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Whats Your All-time Favorite Cuisine?

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PopsicleStand
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Simple enough question, but maybe give an explanation and an example. I love all ethnic foods, especially when its authentic. I love a great burrito and margarita on the rocks, i love italian food, and i LOVE a good lamb schwarma. However, for myself, NOTHING tops Thai food.

I am a big spicy eater. I want it mega spicy. I also want many flavors in there. Thai is the best for this. A good green curry has so much going for it. Coconut milk, basil, spicy, lime, ginger, and more. Then a delicious meat or tofu and rice as the starch to cut it. I just cant get over it. Then add in Pad Thai, and i cant find another cuisine that is better to me.

anyone?
Aug 5 2009 11:30AM
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*Nickdel*
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im the same way with spicy food. i do love italian and alot of mexican food
Aug 5 2009 11:40AM
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Billek
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Anything good.  If someone puts good time into good flavor combinations, I will love it.

I love Japanese food, Indian food, authentic Mexican, good-old American steaks, ITALIAN... if it is made well, I will like to try it!
Aug 5 2009 11:43AM
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I_Am_Mod
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i really like oriental food, chinese stuff, nothing highbrow, i just can really enjoy a good chopsuey or nasi goreng or bami, or whatever
offcourse i like italian as well, pizza and pasta, what's there not to like ?
Belgian cuisine: 3of the best nutritional things in the world: Fries, Beer and chocolate!

but when im drunk i usually resort to Kebab because its imho the best thing to sober up and they're opened all night long...
Aug 5 2009 11:47AM
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Moonlight
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Italian is always good

Chcicken Alfredo hands down

Aug 5 2009 12:09PM
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*Nickdel*
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im gonna have to say chicken parm over alfreado
Aug 5 2009 12:11PM
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schmooey.
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for sure
Aug 5 2009 12:34PM
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charmander
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norwegian food.

i love fish
Aug 5 2009 12:36PM
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Slinger1x1
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pho soup at a legit vietnames (i think) resturant.
I went to one with my brother in Richmond Virginia, its in the middle of nowhere and it was packed full with the only asians in the state.

This soup is hot as fuck, its spicy, its got celontro and those crunchy asian stringy bean kinda things. Then they put meat in it thats not really cook very much. you push it to the bottom and the soup actually cooks it more. Its also got amazing noodles. and you put some hot sauce in it and what not

Fuck, if you have a stuffy nose this will clear you right up. don't eat it on a hot day or you may die.
Aug 5 2009 12:42PM
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lineskier10
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if you like spicy food in hartford go to Piolin (on New Britain Ave.), its a Peruvian restaurant, Peruvian food is kinda like Mexican but it has a lot more seafood and its fucking way better, get the mariscos picante, and you will be in heaven, also where do you go for thai around the hartford area? have you been to the Puket Cafe in wethersfield on the silas deane hwy? that place has by far the best thai that i have had around hartford
Aug 5 2009 1:19PM
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PopsicleStand
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never been! i will go as soon as possible. i honestly have not been to a place around here that i truly love. what i do for thai is hit up the train, get down to NYC and go to Holy Basil in the east village. best thai i have ever had.

i am stoked to try both of those places. 10/10 for sure.
Aug 5 2009 1:39PM
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lineskier10
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yeah i would say those are two of the dankest places around hartford for spicy food, also if you like italian hit up the wethersfield pizza kitchen on the silas deane for a chicken cutlet grinder, for 7.50 you get a huge fucking grinder that is hard to finish with the dankest chicken cutlets, sauce and mozzarella all toasted to perfection, i literally dream about this grinder it is so good, i might go get one now that im thinking about it so much
Aug 5 2009 1:49PM
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J-Neal
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I love spicy food.  I also like Italian, Mexican and Thai.
Aug 5 2009 1:56PM
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PopsicleStand
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i will for sure. my favorite food around here tends to be new endland style seafood, my other love. its just not the same as spicy ethnic foods though.

Aug 5 2009 1:58PM
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prontocuts.com
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why do you guys like insanely hot spicy food? I never understood it. Like food is for enjoyment, not to be in pain. The top 4 things I have ever had are

1) gyro platter in Manhattan NY (the 6th and 53rd)
2) Beef n cheddar croissant at portillo's
3) Blue plate diner in SLC
4) Sweet n sour chicken at the Eden prairie center in MN

I love chinese and sandwiches.
I am a huge texture person too, I almost throw up any time I find a mushroom in my food.
Aug 5 2009 1:58PM
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PopsicleStand
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im half pakistani, i assume its cultural.

i was fed spicy foods as a baby. it takes a lot to hurt me, i just like it when its burning, i cant explain it.
Aug 5 2009 2:00PM
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DrStrangelove
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super well-done tex mex is a favorite for sure, but it's got to be really fucking well made because i grew up around the good stuff

KOREAN...like REAL korean...oh my god...yah, korean barbecues are alright, but my gf's mom is from Seoul and she makes some of the best food ive ever eaten in my life. i cant wait to go visit them in wyoming in a couple weeks, she's going to teach me to cook some of my favorite stuff.

but i seriously love at least a couple things from every genre of food on the planet...im a big food person...pretty much the only stuff i dont like is Indian and really greasy Chinese, esp the kind of Chinese that has way too much sauce on it
Aug 5 2009 2:01PM
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ChipSki
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Sushi and Japanese food in general. Japanese fried rice is so much lighter and less greasy than chinese fried rice and its so much better. FUck now i am hungry
Aug 5 2009 2:45PM
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ace_
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Im a sucker for crab and lobster ohh yummy
Aug 5 2009 3:08PM
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PopsicleStand
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along those lines, you should definitely try out Brazil Grill, its a churriscarria (if i spelled that right).
Aug 5 2009 3:15PM
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Kevski
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Mmmmmm food. There is so much good food in this world to pick from.

Now that I think about it Thai food is definitely up there. I went to Thailand a couple years back and the food was the highlight of the trip. No joke. I went scuba diving on amazing reefs, discovered their culture, and the food was the best part. Sooooooooo good. An authentic Pad Thai can't be beaten, and all the red/green curries with fresh seafood or chicken/beef is just to die for. The spiciness adds flavour and power, but the creaminess of the sauces and the rice makes it easy to go down.

As for normally accessed favorites, I'd say good Japanese food would be my favorite. Something about the experience of it that makes it so enjoyable.
Aug 5 2009 3:32PM
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mizzike
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Thai! I worked in a thai restaurant for 2 years and fell in love with the food, so bomb. The cooks would hook me up with all kinds of weird shit that you couldn't order in the restaurant and i got a free meal every night. It was awesome.
Aug 5 2009 3:42PM
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PopsicleStand
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oh my god that would be a dream come true!
Aug 5 2009 3:47PM
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PopsicleStand
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i was going to go there tonight but my car died at a different stop in the ghetto and i had to pop start it by myself in my semi short shorts and sperrys so needless to say i started my car and bounced.
Aug 5 2009 8:28PM
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rj.
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when i read the title i thought to myself....thai food.
Aug 5 2009 8:48PM
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jayo.
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i love basque food
Aug 5 2009 8:55PM
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charmander
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hey, im basque

awesome ~!

i dont really like basque food that much though haha, i take after my norwegian side when it comes to eating =]

i had fish for breakfast today.
i fried up some cod and added a bit of salt.

it was great
Aug 5 2009 8:58PM
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Austeeze
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Polish cuisine (my ethnic background on one side), Czech (lived there), also love Indian and Chinese (dim sum/yum cha). Indian for all the different curry flavours, chicken tikka, tandoori naan bread dipped in various curry sooo good. also love south east asian food like indo/malay
Aug 5 2009 9:03PM
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jayo.
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me too!
Aug 5 2009 9:12PM
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Malcolm
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club sandwhich with poutine and lemonade. thats what i made yesterday and it was fucking delicious
Aug 5 2009 9:14PM
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charmander
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dude, i totally knew you were from boise haha

do you have a bitchin basque last name?

mines goikoetxea
Aug 5 2009 9:15PM
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jayo.
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haha mines jayo. it's the simplest basque name in the world

Aug 5 2009 9:16PM
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charmander
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oh, whatever, still ballin.

my birth mom's from boise, her pops had sheep
Aug 5 2009 9:19PM
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jayo.
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yeah we have a massive basque population here. a bunch of my relatives had sheep too.

and are you adopted or something?

Aug 5 2009 9:22PM
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seemeski
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Ahhh that would be amazing!

I love Pad Thai.
Aug 5 2009 9:24PM
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charmander
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yeah.

d00d, did you know that the idaho, basque pride license plate is being discontinued!!?
Aug 5 2009 9:26PM
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jayo.
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what teh heck!? my dad has that on his car
Aug 5 2009 9:30PM
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charmander
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yeah i guess they dont sell enough of them or something, when i get my truck i think i might register it in idaho so i can get one before they run out haha
we have property in idaho too, so its legit
Aug 5 2009 9:33PM
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jayo.
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yeah, do it. i might too as soon as i get a car...
Aug 5 2009 9:39PM
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POUTINE is great if you find the best places
Aug 6 2009 12:58AM
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Ethan.G
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shit I love food threads haha, probably my favourite kind of food is greek. it's all so damn good, and italian a close second. Opa! fast food place is so good damnit now I'm getting super hungry and craving it
Aug 6 2009 1:23AM
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balltoohard
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american food!!!!!!!
Aug 6 2009 1:23AM
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lineskier10
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haha yea piolin is in a somewhat shady place but at least it's not the north end, also there's another place called piolin jr. on main street in east hartford that isnt in the ghetto and has the same food, its definitely better for trips later at night
Aug 6 2009 1:24AM
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freezed
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wow, that's a badass last name.
Aug 6 2009 1:26AM
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Mooserz
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rice. i love rice. so much. that and dumpling. and sushi. om nom nom
Aug 6 2009 1:27AM
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skier_boy26
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I'm a fan of meats. Seldom do I really go crazy for veggie stuff (but I have had some good stuff).

But I thoroughly enjoy seafoods; straight from the sea, fishes, shellfish, crab, lobster, various other sealife, just delicious. Some of the most ridiculous seafood I've had was on crete. I'll take a thalassocracy any day.  High quality, expensive-as-fuck sushi is also quite remarkable.

Most Mediterranean foods get me stoked. Stuff from strets and just remote verncaular cooking is solid. Steaks, asian foods, fuuuck, I could go on. I love food, but I have stuff I hate with a passion, but quite frankly I can't pick a difinitive all-time favorite, because it runs such a large gammut.
Aug 6 2009 1:27AM
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PopsicleStand
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well i was working at hartford hospital today and i got Piolin take out...it was delicious. i got the spicy fish ceviche and the chicken fried rice thing with the spicy green sauce. MAN it was good, i was feelin it. it was enough food for like 4 meals too....

im about to make myself a caiparinha and hit it up again haha
Sep 5 2009 5:03PM
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AALT
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Mexican.
Sep 5 2009 6:05PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i'd have to say its a toss up between authentic mexican food (not the bull shit americanized mexican food that you find at a lot of places) & sushi.
Sep 5 2009 6:19PM
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jblaski
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I have a pretty simple taste in food. I love some good Mexican. Maybe leaning towards tex-mex. But my all time favorite food is American. Give me a bacon cheeseburger and chocolate shake from a little diner, and I'm stoked.
Sep 5 2009 6:36PM
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50in07
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Toss up between Thai and Mexican
Sep 5 2009 7:35PM
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