What is your least favourite World Cuisine?

volchitsa

Or, whose cuisine is even worse than ours?

As a spin off from the thread about great food, what about countries whose food you find to be pretty much rubbish?

IMO Mongolia is just really bad. Limited choice, especially fruit and vegetables which are almost non existent. The only cuisine I've come across where potatoes can be the vegetables accompaniment to a dish of noodles! And even the meat which is the main ingredient is often tough and fatty.

Any others?

(I can't see how/where to list options for the poll)

_blaaz

China

Scottish

LirW

UK

Really not digging scandinavian food.
Imo it's just food made to give you enough energy to survive the 10 months of winter.

TheDiceMan2020

Russia

Polish.

Holy fcuk is it horrendous. Looks like pickled baby food.

Gloopy slop.

I'd rather eat dog food.

Indian. Am very adventurous, but Indian generally doesn't do much for me (though I do like a simple korma)

odyssey06

France

Maybe the stuff we have here isn't representative... but Chinese food here does not agree with me.
I don't know if it's MSG or some other ingredient, but Thai food is lovely in contrast.

igCorcaigh

odyssey06 wrote: »

Maybe the stuff we have here isn't representative... but Chinese food here does not agree with me.
I don't know if it's MSG or some other ingredient, but Thai food is lovely in contrast.

Funny that.

I find our version of Chinese takeaway food is like a competition between sugar and salt.
And why do they steam the chicken to make it slimy? Just odd.

igCorcaigh

I haven't been to USA but I've heard bad reports.

suicide_circus

its not the cuisine but the quality of the average food/cooking you get when eating out in the UK has been dismal in my experience. but maybe ive been unlucky.

suicide_circus

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I haven't been to USA but I've heard bad reports.

pretty bad alright. a lot of the meat wouldnt be served here.

igCorcaigh

suicide_circus wrote: »

its not the cuisine but the quality of the average food/cooking you get when eating out in the UK has been dismal in my experience. but maybe ive been unlucky.

They use canned tomatoes with the breakfast fry!

volchitsa

Poland

Agree about Polish, and Russian for that matter. I think it's for the same reasons as Mongolia, ie very harsh climate, only not so drastic of course.

igCorcaigh

suicide_circus wrote: »

pretty bad alright. a lot of the meat wouldnt be served here.

They also have a different concept of "cheese".

volchitsa

Poland

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Funny that.

I find our version of Chinese takeaway food is like a competition between sugar and salt.
And why do they steam the chicken to make it slimy? Just odd.

I've not been to China but I was once taken to to a Chinese restaurant in Brussels that was said by Chinese friends to be proper Chinese food. Now I quite like Chinese but this was just awful. There was birds nest soup but bleurgh.

volchitsa

Poland

igCorcaigh wrote: »

They also have a different concept of "cheese".

American cheese is shockingly bad alright. Also their notion of "vegetables" seems to be about an ounce of broccoli chopped up so small it looks like herbs.

cdeb

France

volchitsa wrote: »

I've not been to China but I was once taken to to a Chinese restaurant in Brussels that was said by Chinese friends to be proper Chinese food. Now I quite like Chinese but this was just awful. There was birds nest soup but bleurgh.

I've been to China, and the food was barely edible I thought. Slimy meat, or meat with all the bones left in. I had a chicken curry where the chicken was at least 50% solid bone, and the rest was just gristle. Usually any greens are drowned in strong sauces, and it's all washed down with a glass of hot water (which is horrible)

Seamai

I like most of the popular world cuisines especially spicier food like Mexican, Indian,and Southeast Asian but Japanese doesn't do it for me, know I know it has quite a variety and I've tried some it both here and abroad but it's never grabbed me.
I just don't get sushi or sashimi, and it's not even the fish, the cold sticky rice is vile, likewise with udon and soba at the higher end things like kaiseki where enormous detail and attention are given to presentation but leaves me cold, and it's way too salty for my palette.

smurgen

volchitsa wrote: »

Or, whose cuisine is even worse than ours?

As a spin off from the thread about great food, what about countries whose food you find to be pretty much rubbish?

IMO Mongolia is just really bad. Limited choice, especially fruit and vegetables which are almost non existent. The only cuisine I've come across where potatoes can be the vegetables accompaniment to a dish of noodles! And even the meat which is the main ingredient is often tough and fatty.

Any others?

(I can't see how/where to list options for the poll)

Icelandic. Horrible smelly fish cured with vinegar and the likes. Then lamb baked with blueberrys

LirW

Mali

LirW wrote: »

Really not digging scandinavian food.
Imo it's just food made to give you enough energy to survive the 10 months of winter.

Moose fillet.......
Mmmmmm, lovely

igCorcaigh

volchitsa wrote: »

I've not been to China but I was once taken to to a Chinese restaurant in Brussels that was said by Chinese friends to be proper Chinese food. Now I quite like Chinese but this was just awful. There was birds nest soup but bleurgh.

Yeah, I got served some duck bones and noodles in salty water in a Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam. Lot of Chinese natives eating there.

odyssey06

France

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I haven't been to USA but I've heard bad reports.

It runs the range from the great to the dangerous.
With a general emphasis on quantity over quality.

I've eaten out in lots of countries, in America for the only time, I had to send a dish back as it wasn't cooked, thankfully obviously so - in a hotel in Massachusetts.

I also had some of the nicest steaks I've ever had, in Washington DC & California, and the nicest burgers, in a diner in Vermont.

Sam Hain

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I haven't been to USA but I've heard bad reports.

Why bother your hole posting about your least favourite cuisine that you never had.

igCorcaigh

Sam Hain wrote: »

Why bother your hole posting about your least favourite cuisine that you never had.

Just curious to see if other people's experiences match with those I've heard.

I'm sure the variety is enormous though. Would like to try good home cooked Southern food.

T-Maxx

Irish.

Pork, cabbage and spuds. And spuds. And spuds.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Seamai wrote: »

I like most of the popular world cuisines especially spicier food like Mexican, Indian,and Southeast Asian but Japanese doesn't do it for me, know I know it has quite a variety and I've tried some it both here and abroad but it's never grabbed me.
I just don't get sushi or sashimi, and it's not even the fish, the cold sticky rice is vile, likewise with udon and soba at the higher end things like kaiseki where enormous detail is attention given to and presentation but leaves me cold, and it's way too salty for my palette.

Never ever got sushi. There was a fad for it in the 70s but unlike most of the 70s fad it didn’t die out.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

T-Maxx wrote: »

Irish.

Pork, cabbage and spuds. And spuds. And spuds.

Deres more to Ireland dan dis.

Sam Hain

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Just curious to see if other people's experiences match with those I've heard.

I'm sure the variety is enormous though. Would like to try good home cooked Southern food.

You got it in one, the variety is enormous. Some of the best steaks I've eaten have been in the US. Had the most amazing buttermilk fried chicken in New Orleans. Southern food is really good.

odyssey06

France

T-Maxx wrote: »

Irish.

Pork, cabbage and spuds. And spuds. And spuds.

It can be that - Dry pork, cabbage that's been boiled to death and bland mashed spuds. Mediocre.

It can also be - slow cooked pork shoulder, with fresh cabbage and new potatoes, with a dollop of buter. Marvellous.

Thankfully we seem to be heading more in the direction of the latter.

bertsmom

For me it's Polish food. I've sampled quite a few different dishes from different friends and to be honest each one was beyond not nice...but each time bar one when I had to get up from table to spit it out in bathroom I pretended it was nice (which I know is ridiculous)

Ipso

odyssey06 wrote: »

T-Maxx wrote: »

Irish.

Pork, cabbage and spuds. And spuds. And spuds.

It can be that - Dry pork, cabbage that's been boiled to death and bland mashed spuds. Mediocre.

It can also be - slow cooked pork shoulder, with fresh cabbage and new potatoes, with a dollop of buter. Marvellous.

Thankfully we seem to be heading more in the direction of the latter.

Notions!

T-Maxx

odyssey06 wrote:

It can be that - Dry pork, cabbage that's been boiled to death and bland mashed spuds. Mediocre.

]It can also be - slow cooked pork shoulder, with fresh cabbage and new potatoes, with a dollop of buter. Marvellous.

You can polish a turd but it's still a turd.

Deja Boo

Indian food - no thanks.

odyssey06

France

Ipso wrote: »

Notions!

If 'Notions' get us decent grub I heartily endorse this event or product

I think Irish food done with some French inspiration, say by Moloughneys Clontarf, confit of duck legs, lamb cutlets, dublin bay prawns ... can be as good as any country's cuisine especially considering the quality of the input ingredients Irish beef, duck, lamb, seafood.

Sgt Hartman

I like German cuisine but it seriously lacks vegetables. Those soggy dumplings they serve with pork and gravy are utterly disgusting, it's like shredded newspaper in wallpaper paste. When I was in Berlin I was guzzling Gaviscon, mainly because I was eating meat, potatoes and gravy for the whole time I was there. It can't be healthy.

Atoms for Peace

German food is for real men, none of your pouncy vegan nonsense, meat, meat and more meat along with kraut so acidic it would strip paint, dumplings near critical density, all washed down with masses of beer.

smurgen

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

German food is for real men, none of your pouncy vegan nonsense, meat, meat and more meat along with kraut so acidic it would strip paint, dumplings near critical density, all washed down with masses of beer.

It's rotten.sour calf lung and boiled sheeps head.no thanks!

trashcan

igCorcaigh wrote: »

They use canned tomatoes with the breakfast fry!

Ugh. That's criminal :eek:

Atoms for Peace

smurgen wrote: »

It's rotten.sour calf lung and boiled sheeps head.no thanks!

Just drink more beer.

odyssey06

France

I have fonder memories of German beer than its food - stodgy but it was at least edible, in decent quantities and not likely to cause imminent bathroom visits (unlike Chinese or Turkish).
Visiting Turkey the rule is only eat what you've know has just been cooked, or you just unwrapped or unpeeled it... even salad washed in the local water is a gamble.

Telly

Morrocan

igCorcaigh

odyssey06 wrote: »

It can be that - Dry pork, cabbage that's been boiled to death and bland mashed spuds. Mediocre.

It can also be - slow cooked pork shoulder, with fresh cabbage and new potatoes, with a dollop of buter. Marvellous.

Thankfully we seem to be heading more in the direction of the latter.

Right. It seems that the quality of Irish food is very dependent on the quality of ingredients and method of cooking. Similar to Italian in that way possibly?

If you can find a proper potato, then nothing more than real (Irish) butter and some sea salt is all that is needed. It's a type of simplicity that lets the produce shine.

dd973

Food in most average English pubs is absolute rubbish, there's a joke that if you go to Heaven the police are English and the Chefs are French, however in Hell..

Wouldn't say I disliked it but only get the taste for Indian food once or twice a year, whereas I could eat Chinese every week.

Nobelium

irish. boiled cabbage, boiled ham, boiled cheap cuts of meat, and stews, basically food only suited to boiling in a big black iron pot.

dxhound2005

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I like German cuisine but it seriously lacks vegetables. Those soggy dumplings they serve with pork and gravy are utterly disgusting, it's like shredded newspaper in wallpaper paste. When I was in Berlin I was guzzling Gaviscon, mainly because I was eating meat, potatoes and gravy for the whole time I was there. It can't be healthy.

Are you sure you like German cuisine?

ILoveYourVibes

I put China (LOVE ASIAN FOOD INDIAN ASIAN FOOD TOO) so many dishes for vegetarians.

Russia. I love Quark. Russian salads (bit diff ).

Irish ...love homemade soups.

France encrudites!

I love homemade cooking in general.

Franz Von Peppercorn II

Nobelium wrote: »

irish. boiled cabbage, boiled ham, boiled cheap cuts of meat, and stews, basically food only suited to boiling in a big black iron pot.

You probably need to get some more pocket money together and visit a modern Irish restaurant. Maybe get a summer job. Ask parental approval.

L1011

Dutch, with one exception - fritesaus.

The rest of their food is bland, beige stodge but they have perfected the delivery of chips. Crispy, coated in paprika and with fritesaus (not mayonnaise) on the side.

The rest of their stuff could do with being introduced to the paprika jar and more; its basically inedible.

Greentopia

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I like German cuisine but it seriously lacks vegetables. Those soggy dumplings they serve with pork and gravy are utterly disgusting, it's like shredded newspaper in wallpaper paste. When I was in Berlin I was guzzling Gaviscon, mainly because I was eating meat, potatoes and gravy for the whole time I was there. It can't be healthy.

Home made dumplings are light and tasty. I had them for Christmas dinner last with rabbit and red wine /juniper berry sauce and they were delicious.

Berlin has the biggest number of vegan places to eat in Europe, you could have found plenty of no-meat eateries if you really wanted.

I don't like all German food- Maultaschen for example and have seen some stomach turning suspicious meats in jars from the east, but some of it is nice like potato salad and kraut. I tried Mett-raw minced pork with caraway or garlic at a wedding a few weeks ago and liked it.

Grayson

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I haven't been to USA but I've heard bad reports.

You can get good food there. However a lot of people just seem to replace good with quantity instead.

Grayson

Deja Boo wrote: »

Indian food - no thanks.

I'm grand with some. Cant eat other stuff. I have a stomach condition that just means I get horrible indigestion if I eat anything vaguely spicy. Or too hot or too cold. Or too salty. Or if it has too much tomatoes.

So I'm going to say mexican food is my least favorite. Mainly because there's feck all I can eat in it. I hate it when someone picks a mexican place for dinner.

volchitsa

Poland

sugarman wrote: »

Another vote for Polish food here...

Its not all bad mind, I love their Pierogi and kielbasa ...but almost everything is pickled to bejayus and a lot of their dishes are served like a soup/stew and like slop/grul. I tried an awful lot of it, but it all really tasted the same just different textures. So you either hate it or love it.

My worst experience with food tho, was traditional French food. Now I like trying new cuisines and dishes wherever I go. Id already eaten and loved a lot of French food on my travels including steak tartare. So I decided to up the ante and try Andouillette.

For those not familiar with the dish, its a small fat sausage made from tripe, intestines and colon.

I ordered it and it looked grand, smothered in a rich Dijon mustard.

As soon as I stuck the knife in, it hit me and everyone at the table. I felt like puking there and then. I cant even describe it. Possibly fermented pig **** and rotten meat ...like the brown bin for food wastes. Disgusting.

Id paid for it, so having sat looking at and getting somewhat accustomed to the smell I tried a small bit of it. Taste wise, it was actually ok ...mustard and seasoning masked the worst of it. But the textures were vile, it was like chewing on a grisly, knotty, stringy piece of elastic that was covered in ****. Never again.

Oh steak tartare and andouillette - I had forgotten those!

I once ordered steak tartare, convinced in my recently acquired veneer of sophistication that it would be steak with tartare sauce. How wrong I was! I couldn't eat it. Raw minced beef and a raw egg on top... Luckily someone else (French) at the table agreed to swap with me, but I never made that mistake again!

As for andouillette, well you've done an excellent job of describing it, so I'll just agree with every word. Vile stuff.