Originally Posted by thewayofthefuture

In the absence of a dedicated restaurant for a country, I look for the national dish(es) on menus of regional restaurants (e.g., Caribbean/African/Middle Eastern). If that doesn't work, there are various other resources such as permanent missions to the UN or taxi drivers who are often able to point me to smaller places that might not turn in any Google searches. If we absolutely can't find anything, we will find the food at an ethnic market and host the meal at home (as we did for Angola).