What's new
By:

World travel

infection said:
I’m pretty excited for the food tourism component of both Perú and Thailand. There’s actually a number of similarities in the sense that both are incredibly cheap for everything while you’re there, the food is cheap, lots of street food, but you’ve gotta be careful with water and such. And you can’t flush your toilet paper. Anyway, I do like Thai food (my wife likes it more), but I have to have main staples of just salty/savory and can’t consistently eat sweet, of which most Thai food seems to be sweet. But there’s so much variety in Thailand that I’m pretty sure I could eat Indian every day. In fact, when we go to India, whenever that is (not on the radar any time soon), I’m pretty sure I could eat Indian for every meal and be just fine with that.
Click to expand...

I've been to both Thailand and Peru and can confirm these were my two favorite places I've traveled based on their food.

Thai food was just consistently good. Even the low quality food I had at a cafeteria was amazing. I was there for 10 days and did eventually get a little sick of it. I was really craving steak and potatoes by the end.

I went to both Chile and Peru on the same business trip. It was interesting in Chile that all of their nice restaurants were Peruvian. Chilean food is really bland and basic, but Peruvian food is a lot more varied and flavorful. I did have some Peruvian food I didn't love, but most of it was amazing.
 
Easily the best food in the world and I don't think it's close is China. The level of diversity, plus how much people care about it, and that pretty much every food in the world is influenced by it, makes it the best. But I also really love a lot of food. I am planning at least 25 restaurants for my visit back to China, and I might cry at each place. I like the food in Ethiopia especially the diced raw spicy beef. But this country has pretty limited number of dishes.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Easily the best food in the world and I don't think it's close is China. The level of diversity, plus how much people care about it, and that pretty much every food in the world is influenced by it, makes it the best. But I also really love a lot of food. I am planning at least 25 restaurants for my visit back to China, and I might cry at each place. I like the food in Ethiopia especially the diced raw spicy beef. But this country has pretty limited number of dishes.
Click to expand...
I get a kick when people say they don't like Chinese food. I mean I know what they mean, they don't like standard Americanized Chinese food, but taken literally it's akin to saying they don't like food.
 
Ron Mexico said:
Easily the best food in the world and I don't think it's close is China. The level of diversity, plus how much people care about it, and that pretty much every food in the world is influenced by it, makes it the best. But I also really love a lot of food. I am planning at least 25 restaurants for my visit back to China, and I might cry at each place. I like the food in Ethiopia especially the diced raw spicy beef. But this country has pretty limited number of dishes.
Click to expand...

I've spent a lot of time in China and Hong Kong, and while I had some amazing food there, in general I wasn't a fan. I think it's just the typical spices they use and typical textures that aren't my favorite.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I've spent a lot of time in China and Hong Kong, and while I had some amazing food there, in general I wasn't a fan. I think it's just the typical spices they use and typical textures that aren't my favorite.
Click to expand...
The spices are wildly different in didn't areas and some areas without spice at all. I generally am not a huge fan of the traditional Cantonese style food. But I love a handful full of dishes from each area. But to each there own.
 
Ron Mexico said:
The spices are wildly different in didn't areas and some areas without spice at all. I generally am not a huge fan of the traditional Cantonese style food. But I love a handful full of dishes from each area. But to each there own.
Click to expand...
What region of Chinese food do you like the best? I spent most of my time in Guanzhou and Dongguan when I was traveling there frequently. My brother's wife is from Shanghai, so I'm somewhat familiar with food from that region as well.

I do think it's likely very different living there vs traveling there. When you live somewhere you can find out what places/dishes you like the best and then you start craving those places/dishes. When you are there traveling you are trying lots of different places and sometimes the stuff you don't like overshadows what you do like.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
What region of Chinese food do you like the best? I spent most of my time in Guanzhou and Dongguan when I was traveling there frequently. My brother's wife is from Shanghai, so I'm somewhat familiar with food from that region as well.

I do think it's likely very different living there vs traveling there. When you live somewhere you can find out what places/dishes you like the best and then you start craving those places/dishes. When you are there traveling you are trying lots of different places and sometimes the stuff you don't like overshadows what you do like.
Click to expand...
It's really hard to say. I really like food from dongbei especially the areas close to north Korea that share common dishes. They have a sweet pork dish that makes me cry along with cold noodles. Xingjiong has some really good lamb skewers and a few other good quality dishes like horse blood sausage. Yunnan has a very unique spice I like. Guangzhou has some traditionally good dishes, but not my favorite style that's more Cantonese food. But I do like the beef noodles from good places. The crawfish in both Beijing and Wuhan is some of the best in the world. Beijing I like a few things but the pork intestine is one of my favorites. Then there is the 200 different types of hotpots that I like about 198 of.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
What region of Chinese food do you like the best? I spent most of my time in Guanzhou and Dongguan when I was traveling there frequently. My brother's wife is from Shanghai, so I'm somewhat familiar with food from that region as well.

I do think it's likely very different living there vs traveling there. When you live somewhere you can find out what places/dishes you like the best and then you start craving those places/dishes. When you are there traveling you are trying lots of different places and sometimes the stuff you don't like overshadows what you do like.
Click to expand...
My wife is also from Shanghai and they have great seafood. But some of it's an acquired taste like the lake crabs they are famous for that you eat the eggs and male stuff from. But I like the turtle shells, eels, the sweet pork dish from there as well. I'll look up some dinners from there and post the pics.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page
Back
Top