Foreign foods that you like/dislike?

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I like Mexican, Indian, and Italian food.

I'm pretty adventurous by nature so I tend to go for lots of different kinds of foods - Indian, West Indian, Italian, Chinese, Greek, Middle Eastern, Japanese, Philippino, Vietnamese, Ethiopian, etc.

I also go for the exotic meats like alligator, squid, goat, octopus, snails, iguana, ostrich, yak, etc.

I did buy a pack of grubs last year from an Asian market but I didn't have the nerve to eat it.

Well, I know most foreign dishes I really love have been "Americanized" to a certain degree, such as Italian and Chinese food. My parents once went to Venice, and they were looking forward to eating all kinds of authentic pasta dishes but were surprised by how different they make it there. My mother said that if you asked for meatballs on your spaghetti, they'd laugh at you. In the grocery store you can buy loaves of "Italian" bread that is soft and delicious but my mother also said the bread they serve in Italy is very hard and dry because they don't store it in airtight containers or add anything to keep it fresh. And of course if westernized Chinese food was like what they usually do serve in China it would have a lot more things on it still alive and about to wriggle off my plate! And fortune cookies were really invented in the US.

I can't get used to the thought of eating sushi or any kind of raw seafood, because I don't even like it cooked. Which is supposed to be very bizarre because I'm Nova Scotian, where many people think the best part of a cooked lobster is that green gunk inside them which may or may not be the "liver", but I've heard you really shouldn't eat it because lobsters are scavengers and it's full of bacteria.

I've heard that sushi and Japanese food in general is very healthy, but a couple of recent Ashen's videos, where he samples things like a tube of processed fish with "cheese" in the middle and what looks like a bowl of green algae that make some of the junk we have here look wholesome, has made that debatable.

I also have a hard time with anything super-spicy-hot. I enjoy Mexican food as long as it's not too spicy-hot, but I don't get to eat it very often. I doubt most other people where I live even know what a tortilla is, they probably think it's some kind of turtle. And there are people around here who think ketchup is too spicy.

I love Greek food also. I especially love honey balls, theres a place called Athens pastries near my house and they make really good ones. Theres also a really good Turkish food place by my house.

I'm a big foodie. And I have a butt to match . I love sushi and sashimi, except I'm not a huge fan of raw tuna. Which is weird because I like cooked tuna. And every other fish. But raw tuna doesn't appeal to me. I'll eat it, but I'd rather have Salmon or yellowtail. I don't like raw oysters either, their like salty snot. But other than that I love food.

there is a lot of greek food which is not quite my cup of tea. something about its preponderance of olives and caraway seeds....

I really like Greek foods - Spanikopita (spinach in phyllo dough), Stuffed Tomatoes, Moussaka! and there is a dish I had over there with large fava beans in tomato sauce that was amazing, but I don't remember what it was called and haven't been able to find anything comparable in the States. Not too crazy about the crunchy cookies they make that taste like licorice which for me is a combining of unpleasant texture with unpleasant flavor.

My standard for testing out a new Mexican restaurant is the Chicken Enchiladas Verde with sour cream since they are awesome when done right. And Gorditas and Guacamole. Some stores carry a crunchy cookie with what to me is a very off or bland flavor. And I like Rice Milk, but I don't really like the Horchata ricemilk-water stuff.

For Italian, Fettucini Alfredo, Manicotti, and Stromboli. I have not experienced any crunchy cookie with a licorice-type flavor when in Italy. Ooh, just had a image of Marzipan in Austria flash through my mind, though, and like that. Tangent, sorry.

With Indian food, I go for the Khada Bhindi (Okra Curry), tomato sambar, Samosas, and Naan bread. Usually I like the Idli (rice dumplings), but some of them go too heavy on the fennel and that's when it gets unpleasant. I'm ok with the straight fennel seeds for some reason, though.

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I enjoy:

Italian food (spaghetti, fettuccine alfredo, lasagna, and other pasta)
Mexican (tacos, nachos, enchiladas, quesadillas)
Chinese (General Tso's Chicken, Chinese fried rice, wonton soup)
Irish (Corn beef sandwiches)

I don't enjoy most foods from Japan (although I do like Tempura). I also dislike French cuisine.