/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9051647
>Can anyone explain why they ended up with such an awful cuisine?
One factor being not having a royal banquet tradition, at least the other SEA had more or less unified states and royalty that demanded refined food. Add to that the old classist colonial mentality where vegetables are for poor people and the rich only eat meat gives them a shitty food culture where eating is just basically filling people up with rice and showing off meat. The whole sphagetti in fastfood thing is just another way of showing off eating "foreign" food. They are generous with food though and it's common to offer food to anyone that comes in your home, so it's basically quantity>quality. The national palate is also terrible with a propensity for salt, fat, sugar, and vinegar. Since all food is just an accompaniment to rice(which purpose is to fill you up) then you got really strong flavors to be diluted in the rice, which is why they all die of diabetes/high blood pressure.

It's too bad desu, they've got some interesting quirks and fusions due to their location (a shit ton of different vinegars, fermented anchovies, access to fresh seafood, tropical fruits/veggies) but there is absolutely no refinement. You'll can venture into regional cuisines and find some good dishes but it's mostly low tier food.