Underrated cuisine? I feel like Afghan cuisine flies under the radar.

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Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:33:15 2015 No.6443790 [Reply] [Original]

Underrated cuisine?

I feel like Afghan cuisine flies under the radar.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:34:32 2015 No.6443793 >>6443790 What makes Afghan food unique compared to other middle eastern food?

Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:39:15 2015 No.6443810

>>6443793
The dishes are different when you compare them to Arabs. It's really rice oriented for the most part and incorporates a lot of bread. They have so many different types, ranging from sweet to sour to spicy.

I tried some rice with carrots and raisins which was quite tasty. Also their kebabs are different than Arabic ones I usually have. They're fatter and have different spices.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:42:11 2015 No.6443817 >>6443793 Different native plants, more reliance on corn (maize for non-Americans). Other than that, it's very similar to both Levantine and Indian food.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:42:26 2015 No.6443819 >>6443810 Oh and they use a lot of yogurt in their dishes too, it's in the OP pic

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 19:54:05 2015 No.6443845 >>6443810 So it's basically Indian food.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:03:04 2015 No.6443875 >>6443845 No, it's a lot different since there's only a few dishes that are supposed to be spicy (and beef is a staple meat) . Just google "afghan cuisine" and you'll see some examples.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:05:43 2015 No.6443885 Afghan everything flies under the radar. because of drones.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:08:18 2015 No.6443892 >>6443885 >Afghans >Flying Too soon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:11:32 2015 No.6443899 >>6443790 It's pretty popular in India but I feel it's too similar to Indian to have it's own identity.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:27:53 2015 No.6443941 >>6443790 Brazilian cuisine that's not just the barbecue

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:28:53 2015 No.6443945 >>6443845 Nope. It's less pungent and slathered in spices like Indian food.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:29:36 2015 No.6443949 >>6443899 Its more similar to Iranian food. Its the exact same in some dishes. And don't make me laugh and claim that Iranian food derives from Indian.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:31:12 2015 No.6443953 >>6443790 >flies under the radar more like crashes into twin radar towers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 20:52:03 2015 No.6444035 >>6443953 None of the 9/11 bombers were Afghan lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 21:51:14 2015 No.6444222 >>6443793 People think they are edgy by liking a cuisine from a dangerous part of the world even though it's not something special. There are probably people who like Somali or "Iraqi" cuisine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 22:11:31 2015 No.6444279 >>6443793 >afghan >"other middle eastern" Afghan is Central Asian you passportless lardistani.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 22:15:57 2015 No.6444292 >>6443790 >cuisine >posts sausage over veggies and rice

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 22:18:15 2015 No.6444298 >>6443790 How is it different from Iranian cuisine?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 23:02:02 2015 No.6444434 >>6444298 Well it seems that much of the middle east and persia has Indian influence, just like how many east asian cuisines have a chiniese influence

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 23:09:27 2015 No.6444468 >>6443790 I lived in Miami several years ago, I would frequent this Columbian restaurant that had the most addictive arepas and a meal called Bendeja Paisa (pork belly, chorizo, white rice, red beans, fried egg and plantain, mmm)

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 23:25:26 2015 No.6444531 File: 448 KB, 425x425, 1422282407397.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Afghan Try Uzbek food, by far the best central asian shit. Kyrgyz and Tatar food is also amazing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 23:32:23 2015 No.6444560 >>6443810 The same is true of a lot of middle eastern cuisines, and even Armenian food. The picture on the right just looks like lule and pilaf.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 23 23:40:29 2015 No.6444581 >>6443790 it does. I have an Afghanistan friend and she cooks delicious food.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 00:00:22 2015 No.6444644 Afghan food is pretty common in Toronto. I actually prefer them to the Arab and Indian restaurants.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 00:08:32 2015 No.6444662 >>6443793 It's the bomb

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 00:10:54 2015 No.6444668 File: 1.33 MB, 200x200, 1423737787771.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6444662

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 00:34:45 2015 No.6444751 >>6444662 hohohohohohohohohoho

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 01:19:29 2015 No.6444843

>>6444531
We've got a metric fucktonne of Uzbeks moving to one neighbourhood in my city and with them popped up a bunch of restaurants. Only one is worth a damn.
The others have various problems ranging from not being a real restaurant and instead a front for organised crime to being filthy, with the owners/workers having a distinctly sour body odour. The worst of them, called, aptly enough, 'Taskhent,' is a combination of both problems.

The only good one is meh tier at best. I don't know if that's because Uzbek cuisine is meh or just the restaurant, but considering how every Uzbek I know beams with pride about how good that restaurant is, its rating on Yelp and other review sites and its general reputation altogether, I'm guessing the former: IMO, Uzbek food is watered down Indian/Iranian food repackaged for bland, Russian tastes.

>>6443790
Burmese, Hungarian and Burkinabe (or general West African) cuisines. Honourable mention to Lesbian cuisine. Dykes make some good brunch, but ruin everything else.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 01:25:12 2015 No.6444858 >>6443941 it's meat and meat and some fucking olla podrida which they call feijoada

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 01:26:12 2015 No.6444861 >>6443949 just like mexican derives from macedonian

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 08:08:49 2015 No.6445302 >>6444531 Have you been to Kyrgyzstan? Because the food is atrocious, with the only exception being the areas that border China

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 08:52:14 2015 No.6445362 >>6445302 >Kyrgyzstan Ilkasjdhstan. I can mash my keys and add -stan to the end, too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 09:10:29 2015 No.6445394 >>6445362 >I can mash my keys and add -stan to the end, too. god youre dumb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyzstan

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 09:13:23 2015 No.6445399

I guess if we're gonna talk about Central Asian food, then Uyghur. It's like a mix of Afghan and Sichuan cuisine and no one seems to know about it, but they got some pretty hot recipes.

Also in Asia, Malaysian food. I know it's not that underrated, but everyone seems to talk about every other East/SE Asian cuisine before they mention Malaysian food, even though it's a lot like Thai and Indonesian food but better.

Also Taiwanese. Good as hell, but no one ever speaks of it outside East Asia.

Meat Minimalist !!QlEfxPKY65n Fri Apr 24 09:29:24 2015 No.6445426

>>6445399

Reminder that people who only know Thai, Indian, and Chinese food don't even know Thai, Indian, or Chinese food. They know shitty knockoff versions made with Sysco slop from the so-called "heartland", mistakenly also referred to as the "real America" [sic], and other blighted culturally barren hellholes.

Seriously, if you don't have an immediate, intuitive preference between kinilaw na isda vs peruvian ceviche, while liking and respecting both methods, you shouldn't even be on a food board and should fuck right off back to your White Castle microwave sliders from Wal Mart. This is a completely reasonable thing to expect for normal people, and yet...

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 09:36:13 2015 No.6445438 >>6445426 ...what

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 09:41:08 2015 No.6445445 >>6445394 Are you legitimately autistic, Anon?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 09:48:31 2015 No.6445452 >>6445399 Yes, Uyghur food was what I was referencing earlier in saying the only edible food in Kyrgyzstan was in the areas bordering Uyghur Chinese areas (Karakol most notably, but including At-Bashy and Naryn also)

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:03:47 2015 No.6445465 >>6444222 This

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:07:19 2015 No.6445473
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>>6444222
This must be why white guilt liberals like mexican food. Ever since this narco war it seems like every hipster is going crazy over it. I went to taco bell once just to see what all the hype was about and it was totally underwhelming, what a waste of money.

Anyway have you guys seen the new joey video?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:19:51 2015 No.6445494 >>6445473 At first I was mad, but then I smiled. You truly know this board.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:21:31 2015 No.6445498 >>6445473 >white guilt-liberals you almost got me there you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:21:54 2015 No.6445500 >>6444858 nice memed my friend

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:41:10 2015 No.6445537

>>6445426
>"real America" [sic], and other blighted culturally barren hellholes.
Your tremendous ignorance is showing. In WI and MN there is a large population of Hmong immigrants, and you can find shockingly good SEA food if you know where to look. The best pho I've ever had was in CO, and I've lived all my life on the coasts. Houston and NOLA can give a serious run for the money as well when it comes to Viet cuisine.

Yes, there are parts of the country where people know little beyond the supermarket, chain restaurants and Sysco/US Foods purveyed cafeteria slop. But even in these places you can scratch the surface and find Amish farmers, artisan cheesemakers and pockets of unlikely immigrants. Maybe they stand out because the general standards are so very low, and if you were just passing through all you'd notice would be the low standards. But if you get to ground level and poke around you can generally eat very well almost anywhere in the country, even if most of the folks in the cookie cutter suburbs are eating frozen pizza and salad from a plastic bag dressed with shit from a bottle.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:43:16 2015 No.6445543 >>6445473 Poe's Law in action. Good job.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:43:24 2015 No.6445544 >>6445426 YES TRIPFAG YES DO IT MORE MORE MORE

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 10:55:30 2015 No.6445564

>>6445537
I grew up in SEA have lived on one US coast and have spent extended periods of time on the other as well as visited several other parts of the US for work and can say without a shadow of a doubt that MN has the absolute best/most authentic SEA food in the states.
I think it's because white MNans have zero interest in trying anything that's not meat and potatoes so SEA restaurants in MN don't have to modify their cuisine for foreign tastes like they tend to do on the East and /especially/ West coasts. The WC has by far the worst SEA food I've ever had in America because all the white interest has forced the cuisine to change to suit European tastes.

Best pho I've had in the US was either in Tulsa or Nashville. Can't decide. Though not SEA, the best Korean food I've had was in Doraville Georgia.

Also
>eating anything but cajun/creole in NOLA
You fucked up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 11:08:57 2015 No.6445581 File: 874 KB, 1536x2048, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I worked at a Persian restaurant. Infinitely superior to Afghan food. Chicken Sultani is a god-tier dish. Pic related

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 11:12:23 2015 No.6445589 File: 21 KB, 400x416, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6445362 Wow... I mean wow.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 11:14:47 2015 No.6445594 I've heard of good things about mozambiquean food, though I've never really had a chance to try myself.

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 11:16:40 2015 No.6445598

>>6445564
>eating cajun in NOLA
stupid. those fucking mermen can't do shit for real swamp food in that francofucked shithole
>not eating viet in Louisiana
during the war, the US was the best place to go for Vietnamese refugees because of our reacharound diplomacy foreign policy. if you were a midget used to eating shellfish and dirty fish out of hot swamps and rice paddies with 120 degree weather and 110% humidity every winter, what's the best place you could go in the US? that's right, Louisifuckingana. I refuse to believe there is a better place in America to get banh mi or pho than the one place where people aren't too pussy to try anything spicy or made with suspicious animal parts. Louisianans are the fucking Cantonese of America, you don't change your food to suit us, either your food is good enough for us and we eat it, or you can take it back to your fucking rice paddies with a healthy side of agent orange. And I know those kitchens came right out of Saigon because I could hear the waitress's mother screaming at her from the kitchen and it was sandwiched between a nail salon/whorehouse and a grocery that reeked of durians and mung bean cakes and was run by a 200 year old woman who didn't speak a lick of English

jesus christ some days I miss the swamps

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 11:22:18 2015 No.6445610 >>6445564 >You fucked up. I was there for a few weeks and needed a break. So I drove to Algiers for a delicious change of pace. Hardly a fuckup, but nothing that could hold a candle to Frady's, dollar for dollar.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 11:29:37 2015 No.6445625 >>6445589 >butthurt armchairstani detected No one cares about your shit excuse for a country anymore. You were just a vassal of the Ottomans, anyway, despite being a larger, more important (and comfortable) nation. Ilkasjdhstan reprazent, dawg.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 12:24:30 2015 No.6445785 >>6445625 insecure white detected

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 17:50:12 2015 No.6446725 >>6443790 Onions are literally in every single cuisine ever. Ever wonder why?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 17:51:37 2015 No.6446730 File: 187 KB, 1600x900, Minions.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6446725 >Onions are literally in every single cuisine ever. Ever wonder why?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 18:15:27 2015 No.6446779 >>6446725 Easy to grow, easy to cook or eat raw, great flavor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 18:29:50 2015 No.6446803 >>6443790 Been there. Ate tons of local food. Never got sick. Feels good man.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 18:44:50 2015 No.6446843 >>6443790 Underrated cuisines: German Greek Lebanese Ecuadorian Peruvian Punjabi Uighur

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:03:50 2015 No.6446883 >>6444843 What city?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:45:19 2015 No.6447004 File: 104 KB, 300x195, Afghanistan_AfghanNoodleSoup.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6443790 >implying I eat some soup called afghan 'aush' once a week, it tastes delicious, the white stuff is yogurt

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:47:25 2015 No.6447012 >>6445581 afghan food basically is persian food, considering that 1/3 of afghans are persian tajiks though of course there is a lot of uzbek food as well, thinks like mantu or aush

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:49:57 2015 No.6447018 >>6446843 >>6446843 >Ecuadorian Its just average man. Everything you find in Ecuadorian you can find in peruvian. And no heat

Anonymous Fri Apr 24 19:57:42 2015 No.6447047

There's a kebab place in my neighborhood that specializes in Afghan and Pakistani styles. Doesn't really seem all that different from Indian food, but they have a really awesome yogurt-marinated chicken kebab that's way better than any of the Indian places I've been to. Their rice is much better, too. They do a really good goat curry, too.

I personally think that Colombian, Salvadoran, Puerto Rican, Dominican, basically non-Mexican Latin foods are pretty underrated.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 24 20:08:32 2015 No.6447076 >>6447018 I'm not saying Ecuadorian is amazing, I'm just saying it's under rated in that it's pretty delicious, and no one seems to give a fuck about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 01:36:13 2015 No.6447906 >>6447047 fried fried fried and fried food is considered underrated now?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 01:40:16 2015 No.6447918 >>6446803 how was the food?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 01:51:14 2015 No.6447938 >>6445564 >>6445598 Cajun doesn't happen in NOLA, it happens around Lafayette.

>>	7 Sat Apr 25 01:51:55 2015 No.6447941 File: 540 KB, 500x257, allislost.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6443790 >>6443810 >>6443817 >consuming sandnigger sister molesting, boy fucking poorly prepared, cross contaminated petri dishes of doom, ever

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 02:14:09 2015 No.6447981 South Eastern European food is very underrated because I think people think it's as bland and boring as that of the food in the rest of Eastern Europe. There's some really good food made in the Balkans.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 02:26:28 2015 No.6448006 File: 11 KB, 250x214, 1426249138566.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6444843 >Lesbian cuisine

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 03:08:35 2015 No.6448101 >>6448006 I guarantee that if you've ever had sprouted X bread, carob Y, anything vegan that shouldn't be vegan or brunch anywhere in the English-speaking world, you've eaten Lesbian cuisine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 03:48:02 2015 No.6448143 >>6448101 What makes any of that specifically lesbian?

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 04:02:52 2015 No.6448160

>>6448143
I'm guessing you don't live in a city.

Damned near every place that sells any of those items in every city I've ever been to is either owned and operated by dykes or has a suspiciously high percentage of dykes among its clientele, sometimes even a majority.

Dunno what it is about brunch, batshit food fads and carpet-munching women, but them dykes sure do love GABA bread, soysciutto with melon and carob muffins between the hours of 10AM and 2PM.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 05:43:13 2015 No.6448258 >>6445445 >>6445625 >humour so shit that people mistake it for legit retardation Must be american.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 16:57:18 2015 No.6449443 >>6447004 ma nigga

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 17:03:45 2015 No.6449450

>>6443793
Afghan food is basically a blend of Arab, Indian, and central Asian foods. Kebabs, rice, curries, dumplings, stews, and fried flat bread filled with potatoes or leeks are the main dishes. Afghans incorporate a lot of yogourt in their dishes as well. Food is usually mild and rarely spicy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 18:51:43 2015 No.6449706 >>6449450 Holy fuck that sounds amazing.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:08:01 2015 No.6449863
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Not gonna lie I really want to learn more a Ethopian food and Africa in General after I made some in my "Cuisine of Cultures" class I made this bomb ass Peanut Chicken stew with Sweet potatoes that was godly also made a pastilla.

>>	Phil Ossiferz Stone !!esSirF6LRYN Sat Apr 25 20:14:15 2015 No.6449883 >>6449450 Sounds a helluva lot like Punjabi.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:16:02 2015 No.6449892 >>6449883 pujabi is str8 up indian food though, unless you're talking paki punjabi in which case it borrows from their neighbors

>>	Phil Ossiferz Stone !!esSirF6LRYN Sat Apr 25 20:17:00 2015 No.6449894 >>6449892 >paki punjabi I mean Sikh Punjabi. Which would be more or less the same thing from the same area.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:18:50 2015 No.6449901 >>6449894 nah pakis have more meat dishes and borrow stuff from their neighbors

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:36:37 2015 No.6449956 >>6443790 Did they really have to make their delicious lamb look like a piece of shit? I mean, they could have easily made patties, or meatballs...but a fat log? really?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:51:41 2015 No.6450003 >>6449883 Punjabi food and Afghan food are very different.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:54:46 2015 No.6450012

>>6450003
>>6449892
>>6449901
Just so you guys are aware, this is the tripfag who didn't realize puerto rico was part of the united states. I wouldn't expect him to be able accurately discuss punjab the state vs punjab the province, let alone food from all the way over in afghanistan.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 20:56:33 2015 No.6450023
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>>6449706
Central Asian/Afghan take on dumplings. Pretty sure Uzbek and Tajikistan are very common.

Dumpling contains seasoned beef and onions, topped with garlic yogourt and a split-pea beef sauce, and garnished. (is also sometimes topped with caramelized onions like the picture but not usually)

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:01:16 2015 No.6450036
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>>6450023
A rice dish containing caramelized carrots and raisins. The rice has melted sugar to give it a brown look and is usually finally baked with yakhnee (meat such as beef or sheep) within to give it a meatier taste.

Sometimes topped with pistachios and usually served with a meat curry (lamb or beef).

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:02:56 2015 No.6450043 >>6450036 A fried flatbread filled with either potatoes or leek (sometimes both). Is served with garlic yogourt to dip

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:03:58 2015 No.6450048 File: 127 KB, 900x675, bolani.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6450043 Here is a picture

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:05:55 2015 No.6450060 >>6449956 That's a beef kebab

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:07:50 2015 No.6450067 File: 210 KB, 1024x682, DSC09010-1024x682.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6450023 have you had this, it's like mantu but it's filled with leeks, topped with watery yogurt, lentils and ground beef in some sauce, it's called 'ashak'

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:11:51 2015 No.6450080 >>6450067 >>6450067 Yes, it's really good. Leek is also a really common staple of Afghanistan. It's eaten along side food as well as radishes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:15:52 2015 No.6450094 >>6450067 That looks unreasonably labor intensive.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:19:24 2015 No.6450101

>>6450094
depends if you make the wrapping handmade or store bought

either way, the actual wrapping portion of it is not that hard at all. a group of women get together and just wrap a shit ton of 'em for a couple hours and then have a huge feast for the 5+ families that they're feeding

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:21:43 2015 No.6450105

>>6450101
Oh I guess they would have stores in Afghanistan. I just sort of imagine it as a blown out bunch of craters and child rape victims, and stuff like that being hand made because teenaged girls have nothing else to do when they're not getting sexually assaulted by their 80 year old husbands before dying in childbirth.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:22:15 2015 No.6450107

>>6450094
they're pretty simply to make, just fill up the dumplings with green onion and leek, the lentils are easily made as well as the sauce, same with yogurt and the meat
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/afghan-dumplings-beef-sauce-and-garlic-yoghurt-ashak

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:23:13 2015 No.6450111 >>6450105 Alright

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:26:34 2015 No.6450116 We have a couple Afghan places in DC. I love them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:35:29 2015 No.6450141 >>6447941 > He doesn't know bread and rice based Middle Eastern to Central Asian food is god tier

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 21:54:13 2015 No.6450170 >>6448006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbos#Cuisine

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:08:25 2015 No.6450190

>>6443949
>And don't make me laugh and claim that Iranian food derives from Indian.
They're the two oldest nations in terms of trade with each other though. So they already share a lot of culture especially the culture from before Islamification. As a matter of fact the second largest population of Zoroastrians is in India. You'd probably get some parsi dishes in India that are so authentic that they don't even exist in Iran anymore.

Since Afghanistan draws from Indian and Persian it's going to be pretty similar to both.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:11:29 2015 No.6450193 >>6450190 there's nothing indian about afghan cuisine, and whatever persian there is in afghan cuisine is because 1/3 of the country are persians

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:21:34 2015 No.6450210

>>6450193
Naan is pretty common in both India and Afghanistan. They use eggplant which is native to India and China and been used in Indian food for long enough to be mentioned in the Vedas. They got pumkins via India. Their use of yogurt in food is also more Indian than Iranian.

India gets basically all their nuts and dried fruits from Afghanistan and before partition the two countries shared a border. You're deluded of you think that the two cuisines haven't influenced each other.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:22:53 2015 No.6450212 >>6449894 >Sikh Punjabi A favorite of mine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:25:07 2015 No.6450214 >>6450210 m8 I know both afghan and indian cuisine and can tell you they're not similar at all afghan cuisine is mainly persian (by way of the tajik persians in afghanistan) and uzbek/turkmen (by way of uzbeks/turkmen in afghanistan)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:26:07 2015 No.6450217 >>6450210 also, naan is common in central asia and iran as well, and afghanistan's naan is a lot more similar to those

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:30:52 2015 No.6450225 >>6445399 I think Taiwanese food doesn't get ignored so much as it just gets lumped in as part of Chinese cuisine.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:32:33 2015 No.6450227

>>6450214
Well I know both cuisines as well and have spent time in India and I'm saying they're similar. I even gave you specific examples. There are so many Persian words in the Hindi vernacular as it relates to food you'd be very stubborn to think that these two nations didn't influence each other's cuisine. You'd be very, very stubborn to think that both didn't influence Afghani.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:32:58 2015 No.6450228 >>6450210 india is fucking roti and shit not naan

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:36:45 2015 No.6450241

>>6450227
not him and first post ITT, I'm from afghanistan, afghan food is not similar to indian at all aside from the rice (both use long grain rice) and perhaps daal - I prefer indian/paki food though.

and as >>6450214 said, the influence is native to the region anyway

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:38:28 2015 No.6450248

>>6450228
Umm every single north Indian restaurant, dhaba and everything in between serves naan. Naan outsells rotis and rice by factors of magnitude in North India.

There are naans all across asia but tandoori naan is pretty much Indian. The reason you won't find tandoori naan in most households is because you need a fucking tandoor to make it.

Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:42:34 2015 No.6450254

Most african cuisine is really unappreciated.

Ethiopian restaurants are probably the most you'll ever see outside of culture fairs but there's a ton of great dishes who's names are impossible for me to pronounce or remember. Some of the best cooking I've had was at my friend's house who immigrated from Kenya

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:43:16 2015 No.6450258 >>6450254 ethiopain food is shit, somalian food is much better

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:46:32 2015 No.6450266 File: 98 KB, 800x595, one_china.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6450225 >implying they are different countries Go eat your hot dogs, American splittist

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 22:55:32 2015 No.6450281 >>6450258 You just proved my point about edgy people. See >>6444222 And check the double trips while you're at it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 25 23:07:43 2015 No.6450322 >>6450248 google afghan naan and indian naan and tell me they are the same go ahead and do it

>>	Dick Sledge Sun Apr 26 02:55:15 2015 No.6450750 File: 102 KB, 500x638, 1401024169341.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6447012 I'd pay you good money to tell a Persian that they're the same as an Arab.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 03:04:24 2015 No.6450759 >>6450750 what does that have to do with my post?

>>	Dick Sledge Sun Apr 26 03:18:18 2015 No.6450775 >>6450759 I meant their food. I apologize for my misleading words, young ward.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 03:19:44 2015 No.6450777 >>6450775 no shit it's different compared to arab food

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 03:44:32 2015 No.6450822 >>6450750 You're an imbecile. Afghans are not Arab.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 03:54:56 2015 No.6450839 "So that we can be free!"

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 13:55:21 2015 No.6451715

was helping some afghan guy do some job applications in his house and his family insisted on feeding me. They gave me biriyani, naan and some fruit for desert. They were of pashun ethnicity btw. Taked really similar to north indian and pakistani biriyani.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:06:25 2015 No.6451731 >>6444222 >implying So suddenly I'm edgy because I'm Afghan? We're friendly people and have good hospitality

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:09:06 2015 No.6451739 >>6451731 >friendly and hospitable Unless someone draws a picture of Mohammad or chooses to support religious freedom.

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:12:59 2015 No.6451748

>>6451731
Welcome to /ck/, where if you're not white, you're black, if you're not from the upper midwest, you're from the deep south, no one exists on the entire land mass east of the Urals, west of the Pacific, and north of the Indian Ocean, except those in anime, and if you have ever even once eaten food that isn't white bread dipped in ranch dressing, you're a social issues warlord who will stop at nothing short of the complete annihilation of all straight white men.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:15:27 2015 No.6451757 >>6451739 >support religious freedom Like Zoroastrianism? The Taliban wouldn't have gone far if the state wasn't destabilised by a series of foreign interventions.

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:24:37 2015 No.6451778

>>6450190
Except that the exchange is entirely one sided: Farsi loan words, instruments, food, and other cultural elements made it to India after the Persian invasion of India, but as an Iranian I can tell you we have virtually no elements of Indian culture. We have literally no spicy food, and we do to even use curry in Iran.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:26:00 2015 No.6451784 >>6450190 Also Parsi migration to India post dates most culturally formative events in Iran.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 14:28:11 2015 No.6451789 >>6443790 >that Banquet Brown N' Serve breakfast sausage.

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 18:34:53 2015 No.6452409

>>6451757
there were 170,000 zoroastrians in afghanistan in the 1970s, and about 10k jews as well

remind me again which country it was that threw lots of support to pakistan, economic embargo on afghanistan which forced it to turn to the soviet union, ohh right it was the US and the UK, and no no no, it didn't stop there, the US then started having it's #1 ally saudi start spreading wahabbism in the area and started radicalizing the illiterate on top of giving them arms to fight the afghan government being supported by the soviet union

also, US's number 1 ally in the region, pakistan ironically gives heavy support to the taliban, when afghan intelligence knew exactly where osama was hiding in pakistan, they passed that info to the US who did nothing of it, years later osama was found in that exact area near the military base in pakistan being hidden allegedly by the paki military

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 19:19:46 2015 No.6452495 >>6451731 where in afghanistan are you from?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 19:39:02 2015 No.6452530 >>6444222 I have a friend with Iraqi family and she sometimes brings round food they've made. It's good shit dawg

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 20:53:36 2015 No.6452700

>>6443790
Agree, we had a great Afghan place in Seattle back in the late 1990s. It went out of business some time around 9/11, not sure if it was a result of that or what.

>>6444843
>metric fucktonne of Uzbeks
"tonne" is automatically metric; "ton" is imperial units.

You just can't get decent barberries outside of Uzbekistan; they're all hothouse.

>>6447004
>soup called afghan 'aush'
Osh is Persian; the Afghans just borrowed it, sort of like Texican food.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 20:56:42 2015 No.6452709 >>6449863 The Injera alone would be worth it. Where can you get some?

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 21:13:23 2015 No.6452748

>>6452700
>Osh is Persian
except it's not, aush was around in the iranian plateau (iran, afghanistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan) before persians from the fars province of iran even conquered and persianized it, and besides there are persians in afghanistan/tajikistan as well (afghan cuisine is just tajik + uzbek food)

you can't borrow what's native to the land

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 21:13:39 2015 No.6452750 Indonesian food is great. One of the best meals I ever had in my life was a rijstaffel in Amsterdam.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 21:20:39 2015 No.6452768 >>6451778 >after the Persian invasion of India lol, what 'persian' invasion of india? no such thing unless you're referring to the sassanids or achaemenids

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 21:36:51 2015 No.6452812

>>6452700
>"tonne" is automatically metric; "ton" is imperial units.
We're not talking about tonnes nor tons, fucktard. We're talking about fucktonnes.
They come in metric and nonmetric forms. There's also the fuckton which only comes in imperial and customary, but not metric.

The metric fucktonne is equal to 1000 shitloads. A customary fucktonne is equal to just slightly less than that at 987 shitloads. An imperial fucktonne is 1187 shitloads.

Fucktons, on the other hand, are measured by the shitton rather than the shitload. Since I don't understand the customary or imperial standards, I can't tell you how many shittons are in a fuckton, but probably something entirely arbitrary and stupid like eleventytwelveteen or something,.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 21:38:42 2015 No.6452819 >>6452768 Who were Persic peoples.

Anonymous Sun Apr 26 21:42:04 2015 No.6452837

>>6452819
the only invasions india has suffered from it's northern neighbors are

>ghurids
a native pashtun or tajik dynasty from ghor in afghanistan, didn't really bring any culture

>ghaznavids
a half turkic/half persian from ghazni, persianized culture, looters who didn't bring any sort of culture

>mughals
uzbeks who brought the culture of samarkand/bukhara/herat/kabul (which were persian cultures) to the indian heartland - these guys are what's responsible for any sort of persian influence in india

nader shah didn't do much culturally, he wasn't even persian but rather, a turkic afshar who just looted and pillaged

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:25:49 2015 No.6452931 >>6452819 The term you're looking for is Iranic

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:28:24 2015 No.6452939 >>6444222 On that note, what do you think ISIS has been eating lately?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:29:48 2015 No.6452943 >>6452931 I don't own enough scarves to talk about Iranic things, Anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:38:45 2015 No.6452964 File: 2.00 MB, 400x301, Haters Gonna Hate.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6447004 That looks intriguing. I can't help but think the noodles wouldn't go well in that though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:48:48 2015 No.6452997 File: 528 KB, 214x260, ZjvZCfh.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6452964 Is there a library of these somewhere? They reliably give me the heebie-jeebies.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:52:23 2015 No.6453008 File: 171 KB, 1400x601, C1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6452997

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 22:52:50 2015 No.6453010 >>6453008 Not the same when it's not animated.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 23:03:00 2015 No.6453044 File: 29 KB, 640x353, molecule-imaged-for-the-first-time-640x353.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6453010 still pretty cool. also just go to youtube and search for molecular machines are something

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 23:10:29 2015 No.6453061 >>6452997 That particular gif is from a harvard or princeton movie set to awful music. Reverse search might get it to you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 26 23:21:13 2015 No.6453082 >>6451778 The entire number system. Food items like eggplant. Spices like coriander, black pepper and cardamom. Buddhism. Astronomy. Metallurgy. Even fucking elephants to fight wars.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 27 16:25:52 2015 No.6455001 >>6452939 shawarmas

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