Least Favourite Food Regions?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, YorkshireRed said:

Romania. 

I went to Romania a few years ago and the food was mostly good - with one exception.  You know the yellow jelly that forms on a roast chicken when it goes cold?  I was served a scrawny chicken wing suspended in a bowl of that. Fucking rank.

[Elite]

Those Asian food markets have got to be the worst, Cockroach satays, bat soup and boiled fertilised unhatched bird eggs.

[Strontium]

2 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Top of a Bold St?

 

Duke Street, I think.

[Mudface]

23 minutes ago, Elite said:

Scottish food sounds shite, though I've never had it and am just going by the 'deep fried everything' stereotype.

Haggis is lovely, and Scotch broth is probably my favourite soup. Can't stand Lorne sausage though.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_cuisine

[Remmie]

5 minutes ago, Elite said:

Those Asian food markets have got to be the worst, Cockroach satays, bat soup and boiled fertilised unhatched bird eggs.

Thai food is wonderful however I will never forget how revolting a "1,000 year old" egg smells, I can't imagine how awful it tastes. 

[Remmie]

I'm curious as to what constitutes North American food, as much like UK so much of the food is hugely influenced or directly descended from elsewhere. 

 

Cajun? BBQ? 

[polymerpunkah]

Never been there, but I imagine a straight-up old-fashioned Inuit diet would take some adjustment.

 

Seal blubber, etc.

 

Went through the "strange foods" alley in Beijing a few years ago and the smell alone was enough to knock a dog off a gut wagon.

 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

14 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Duke Street, I think.

Was the St Petersburg on Bold St shut now.

[YorkshireRed]

15 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I went to Romania a few years ago and the food was mostly good - with one exception.  You know the yellow jelly that forms on a roast chicken when it goes cold?  I was served a scrawny chicken wing suspended in a bowl of that. Fucking rank.

The decent restaurants are ok. They also have their fair share of Italian and Lebanese restaurants that are also ok.

 

I think my response is mostly driven from when I worked there and my colleagues would insist on taking me to lunch at a buffet kind of place. I’d regularly look at it and fail to see anything even remotely edible. Not wanting to be rude, I’d suffer in silence but it’s a scar not yet healed.

 

Hungary on the other hand was a totally different story. I’ve never had a bad meal in Budapest. 
 

[Lee909]

North American food just gets shoehorned together in hotdogs, burgers and all the other fast food. 

 

When broken down regionally though there is some excellent stuff. Mostly hugely influenced by European immigrants or from former slaves and brought in from West Africa. 

 

Look up Sean Brock for Southern cooking, Edward Lee who is a Brooklyn born Korean American that has combined Southern Cooking with Korean food. 

 

Its been pulled from Netflix know but Mind of a Chef was a brilliant show and covered some great chefs and how they are inspired and cook regionally. 

 

Chef Table is on there to and it's pretty fascinating at times

[A Red]

Slovenian is pretty shit. It takes bits of austro/italian/east european food but the bad bits and makes them worse. Love the country though.

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Lee909 said:

 

When broken down regionally though there is some excellent stuff. Mostly hugely influenced by European immigrants or from former slaves and brought in from West Africa. 

 

Taking Canada out of the picture - the States are by definition all immigrants with a relatively short history.

 

Not comparable to the UK whose history dates back with any of the "roots" of classic cooking. Just not favorably.

[Strontium]

7 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Was the St Petersburg on Bold St shut now.

 

It might have moved there later. When I went it was on York Street, just off Duke Street.

[Lee909]

It's litteraly fusion cooking at its roots. 

I think it sadly, like British food gets tarred as the stuff that is bad is bloody awful. 

 

[aRdja]

48 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Haggis is lovely, and Scotch broth is probably my favourite soup. Can't stand Lorne sausage though.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_cuisine

Yeah I’m a huge fan of Haggis. Not even a mile from where I lived in Bethnal Green, there was this vendor who did Haggis toasties. So fucking good. 
 

[aRdja]

22 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

It's litteraly fusion cooking at its roots. 

I think it sadly, like British food gets tarred as the stuff that is bad is bloody awful. 

 

Elite level British food:

- Full English Breakfast

- Beef Wellington

- Haggis

[Mudface]

5 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Yeah I’m a huge fan of Haggis. Not even a mile from where I lived in Bethnal Green, there was this vendor who did Haggis toasties. So fucking good. 
 

Ooh, I could do with one of those right now to show my hangover who's boss.

[Elite]

3 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Elite level British food:

- Full English Breakfast

- Beef Wellington

- Haggis

Shepherd's/Cottage Pie should be on that list.

[aRdja]

39 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

North American food just gets shoehorned together in hotdogs, burgers and all the other fast food. 

 

When broken down regionally though there is some excellent stuff. Mostly hugely influenced by European immigrants or from former slaves and brought in from West Africa. 

 

Look up Sean Brock for Southern cooking, Edward Lee who is a Brooklyn born Korean American that has combined Southern Cooking with Korean food. 

 

Its been pulled from Netflix know but Mind of a Chef was a brilliant show and covered some great chefs and how they are inspired and cook regionally. 

 

Chef Table is on there to and it's pretty fascinating at times

First off... North America includes Mexico.. and Mexican cuisine is pretty elite IMO. 
 

focusing on the US, I had some fantastic meals there:

1. Texan Barbecue in Austin

2. Po Boy, Muffuleta, Gumbo, Jambalaya in New Orleans

3. Poke bowl in SoCal

[Jairzinho]

Roast dinner.

[Evelyn Tentions]

Korean food is rank, fermented cabbage with everything.

Japanese is particularly unappealing and uses too much raw endanged wildlife.

[TheHowieLama]

11 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Elite level British food:

- Full English Breakfast

- Beef Wellington

- Haggis

Wellington is originally a French dish 

 

Good shout on the Mayan/Mexican cuisine.

[Chip Butty]

 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Lee909 said:

North American food just gets shoehorned together in hotdogs, burgers and all the other fast food. 

 

When broken down regionally though there is some excellent stuff. Mostly hugely influenced by European immigrants or from former slaves and brought in from West Africa. 

 

Look up Sean Brock for Southern cooking, Edward Lee who is a Brooklyn born Korean American that has combined Southern Cooking with Korean food. 

 

Its been pulled from Netflix know but Mind of a Chef was a brilliant show and covered some great chefs and how they are inspired and cook regionally. 

 

Chef Table is on there to and it's pretty fascinating at times

I remember one season of Hells Kitchen. On the first episode all the chefs had to cook their signature dish. One woman cooked a bowl of gumbo. Ramsey almost spat it at her. He booted her out of the competition in disgust on the spot. It looked fucking awful. 

[Lee909]

Not surprised most 'Chefs' on them shows are not chefs but just bang average home Cooks or crappy diner Cooks.