Unusual Food Thread
Zardnaar
Legend
My first entry. New Zealand chocolate bus quite good and blows Hershey/Cadbury out of the water.
Whittaker's often come up with unusual flavours using Australian and Kiwi brands.
Ginger beer and caramel flavoured chocolate.
Tastes like ginger beer and caramel. Not as sweet as normal caramel chocolate.
I like it but probably not enough to buy it again over more normal flavours.
Whittaker's often come up with unusual flavours using Australian and Kiwi brands.
Ginger beer and caramel flavoured chocolate.
Tastes like ginger beer and caramel. Not as sweet as normal caramel chocolate.
I like it but probably not enough to buy it again over more normal flavours.
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I currently live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas. Big cities, lots of suburbs, and plenty of diversity in ethnic cuisine. So it’s kinda hard for me to gauge what’s unusual.
However...
Because of the long, storied history with neighboring Mexico and the realities of the labor market around here, Mexican cuisine has become kind of the “universal solvent” for fusion cuisine and fusion restaurants around the state. Mexican cooks are in kitchens EVERYWHERE, and a lot of them are putting their spin on things.
Besides the ubiquitous Tex-Mex restaurants, I’ve been in a couple of Tex-Chinese and Tex-Indian places. And I’ve seen more than a few dishes that combine Mexican elements on restaurant menus, like flautas, tamales and tacos* on some Chinese buffets.
There was a restaurant I used to frequent** where the Chinese owner and her Mexican cook created barbacoa wontons.
* right next to pepperoni pizza!
** they closed in February for non-pandemic family reasons.
However...
Because of the long, storied history with neighboring Mexico and the realities of the labor market around here, Mexican cuisine has become kind of the “universal solvent” for fusion cuisine and fusion restaurants around the state. Mexican cooks are in kitchens EVERYWHERE, and a lot of them are putting their spin on things.
Besides the ubiquitous Tex-Mex restaurants, I’ve been in a couple of Tex-Chinese and Tex-Indian places. And I’ve seen more than a few dishes that combine Mexican elements on restaurant menus, like flautas, tamales and tacos* on some Chinese buffets.
There was a restaurant I used to frequent** where the Chinese owner and her Mexican cook created barbacoa wontons.
* right next to pepperoni pizza!
** they closed in February for non-pandemic family reasons.
Zardnaar
Legend
I've been blending Mexican and middle eastern foods.
I had plans on home made Indian and used the ingredients in home made Mexican.
Locally we've got a little bit of everything but the popular ones are fish and chips (usually Chinese as well), Turkish and Indian seem to be popular. There's 6 or 7 Turkish places in a 1 kilometers stretch. Few Japanese and Korean places as well.
By that I mean you can find one in almost every block in town.
Small city but one block both sides is mostly restaurants.
Variety of food trucks as well with Spanish, Argentina, Jordanian options along with the usual suspects (Chinese, burgers).
Latest experiment was trying a new Syrian place.
Our town square is actually an Octogon, called the Octogon. It's full of various bars and restaurants a couple of which we rate highly.
One if the kebab places is Kurdish. His kebabs are delicious but his shish while nice is beaten by my favorite Turkish place so depending on what we want we go wherever. Usually the Kurdish option since it's over the road from D&D.
I love the potential of fusion cuisine. Mom tried something a few years back by combining some leftover biriyani rice from a very good Indian place with my own leftover creole greens because we were out of white rice.
It was killer.
It was killer.
Ulfgeir
Hero
As for proper food:
Matjessill - Pickled filets of herring, served traditionally with boiled fresh potatoes (with butter on it), sourcream and chives. Very popular during the summer. Especially Midsummer. Often also accompanied with hardboiled eggs cut in half, with a bit of mayo on top and then red or black fish roe. At typical midsummer parties you usually get lots of different tupes of pickled herring, and copious amounts of alcohol in the form of Snaps Tradition has that you sing a short song before taking the snaps.. We also often version of pickled herring during Christmas and Easter...
Smörgåstårta - Basically layered pieces of white bread with various fillings inside, then covererd with various types of cold cut meats or shrimp, and fish. Betetr read the Wiki-article on it. It can be very good, but personally I do not want any liver paté in it.
Surströmming - Fermented herring. It smells awful. A former colleague of mine phrased it like "I can understand that you can really fail when maing food, but doing it again, and thinking it is good?"
Matjessill - Pickled filets of herring, served traditionally with boiled fresh potatoes (with butter on it), sourcream and chives. Very popular during the summer. Especially Midsummer. Often also accompanied with hardboiled eggs cut in half, with a bit of mayo on top and then red or black fish roe. At typical midsummer parties you usually get lots of different tupes of pickled herring, and copious amounts of alcohol in the form of Snaps Tradition has that you sing a short song before taking the snaps.. We also often version of pickled herring during Christmas and Easter...
Smörgåstårta - Basically layered pieces of white bread with various fillings inside, then covererd with various types of cold cut meats or shrimp, and fish. Betetr read the Wiki-article on it. It can be very good, but personally I do not want any liver paté in it.
Surströmming - Fermented herring. It smells awful. A former colleague of mine phrased it like "I can understand that you can really fail when maing food, but doing it again, and thinking it is good?"
Zardnaar
Legend
Generally avoid seafood. A bit of deep fried blue cod, sole, or hoki once or twice a year is about my limit.
Seafood pizza, not good.
Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah Indian I quite like. Overdid it last year and had to have reduced salt diet.
Thinking of doing a potato or pasta bake but replacing the sauce with butter chicken or Tikka masala sauce and throw some paneer cheese in it.
Passion fruit and mango yoghurt with crushed weetbix. Breakfast experiment.
Weetbix. Intergenerational breakfast cereal very low in fat,suger, taste etc
It's the wheat version of unsweetened cornflakes pressed into biscuits.
Used to have them with butter and marmite.
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