Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).

Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.

Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it’s essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    22 days ago

    Germany, grilled sausage and sauerkraut I guess. But if you ask a native about the national food or a food that they miss when living abroad, it’s usually bread, specifically sourdough made from mixed rye and wheat flour. Goes great with butter and slices of cheese or cold cuts (“Käsebrot”, “Wurstbrot”).

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
          2·
          22 days ago

          I see maple syrup as more of an ingredient I guess. I also thought the original commenter was talking about Québecois culture, not Canadian, although I guess poutine works for both. I’d say butter tarts are better known though

  • newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org
    18·
    22 days ago

    San Diego has a delicious blend of Baja ingredients and flavors and an American sense of too much. Case in point, the california burrito. Carne asada, french fries, guacamole are the essential ingredients. From there pico, cheese, sour cream are other common inclusions. They are delicious. I nominate carne asada fries as well. Its basically the ingredients i listed above without the tortilla, think like chili cheese fries but with carne and guac. So good.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
    18·
    22 days ago

    Tacos.

    Not the “hard shell” variety that is sold in the USA. There is a whole universe of tacos all over Mexico: beef, pork, goat meat, sheep meat, boiled egg, rice, hot peppers, shrimp, crab, octopus, many insects and larvae (chapulines, ant eggs, mosquito eggs, caterpillars), nopales (prickly pear), many kinds of herbs, sausages, etc. The list is almost infinite.

    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      22 days ago

      Tacos are great, never tried the more exotic ones though, except nopale. My college had it once for some reason but tbh it just kinda tastes like the seasoning they put LOL

      • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        “Exotic” is a strong word for nopales. (Nopal is the singular, not nopale) You can get it at every grocery store in the Seattle area. And yeah it doesn’t have a strong flavor on its own. Kinda like green beans?

        I can vouch for ant eggs (escamoles) and roast grasshopper (chapulines), they’re tasty but a lot harder to find around here.

        • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
          1·
          22 days ago

          Maybe niche then? Didn’t realize exotic had a negative connotation

          I don’t remember the last time i saw cacti for sale in a supermarket. Though in all fairness I go to asian ones maybe 70% of the time and standard american ones for the rest

          • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            22 days ago

            I don’t think exotic is negative, it’s just too commonly available for me to think of it as strange or foreign. Even the Asian groceries around me carry it.

            • RBWells@lemmy.world
              1·
              21 days ago

              They do here too, the leaves and the fruit of the tuna, but it’s probably exotic outside of the Americas.

    • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      22 days ago

      Those all sound delicious. I think the insects and larvae might be a weird texture for me but I’d still give it a try.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      Samoa?

      Samoan fry bread is; pure golden perfection when done well; with lots of butter and jam.

  • Anchorxiety@reddthat.com
    17·
    22 days ago

    From my particular part of Ireland, Ulster fry probably. Sausages, bacon, eggs, soda bread, potato bread, fried mushrooms. Sometimes with tomato, black pudding, and baked beans if you’re into it.

  • Saber@ani.social
    10·
    22 days ago

    Its likely to be Chicken Biryani and Mango Lassi. Though the specific area I am from has a different variant of the dish. I actually don’t like Mango lassi and would rather just drink Mango juice.

    I have tried Nasi lemak once and enjoyed it. And thanks to the fish and chips comment, am curious about that as well.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      1·
      22 days ago

      I was going to say cheesesteaks but thought Philly might kill us. So my second thought was salt water taffy maybe!

      • Drusas@fedia.io
        1·
        21 days ago

        Best cheesesteaks are in South Jersey.

        I thought salt water taffy until I brought it as a gift to represent our area at one point and nobody had ever heard of it.

      • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 days ago

        Jerseyite here… I find big chain sandwiches usually have subpar bread compared to smaller shops. I have enjoyed many a Subway cheesesteak but it’s fairly different from Philly style.

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          1·
          21 days ago

          I have to wonder where in Jersey and until what age you lived there if you think Subway serves cheesesteaks.

            • Drusas@fedia.io
              1·
              18 days ago

              You clearly have not read my other comments on the topic. I still have yet to find any fast food place that serves something that can be called a cheesesteak. And I’m not a Subway hater.

              • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
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                18 days ago

                I have not! If you put bread and meat and cheese together, with onions and peppers, what does it lack before you would consider it a legitimate cheesesteak?

                • Drusas@fedia.io
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                  12 days ago

                  For one thing, it needs to be either white American cheese or cheese whiz. To most of us, it needs to be white American, but we understand that the whiz people exist alongside us.

                  It also should not default to having bell peppers (and definitely should not have chili peppers). It is a minority who prefer peppers, although it is a perfectly acceptable addition. Despite being an onion lover myself, I must also say that it should not default to having onions. Many people do add fried onions, but you should have to request them. Any addition to bread, meat (with salt and pepper), and one of the two abovementioned cheeses should be requested by the consumer.

                  The type of bread also matters (crusty on the outside, soft on the inside) and I know that Subway does not offer that type of bread. The quality and slicing of the meat also matters a lot, and Subway does not slice finely enough.

                  Anything else can be a great steak sub, but it’s not a cheesesteak. A cheesesteak is a specific thing.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    9·
    22 days ago

    A barbecued sausage in a piece of white bread, purchased from a tent out the front of a hardware store (it is the glue that holds a multicultural Australia together)

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      You had me at

      A barbecued sausage in a piece of white bread

      This is a Kiwi staple; if there isn’t a sausage sizzle, is it even an event?