What's your favorite ethnic cuisine?

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We are really lucky here in Chicago.. because Chicago is the City of Neighborhoods. Name just about any nationality, and it has it's neighborhood.. ChinaTown, GreekTown, Devon Ave East Indian, Lawrence Ave is German. Little Italy.. Along with this comes great restaurants owned by the real deal.. and the food is the real deal..

Last weekend we went to GreekTown to our favorite Greek restaurant, Athena. We started out with a bottle good quality Rhoditis.. a nice wine..

For appetizors..

Taramasalata... or fish roe salad.. spread on pita

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And grilled Octapus

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For our entrees... Greek salad with gyros and veggie kabobs.. Desert.. of course Baklava and greek coffee!!


What ethnic food do you enjoy the most?
 

One winter I decided I was going to learn to cook Indian food.. and I went out and bought cook books and went to indian stores to stock up on all the spices... that's what I love about cooking indian food... the HUGE variety of spices used.. Cardimon, turmeric, cinnamon, bay leaves, corriander, fennel... Just so many.. I love how they all smell and how Indian food smells while it's cooking... Love Batsmati rice!! and Naan I have an entire 3 drawer spice cabinet filled with all sorts of things..
 

Yes, there are many different kinds of daals - love them all except one - (don't like mung daal), but all the rest are delicious. Love channa batura (chick peas and naan) especially and make it all the time.

NB: a movie I enjoyed which includes Indian cuisine - The Lunchbox
 
QuickSilver said:
One winter I decided I was going to learn to cook Indian food.. and I went out and bought cook books and went to indian stores to stock up on all the spices... that's what I love about cooking indian food... the HUGE variety of spices used.. Cardimon, turmeric, cinnamon, bay leaves, corriander, fennel... Just so many.. I love how they all smell and how Indian food smells while it's cooking... Love Batsmati rice!! and Naan I have an entire 3 drawer spice cabinet filled with all sorts of things..
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My husband is the cook in our house and we eat curries most nights. None are the same - different veggies or protein source, different spices, garlic, chilis, etc. Always with basmati rice.
 
Lon said:
Lately it's been Thai Food, it's healthy, colorful and oh so tasty with the different kinds of curry.
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That's one of the best things about winters in Thailand - authentic Thai food. Healthy. And cheap. And the menus seem to all have a couple of hundred different dishes to choose. Green curry, Glass noodle soup, dishes with coconut, prawns, pork, etc etc.....
 
I used to love Italian and Mexican food but they decided they no longer loved me. So my favorite now is Thai. Probably healthier too.
 
Let's not forget our own American cuisine... Southern Cooking... Love it.. My first MIL was from Alabama.. I learned a whole bunch of down home cooking from her.
 
Having been brought up on the blandest of English cuisine, colonial style, I love all spicy foods. Thai, Indian, Mexican, Korean, Chinese, you name it, I'll have a go at it. Australians are now very adventurous regarding what we are prepared to eat and Asian flavours are pretty much mainstream now.

Kangaroo curry, anyone?
 
Like Falcon, Mexican, Chinese and Italian. I haven't had Indian food that often, but I remember loving the rice.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Having been brought up on the blandest of English cuisine, colonial style, I love all spicy foods. Thai, Indian, Mexican, Korean, Chinese, you name it, I'll have a go at it. Australians are now very adventurous regarding what we are prepared to eat and Asian flavours are pretty much mainstream now.

Kangaroo curry, anyone?
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DW our little Foodland
sells kangaroo but I have never tried it, as Aussies we were mainly bought up on lamb, or to be more precise old mutton..
 
Most likely one of those. Mexican is popular there as well.

Almost every village and town in the UK has an Indian and a Chinese restaurant. And the chippies (fish and chip shops) are most likely owned by an Italian.
 
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