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Chinese food ranges from absolutely great to absolutely horrifying from what I've seen. I'd say a lot of this stems from them having massive famines at certain points of their history to living opulent lifestyles at other points.
What culture has the worst cuisine?
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When you're finished cooking the spam patties for the musubi they should be a deep reddish brown color and are completely candied/candy-coated in brown sugar (and soy sauce* if you use it as a marinade in your recipe, some use fish sauce) the snack is basically like salty sweet meat candy sushi. It has all the flavors of salty spam but very subdued and is infused throughout with the brown sugar, mixed with the flavors of a piece of sushi. The cooking method is pretty particular. You slice them into your patties and then put them in a bowl with brown sugar, coating each side of each patty. Let them set for 30mins while your sushi rice cooks (make sure to add a bunch of rice vinegar to the rice to get it to taste like actual sushi rice)
When you are ready to pan fry your spams, you will notice that as they sat there the brown sugar leached a bunch of water up from the meat and they are all now coated in a brown sugar glaze. This is why letting them set for a bit in the sugar is necessary. Get a tiny bit of oil in your pan and heat the pan all the way up until it is a bit under med stovetop heat. Cook both sides of the spam till they are a lil crispy, and do not burn them. As soon as both sides are finished crisping, turn the heat down a bit, pour all the remaining brown sugar glaze from your bowl or plate onto the tops of all the patties, and cook them low and slow until they develop a candy glaze. You can and probably should flip them a few times here.
When your rice is finished, make patty-sized balls and shape them so they look the same size as the patties but a little thicker however you like your musubis to look. They taste the best when the rice bed is maybe 25% thicker than the spam patty, just refer to images online and copy what it looks like. When the riceballs are made and laid out and the spam is done cooking, take each patty and place it onto the rice. If that candied spam cools down touching anything but the rice it will rip pieces of it off. Lay each patty on its own flattened rice ball, let the meat cool. When you can touch it, wrap the entire thing in a wide piece of nori.
The great thing about these is they can be saved for a little bit, too...spam musubis can be eaten days old and stone cold and still be delectable. They are best when they are slightly warm, though.
*i am not a huge fan of the soysauce method but that is apparently how they do it in Hawaii more often than not.
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I haven't tried that many exotic foods but i do not enjoy indian food at all, first time probably i could not finish my meal at a restaurant, i also hate curry, i don't want to ever see curry.
Not worst but most dissapointing is japanese food, everything is tasteless. Rather have a hotdog down the street than eat a fancy japanese lounge.
Best food in the world is mediterranean europe, is all great, italian, spanish, portuguese, i really don't care to stray too far from that, i like what i like.
Not worst but most dissapointing is japanese food, everything is tasteless. Rather have a hotdog down the street than eat a fancy japanese lounge.
Best food in the world is mediterranean europe, is all great, italian, spanish, portuguese, i really don't care to stray too far from that, i like what i like.
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I do not like "authentic" Chinese food, i.e. the food you get if you go eat in restaurants in the less cosmopolitan Chinese cities (i.e., not Beijing/Shanghai/HK/Guangdong) and the countryside. In my experience the more delicious the sauce, the more vile the meat is underneath it. I was treated to dog, insects, and cubes of fat from unknown animals, as well as some endangered species like turtles and sharks that there is no fucking reason to eat except for an idiotic belief that it makes you more virile or whatever the fuck. There was definitely good stuff at times, particularly in the southwest provinces if you like highly spicy food. But for the most part, the food was highly fatty and heavy, and fresh vegetables are never used. And breakfast (congee?!) is nasty. I'd take Japanese and Korean cuisine over Chinese any day of the week.
I once lived in a shared living arrangement with a person from the Caribbean who was always hogging the non-climate controlled kitchen by making stews that smelled absolutely foul. Nothing like coming home and having your bedroom be >100 degrees, 100% humidity and filled with the scent of almost-expired pig tails that have been stewing for hours.
I once lived in a shared living arrangement with a person from the Caribbean who was always hogging the non-climate controlled kitchen by making stews that smelled absolutely foul. Nothing like coming home and having your bedroom be >100 degrees, 100% humidity and filled with the scent of almost-expired pig tails that have been stewing for hours.
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I don't know where I put it but I have a compilation video of different african american vloggers proudly eating ethiopian food because of a racial supremacy "black foodie" trend of some kind. And... they tapped out immediately. Some refused to even put the injera in their mouth after feeling and smelling it. I was trying to find the video on youtube and saw someone describe it as a wet mousepad from the 90s. True.
The video I was trying to find was something I saw a year or two after eating Ethiopian food at a party with a "every culture is beautiful and should be supported" theme, so a lot of different dishes was ordered from a place popular with Ethiopians - so it seems authentic. Apparently the women at the restaurant were very excited that white devils were there ordering a ton of food, there was no trace of the American cultural appropriation mindset so it actually bums me out that their national cuisine is garbage.
To my credit I was the only one that ended up eating more than a few morsels and I took a go at everything, repeatedly, trying to find the positives. There was nothing there that I would pay for and eat on purpose.
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Shut your mouth, black pudding is heaven
It's not whale sperm, it's cod sperm.
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Congee made from leftover rice and chicken broth is what I eat for breakfast when I'm sick, miserable and the world feels wrong. Lots of Soy sauce, sriracha, spring onion, peanuts, an egg, some leftover chicken if available - It's like a warm hug from the inside. Like chicken soup on steroids.
It reminds me that simple pleasures can make life bearable, even when skies are particularly grey.
The sourness fits very well with very rich dishes - just like how we squeeze lemon or lime on extra rich peanut curries, eating intensely spicy meats + cheese with it balances it out. On its own, I agree, it's pretty disgusting. Or maybe my local Ethiopian restaurant just makes better than average injera. I'm curious what you got with it - here it's usually either beef tartar, or very finely minced and briefly fried beef with a very hot spice similar to Harissa, a tad smokey, along with a feta-like cheese and various greens, some pickled. I will say, those things are literally all they have. That's about the entirety of "classic" or "typical" Ethiopian cuisine.
Source: My Ethiopian friend I forced to accompany me to the Ethiopian restaurant lol.
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I feel neither the English (without the Scotts, Irish and Welsh) nor Americans actually have any cuisine that isn't adapted from other cultures, so I can't really rank it as "the worst" - there's just not much of it it seems.
HOWEVER, a LOT of Scandinavia, especially once you go to rural Norway and Finland, fucking sucks at making dishes palatable. You'll have bread, you'll have lard, and you'll have fish. If you're very lucky, you can have salt. Spices? Let me show you the door, go ahead and freeze to death outside with your spices.
Essentially this:
(Referring to arabian food)
Thanks for reminding me, I completely wiped that from my memory. It's absurd - I always thought the Greeks went over the top with honey but middle easterners are insane when it comes to pouring syrup on their desserts. Just thinking of it makes my face scrounge up.
I assure you, Serbs will bbq/roast/grill literally anything.
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You're right. Balkan food is a big exception, presumably from the Turkish influence. I make a mean cevappi with a recipe that partially came to me in a dream lol. I rarely see Russian or Ukrainian roasted meats though but I keep an eye out.
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Modern consumerist "culture", especially or at least in America. Food full of crap like lab chemicals and high fructose corn syrup.
I heard the artificial food coloring (like "red #10" or "yellow #5") comes from oil.
I heard the artificial food coloring (like "red #10" or "yellow #5") comes from oil.
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Gonna be that "ackshually" guy but
And shirako refers to any type of fish sperm, cod, fugu, anglerfish etc. Though most common is cod and fugu.
I know Hawaiians call them musubi but musubi=onigiri, aka rice balls. Those are spam nigiri, without the "O". Maybe they call them that because they're musubi'd (tied) with the bit of seaweed.
And shirako refers to any type of fish sperm, cod, fugu, anglerfish etc. Though most common is cod and fugu.
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Can confirm, I bought an automatic rice cooker last year and waking up to congee is amazing.
Great. Now I want some congee and it's gonna take at least 12 hours to cook. Thanks a fucking lot.
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I love how a bunch of people are saying the British have the worst, but trust me boys, it can be so much fucking worse. While jellied eels and stargazey pie are undoubtedly foul dishes the Chinese have eggs that are literally simmered in the urine of prepubescent boys. You think that's bad? How about some fertilized duck eggs with the fetus in them? Want some more eggy abominations? They'll literally let boiled eggs rot in the shell for 4-6 weeks until the whites turn brown and the yolks turn green. Had enough yet? No? Good, then maybe you'd like to hear about a soup made from the nest of a bird, the nest being made out of the bird's own spit. Or maybe you didn't know that they eat the fucking genitals of sheep. Add to that fucked up stuff like chicken that is prepared by gutting it alive and shoving spices in it before being hanged and dried raw (Feng Gan Ji), raw donkey meat that is cut off the still living animal and served to you (Huo Jiao Lu), and live baby rats (San Zhi Er).
British food can be revolting, but at least it's actually food. The shit Chinks eat is like something out of a fucking nightmare. It's like what demons or Orcs would eat just because it's disgusting and cruel.
British food can be revolting, but at least it's actually food. The shit Chinks eat is like something out of a fucking nightmare. It's like what demons or Orcs would eat just because it's disgusting and cruel.
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Unironically, and it's not me being a Nazi, Jewish food. I rented a Jewish cookbook once to check it out and it seemed like most of the recipes involved eggplants mixed with some dirt from outside.
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Rented a Jewish cookbook? Did you have to pay compound interest on it too?
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I had to affirm to the Rabbi in writing that I would return it within the week or there would be compound interest multiplying every day, yes.
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Most contemporary Japanese food tastes like shit:
Spaghetti naopolitan is far too sweet and they attempt to counterbalance their ketchup abortion with vinegar from tabasco sauce. It doesn't work
Their packaged baked goods (croissants, bread, buns) are usually horribly dry and have a very distinct chemical aftertaste
If the pizza isn't from an established American chain you can expect it to taste way too sweet and even be watery because their choice of ingredients (like corn) leech moisture out. Oh and the cheese is super heavily processed and doesn't melt properly most of the time.
Speaking of cheese, when you get a cheesecake you expect it to be sweet right? Theirs is typically made with strong, smelly cheeses.
I would say the only thing they manage to not fuck up is grilled meat and fried food.
Spaghetti naopolitan is far too sweet and they attempt to counterbalance their ketchup abortion with vinegar from tabasco sauce. It doesn't work
Their packaged baked goods (croissants, bread, buns) are usually horribly dry and have a very distinct chemical aftertaste
If the pizza isn't from an established American chain you can expect it to taste way too sweet and even be watery because their choice of ingredients (like corn) leech moisture out. Oh and the cheese is super heavily processed and doesn't melt properly most of the time.
Speaking of cheese, when you get a cheesecake you expect it to be sweet right? Theirs is typically made with strong, smelly cheeses.
I would say the only thing they manage to not fuck up is grilled meat and fried food.
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candians all the eat is maple syrup and french fries with sauce and cheese on them.
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I've heard about the pizza horrors. But I didn't know about the cheesecake. I'm trying to imagine putting chocolate or fruit or sweet decorations on a very strong tasting cheesecake. Seems like you are mixing up the desert with the appetizers.
I see a lot of recipes for the fluffy, jiggly cheesecakes. But I remember they became trendy on social media.