Which country has the best cuisine?

Links234 · 17-09-2013 08:21PM

Japan

GLaDOS · 17-09-2013 08:21PM

Can't claim to have much experience with proper exotic cuisince, but I do love Indian.

ringadingding · 17-09-2013 08:26PM

You should look closer to home, England , especially London is offering some of the best cuisine in the world at the moment.
Also, the food scene in Ireland, notably Dublin, is fantastic.

We produce a lot of creative chefs, we have amazing produce and our fields and sea are full of some of the best meat and fish in the world.

Sigourney · 17-09-2013 08:28PM

token101 wrote: »

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

Do you not think that Malaysian food is better than Singaporean? Like me, you probably find the food in Penang to be over-rated, but there's some great cooking around Ipoh, on the road up from KL.

Birroc · 17-09-2013 08:29PM

I-talian.

stefan idiot jones · 17-09-2013 08:33PM

Well I'm Welsh, so obviously it has to be... Indian.

WoollyRedHat · 17-09-2013 08:39PM

France or Italy, for sure... the flavours, so many, and so rich, exquisite.

losthorizon · 17-09-2013 08:41PM

I am pie wrote: »

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 ; )

Love French Food but Marie Antoinette who was Austrian took the Croissant From Vienna and introduced it to France. Its Half Moon shaped in honour of the Austrians Stopping the Turks taking over Europe. They defeated them in a major battle just outside Vienna and shaped them that way.

forgotten password · 17-09-2013 08:42PM

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MadYaker · 17-09-2013 08:42PM

Japan is supposed to have amazing food but I've never been. Out of all the places I've been Italy is still my favorite with France a close second. Ireland isn't too bad either. Probably 3rd on my list.

emeraldstar · 17-09-2013 08:46PM

Italy, for me.

Then Mexico. If not England.

French food is waaaaaaaaay overrated.

pickarooney · 17-09-2013 08:47PM

Just how varied is Mexican cuisine? I've never been and don't know anything beyond the basics.

charlie_says · 17-09-2013 08:51PM

The best destination for food in the world is Singapore in my opinion as it's an amazing melting pot of all the Asian foods. Eating out is the number one hobby over there - it's serious business. Seriously tasty business. You can have a mind blowing 300 euro dinner right through to mind blowing 4 euro dinner in the hawker centers - pretty much the only place to cheaplyish drink beer there too.

Personally I really like Vietnamese food as it's a mixture of French and native Vietnamese, I also tried Peruvian cuisine recently and that was pretty damn awesome too.

Between Europe and Asia it's a close thing - Asian food tends to be a bit sloppier in general but I like that.

We have fantastic beef and great seafood here though.

Push Pop · 17-09-2013 08:51PM

Italy with France a close second

crosstownk · 17-09-2013 08:53PM

I like Italian & French. I'm a big fan of German pork and smoked hams. Some of the best pork I've tasted was in Germany.

Better still is Mexican and not the Tex Mex shíte you get in a lot of places.

That said, Irish cuisine is my favorite. The quality of food produce in this country is really hard to beat.

Archeron · 17-09-2013 09:00PM

spurious wrote: »

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

I once tried Ethiopian chicken wings in a place called the Africa cafe in Capetown, and ten years later they still stand out as the most fantastic thing I ever tasted. Don't know if they were proper Ethiopian what with being in a different country and all, but if they were, I would happily move there tomorrow. And get very fat.

Push Pop · 17-09-2013 09:02PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Just how varied is Mexican cuisine? I've never been and don't know anything beyond the basics.

I agree with Jeremy Clarkson in that it is third world food with cheese on it.

spank_inferno · 17-09-2013 09:13PM

Ireland.

No...not kidding.

We have the best ingredients & wonderfull dishes.

Problem is that 99.5% of Irish people have not the first clue how to cook.

I enjoy ethnic food, but much of it is quite over-rated.

Links234 · 17-09-2013 09:16PM

MadYaker wrote: »

Japan is supposed to have amazing food but I've never been.

Best food I've eaten in my life was in Japan by far

Pang · 17-09-2013 09:30PM

Anything Asian

Marcusm · 17-09-2013 09:37PM

Links234 wrote: »

Japan

Japanese food is like German engineering; it has the best raw materials and the most skilled chefs applying a combination of the best techniques across simple and complex methods. In the end, however, I don't think it has much soul and doesn't get the heart beating in the same way as an equivalent Italian meal (which is equally multi layered, across various courses and with particular specialities across restaurant types). I have, however, never found a restaurant in Italy to even approach 1/2 the cost of a high end Tokyo restaurant.

A JApaense airline will have 5 choices of rice to accompany a meal (varieties of rice not cooking methods) but it's clinical.

Fox_In_Socks · 17-09-2013 09:39PM

Push Pop wrote: »

I agree with Jeremy Clarkson in that it is third world food with cheese on it.

Thought it was "sick, with cheese on top"?:pac:

somefeen · 17-09-2013 10:07PM

I don't know but overall I think the quality of food in the UK is ****.
Eat the same thing in an Irish restaurant for an equivalent price and I guarantee it will be miles better.

TommiesTank · 17-09-2013 10:09PM

Burger and fries. USA

Fr_Dougal · 17-09-2013 10:17PM

spank_inferno wrote: »

I enjoy ethnic food, but much of it is quite over-rated.

Oh I love ethnic food too, they really know how to cook.

Ethnics, great bunch of lads.

Buer · 17-09-2013 10:25PM

I find Italian food quite repetitive. When eating in Italy, the menus can be quite boring unless going to an upmarket restaurant. It can be fantastic but the standard Italian fare is dull and not particularly well made.

Spanish cuisine is quite underrated with some outstanding seafood, cured meats and flavours.

Japanese is great but much harder to come by in this part of the world.

Mexican is probably the tastiest in terms of simple, every day meals.

I'd second those that say Irish cuisine is a lot better than it's given credit for. Perhaps because we know the restaurants to go to but there are some cracking spots throughout the country and you'd be hard pushed to find better meat around the world. I'll be in S.A. later this year though which I hope will trump it.

starlit · 17-09-2013 10:25PM

Italy and Mexico

BunShopVoyeur. · 17-09-2013 10:28PM

I won't be so arrogant as to assume that my opinion is the only one worth reading (like some here) but my favourite is Indian.

Auldloon · 17-09-2013 10:36PM

Unless you've visited the country then your opinion isn't valid sorry. C'mon,people liking Chinese cause they've eaten in a Chinese restaurant...
For me the best so far is France. The way they celebrate food, I love that.
Irelands great, very French influenced really.
Morocco... It was a revelation. Savoury and sweet combinations. Fruit and meat, excellent.
South Africa for the price, quality of meat, game meat and seafood.
Noticed lots of people said Italy, I've lived there and the food was a huge disappointment. With the exception of the wafer thin pizza drizzled in chilli oil.... Nwom nwom nwom

spank_inferno · 18-09-2013 12:19AM

Auldloon wrote: »

Unless you've visited the country then your opinion isn't valid sorry. C'mon,people liking Chinese cause they've eaten in a Chinese restaurant...
For me the best so far is France. The way they celebrate food, I love that.
Irelands great, very French influenced really.
Morocco... It was a revelation. Savoury and sweet combinations. Fruit and meat, excellent.
South Africa for the price, quality of meat, game meat and seafood.
Noticed lots of people said Italy, I've lived there and the food was a huge disappointment. With the exception of the wafer thin pizza drizzled in chilli oil.... Nwom nwom nwom

Worked in Italy for a while also.

If you took away tomato & olives from them they would starve.
Some great grub... But much of it rather meh'.

Which country has the best cuisine?

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