What is your least favourite World Cuisine?

Grayson

jiltloop wrote: »

Ok well then if these people are just going in to restaurants in Ireland and ordering bacon and cabbage every time then it's no wonder they have a poor opinion of Irish cuisine and my point then still stands, i.e they are not qualified to offer a worthwhile opinion.

Anyone who can't find a decent meal in a restaurant in Ireland or cook one at home is doing it wrong.

The point is that our "national dishes" are crap. It's not saying that we don't have good ingredients or good restaurants. It's saying traditional irish food isn't great. And we don't have that much in the way of traditional Irish dishes. Not compared to spanish, italian, french etc.

Grayson

Russia

Grayson wrote: »

The point is that our "national dishes" are crap. It's not saying that we don't have good ingredients or good restaurants. It's saying traditional irish food isn't great. And we don't have that much in the way of traditional Irish dishes. Not compared to spanish, italian, french etc.

yes, some people just don't seem to get this.

a national or regional cuisine is about national or regional dishes.

In Ireland we don't really have anything amounting to a decent repertoire of national dishes. get over it.

In Ireland there are indeed good ingredients and some good restaurants but that's not a national cuisine.

jiltloop

Grayson wrote: »

The point is that our "national dishes" are crap. It's not saying that we don't have good ingredients or good restaurants. It's saying traditional irish food isn't great. And we don't have that much in the way of traditional Irish dishes. Not compared to spanish, italian, french etc.

I can understand your point but it is frustrating to think of traditional Irish cuisine as just being bacon and cabbage, stews and coddle etc. Our food has moved on from that and maybe it's time that what we call our traditional food should move on too.

I'd say the perception of our food from outside of the country is better than our own collective perception of it for instance.

mcmoustache

I don't get the dislike for Polish and German cuisine.

I get that German grub is mainly meat, carbs and sauerkraut but it tastes great and the quality of the ingredients is very high.

Polish food can be a bit hit or miss depending on your tastes. Like the French, they eat a lot of meat cuts that we would throw away or feed to the dog but there's a lot of tasty stuff there too. The sausages and dumplings have been mentioned before but they have all sorts of food over there. The beef tatare in a lot of places blows the French one out of the water and they have some great soups. I also like the pickled fish and their street food. It's worth pointing out too that in the cities, the better restaurants tend to be Polish/Italian so the menus shouldn't scare anyone.

kowloon

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.

It's to hide the Gull flavour.

Jamsiek

Scandinavia

fryup wrote: »

indian that i make from a jar at home is fine....

....but any indian i had in a restaurant has ended in vindaloo where's the loo?

I find the Indian food can vary greatly between restaurants. That’s why I always do my research before booking a table

Nobelium

jiltloop wrote: »

I'd say the perception of our food from outside of the country is better than our own collective perception of it for instance.

that's because we've thankfully and successfully largely kept quite about our "traditional national cuisine". Until relatively recent times, this was a very poor country once, and for most people that meant boiling to death whatever they could spare / lay their hands, using what little equipment they had - i.e. a large black iron pot hung over an open fire. - and our "cuisine" was designed around that.

Ironically, and conversely through, what Ireland does have, but does not capitalise on it half enough today, is the finest ingredients in the world.

The best meat, fish, fresh vegetables, and dairy in the world currently comes from Ireland, though our standards in some areas are slipping due to price competition with cheap imports , we should be trying to protect, preserve, utilise and promote our quality food.

Thelonious Monk

Lol the best vegetables do not come from Ireland. Try a tomato in France or Italy. Or potatoes and peppers in Spain. Why is irish fish any better than fish caught in Cornwall or Scotland? So many irish people don’t even eat fish or seafood either.I don’t know where people get these notions about our ingredients being the best in the world.

Thelonious Monk

And how do we have the best dairy in the world? Do you mean milk or what? We make nice cheese nowadays sure, but France and many parts of Europe have made world renowned cheeses for centuries.

JupiterKid

Scandinavia

I see Spain is not that on that list...

...Spanish food is so...disappointing. Basically Omlette, tapas and paella. You would think a Mediterranean country of 35+ million souls with France to the North and Italy to the East would offer some really good cuisine, but you would be wrong.

I have family in Holland so travel there all the time and yes traditional Dutch food is pretty stodgy and bland - like sturmpot and frikkandel (sausage with pork and horse meat). But their chips are divine and these days most Dutch eat varied international cuisine like we do. Dutch biscuits IMO are the best in the world. When over there I always take a load of Verkadde biccies back home.

I rather like German cuisine - bratwursts and sauerkraut and knudel (dumplings) - very meat oriented but some great salads too.

Russian food is truly vile and barely edible.

Hunchback

Don't like pulses and beans so not mad into Mexican

FTA69

JupiterKid wrote: »

I see Spain is not that on that list...

...Spanish food is so...disappointing. Basically Omlette, tapas and paella. You would think a Mediterranean country of 35+ million souls with France to the North and Italy to the East would offer some really good cuisine, but you would be wrong.

I have family in Holland so travel there all the time and yes traditional Dutch food is pretty stodgy and bland - like sturmpot and frikkandel (sausage with pork and horse meat). But their chips are divine and these days most Dutch eat varied international cuisine like we do. Dutch biscuits IMO are the best in the world. When over there I always take a load of Verkadde biccies back home.

I rather like German cuisine - bratwursts and sauerkraut and knudel (dumplings) - very meat oriented but some great salads too.

Russian food is truly vile and barely edible.

Mate you haven’t a scooby doo what you’re on about. The food you can get in Spain is some of the best in the world. Basque cuisine is internationally renowned and has more Michelin stars per head of population than anywhere else. In terms of ingredients and local cuisines Spain is absolutely unbelievable for food.

_Brian

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.

Yea it’s nothing like eating in China.

_Brian

glasso wrote: »

yes, some people just don't seem to get this.

a national or regional cuisine is about national or regional dishes.

In Ireland we don't really have anything amounting to a decent repertoire of national dishes. get over it.

In Ireland there are indeed good ingredients and some good restaurants but that's not a national cuisine.

Irish people as a whole were desperate oppressed and for the most lived a meek lifestyle. Ingredients were limited as a result. Our horticulture knowledge was poor and because we didn’t have our own state bodies to help educate things stagnated badly.

Thelonious Monk

FTA69 wrote: »

Mate you haven’t a scooby doo what you’re on about. The food you can get in Spain is some of the best in the world. Basque cuisine is internationally renowned and has more Michelin stars per head of population than anywhere else. In terms of ingredients and local cuisines Spain is absolutely unbelievable for food.

I would agree with him. Sure there are lots of good restaurants and produce there much like Ireland but their standard food isn’t great imo. Dry bocadillos, ham, pretty boring tapas, and much like France it’s hard to get any bloody vegetables in a restauarant, usually just a hunk of meat or fish with a lame salad or some canned veg at the side. My parents live there and I’ve been all over Spain, I find the food really bad at times.

J Mysterio

Scandinavia

L1011 wrote: »

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.

What is this 'fritesaus' of which you speak? Is it like ketchup/ mayo 'special sauce? Paprika would be rare enough in my experience too. Traditionally it is simply chips with mayonnaise.

Satay sauce and/ or raw onion is sometimes added too.

Patat Oorlog (chips war) is the job. Chips with mayonnaise, with satay sauce on top and some chopped raw onion too.

cdeb

France

_Brian wrote: »

Irish people as a whole were desperate oppressed and for the most lived a meek lifestyle. Ingredients were limited as a result. Our horticulture knowledge was poor and because we didn’t have our own state bodies to help educate things stagnated badly.

How many countries do you think had state bodies to help educate farmers and develop cuisine?

Ireland has a wide variety of vegetables and I don't think you can say our horticulture knowledge was poor.

And a "meek lifestyle"?

Think that's a bizarre post overall tbh.

whisky_galore

cdeb wrote: »

I'm wondering what's wrong with a bit of bacon and cabbage tbh. Lovely stuff.

Food snobbery about 'peasant food'.