Underrated foods from your culture/homeland

[ThomasBricks]

From Itally, fish. Everyone knows Itally for pasta, but the fish meals are something rather extravagant,

On the subject of pasta though, garlic and olive oil. Only that. No other ingredients in the sauce. Effectively no sauce in fact. If you know how to saute your garlic just right, it's the tastiest thing you can possibly put on pasta. Far better than red sauce or white sauce, and WAY better than *shudders* just melting butter onto it.

(Also, please tell me you people know what a cannoli is. I was with some friends of mine at an Italian restaurantd once and was shocked to discover none of them had ever even heard of a cannoli before. An injustice which I quickly rectified.)

Don't be afraid, I'm a Belgian and you may even find cannoli's in the supermarkets and some bakeries here XD.

Talking about food, my country is mostly known for mussels, Fries and waffles, but there are other dishes of course, although they ccan also be found in France, Germany and the Netherlands... Any Belgian Stew (beef stew, pork stew...) with belgian beers (Trappist) in the stew are delicious. Oh and there are hundreds of asparagus dishes for you to choose from. The again about 3/5th of the restaurants in my country have foreign menus, like Thai, Chinese, Romanian, Russian, Polish, a bazillion Italian and Moroccan/Turkish restaurants, If they were foreign workers for the mines, you can find them here!

 

[Deleted member 45782]

My family is from Hong Kong, and a staple dessert type from southern China is tong sui or sweet soup. It's not really a specific dish so much as it is a genre of food. Basically, anything that's somewhat liquidy, sweet, and comes in a bowl is tong sui.

There are all kinds of tong sui, from sweet potato sweet soup to tapioca pearls in coconut milk, but my favorite is tofu pudding or Dou fu fa (豆腐花). It's a very simplistic dessert consisting of some extremely soft, silken tofu and sugar, but a great bowl is good enough to pass out for (dying for it might be too dramatic).

If you ever go to Hong Kong and come across a street store selling some, I'd recommend you give it a try!

Have eaten that before at chinese restaurants. I like the little tapioca pearls.
For sure silken tofu thu we get it from a vietnamese tofu/che place. Soft tofu great with ginger. :D

I'm not really one for very sweet stuff. I'm okay with tong sui, thu my parents don't mind enjoying tong sui and they also like che.

 

[xluferx]

Mmm Chilcano, this soup is soo fucking underated it pisses me off that I need to travel to the beach to get a properly prepared Chilcano and not just fish water that every other restaurant offers

 

[MadmanRB]

You know America is known for foods that we took from other nations and made them our own, the Pizza, the Hamburger.
But I don't see many people talk about the good ol Yankee Pot roast.
I make mine with an eye roast, two containers of beef broth and or beef stock, a sweet onion, baby carrots and red russet potatoes.
It is a bare-bones variation but its the meat that is the star of the show here, it melts ion your mouth.

I also love a good Jambalaya, Creole food is a treasure!

 

[Kenjona]

From Itally, fish. Everyone knows Itally for pasta, but the fish meals are something rather extravagant,

On the subject of pasta though, garlic and olive oil. Only that. No other ingredients in the sauce. Effectively no sauce in fact. If you know how to saute your garlic just right, it's the tastiest thing you can possibly put on pasta. Far better than red sauce or white sauce, and WAY better than *shudders* just melting butter onto it.

(Also, please tell me you people know what a cannoli is. I was with some friends of mine at an Italian restaurantd once and was shocked to discover none of them had ever even heard of a cannoli before. An injustice which I quickly rectified.)

Cannoli should be known by most Americans who have seen any Italian based or Mafia movie. Cannoli's always show up in them sooner or later. That and some guy making Tomato Sauce from scratch.

You know America is known for foods that we took from other nations and made them our own, the Pizza, the Hamburger.
But I don't see many people talk about the good ol Yankee Pot roast.
I make mine with an eye roast, two containers of beef broth and or beef stock, a sweet onion, baby carrots and red russet potatoes.
It is a bare-bones variation but its the meat that is the star of the show here, it melts ion your mouth.

I also love a good Jambalaya, Creole food is a treasure!

Hamburger is an American invention, there are various claimants to it.

But yes:
General Tso's, Fortune Cookies (One story it was invented by the Mafia as a way to get money out of Chinese restaurants), Chop Suey, Chicken Teriyaki (Yes teriyaki is actually Japanese based, but it is sold in Chinese restaurants), sugar donuts. For Japanese cuisine Sushi is another we very much Americanized away from the Japanese version. Fried Chicken has so many variants that include variations of foreign ones such as Korean Fried Chicken which was their version of our Fried Chicken that they converted during the Korean War and made it "Korean", now it is back here stateside and we are making what they made and making it ours. Ice Cream cones., invented by USA. Chili is another we have turned into our own cuisine (Seattle style, Cincinnati, Tex-Mex, Vegan, Rocky Mountain style and so forth). Hot dogs especially Ball park Hot dogs. You name the cuisine we probably have an Americanized version of it.