I live for culture. Not because it's unique and special, but because it produces some darn good food.
The few times I have left my country the first idea that goes through my mind is what there will be to eat at touchdown? I haven't gone where I have wanted to quite yet (Japan, India, Germany) but I'm sure when touchdown brings me around again, I will look forward to new foods.
So, what are all of your favorite foods? (Mine is Indian and Japanese)
Mine is Indian, now. I'd never tried it until recently, and you can read more about my first experience with it in a dedicated discussion I created.
German food... not so much. I don't like the sausages, which so much of german food seems to be based on. The only other german food I've tried is sauerkraut, and I don't like the sauerkraut. I don't like the sauce they usually pour on the sauerkraut, either.
Japanese food is great, though. All that sushi and noodles and rice is wonderful.
Indian food is great! When I was younger, my family and I used to eat some Indian food. My dad was the best at making daal and chapatis. I would love to eat daal again.
Permalink Reply by Minh on November 21, 2007 at 9:19am
I like pretty much everything from Asia. And I don't dislike anything else. I am well rounded in my taste of food. But I can't handle the same thing for even two days at a time. Got to switch it up.
It would be nice if they would put steak in indian food, but the cow has a special religious signifigance to Indian culture. The cow is holy to the hindu, in much the same way the pig is to the jewish, or the reindeer is to the christian. As wonderful as Indian food would likely be with cow meat in it, we must respect the cultural identity which lead the the creation of such a wonderful food. After all, they believe that the cow is reencarnated from their ancestors; would you want to put your grandpa in curry?
You weren't supposed to take what I said literally... it has more to do with respect for one's heritedge. The indians believe that they came from cows and will one day return to cows, and they want to honor this great circle of life.