Badmovies.org Forum

As in NOT tuna cassarole,mac and cheese or hot dogs.

Mine is Polish or Russian-both are very alike.
I am Norwegian by heritage-but you won't catch me eating ludafisk. I was raised around Polacks and Russians.

I love-

Glumpkis-aka pigs in a blanket aka stuffed cabbage.
Rice and meat in cabbage with tomato juce and spices-lotsa caraway seeds.
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/293756415_ff584f13ff.jpg)

Pierogis-either stuffed with saurkraut  and ground beef(my favorite!) or goat cheese and mashed potatoes!
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/pierogi1.jpg)

Blood sausage-sounds gross-dam good! made with rice (or barley) and -well-blood!
(And folks wonder why I'm a Bela fan!)

(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/Cracoviakiszka.jpg)

Also love homemade kielbasa (not the Ecchrich crap).
But-you can keep the pig ear/ saurkraut soup or  pickled pigs feet-yuck!

Currently mine is Vietnamese food. 
_Ed

I live just outside Boston. My favorite place is a the Super 88 in Allston. the back part is a chinese supermarket but the front is a food court with all different places: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, thai, Indian, Vietnamese.

i love asian food as well-but being in Bumf@ck,Michigan-aint a lot of it out here outside of Chunk King and La Coy.
NYC had some wonderful Chinese places...but that was long ago.
I like Mexican food too. (NOT Taco bell!) I work at a canning factory that employs many migrant workers from Mexico-REAL mexican tamales-pork and jabeneros with mole wrapped in corn husks; pig head,lotsa beans! Lotsa peppers!  :thumbup:

I live near a Chinese restaurant called 5 happiness, a Japanese restaurant called Ninja, a Thai place called Bangkok Thai, a Lebanese place called Lebanese Cafe, a Morocco restaurant called Morocco's, and finally a Vietnamese place called....I don't remember now :tongueout: :lookingup:

I, like RC , am a Pollock.  I enjoy a good kielbasa sandwich and pierogis.  My mother also made kapusta a lot (cabbage soup) which I really didn't like back in the day.  However, I could probably go for a bowl right about now.

Since I love spice, I'm a big fan of Mexican food.  I also enjoy Asian food too. 

I make the best stuffed cabbage. :wink:

Chinese, Italian cuisine, German, Polish. My favorite is Soul food. :thumbup:

Kapusta was kraut soup! I didn't care for the pig ears she used. When she made kapusta-she used ears or tripe or feet.Uck. I can eat hamhocks-but not feet or guts. I dunno-Im weird. Make it with hamhocks-ok-with ears-no.

I dig soul food though I have to be in the right mood.  Pulled chicken or pork, cornbread, beans, etc...yum.

I used to love going to the local Polish butcher shop.  They had all that crazy ass sh!t there. I remember one time they had a severed pig's head.  I thought that was one of the coolest things I've ever seen at the deli counter.

I was lucky enough to have it made right off the farm. An old Russian woman-Motka we called her-(I think that's Russian for 'Mother') made everyting off her farm.She made everything from scratch from her farm or the local folks-she had her own goats-made her own wine. 1 glass would f&ck you up as a can a worms! Peoni-thats the Russian word for drunk. Peonie!  :drink:

In South Texas, they stock pig's heads at the grocery store. With the huge Hispanic population, tamales are a staple (though I only seem to get them around New Year's  :bluesad:), so pig's heads are common. I still remember the first time I saw them as a kid, though--scared the poop outa me.

Side note,  I like ethnic snacks a lot too or at least snacks I often find in the ethnic section in the supermarket.  Stuff like corn nuts and pork rinds. 

Italian yay heritage, with Mexican close behind.

There's this small Turkish food store that also sells Turkish street food in our town. They make the best doner kebab platters to go. Fresh ingredients, salad includes red cabbage, almond stuffed olives and turkish feta cubes. The fries are crisp, the meat is tender and the garlic-yogurt sauce (similar to tzatziki) is to die for. The portions are cheap and huge. You could easily feed two with one order.

I actually prefer doner over gyros unless we are talking baked gyros at my favorite Greek restaurant. Oven baked with cheese in a creamy Metaxa sauce. Will make your tastebuds explode all over  :smile:

I like it all except Indian food.  Curry sucks.
But I have a special place in my heart for Japanese cuisine, especially fresh sushi.
Not to mention the yummiest grilled food on the planet - Yakitori!!!!

I will agree with that, I remember thinking it odd but fondly enjoyed it when there was a few Japanese restaurants that moved in near where I live.  However, Chinese tends to be my favorite.  Especially Bao. 

I live in Phoenix, which is large enough to have pretty much every cuisine you care to find. I'd also say that Mexican food has pretty much graduated from ethnic food to regular food for me.

If I had to pick an "ethnic" favorite, I'd probably go with Indian food, which has a unique style that is its own. Plus I love spicy food. Indian and Thai seem to be the only styles that seem to really go for it, though I really have to sweet-talk the waiters into letting the kitchen make it as hot as I want it.

indianasmith, maybe you haven't been exposed to good curry. I've had some amazing coconut curries from a local Thai restaurant.

Probably eat more Italian than any other ethnic food. It's just so easy to boil up some pasta, make a tomato sauce, chop some onions, garlic, peppers, mushrooms, grate some cheese, brown some meat, etc. Doesn't have to be a complicated meal, but it's healthy and tastes great. Spaghetti, pizza, lasagna, chicken parmigiana. You can build so much on the same basic foundation of ingredients.

Also like Chinese, although mostly the Canadian version of it.

Cabbage rolls and pierogi are great. Growing up in an area that was primarily German and Mennonite, I got quite a taste for things like sausage, schnitzel, sauerkraut, summer sausage, etc.

I do like Indian food, and make a pretty good curry. Nothing like a nice curry with basmati rice, tandoori chicken, samosas, some potato and cauliflower, and flatbread.

When we lived in the city, there was an Egyptian restaurant we used to eat at maybe twice a month. Great buffet. Hummus, falafel, stuffed olives, feta cheese, salad, baclava. The great thing about Egyptian food is that it sort of combines Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cooking. Also love doner kebab. There was a diner in my hometown, owned by a Turk from Cyprus. He had a kebab machine shipped over from Turkey, prepared the meat from scratch, and used to give huge portions of it. You could get a great big pita, bursting with meat, tomato, lettuce, sauce. Took two hands and a lot of care to eat.

My dad's side of the family is Italian, so I grew up on ITALIAN FOOD and I still love it.  My wife is Brazilian and I'm a big fan of their barbecued meats seasoned with sea salt and garlic, with white rice and beans on the side.  So, BRAZILIAN FOOD is #2.  I'd say #3 is probably CHINESE FOOD (or what we refer to as Chinese food here in the U.S. - - much of it is really Polynesian food).  But I'll eat anything.  I enjoy GREEK, JAPANESE, GERMAN . . . you name it, I'll eat it.

I completely forgot cuisine from the UK.

Love haggis, neeps and tatties, although I pretty much have to make it myself if I want it. And since I'd probably only be making it for myself, I don't do it often. Every fall I think about organizing a Robert Burns dinner in January, primarily as an excuse to eat haggis with people who don't make faces at it. Haven't done it yet, but maybe next January.

Also like steak and mushroom pies, steak and kidney pies, hot pots, chip butties, as well as fish and chips with mushy peas and a side of curry sauce. Only had black pudding on one or two occasions, but I liked it too. Like haggis, it's hard to come by around here, and Canadians tend to get squeamish about it.

Mofo, I had no idea you were a fellow Phoenix resident. Phoenix has no shortage of good restaurants.

As for me, I love just about every ethnic style, and I'm a pretty decent cook as well. I love asian from sushi to chinese to thai.

I also love mediterranean food of all types, especially Greek. Good greek lamb is amazing, plus I love feta cheese. Then there's gyros. Not the crap you find most places here, but the ones over in Greece, with the roasted lamb shaved right off the vertical rotisserie and put in a really good piece of flatbread with really good tzatziki sauce. When I was in the Navy on a port visit in Crete, I would get off the boat and start my day with a couple of gyros from this little corner spot right off the pier before facing the rest of the liberty day. Amazing.

Oh, and Armenian food is quite good, and one of those you don't see very often. The wife of the guitarist from one of my old bands was Armenian and used to cook for the band all the time and the food was great.

French food. Yes, fufu French food. However, what I'm taking about is more of the rustic country French food you'll find in the South of France. Oh, and Basque, which is similar to country French food but with a Spanish influence. There are central California towns like Bakersfield that have Basque communities and restaurants.

Okay, I could go all day. I'll stop here.

there's also a Greek place around here that serves probably the best Gyros I ever have eaten.

I tend to like it spicy.  My favorite national cuisines are

Thai
Indian
Mexican
Italian
Japanese
Greek

All of these sound excellent.  Aside from most organs I'll eat just about anything.  Theres an Eastern European restauant near me thats excellent and serves the best cabbage rolls, never ever have I craved cabbage before. 
-Ed

  I was raised on this stuff too RC and I love it, although I can't eat as much of it as I used to. :bluesad:  If you like blood sausage then give Duck Blood Soup( czarnina ) a try. It's actually pretty terrible. Here's a recipe though if you're curious....http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/polishsoups/r/czarnina.htm (http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/polishsoups/r/czarnina.htm)

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

That reminds me of that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode where the turtles go into a pizza place called Ninja Pizza and the manager welcomes them with the words "Welcome to Ninja Pizza: home of the nice slice!"  :teddyr:

I am a big foodie, so everything goes.  That being said, I'm dating a half Indian, half American, and I have Lebanese relatives, live with a Malaysian and a Sri-Lankan, so its bound to come up eventually.  That and the city I live in has an incredible selection of food from any nation you wish to choose from.

We have a tendency to go spicy when talking about 'good food nights' and have a favourite place to go to when feeling adventurous, which is Szchecuan Dining [chinese] but so spicy it once gave one of our friends a bloody bowel movement [Its very VERY hot at this particular place]

I have to say though that the one area that is woefully underrepresented in my friendship group is Eastern European food, a fact I really should try and fix sometime soon.

So in sum, anything goes, I love it all. 

A group of friends and I started to organise a dinner night on a regular basis which involved people cooking food from their background [or just stuff they like].  My girlfriend made Rendang [delicious!] other friends made wontons and homemade dumplings [Extra delicious!] and my specialty was fresh baked fish [in this case snapper] with Tahini sauce and Labne dip with pita chips seasoned with lemon pepper.  Man those nights were great for food, as it was all homemade and delicious.  We really need another one...

I highly recommend people cook as much, as often and from as varied a locale as possible because there's some incredible food out there just waiting to be tasted.