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[still kicking]

OK guys most of you are expats or hail from other countries, let's hear what food you like. It is often mentioned that Thai food is so super and listed as one of the best in the world. Whether you cook it or not it does not matter list your favourite. I do like cooking and cook all foods; my Tai wife of 20 years loves my cooking she cooks sometimes but not Thai food I guess she is used to eat foreign food after living in the west for 20 years. So, my question is what food do you like? List anything, might it be Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Hungarian or Thai or any other country. So, what is your favourite food?

[Ralf001]

in no particular order.

Chinese

Turkish

Italian

Greek

Spanish

[pgrahmm]

I'd have to go with

Italian

Mexican

American BBQ style

American breakfast style

Thai

 

The unknown category: About anything my wife cooks.... She likes trying different menus (fusion) & I can't really remember any bad ones...Today was a Louisiana style shrimp platter - then she created a homemade soup dish based off that recipe.....

[Crossy]

Madam does great Thai (no MSG) of course.

 

She also does passable Italian (ok pasta with a ragu, carbonara or mushroom sauce) and Shepherd's Swineherd's Pie (made with pork).

 

Simple grilled (charcoal grill) chook or pork chops with spuds (boiled or jacket) and veggies are quick and easy.

 

Roasts are my domain!

 

 

 

 

[Prubangboy]

'Prefer not to go a whole week without Italian food.

[KhunLA]

Mostly in house eating:

Yank ... if there is such thing (Philly cheesesteaks, scrapple)

Mexican

Italian

Thai, when I do, it's fusion, pasta vs rice

 

Wife cooks  Thai mostly, and does western quite well.

 

When out of the house, usually Thai, Malay curries/massamans, and things we can't or won't do in house.  Again, fusion version for me, if available (ex: drunken seafood noodle) instead of rice.   Roti and or potato for carbs.  Veggies, anything will do.  Purposely get sweet & sour for the veggies, and a safe bet if not familiar with the vendor.

 

Usually don't do deep fried anything, just chips or an occasional Cordon Bleu at the one local place.

 

A good part of our outside munchies is pastries @ coffee shops probably too much, but I'm addicted.

[expat_4_life]

At home, it usually western, soups/stews, roast, veg, BBQ when I do the cooking.
If wife cooking, it Thai food all the way - she handy in kitchen, favors seafood.  She has a few western dishes up her sleeve tho too.

When we go out, it an opportunity to have something different - then its
(in no particular order)
Japanese

Korean

American BBQ

Mexican

American style Steaks (or pork chops, she loves her pork chops)

Indian
Arabic

Italian
or, sometimes Thai (have a couple of favorite places)

 

[Maybole]

Wife does Thai food especially Chiang mai. I do a few European dishes. Grandweans love my fish and chip (whenever I can get good ocean fish) and my mince and tatties. I have not yet found proper curly kail so cannot make a real Scotch Broth ( which wife loves).

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Cooking is one of my favorite things to do.

 

I would cook more, and I will, if only I can finally design my perfect OUTDOOR kitchen....

 

Complete with a 75 BTU gas burner, so that I can cook Chinese food the way it should be cooked.

 

 

[Crossy]

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Complete with a 75 BTU gas burner, so that I can cook Chinese food the way it should be cooked.

 

You mean really, really slowly?

 

75BTU is just under 22Watts, about 1/3 of a conventional 60W lamp, even madam's crock-pot slow-cooker is 180W

 

Now 75,000BTU (22kW) would be more like it

 

Them, there zeros are important.

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

 

You mean really, really slowly?

 

75BTU is just under 22Watts, about 1/3 of a conventional 60W lamp, even madam's crock-pot slow-cooker is 180W

 

Now 75,000BTU (22kW) would be more like it

 

Them, there zeros are important.

 

 

 

 

 

Haha....!

Who stole my ZEROS???

 

75,000 BTU.

 

This is the absolute MINIMUM I use to cook Chinese cuisine.

 

Actually, it comes on a tripod, and was designed to boil large kettles of fish to make chowder.

 

What a magnificent gadget.

 

It sounds like a jet engine.

 

(By comparison, my AC machines are each 20 BTU.)

 

 

Wait....

I meant...20,000 BTU.

 

So, 75,000 BTU burners are nothing to sneeze at.

 

 

 

 

[KhunLA]

13 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Haha....!

Who stole my ZEROS???

 

75,000 BTU.

 

This is the absolute MINIMUM I use to cook Chinese cuisine.

 

Actually, it comes on a tripod, and was designed to boil large kettles of fish to make chowder.

 

What a magnificent gadget.

 

It sounds like a jet engine.

 

(By comparison, my AC machines are each 20 BTU.)

 

 

Wait....

I meant...20,000 BTU.

 

So, 75,000 BTU burners are nothing to sneeze at.

@ WalMart

 

[spidermike007]

My woman has become a wizard at studying YouTube videos and then preparing amazing gourmet dishes. One of my favorites is pan fried Hong Kong style noodles with seafood. Just slightly crispy. Yum! She's learned to make spectacular pizza, baguettes, bruschetta's, and homemade pasta (she studied with a Thai woman who used to have a great Italian restaurant in our town and trained in Milano for 4 years), in addition to gorgeous Thai food. 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

@ WalMart

 

 

Yes.

That's the one.

Plenty of heat.

BUT, I have seen far bigger burners in Hong Kong.

 

The USA burners are just not big enough for me.

 

 

[KhunLA]

Got to have the tools, or cooking isn't nearly as enjoyable.  I could easily live with just an eat in kitchen & 1 bedroom house.   Which is basically what our is.  No dining room, or living room, with eat in kitchen being the largest room.

 

We have too many (redundant) appliance, and since I'm not a fan of bending over (in either a good or a bad way), everything is counter top, which is a challenge.

 

One constant ... Cast Iron ROCKS:

 

[still kicking]

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