Survey: Which country has the best/worst food that you have eaten?
Feb 26, 2008, 5:21 am
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not sure about "most" of the south being the worst... think you need to read some more reviews and make better choices when you visit cities like IAH, DFW and MSY.....
Feb 26, 2008, 5:24 am
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I'm a HK Chinese myself and I agree that some of the worst Chinese food is found in China itself. With the exception of Guangzhou, Zhuhai and some in Beijing and Shanghai, most of the Chinese cuisines I've sampled in the other parts of the PRC are simply inedible for my taste.
I think a lot of it is where you go like everywhere else.
I wasn't overly impressed with Beijing food... Shanghai's a different story...
Feb 26, 2008, 6:55 pm
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Feb 26, 2008, 8:53 pm
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Mar 2, 2008, 1:44 pm
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Best food : France, Mexico, Morrocco, Italy, Lebanon, India
Worst food : the UK, Germany, Bolivia
Mar 2, 2008, 7:09 pm
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I'm sorry to say so, but unless you go to a foreign restaurant in the UK (Indian, Italian, etc), you can be pretty sure that the food will be, at least to this foreigner's taste, terrible. How do you detect that a British restaurant serving British food will be good ? I'm sure that there are some out there, but where ???
Do you have any recollection at all?
Mar 2, 2008, 7:31 pm
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Good - Australia
Not so good
India - great cuisine, poor quality ingrediants
Indonesia - great grilled fish but not much for variety - mie goreng or nasi goreng today?
there's some very good food available in GB - local cheeses, local beers, local produce. There's also some horrible stuff - like chips with mushy peas.
overrated -
Argentina. Yes the beef is really, really good. Not much else is. The Italian is one-dimensional and there isn't much else.
Not so good
India - great cuisine, poor quality ingrediants
Indonesia - great grilled fish but not much for variety - mie goreng or nasi goreng today?
there's some very good food available in GB - local cheeses, local beers, local produce. There's also some horrible stuff - like chips with mushy peas.
overrated -
Argentina. Yes the beef is really, really good. Not much else is. The Italian is one-dimensional and there isn't much else.
Mar 2, 2008, 9:51 pm
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Funny thing about British food. Mrs. braslvr and I spent 3 weeks in the UK in 99, and traveled nearly the entire country. We ate all but one or two of our lunches and dinners in pubs. Other than being a bit bland, we enjoyed most everything. I was expecting much worse. British pub grub = ^
Mar 3, 2008, 1:58 am
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I'm sorry to say so, but unless you go to a foreign restaurant in the UK (Indian, Italian, etc), you can be pretty sure that the food will be, at least to this foreigner's taste, terrible. How do you detect that a British restaurant serving British food will be good ? I'm sure that there are some out there, but where ???
I've lived in the UK for most of my 32 years and, in the last 10, it's been incredibly easy to find decent food. It's very well to say "it's terrible", but what are you eating? Where?
If it's (like many I see visiting) a £1.99 special fish and chips from a chain pub, you're better off getting a microwave meal to take home. If you're having a proper Sunday roast from a respected country pub... Then what is it you don't like?
Mar 3, 2008, 3:58 am
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That's the point of my question - what do you understand as being British food? Where do you go to try and find it?
I've lived in the UK for most of my 32 years and, in the last 10, it's been incredibly easy to find decent food. It's very well to say "it's terrible", but what are you eating? Where?
If it's (like many I see visiting) a £1.99 special fish and chips from a chain pub, you're better off getting a microwave meal to take home. If you're having a proper Sunday roast from a respected country pub... Then what is it you don't like?
I've lived in the UK for most of my 32 years and, in the last 10, it's been incredibly easy to find decent food. It's very well to say "it's terrible", but what are you eating? Where?
If it's (like many I see visiting) a £1.99 special fish and chips from a chain pub, you're better off getting a microwave meal to take home. If you're having a proper Sunday roast from a respected country pub... Then what is it you don't like?
. The other problem is that with the weak US$ more tourists are probably taking that 2 meals for £7 offer at the pub and getting what they pay for.Overall I find food in the UK average but if you take the time to try and find places you can get some good finds.