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Salix Babylonika

hi

my younger brothers are running a survey for school and need to know peoples' favorite foods

just post them here. You can say whatever (as long as it's a food obvs)

Anonus

Pizza i guess

Tatterhood

souls

uh french fries I guess, that's food right?

Crystal

Soup.

Salix Babylonika

alright thanks guys, u rock

glennmagusharvey

burritos

or more accurately, a dish of rice, beans, and other stuff, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casado

Aliroz

Rolls.

Klinotaxis

fettucine alfredo

Salix Babylonika

Aliroz said:

Rolls.

just, plain?

Klinotaxis

i pretty much eat bread by itself all the time. you can either pick a "white people be like" image or a series of screencaps from nisemonogatari to accompany this post

Tatterhood

bread is fucking great

Bee

Bouillabaisse, on account of it being one of the few fine dining things I can actually cook.

Salix Babylonika

Bee said:

Bouillabaisse, on account of it being one of the few fine dining things I can actually cook.

ah, we have a Planet Coaster fan in the building

Salix Babylonika

Klinotaxis said:

i pretty much eat bread by itself all the time. you can either pick a "white people be like" image or a series of screencaps from nisemonogatari to accompany this post

I was just checkin'

Klinotaxis

that was not one of the choices

Tre

Gotta be between a really good burger and hibachi steak.

I got Siri to flip a coin for me. She picked the burger.

buttercrispy

macaroni and cheese

MetaFour

Gyros.

Viani

Pizza, Meat Lovers on my cheat days, plain cheese on my work-out days.

Imipolex G

cannibalism burgers, also pizza, also any kind of breakfast food (i.e. pancakes, eggs, bacon, etc.)

Section42L

Pizza, Bacon (>_>), Chicken

thenamelesssamurai

Most kinds of Curry (Indian, Japanese, Thai)

Yarrun XIX

French fries or lo mein

Crystal

thenamelesssamurai said:

Most kinds of Curry (Indian, Japanese, Thai)

Yeah this too.

glennmagusharvey

Y'know I wanted to put down some sort of Chinese cuisine but (1) I can't think of any particular dish I like a lot and (2) none of the dishes have cheese.  (Except so-called "crab rangoons" but they don't count.)

Edit: Actually, wait.  There's pan-fried semi-crispy noodles with strips of pork.  Usually also contains such things as Chinese chives, black mushrooms, and such.  The biggest draw here, though, is the fact that the noodles are prepared in such a way that some of them are crispy and some of them are soaked in the flavorful juices of the dish.

Pair this with rice porridge containing pork and slices of preserved duck eggs.

Fried taro dumplings are also good too.  As are shrimp balls that are coated with fried noodles.  As are dumplings containing shrimp and Chinese chives.

Oh, and there's roast duck.  And roast pork (not to be confused with BBQ pork).  And crispy roast chicken.

And there are like dish after dish after dish after dish of leafy greens, prepared with some oil and garlic.  Simple but very, very delicious.

Lunate

Whatever this translates to. I don't think they have that in actual China, though.

glennmagusharvey

I can't tell what type of sauce that is, but it appears to be mushrooms on breaded fried chicken.  As far as I know, breaded/flour-covered fried chicken isn't really a thing in China (though apparently flour-covered fried fish is).

Lunate

It often uses a white sauce made of milk and cornflour, though I prefer that brownish one (that I can't find a recipe for). The mushroom are optional, generally I see it using tomato, onion and lettuce, though with mushrooms it seems even more delicious.

Man, now I'm hungry.

Yarrun XIX

glennmagusharvey said:

Y'know I wanted to put down some sort of Chinese cuisine but (1) I can't think of any particular dish I like a lot and (2) none of the dishes have cheese.  (Except so-called "crab rangoons" but they don't count.)

I basically eat the same thing at every Chinese restaurant, with the exception of the special one where I can eat anything with no reprisals. Namely, veggie lo mein, vegetable fried rice and the best tofu dish they have.

Sredni Vashtar

Sushi, specifically unagi, uni, and toro.

In terms of desserts: Crème brûlée. The Häagen Dazs flavour will do in a pinch.

glennmagusharvey

Yarrun XIX said:

glennmagusharvey said:

Y'know I wanted to put down some sort of Chinese cuisine but (1) I can't think of any particular dish I like a lot and (2) none of the dishes have cheese.  (Except so-called "crab rangoons" but they don't count.)

I basically eat the same thing at every Chinese restaurant, with the exception of the special one where I can eat anything with no reprisals. Namely, veggie lo mein, vegetable fried rice and the best tofu dish they have.

Is "lo mein" or "chow mein" the one that actually has noodles?

Because the funny thing about these "American Chinese" restaurants is that one of them doesn't actually have noodles but is basically just stir-fried veggies.  I think the no-noodles one is "chow mein".

This, despite the fact that "mein" means noodles, "lo mein" means "mixed noodles" (as in noodles mixed with other things), and "chow mein" means "pan-fried noodles".

Also "lo mein" in American Chinese cuisine almost always involves this distinctive kind of thick noodles, despite the fact that there are a ton of other kinds of noodles out there.

Crystal

Sredni Vashtar said:

Sushi, specifically unagi, uni, and toro.

In terms of desserts: Crème brûlée

Represent!

Yarrun XIX

Lo mein is the one with noodles

thenamelesssamurai

Also, stuffed dumplings from various countries (pierogies, jiaozi, baozi, gyoza, etc). Can't forget those. If I could subsist entirely on jiaozi/baozi, I would. Also, shrimp and andouille with grits.

Yarrun XIX said:

glennmagusharvey said:

Y'know I wanted to put down some sort of Chinese cuisine but (1) I can't think of any particular dish I like a lot and (2) none of the dishes have cheese.  (Except so-called "crab rangoons" but they don't count.)

I basically eat the same thing at every Chinese restaurant, with the exception of the special one where I can eat anything with no reprisals. Namely, veggie lo mein, vegetable fried rice and the best tofu dish they have.

Speaking of Tofu, Agedashi Tofu is one of my favorite foods. Tofu that's dusted with potato or cornstarch and then deep-fried. The only way it could get more southern is if they found a way to add MSG and sausage gravy to it (not that I would want it with sausage gravy).

Sredni Vashtar said:

Sushi, specifically unagi, uni, and toro.

In terms of desserts: Crème brûlée. The Häagen Dazs flavour will do in a pinch.

Haven't had uni, but other than that, agreed on all counts. Crème brûlée is the god of desserts.

thenamelesssamurai

Crystal said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

Sushi, specifically unagi, uni, and toro.

In terms of desserts: Crème brûlée

Represent!

*high-five*

glennmagusharvey

Not really a fan of Japanese food since it kinda feels fancy-but-overpriced.  But I do appreciate eel on rice.

Crystal

High-fives

glennmagusharvey

*high-fives*

favorite fish: catfish, eel, pompano

incidentally all are no-scales

Crystal

That was at TNS, but if you also like crème brûlée...

Sredni Vashtar

*high-fives for crème brûlée*

Sredni Vashtar

glennmagusharvey said:

Not really a fan of Japanese food since it kinda feels fancy-but-overpriced.  But I do appreciate eel on rice.

It's pricey because it costs a lot to make. Everything has to be extremely fresh, which outside of a deep-water port city is going to cost you a fair bit. But I was a spoiled youngin' indeed, so this didn't faze me. Now it torments me. u~u;

That said, Chinese eel soup is great, too.

Klinotaxis

aw, i don't think i've ever eel. that's an entire order of animal that has escaped my maw

Crystal

I've also never eel. But one of these days.

glennmagusharvey

Crystal said:

That was at TNS, but if you also like crème brûlée...

I actually haven't had it so I have no opinion on it.

Sredni Vashtar said:

glennmagusharvey said:

Not really a fan of Japanese food since it kinda feels fancy-but-overpriced.  But I do appreciate eel on rice.

It's pricey because it costs a lot to make. Everything has to be extremely fresh, which outside of a deep-water port city is going to cost you a fair bit. But I was a spoiled youngin' indeed, so this didn't faze me. Now it torments me. u~u;

That said, Chinese eel soup is great, too.

Yeah, I get why it's expensive, though for me, personally, I don't particularly care for the raw fish part of it, so I get a lot less bang for my buck.

I've never had Chinese eel soup.  In fact I've never had eel outside of eel on rice.

eriophora zia

Lamb korma! It's so good. 

Shoutout to creme brulee as a top-tier dessert, as well.

glennmagusharvey

eriophora zia said:

Lamb korma! It's so good.

Is there an alternate spelling of "korma"?  Because this seems vaguely familiar as a name.  Like, something on a menu next to lamb shawarma.

And yes, it's delicious.

When I was an undergrad, there was a food truck on campus that sold boxes of rice, veggies and lamb/chicken, for noticeably less than what it'd cost to get lunch elsewhere.  It was $3.25, when the standard lunch for me cost about $4.50-$5 at another food truck, and upwards of $6 at an "official" on-campus eatery.

And it was delicious too.

Some people reported getting sick on their food but it never happened to me.  So I kept going back.  I miss it.

I also miss the Chinese food truck on the other side of campus that served similar box lunches for $4.25 to $5, and also served scallion pancakes.