Favorite Ethnic food?

[bigsteel15]

Just got back from dinner at my favorite restaurant.
It is a local Ethiopian restaurant, family run as are most good ethnic places.
If you ever get a chance to try the food, it is absolutely delicious. One of the reasons they give is that Ethiopia was never influenced by europeans and thus the food has stayed true to the native styles.
You eat with injera bread (crepe like flat bread made form fermented grain, has a slight sourdough flavor).
Also you eat with your hands, thus the need for the bread. Everything comes on one big platter, lined with injera.
The food ranges from spiced enough for flavor to downright hot.
My favorite is actually an appetizer called Ketfa. Garlic, jalapeno and their spices butter, all ground up and spread on injera.
And the spiced coffee is fresh roasted on the stove top and served with creme ...YUM!!

Anyways, what is you favorite ethnic food? Favorite dish?

[just4funsies]

My favorite ethnic foods:

1) Cajun (jambolaya)

2) Thai (potak soup)

3) Jamaican (jerk ANYTHING)

4) German (sausage/cabbage casserole)

5) Cuban (roast pork)

6) Korean (bulgogi)

7) Soul (ham hocks/collard greens)

[leehljp]

1. Cajun for me - most anything. But that influence in seafood has rendered crab, shrimp, lobsters as almost tasteless unless it is cajun. Six years in the N.O. area in Lafourche Parrish ruined me.

2. Korean, Bibinpa (sp?) and kimchi flavored foods.

3. Japanese Tenpura; Katsu; various soba dishes; Okonomiyaki

4. Thai

USA:

Memphis BBQ Pork; Texas BBQ Beef.

OH, Almost forgot:
Grits,
Home made from scratch Cornbread, (Not that sweet kind either).

DANG it, now I'm hungry again!

[430752]

Thai

Thai does it for me. I still wish I was back home in chicago eating at Rosded with a giant plate of Rich Greene Beef! yum. And the german deli around the corner always had some great beers to go with the meal (Gosser, anyone?)

Does italian count as ethnic? Out here every second restaurant is italian.


curt j.

[djmst38]

food

There is a very small Thai place that we go to and it has amazing "Pad Thai" that you choose your hotness on a scale of 1-10. I always get a "6" and it makes me sweat. I once asked if people ever order a "10" and they said that some people do but they do it again. The waiter said that the chef doesnt like to be challenged like that. Anyway the Pad Thai is excellent and is my favorite foreign dish.

[bmyers]

Wow, when I saw the msg title I was thinking Ethernopian (south park spelling). What a coincidence thats what you listed first.

It's good food and I like eating with my hands anyway...


Bill

[BigguyZ]

I'm not too picky with what I eat. That's why I'm BigguyZ and not LittleguyZ.

[Russianwolf]

Indian

By far my favorite is Rogan Josh I think that's how it's spwlled at least. It's a light Curry sauce with Lamb. Very flavorful without being overpowering.


Others I love are Fo soups (asian) and Carolina Bar-B-Que (rabbit especially).

[bigsteel15]

By far my favorite is Rogan Josh I think that's how it's spwlled at least. It's a light Curry sauce with Lamb. Very flavorful without being overpowering.

I'm also a big Indian food fan.
My weakness is the butter chicken (extremley fattening) and Fish Masala.
Haven't had the nerve to try the goat curry yet. Something about eating goat turns me off. Lamb no problem.

[just4funsies]

Something about eating goat turns me off.

Maybe it's because you know what the goat eats...

[Warren]

Russian, which is actually a combintation of many different styles. Shashishlik is my favorite. It is a variation of shishkabob, of which there are many variations. Shashlik is usually made with pork in Russia, but is primarily lamb in the southwest regions of Russia.

[Stick]

I love German food. A nostalgia thing, I grew up there (dad was RCAF) and I still cook that way. As far as others, I'm another vote for Cajun, and another for Jamaican. And nothing like Texas BBQ or pulled pork!

[gary]

PIZZA with extra cheese and sausage

[MilDoc]

True TexMex - not the Taco Baloney kind!

[atgcpaul]

It really depends where I am. When I was in San Diego, it was the real
Mexican food. I want my carne asada! Now that I'm in Maryland, I still want my
carne asada! Actually, one of the reason why I moved back was for my mom's
cooking--Burmese. My wife is half Thai and boy can she cook it, too. But I
think if I choose to go out to eat, it's Indian.

Funny story about Ethiopian food. My old boss who at the time had recently
started eating meat again went to one such restaurant. He ordered some beef
dish and the server with an accent asked him if he wanted "cooped". My boss
not wanting to look dumb and not wanting to pay extra for food he didn't know
about declined the "cooped" option. When his meal came out raw, he knew
exactly what his server was saying.


Paul