Hubs sent me this YouTube video and tells me that things like Brazilian pizza also exist. So anyone more traveled than me, have you ever had anything particularly interesting?

Edit: It’s also interesting to me how English adjective order affects this. The video is, for instance, describing Indian Chinese food, not Chinese Indian food. I’m sure other languages have something similar.

      • jqubed@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 days ago

        Unfortunately it’s been 18 years since I was in Austria, and as an American who’d never had one before they all seemed good, so I couldn’t really help. I remember once my cousin took us to a pizza place that served both döners and the meat inside of dough like a calzone, but couldn’t tell you at all where it was beyond I think we were on the eastern side of the Danube.

        But please have an Ottakringer Blopp and/or Kaiser Doppelmalz for me the next time you’re in Vienna.

    • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
      2·
      8 days ago

      idk man the doner kebab I had in Berlin was way better than in Istanbul. Istanbul still had excellent food, just not the kebab for whatever reason. Maybe we just didn’t try the right place.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 days ago

    I moved to New Zealand six months ago, and I have had exactly one truly bad meal since I’ve been here. I haven’t eaten any Maori food, so I guess all the food I’ve eaten has been from another country.

    The one that surprised me the most was KFC. We moved from one state away from Kentucky, and we had to come here to have truly good KFC.

    I was expecting the Chinese food to be good here, but it’s really good. So is the Korean, Indian, and Malaysian food. The fish and chips are good. The burgers are great, even from McDonald’s. The absolute best was Filipino food from a tiny little restaurant in a random strip mall near Sylvia Park. That food changed my life.

    In fairness, I have had a couple of “fine” meals—as in, “well, nothing special, but it was fine.”

    The one bad meal was Pad Thai made by Thai people at a Thai restaurant down by the beach. It was just way too sweet, which makes me wonder if they saw me and made it “for a white guy” or something.

    • Tja@programming.dev
      3·
      8 days ago

      Well, I had the exact opposite experience with KFC. In Europe KFC is crispy, crunchy, seasoned, delicious. When I was in Kentucky we stopped at the supposedly first KFC. Holy greasy bland chewy chicken, batman! Didn’t try KFC again the whole trip.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      8 days ago

      Wondering where you’re were coming from (e.g city or rural), because what you described has basically been my experience in every US city I’ve spent time in. One of my favorite aspects of multicultural city life tbh

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Absolutely. I was just recalling in an earlier thread a dinner I had in Cornwall near Tintagel, at a family run Indian place. I was keen on trying vindaloo, but the owner talked me down to madras - and I was glad, because that madras was at the perfect edge of my hotness tolerance and was delicious. The vindaloo probably would have been too much for me.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
      3·
      8 days ago

      The only true oven for it within the city of a Chicago (Argo Bakery on Devon) closed a few years back and it’s like an ache in my soul.

  • veroxii@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 days ago

    Vietnam has amazing French food. Especially top tier baked good like croissants. Up there with the best in Paris.

  • disregardable@lemmy.zip
    91·
    9 days ago

    puerto rico is not really a country, but it did have the absolute best hummus pizza I’ve ever had. the food there in general was top notch.

      • disregardable@lemmy.zip
        6·
        9 days ago

        I’d describe it as a Mediterranean fusion food. It’s not common, but when you see it, it’s typically an option at trendy artisanal pizza places.

        • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          8 days ago

          Interesting. Does the hummus just replace the red sauce, or is the rest of the structure different too?

          I’ll have to give it a try if I come across it.

            • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              8 days ago

              Ah, gotcha. The pizza dough is really a substitute for pita, rather than fitting the hummus into pizza (if that makes sense). I bet some feta would go crazy on that.

              Still sounds pretty yummy, I’ll def have to find that somewhere.

  • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    9 days ago

    Had the most amazing burger in Japan. I’m not sure what they put in their food, but EVERYTHING there tastes amazing.

  • Buffman@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 days ago

    I had some really good Chinese takeaway noodles in Athens. Bonus: 500mL Heineken’s were a €1.50.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    I had something in Germany they told me was from Austria that was just ham steaks with eggs and potatoes in an incredible red sauce.

    I don’t remember what it was called, nor where it actually originated from. But fuck, I wish I knew what that sauce was because the rest of it was super simple and something I can get easy at home. It’s not the same without the sauce, tho. It wasn’t spicy, it wasn’t BBQ and it wasn’t ketchup. It was just pure deliciousness.

    • fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      9 days ago

      I had something in Germany they told me was from Austria that was just ham steaks with eggs and potatoes in an incredible red sauce.

      It sounds a bit like Tiroler Gröstel but with Gulasch Sauce. Gulasch is usually it’s own dish, but you could use it as an addition to another dish.