/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14456583]

So, which of these is not "overrated"?

[Anonymous No.14456635]

Bhutan

[Anonymous No.14456640]

>>14456583
Mongolian food is pretty good, but people don't really talk about it too much (and I don't mean mongolian grills)

[Anonymous No.14456668]

>>14456640
>but people don't really talk about it too much
Right? I mean, even you said barely anything about it, just that it's "pretty good". lmao

[Anonymous No.14456710]

>>14456635
This. Definitely one of the worst cuisines on Earth.

[Anonymous No.14456730]

>>14456583
Overrated, but still my favorite cuisine:
>japan
Not good, but still gets an unfairly bad rap:
>philippines
Too big and diverse to judge as one entity tier:
>china
Generally rated correctly:
>thailand
>south korea
>india
Hyped as fuck and good, but you have to actually go there so most people don't care:
>taiwan
>hong kong
>macau
Legitimately underrated:
>nepal
>hanoi
>laos
>cambodia/khmer
I've seen pictures on the internet but who knows tier:
>mongolia
Potatoes, canned fruit, beets, and cardboard restaurants that are blatantly mafia fronts tier:
>russia

[Anonymous No.14456735]

>>14456583
Myanmar cuisine can't be overrated because nobody's bothered to rate it

[Anonymous No.14456751]

>>14456730
Wait wait wait... are you trying to tell me that the Mongolian BBQ in the food court at my local mall isn't real Mongolian food!?

[Anonymous No.14456756]

What's Kyrgystan known for? Honest question.

[Anonymous No.14456762]

At least maybe they have some hot chicks, it is on OPs map.

[Anonymous No.14456774]

>>14456735
It uses lots of fermented seafood products, which can be off putting to beginners, but it's not terribly different than the countries around it. The president of Myanmar's brother lives in my old neighborhood and my mom is really good friends with his wife. She has cooked for me more times than I can count.

[Anonymous No.14456785]

I fucking love mongoloid barbecue.

[Anonymous No.14456795]

>>14456785
Mongo like food

[Anonymous No.14456804]

>>14456640
is it though? I've seen some videos and their cuisine looks like shit because they can't grow anything there

[Anonymous No.14456882]

>>14456756
Post-soviet mediocrity

[Anonymous No.14456960]

>>14456583
China and Korea.
So much good stuff out of both countries.

I love korean blood sausage and their vegetable bundles served with that tart sauce thing.

I love Chinese offal food, and they make pretty good noodles, spit roasts and dumplings. There are so many different cuisines.

For both countries the exported restaurant style shit is usually boring and sometimes awful.

For japan, I love plenty of Japanese food, but overall I think it's overrated. Some of the food people love the shit out of are just worse versions of other countries dishes. Other dishes are solid.

Mongolia - never tried anything Mongolian except the, probably not very representable, Mongolian bbq which is usually a 1+1=1 kind of experience.

tl;dr: I have opinions.

[Anonymous No.14456971]

>>14456640
>boiled goat head
thirty drollah

[Anonymous No.14456975]

>>14456960
Mongolian BBQ is Taiwanese.

[Anonymous No.14457032]

>>14456971
I'd legit eat that.

[Anonymous No.14457044]

I'm legit interested in what the "privileged" classes eat in ole Best Korea

[Anonymous No.14457061]

>>14457032
It's best when boiled in jameed for mansaf, though that's Jordanian. It's a dried yogurt that you re-hydrate with stock that tastes a lot like parmesan cheese.

[Anonymous No.14457364]

Mongolia or North Korea

[Anonymous No.14457443]

>>14456756
An allergy to vowels

[Anonymous No.14458071]

>>14457044
Non-Korean food.
95% of native Korean shit is either fried or fermented, and all of it is just swimming in gochujang or some kind of nondescript asian flavors. Been living in SK for awhile and although the street food bits are an interesting novelty the regular food is fucking boring and not that great.

[Anonymous No.14458143]

>>14456583
Vietnam makes the best food, ever other asian country is overrated. Especially Japshit.

[Anonymous No.14458147]

>>14456635
>Bhutan
come on my gr gr uncle died of starvation there while doing a infrastructure project. Your gonna tell me their food is good.

[Anonymous No.14458150]

>>14456730
Not sure what the food is like in Eastern Russia, but Russian food is pretty damn comfy and quite underrated, imo.

[Anonymous No.14458156]

>>14457061
love that "wa la" green onion stuck in the goat's mouth

[Anonymous No.14458329]

>>14458071
>Korean shit is either fried
there's barely any frying in korean food

[Anonymous No.14458413]

>>14458156
It's voila you fucking mouthbreathing retard.

[Anonymous No.14458568]

>>14458413
Okay, newfag

[Anonymous No.14458849]

>>14456635

Honestly some of the worst food I've ever had in my life.

If i never saw fucking chilis and cheese again it would be too soon jesus christ.

As a hyper buddhist country they banned the killing of any animal, so all their meat is butchers across the border in india, but they don't have proper infrastructure or refrigeration so they have to dry the meat to jerky for distribution so these people eat re-hydrated jerky like that,s normal, that and fucking canned meat.

Same note: little refrigeration means in winter most of the vegetables are canned or re-hydrated as well these people never fucking figured out pickles.

also red rice isn't that good.

[Anonymous No.14458907]

>>14456730
>>14456583


This dude is pretty spot on, but chinese cuisine could be broken down more. like sichuan and hunan foods are over rated. Also the CCP did a fucking number on that country's culture and by extension their cuisine, so much was fucking lost and so much of what we have is based on weird hick culture and scam artists claiming to make a 10,000 year old recipe from the court of the yellow emperor himself. This is truly why china is so fucked and full of bug people today. Why do you think chinese people are so fucking tacky and love gold so much and have so many weird superstitions? That's what happens when you burn all your books and art, exile all your educated people and leave the creation of a new national culture to the rice farmers who remain. As well as why Taiwanese food is so good. When mao came knocking most of the intellectuals in the country fled, many to taiwan, and they brought actual chinese culture with them. which leads us to:

Truly underrated:
>taiwanese

but also
>burmese

both are super good in my opinion.

I think russian is underrated, but i get why people dislike it

[Anonymous No.14458972]

>>14458907
>mfw China got to the point where their scholars have to consult the copies in S. Korean national archives to revive their own Confucian rituals because the originals were burned by Mao acolytes

[Anonymous No.14458985]

>>14458413
Such mistakes are diamond dozen

[Anonymous No.14459393]

>>14458907
>Why do you think chinese people are so fucking tacky and love gold so much and have so many weird superstitions?
Chinese people have always been like this.

[Anonymous No.14459458]

>>14459393

Yeah but every culture at one point lived like that, it's just sort of the pre modern mindset where resources are scarce enough that the definition of class was just "more". Once a culture has enough resources that even the middle class can have "more" the idea of having "more" loses value, just having a lot is no longer special and people start to focus on quality over quantity resulting in a more aesthetic culture.

Pre Mao there was a budding class of educated and modern chinese people who wanted to bring their country into the modern world without a hard reset. Honestly I don't know if they would have been able to pull off the kind of amazing reform Japan had in the 20th century, but I can't help but think it would have been better than what we ended up with in our timeline.

[Anonymous No.14460701]

>>14456583
Nepalese food is like watered down Indian food.

[Anonymous No.14460718]

someone, please, cancel the word overrated from the english language
it must be the most abused, the most overrated word in the entire lexicon

[Anonymous No.14460798]

>>14459458
>>14458907
The alternative was a dictatorship with Chiang austiscally purging minorities, so not great options. Cuisine was the least affected from Mao's retarded policies. Ironically Taiwan kept the Chinese culture, but destroyed the cuisine of the natives.

[Anonymous No.14460808]

>>14456583
Tibetan food is so fucking good that you're not allowed to go there.

[Anonymous No.14460914]

I go for the beef w/basil myself, it gives me wicked farts so get some peace and quiet from goofy girlfriends.

[Anonymous No.14460946]

It really does take some improvisation to get some bitch out of a room, especially one intent on hollaring at me in my own place for who knows what reason. Beef w/basil and chile pepper farts seems to do it.

[Anonymous No.14460974]

Fish sauce seems to give those farts a little bit extra.

[Anonymous No.14462034]

>>14459458
>>14460798
Yeah, say what you will about NK, at least they actually embraced their culture with their weird version of communism instead of actively trying to destroy it.