International Food.

[Lickey]

I/You can go to any city/town in the world and have a choice of food from all over the world, {ok, some 3rd world countries being the exception} .

In the small town of 30,000 pop, in the UK where i lived, there were4 chinese, 3 indian, 1 Malay, 1 thai,1 Macdonalds,1 Chick king, plus all the norm english places, fish & chips, Buffet english food and 50 odd pubs doing a variety of world foods,

For me and ex mrs, mates ect, eating at an Indian resturant would be an International evening, although only 1 mile from my english home.

Have a look at this online poll thingy, it dosent take long to complete and wont give you any real answers, just a bit of fun i suppose,

http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/238408/results

Just to finish,ive just had some Gouda cheese from New Zealand, Is NZ western?

Thanks, Lickey.

[JohnBKKK]

Hi,

well, in some ways you are right, but and this is a big BUT .... Gouda from Holland is far better than Gouda from NZ or Austr. and this accounts for most cheeses and is the reason we use far more expensive cheeses which are from their original countries (like Emmental from Switzerland) than the cheaper NZ or Austr. stuff.

Indian or Thai and even Chinese food in the UK has little to do with the original ... there are Indian dishes served in Indian restaurants in the UK, no one has evene heard of in India. Western food, lets say for example Italian, French, German, coked by a Thai will taste totally different than the same food cooked by a Western Chef simply due to the large difference in taste the same accounts for Thai food cooked by me or any other western Chef .. a Thai would not accept this as "real" Thai food.

I offer an Indian "Curry" ... is it 100% Indian? probably not but its close and mainly based on the Indian kind of curry served in the UK ... the main reason being, that if I was to make it real, most British customers couldn't and didn't want to eat it because it would be too hot.

I understand under western food European and US (most of it orignates in Europe anyway) food. Lets please keep our Western Food ... ehhh but lets not talk about Mac in the same context ..

John

Edited November 15, 2008 by JohnBKKK

[Jingthing]

If thavisa was a forum ONLY about food, they could have easily have 100 categories for different kinds of food. However, it is not. Thaivisa is about Thailand, and the users are mostly westerners. So a forum about western food and Thai food makes sense, as well as a forum for everything else, International. Is it a bit messy with lots of overlap? Of course. But then again having 100 specific forums here, such as Pizza, Peruvian, Korean, etc, would be even sillier.

Edited November 15, 2008 by Jingthing