Food from your part of the world

[Kyuu]

I'm making this thread because of a conversation with @jigos on Discord.

Basically, is there any food around where you live that you'd like to share with everyone here?

I'll start with this:

I'm from an archipelago in southeast Asia and our more commonly known local food is "adobo". Lesser known outside of the country is the food pictured above: sinigang. It is a mix of vegetables and meat in a sour, clear soup.

• The sourness of the soup itself is different depending on what is used: most common is sampaloc (tamarind); we can also use vinegar, green mangoes, kamias (idk what that is in English), even watermelon rinds (the white part of a local watermelon is sour).
• The soup can be thickened using gabi (taro) or miso (soybean paste).
• The vegetables are usually greens such as string beans, kangkong (water spinach), different kinds of cabbage and some kinds of lettuce, okra and the like. Personally, I love putting labanos (horse radish) in my sinigang.
• The meat part is commonly pork, but it doesn't have to be. Seafood such as white-fleshed fish, shrimp and crabs can be used (I recently made sinigang na alimango sa sampalok/crabs in tamarind sinigang) Chicken and beef are rarely used because they don't go very well with the sourness. Meat can also be omitted entirely if you want a vegan dish.

 

[jigos]

New Zealand, where I am, does not have much in the way of unique foods, at all.

There's the Maori Hangi, which is a method of cooking involving steaming food in an underground oven, which imbues the food with a particular earthy flavor-undertone. But afaik other Polynesian cultures also have something similar.

The rest of New Zealand 'cuisine' is just British/settler food.

There is a national dessert called Pavlova, which is a miringue-and-cream based sort of cake, but the Aussies, (being Aussies) have stolen claim to it and call it theirs.

 

[Lynk Former]

@jigos: Didn't we also steal the Lamington from you guys?

 

[jigos]

You steal pretty much everything tbh
But according to Wikipedia (='consequent undeniable fact'), Lammies were yours first

 

[Hawkeye]

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The British Sunday Roast, may it be beef, lamb, pork or even chicken....

 

[Kyuu]

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The British Sunday Roast, may it be beef, lamb, pork or even chicken....

I love lamb... so difficult to find it here

 

[Kyuu]

If you have Facebook, our Foreign Affairs department has an official FB page and they compiled a list of Filipino food places all over the world: it's an album of images btw.

 

[jigos]

Whaaaa they actually have New Zealand on there.. and there are a whole bunch of restaurants!
I've seen one of the mentioned places too. I think I'll go there when I'm nearby next

What kind of an effort it must have been to put this list together, with such uniform and populated detail. I wonder how they managed it!