/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11650411
Hungry

interesting a few times

they do nothing to modernize it

theres not really a focus on local or seasonal ingredients nor any creative fusion.

What kind of bread is that? Also do they really serve their food in this way?

Overpowering and foul smelling. I pretend to like it so I don't get fired from my job and charged with hate crimes

Obviously in a perfect world, we could all be honest, but the PC police took over at some point and nobody stood up to them, so...

>>11650437
It's called injera. It's a sourdough spongy bread.

>>11650437
Injera, and yes.

>>11650411
It’s actually dank af if it’s done right. It can really be hit or miss, though. Ethiopians offer terrible customer service. I went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my gf today and it was fantastic. They gave us too much food, though.

I presume they don't expect you to tip them either

>>11650411
It's delicious.

Yeah, I'll pass.

>>11650444
I agree with the PC police thing, but you clearly have a case of white people taste buds thing going on there.

Ethiopian, as well as a lot of North African cuisine, use spice mixtures that include things we typically use exclusively in sweets. It has a tendency to be offputting to people who only season things with salt and pepper.

>>11650480
>t. Cletus

Stick to your Burger King, faggot

>>11650451
>too much food


excuse me what

eww

Honestly it's surprisingly delicious. Not sure why it's not more popular. Sourdough, meat and lentils. What's not to like?

>>11650486
Listen man, just cause I don't find the idea of some obscure regional cuisine appetizing doesn't mean I enjoy good food.

It's good. As a big sourdough fan I actually like their sour bread a lot. I also like sitting around the table with popcorn and coffee after the meal.

Looks like shite

>>11650411
It's a bunch of slop that shaved apes eat with the same hands they wipe their asses with.

>>11650584
>implying they bother wiping

>>11650411
Ethiopians have food?
Sally Struthers lied to me.

>>11650609
Gotta appreciate a man who sticks to the same jokes for 33 years

>>11650609
Poverty in Ethiopia has falling around 50% in less than a decade.

A lot of the problem was people outside the city, but now that agriculture and the overall economy has been on a steady rise they're becoming more and more stable.

>>11650630
That looks like an ideal climate, it's a shame they're probably polluting the hell out of it. Too bad it's the Chinese who are helping leapfrog African development and not Switzerland or Norway

>>11650411
The only Ethiopian place in my city uses bleached flour for the bread and you can honestly taste the subtle bleach-ness in the bread.

>>11650411
ethiopian food is a myth, like the unicorn, santa claus, and the non-man-hating lesbian.

Ethiopian was a new hip thing for a while. So every city now has at least one Ethiopian restaurant.

Had it like a year ago, was kinda gross, also too spicy for my civilized palate

>>11650411
Looks like someone had the squirts all over that plate. What even is it?

>>11651274
Stuff you're supposed to pretend to like because it's mildly hip and also black people. It's obviously slop.

>>11650411
>>11650447
>>11650458
>>11650518
Where's the red Cross symbol?
I thought that was on all their food.

>>11650411
Looks like shit.
I’m told Ethiopian food tastes good but I guess if you hear that and then look at that plate, someone is clearly fucking lying.

>we
Kill yourself

>>11650790
>non-man-hating lesbian
My best friend is lesbian. Some lesbians are total bros bro.

>>11650411
8/10 are delicious and 2/10 are acquired tastes
Not bad tho

>>11651443
Nice try schlomo

>>11651443
I agree. They're so much more down to earth than homo men. They just get a bit ticked off when hetero men obsessively sexualise them, but that's kind of understandable.

>>11650411
>>11650447
Looks pretty good.

>>11650437
It's considered rude, greedy, and wasteful to have your own plate. Everyone eats from a central plate.

>>11650533
Sorry that your racist inbreed taste buds cannot enjoy other cultures.

>>11650790
Every couple weeks one of my ostensibly lesbian friends texts me and she gives me a blowjob in my car while we're parked behind a mom and pop gas station

>>11650447

That looks good as fuck

>>11650411
I have literally always wanted to try this shit but the Eritrean place around the corner literally never ever has white people in it.

I thought of finding some black girl on Tinder and use her as a human shield for when I go in there but then they might hate me for being a race mixer and spit in my food anyway.

How do you eat at Eritrean/Ethiopian restaurants as a white man?

>>11651801
i want to know this as well, but its for a jamaican place thank you

>>11651801
Eritreans are some of the best Africans. Nobody's going to bother you. You'll probably be really welcome there.

>>11651808
>Eritreans are some of the best Africans.
in Britain?
idk about that senpai

I got into a conversation with one about their dictator (Isaias Afwerki) who is LITERALLY the black Kim Jong Un (worse in fact, North Korea's press are actually freer than Eritrea's somehow) and the motherfucker defended him and got all mad at me as if I were insulting the country itself.

Granted, representing an entire country with one guy is retarded but that's 100% of the Eritreans I've ever met.

>>11651817
Generally it's a good rule to stay out of politics, especially when you're speaking with third worlders. That's the quickest way to sour what otherwise might be a friendly encounter.

>>11651828
99 times out of 100 I would but I thought there was a consensus on how much of a cunt the guy was and I thought I had found a way to bond with him. Guess I was wrong.

>>11651801
>How do you eat at Eritrean/Ethiopian restaurants as a white man?

regardless of what ethnic cuisine your dealing with, if anyone in the resturant is ordering in english you're almost certainly fine. Just be polite, compliment the chef, tip well, and above all DONT ORDER ANY MODIFICATIONS ON YOUR MEAL ( this is the most important part. its good practice not to make it complicated to avoid bodily fluids even in the whitest of establishments. also you will be made fun of for any spice intolerance) Its a business, and they'll want good reviews as much as you want good food. Unless you live in a horrifyingly shit part of town i'd do it.

>>11651832
Yeah, it's a complicated thing, politics. Especially with expats. You should always let them lead on any thorny subjects.

>>11650411
Kino tastography even though it initially looks unappealing. You cant fault anyone for not wanting any based on the fact that it just looks like runny poo. I got hooked ever since some ethiopian kid brought some injera to a class potluck in school.

>>11651801
Just go you autist.

>>11652031
Yeah, I finally went to this Afghani place that seemed sketchy as fuck. I don’t know shit about Afghani food so I asked them what was popular and ordered one of those, mostly delicious greasy seasoned meat. Ordered a rando veggie dish as well for fun.

Although I despise ME culture generally and probably would despise Ethiopian culture as well, I think it’s generally worthwhile to sometimes just show up and eat a meal without much other high-level thinking. Just “I’m hungry” and nothing else.

>>11651817
Hmm I wonder why expats from brutal foreign dictatorships with an extended family still living under the regime might be suspicious of a total stranger walking up to them and "testing" their loyalty. Truly it is a mystery.

>>11650634
>leapfrog African development
They mostly just convince african countries to build pointless infrastructure projects financed by unsecured loans. You can bet your ass this shit will collapse in a decade or so. This will then kick the Chinese middle class into poverty, because it is balls deep in debt too. With the most important market being dead, production and sales of goods will drop drastically. Which in turn shakes up lots of producing countries like China, India or Germany. Eventually you'll see a full-blown, wold wide financial crisis.

>>11650411
I went to an Ethiopian restaraunt once and had some very similar food to ops pic.
It was damn delicious but i got the hot snakes and the bubble gut for almost 3 whole days.

>>11652369
I find it amusing that you think the Chinese underwriters of these projects expect that they're issuing some sort of rock-solid investment-grade bonds.

They fully expect a lot of defaults, they will use that to impose onerous conditions on the local governments so they have more leverage over those regions.

How actually do you think any of this stuff works? Do you also believe US foreign aid is some sort of charity program and we get nothing in return? That it's just handouts to placate "the libs"?

>>11650411
The only good stuff is the one with meat and that soup with the egg. The bread is nice though, really spongey

>>11650411
>>11650447
>>11650458
>>11650518
>poo in da food

>>11650411
>How do we feel about Ethiopian food ?
It's pretty bad. I lived in D.C. several years and friends and family in town inevitably wanted to go "for the experience" and I just internally groaned each time. To say I've had it 30x and never found it grew on me is an understatement. There's is something bad wrong with each and every recipe. The injera bread is like horrible pancake batter gone bad, the kind from the dollar store which is expired and lost the leaving, and had the oil go rancid in it. It's gummy and doesn't compliment flavors nor textures, but it's all they had. It needs to be fusion-ized and made better by the introduction of a different flour to it.
Poverty cooking of simmering hard boiled eggs in sugary herby sauces. Adding sugar to indian food, or to greens. Wrong spice profiles that defy a palate are the traditional recipes. It's a way to make bad food that is spoiled or canned food better defies the logic of good ingredients not needing much. It's all mushy simmered in a pot garbage without the fresh herbs of persian or indian food(s), nor the logical spice balance.

No. Thanks. Stick to African-American foods where prosperity improved the source recipes.

>>11650411
Top tier, not too expensive, restaurants tend to serve generous portions.
Conclusion : great with friends

>>11650484
Who cares about subtlety, t spic.

>>11652388
exactly. the whole point is to establish leverage. they're not gonna sweat some defaults on infrastructure that exists primarily for china's benefit anyways. they'll just cut more favorable development and trade deals to make up for it.

>>11650790
Nice Chasing Amy ref

>>11652735
i came here to post this

>>11650484
>It has a tendency to be offputting to people who only season things with salt and pepper.
plus people who use many different spices, just not a pound of each

>>11650411
>we
kill yourself OP. kill your FUCKING self.

>>11650411
Multiple and variegated slops o' shit.

>>11650411
Tastes bad.
Had some as part of a Culinary and Culture class back in undergraduate school.
I would describe it as being equivalent to the first time you have beer. It tastes foul, and question why anyone would subjugate themselves to this.

>>11650411
I've tried it once in Paris. It's edible but nothing to write home about, really.

>>11650411
>ethiopian "food"

>>11650411
It’s quite shitty desu
Interesting to eat for the first time but not really anything you’ll desperately want to get again

>>11650411
Ethiopians don't have food, they eat mud cause they are Ethiopians, and while they may be smarter than any given Somalian, they still aren't overly swift...

Surprised they have it desu

>>11650447
uma delicia

>>11650484
>>11650486
>>11651746
Seething

>>11650522
name fag ,he meant a Ethiopian restaurant in the west not the real place

>>11650584
Your ass is probably disgusting, you dirty no water washed ass freak.

>all these /pol/ funnymen trying to be funny with outmoded, outdated racist jokes
big yikes

>>11650411

that looks horrible. Having to make like 10 things separately all for a dish that imitates the world's deepest poverty.

>>11654033
Wahhhh no one likes my terrible ethnic food thread!

;_;

Don't ask questions you don't want the answer to fuck nigga

>>11654033
It does look like shit though bro, it looks like shit you would put on other food, not bread. Maybe is delicious, but past experience has led me not to eat food that looks like a literal taco bell shit.

>>11650518
The roastie munchie box

>>11651748
nice

based and kangpilled

>>11654169
I guess I'd rather be a roastie than a bong any day of the week.

>>11650484
>mmm sweaty, you got a case of white people taste buds

>>11650411
lmao these niggas never even invented fucking forks why should i believe they invented good food

>>11650518
She literally looks like my based slutty wine aunt and we're not even jewish, wtf?

Bread looks liked burned/diseased skin

>>11650411
I love sloppy joes

>>11650411
Fuck off jack

I had Ethiopian once. My dish had peppers which I hate but overall it seemed okay. My family hated it though.
>>11650522
Overcompensation

>>11650447
somebody shitted in your plate mate
and from the looks of it he had diarrhea

78 posters but 94 replies.

Lots of samefaggotry in these parts

>>11650411
Looks like the slop I serve my gfs kid.

>>11650411

>>11652306
There was a whole chain of numbered Afghan kebob houses here in NYC that were great, similar flavours to typical middle eastern foods but there was a little something different I couldn't figure out. They had awesome bread too. Unfortunately they all predictably went out of business after 9/11

Is the injera supposed to be served without heat? It was rather off-putting.

>>11655077
yes served cold, some famcier places will serve it to you in a steamy towel to slightly warm it.

>>11650411
Ever had Ethiopian food?................ Neither have they!!!! HAHAHAHAHA

>>11650411
Had it once. Meh.

the casino that I work at almost exclusively hires ethiopian women and men and MOST are well fed

>>11655360
You mean they're fatasses in scooters?

>>11654735
Reminder that Trypophobia isn't a real Phobia

>>11655443
You say that but my sister literally started crying from seeing injeera. My mom was also creeped out.

injeera is shit and so is the rest of the food.

I've eaten all over the world and never really had a problem except for ehtiopian food.

>>11650584
back to one of the dozens of fast "food" and "tendies" threads that clog this board like the fat clogging your arteries you degenerate

>>11650411
Only tried one dish was amazing fuck knows what it was tho

>>11655777
are they also freaked out by sponges and particle board
what the fuck

>>11655443
>>11655777
>>11655905
I think people these days just grow up so fucking sheltered they grow phobias of everything.

>>11650447
That ground beef stuff is fucking disgusting

>>11651318
I bet you thought this would be hilarious

>>11651443
Agreed. I had a lesbian best friend that let me fuck her because I was such a loser. Had to move but I miss her.

>>11653277
Back to r*ddit with you

>>11655938
I disagree, but I'll add that the ground beef dish in >>11650447 is the same as the tartare version in >>11650458 (from my favorite Eritrean restaurant, Assab, in SF). I'd been going to Assab for over a decade and only learned from talking to the owner on my last visit that the dish is traditionally served rare, they just default it to cooked for western tastes and to minimize food safety concerns. The extra flavor from the rare steak really takes the dish to another level.

cringe

cringe!

>>11650411
One of the best experiences I have had with food. There is a small place in SD where I took my GF a while back.

>>11650458
Is that some Kitfo I spy?

Fuck this thread is making me hungry, haven't had Ethiopian in ages.

>>11650411
This is the only thing I remember about Ethiopian food

>>11655905
Yeah lmao. I never got the phobia, even though I have an extensive history with phobia disorders.