There are some exotic foods we tend to take for granted exist. Almost every city for example has a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and maybe an Outback Steakhouse. But this isn’t universal for some reason. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to an Egyptian restaurant and I was like “wait, they have restaurants?”
A question for all those who would say they consider themselves ethnically fluent. What are all the cultural categories of food you’ve had?
I have eaten Romanian food , Polish food , Guatemalan food , Salvadorian food , most of the Latin American countries.
Romanian was very homemade feel like , and Polish was okay not great. I am from Latin America where our food has so many spices and very tasteful
Is this something people track? What’s considered “exotic?”
Anything associated enough with another country/culture to pair it with that group of people.
I don’t know how to answer “exotic”. “Exotic” can easily slip into xenophobic territory.
Maybe I answer with a restaurant from a specific culture that I had never been exposed to before? In which case, Himalayan/Tibetan/Nepalese. I could eat momos every day. But I say that about every savory-wrapped-in-dough thing. Dumplings, empanadas, bierocks, meat pies, xian bing, piroshki, is there a culture that doesn’t have some variation of that? And it’s always good. If ever there is need for a flag to represent Humanity, it should be of a savory pie.
I love Chinese food and will eat it almost daily.
Indian food is amazing.
