asian food?
The only asian food I remember trying is sushi ( I didn´t like it). I grew up in a very small town so there wasn´t any asian food restaurant around. Now I live in a big city, but I usually cook my own food, so I haven´t tried asian food (besides sushi). I should try someday.
The second picture looks like something we here call ¨puchero¨ (basically it´s like a beef and vegetable soup).
I stick with food I know how to cook, like milanesas a la napolitana con papas fritas or empanadas :P
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Thai Chicken with Hot-Sour-Salty-Sweet Sauce!
yes i googled this because i wanna sound cool and trendy ❤️️
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I'd love to eat sushi more often if it wasn't so damn expensive :(
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Lately I like Pad Gaprao, which is just stir fried chicken Thai street style. I like it so much that I order Holy Basil seeds from half way round the world and spend the entire summer growing it just so I can eat Pad Gaprao! How's that for effort :D
I also like green papaya salad - except I make it with green mangos because I like em better. This guy will show you how to make it if you want some too.
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In my opinion nilaga is an okay filipino food. I feel like there are far better filipino foods such as:
sisig - filipino sizzling pork with onions and whole chili peppers
lechon - literally a whole roasted pig
caldereta - filipino beef stew usually includes red peppers and peas
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I could name a lot more, but these are the more popular ones.
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i like Japanese, American Chinese, and Thai food. Some of my favorites are Ramen, Curry Rice, Okonomiyaki, and Yakisoba.
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I'm not sure where did you get you Turon, but I think they are semi-ripe Saba bananas, not egg rolls. the same kind of banana in your Nilaga.
Me? I'm a simple man, I like hard-boiled eggs, asian or not, as long as they are boiled eggs, it's fine!
Tinola, almost the same as nilaga but chicken, it has unripe papaya and chili leaves.
Tempura, fried shimp/prawn with breading. or maybe I just like sea-foods in general.
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why is there banana in it D:
I want to try that so bad right now ...
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"Asian food" is way too diverse a category to apply to all the varied cuisine of countries like China, India, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, etc. It's like saying "European food" to encompass all of French, Italian, German, Polish, Greek, etc, cuisine. There's so many extremely varied dishes I love from all these countries, including dishes that have been 're-invented' like orange chicken.
That's right, there's no need to knock orange chicken! I'm Asian and I love it. My first-generation immigrant Chinese mom probably thinks of orange chicken as more American than Chinese, and I feel like she might not have even ever tried it before, but I personally think it's an important part of American-Chinese cuisine and heritage.
It and dishes like General Tso's chicken get a bad reputation for being 'inauthentic', but some of my favorite foods have often been born in countries which tweaked the 'authentic' recipes into something new and unique.
Japan does this a lot with its cuisine, often adapting flavors to fit more Japanese palates. It's really quite interesting when multiple influences and cultures put their touch on something. For example, ramen as we know it was invented in Japan but marketed as a kind of Chinese dish, and is still to this day often marketed with Chinese origins (the word itself is written with katakana, which emphasizes its origin as something from outside the country) -- even though it's pretty much completely different from authentic Chinese soupy noodles (which, separately, are also awesome). Ramen has gone on to become iconic of Japanese cuisine, and many regions of Japan put their own special touch on how it's prepared. Now that ramen is also booming in other countries, we are seeing cultural influences on a dish twice removed from its "origin". So something that started off as 'inauthentic' Chinese food, somewhere along the lines became 'authentic' Japanese food, and then now again is thought of as 'inauthentic' Japanese food (when served outside what is considered normal in Japan).
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+1
In Macau where I'm living in, food culture is heavily affected by Portuguese because Macau was a colony of Portugal. There're soooo many fusion dishes that can only be found in Macau and they are all delicious! (including local food)
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I love a lot of Asian food (except sushi/intestine) but the problem is that it's hard to know what comes with what you are ordering!!!! How am I supposed to know that Ngo Phan Noodle is Duck with egg noodles and vegetables?? Why dont they just call ttheir meal "Duck witth egg noodles and vegetables"
How am I supposed to know "Pho" is beef stock with noodles?'
How am I supposed to know that Pham is just really tasty bread??
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So I was ordering Moo Shu beef (which I haven't tried before this) and Salted pepper squid (my favorite) and some random guy near me ordered Orange Chicken.
Hence this thread is born.
Anyways, I think that guy doesn't really know any other food, Asian menus can be complicated, so I'm not blaming him, but oh man he is missing good stuff. So I wanted everyone to list their favorite Asian food, so people like Jim doesn't have to order orange chicken when his Asian friends takes him to an Asian restaurant.
Also, I think none Asian people are shy of going inside Asian restaurant because they don't want to stand out.. but nothing should stand in your way of good food, and stop caring.
Oh man, I've said "Asian" like 6 times.
I'll start:
This food are from Philippines. Philippine restaurant are hard to find, so if one is near you, then you are lucky
My favorite appetizer (that could also be considered a dessert) would be Turon. Which is kinda like... uh egg roll coated with melted sugar and inside is a sweet cooked plantain
My favorite main dish would be (so much choice)
Nilaga (beef)/Bulalo (Pork) Soup. Its a meat broth with slow cooked tender bone meat that contains corn and bokchoy (and some other things)
Some people likes to put banana in it. I don't particularly like my banana wet.
My favorite dessert (which I am craving right now) is Halo-Halo. It has about 12 different ingredients mixed with shaved ice, milk,Purple Yam(ube) ice cream and Leche Flan.
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