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Post Subject: Since you brought up foodPosted by tokyo john on: 1/10/2011
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I agree Japanese food is sublime, and if you like spices, then very good Indian food can be fantastic (but I doubt you can eat that type of Indian food in the US). Even in India, it can only be had at select places (like the fish Tikka in Delhi Oberoi, the kebabs in the Kebab Factory of the Gurgaon Radisson).
I have also been impressed by Lebanese and Turkish food.
The Japanese claim to cuisine glory is the fact that taste-buds are trained to detect very delicate flavors from mushroom and seaweed etc. Chinese soup (again, forget about most Chinese restaurants in US) and French sauce are the other two of the holy trinity.
Celebrity chef Adrian Ferran of El Bulli has said that Chinese food would have been the most magnificent in the world, not French, if Mao had not sent all the chefs into the farms during the purge of the cultural revolution (ending 4000 years of culinary invention).
I find that general American food is for children; as if no one grew up in the US. Burgers, meatball sphagetti and pizza - all rather bad and Coke is indispensible to wash it all down (that is why coke sells so well). And after drinking coke, everything tastes the same.
To be fair, a good steak in the US is pretty sublime, and a well done grilled cheese sandwich makes me wonder whether human civilization peaked with its invention.
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