What are your Top Favorite world cuisines?

ANYTHING that isn’t traditional American or Southern food! I am SO bored with traditional American fare. I am always looking for ethnic foods when we go out to eat, and when cooking at home I make many recipes that have ethnic or oriental flavors.

I love Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Greek and Turkish foods. I should note that the Chinese foods I like don’t include places like Panda Express, or Americanized Chinese foods. I go to Mom and Pop Chinese restaurants where the food is authentic.

I don’t typically like Mexican food, except when my daughter-in-law, who is Mexican, makes it. That is some of the best food I’ve ever eaten! And it tastes nothing like most Mexican foods that you would find in a restaurant.
 

At one time I thought Indian food was uppermost but then I realized I hadn't really sampled enough of it to put it in my top three ; what little I've eaten I really liked however.

Lebanese food is definitely one of my top three and I miss the homemade foods a lady I knew used to make there are very few Lebanese restaurants where I live and they use Jarred garlic no I can tell the difference so it ruins the dishes sometimes.

I guess Italian food is way up there on my top three It's very popular where I live It's hard to find a good restaurant that isn't Italian.

French would be my next favorite but then I'm torn between that and Greek or Mediterranean foods.
 
German, Greek, Indian & Italian cooked the Italian way. My dad worked with a man from Italy & we would go over to their house for dinner & it was excellent. It was the first time I had real parmesan & not the wannabe out of the green can. They made a bread that was cooked in a pan slathered in olive oil & the sides of the bread fried while it baked in a cake pan. OMG, it was so good!

They also made a dish with tiny egg noodles, meatballs the size of your thumb with shredded beef in a homemade red sauce they called Timbali (not sure of spelling). I wish I had those recipes.

Mexican is kind of so-so for me unless you get real good cooking. Our favorite one went down during the lock down & we said we would try it one more time to see if it better. We now have a new restaurant in town & so far there food is pretty good, but I'm not a fan of their salsa.
 
Hands down Kobe Beef. We treated ourselves to some when we were visiting Kobe Japan years ago and I have never tasted anything like it. My eyes rolled back into my head and I just moaned when the flavor hit me. It was amazing. There are Youtube videos dedicated to people trying it for the first time. It is strictly regulated and last I checked there were only 9 restaurants in the US certified to serve real Kobe beef.
 
I love Greek food. We had gyros last night with lamb, Tzatziki sauce, cucumbers, tomatoes and onions that we bought at the local market. But there is nothing like authentic Greek food. We are going to Athens in October and will for sure enjoy the food there as we have many times before. Stuffed grape leaves!

Italian is also up there. Any authentic Italian dish with shellfish will do.

Pretty much all Asian foods are at the top of my list as well. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai. Indian Tandoori chicken with Nan bread. Yum!

And I wouldn't be a Texan if I didn't love Mexican food. It's one of the benefits of living here.
 

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