipines
    Vietnam
    Mauritius
    Greece/Turkey
    Morocco

    So many!

    Seconded :)

    And the Balkans (former Yugoslawia)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    Another vote here for Italy - I love Mediterranean food in general


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 marmaladeheels


    Anything asian is way superior.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭French Toast


    Italy. The world would be a much darker place without pizza.

    Is lasagna Italian or American..?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    I guarantee any of you who enjoy a wide range of cuisines would be sick of Italy within a month. Dublin is a better food destination than Rome IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Italy, India, Thai-Vietnamese (can't say I have tried Cambodian).

    Rising star - Peru. (seriously....in a few years it will be the next big thing in Europe).

    Not a fan of rich French cuisine, prefer the simpler Italian approach focusing on quality ingredients rather than the over fussy pretentious French approach. French pastries are all stolen from the Austrians who do it better, and crow about it less ; )


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Probably Italy for me, because there is soooo much variety from area to area.

    But the food in Ecuador blew me away, especially in in coastal areas like Manabi, year round fruits and veg always in season because of the climate, amazingly fresh fish and so. Spent a week in Quito was resigned to the food in the country being crap but by the time I'd left the country 4 weeks later was in love with Manabi food.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Italian, French or Thai. Or Indian. Or Greek. Or Lebanese.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Indian.... Chinese. .. Thai.....


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Indonesian, Thai, Indian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Probably most countries have the best food. It's pretty hard to separate any well prepared country's food from any other.

    There's nothing between Indian, Italian, French, Chinese, Mexican etc etc if they're done well. If you're trying to compare Chinese takeaway to Michelin star French restaurants obviously you'll only get one outcome.

    Even if you take Irish "cuisine" we have a wealth of fresh fish, meat and so on that would be the envy of other countries. Not as intricate as a curry perhaps but no less lovely.

    Of course the best thing to do is to take the best elements from each and adapt them into other cuisines. Adding some more traditionally Indian or Chinese spices into Mexican food is damn tasty.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 46 King Hearts


    I must say I despise Chinese food. Of the limited exposure to exotic cuisines I've had I'd put Mexican number one.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Vietnom


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    I must say I despise Chinese food. Of the limited exposure to exotic cuisines I've had I'd put Mexican number one.

    Have you eaten Chinese in a proper restaurant/not in Ireland? I hated it to until I lived in a country with excellent Chibese restaurants.

    What you get in Chinese takeaways here is not really Chinese food


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭Oscars Well.


    China, sure you cant bate a 3in1! :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 46 King Hearts


    MurdyWurdy wrote: »
    Have you eaten Chinese in a proper restaurant/not in Ireland? I hated it to until I lived in a country with excellent Chibese restaurants.

    What you get in Chinese takeaways here is not really Chinese food

    I've eaten in Chinese restaurants but still just don't like it. The flavours are to rich and funky.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Curious to hear the thoughts of food connoisseurs.

    If that is what you thought the denizens of After Hours consisted of, you might want to have yourself checked out.

    It's a highly personal thing but I would probably plump for Italy on the grounds of variation of protein (fish in south and on coasts, boar and game in the middle and uplands and plenty of cured meats), vegetables/pulses and starches (rice, pasta, bread) across all parts of the country - except if you're thesort of person who thinks it's all the same. French provincial cooking is also excellent athough sometimes the focus on cuisine is a little at the expense of the finished product.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,611 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    Surely it must be Ethiopian...or Somalian


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Surely it must be Ethiopian...or Somalian

    No no... It's who has the best food, not the least....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    I like Irish food.

    We have superior diary products to any where else in world.

    But like any and every country I've been too. The gems are always family owned and cooking as passion and not to get rich or own a restaurant chain.

    Every country has there own delicious dish.

    But on a cold winters night, only Irish will do

    Beef Guinness pie :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    I don't think Pot Noodle has come in every national cuisine flavour yet, so I'm holding off judgement.

    The English/Italian mix was good though (beef/tomato flavour)


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,403 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Surely it must be Ethiopian...or Somalian

    I don't know Somali cuisine, but Ethiopian food is quite nice. I wish we had an Ethiopian restaurant in Dublin.


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