Your favorite food from other countries -

[Rokko]

So i have a habit of spending money on food from other countries. When I was very young and watched the Ghostbusters movie. Egon uses a twinkie to explain some paranormal stuff. In the german version it is called a small cream-cake, or sahnetörtchen. Thus my quest to find that special piece of candy started. My mother went to bakeries to find these kind of cake, but without success.

Aprox. 20 years later I found out about twinkies. I watched the english version of ghostbuster before but paid no attention to that. Unfortunately twinkies were not available in germany.

Again a couple of years later, and after being influnenced by hollywood and product placement i googled all of my favorite us-food. I found several shops that sold twinkies and was happy!

So I always pay around 10-13 Dollars for a 10-pack of twinkies, just fyi.

Recently I spent around 400 Euro for american food, wich is horrible expensive here.

My favorites, US:

Sweet Baby Ray´s BBQ Sauce.
Cool aid (without valium)
Shake and Bake - Incredible nice, nothing similar in germany available...
There is this mix of pretzels, chips, nuts etc. It was once mentioned on Family Guy. Tex mex? I forgot the name, but I never had perfect stuff like that again.

UK/Scotland:

Pork Scratchings
Fray bentos pies!
PG Tips (you hate me for that, I know)

What are your favorites?

 

[Wärring Ornac]

Most variant of Martabak

Except Indonesian's "Sweet Martabak". That's not a Martabak, that's a flipped pancake!

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Knusperfloecken. Old DDR chocolate drops with grains of wholemeal cracker in them. I could eat a metric shitton in one sitting, they're addictive. I dunno if they're still made, but they were still available in the early 2000s at least.

Baklava. Layered filo pastry, honey and pistachio or walnut dessert from the Balkans, Greece, Turkey.

I had some sort of pancake roll thing in Croatia, filled with curd cheese and sugar, and it was utterly amazing. God knows what the name was, but my friend's grandmother made them and they were amazing. Each roll started off with a ball of pastry that this woman rolled out until it quite literally covered the kitchen table. Almost tissue thin. Then it was folded, filling added, folded again and baked (I think baked?). Apparently you can fill these rolls with just about anything, but as they had a load of curd cheese around at the time that's what was put into them. On other occasions filling had been apples and spice, pork, or lamb.

No-one does pancakes like Russians. Pancakes in butter week (the week before lent) equals heaven.

Wafers from the Czech Republic. They're kinda pale brown, with a bunch of different fillings and coatings. In the UK wafers are kinda relegated to occasional fare for kids' parties, and are usually bright pink and flavourless, but the Czech ones seem to be an entire confectionery branch of their own. I had one that was almost the size of a dinnerplate, filled with hazelnut paste and chocolate.

Memory fails me as to where, but somewhere not far outside Zagreb was a baker and confectioner that made chestnut puddings, with fresh cream and nuts. The queue would be literally out of the door for these things when they were freshly made. We drove right across Zagreb to get them, and it was well worth the journey. I'd kill for a recipe for that pudding.

 

[Rokko]

Knusperfloecken. Old DDR chocolate drops with grains of wholemeal cracker in them. I could eat a metric shitton in one sitting, they're addictive. I dunno if they're still made, but they were still available in the early 2000s at least.

Baklava. Layered filo pastry, honey and pistachio or walnut dessert from the Balkans, Greece, Turkey.

I had some sort of pancake roll thing in Croatia, filled with curd cheese and sugar, and it was utterly amazing. God knows what the name was, but my friend's grandmother made them and they were amazing. Each roll started off with a ball of pastry that this woman rolled out until it quite literally covered the kitchen table. Almost tissue thin. Then it was folded, filling added, folded again and baked (I think baked?). Apparently you can fill these rolls with just about anything, but as they had a load of curd cheese around at the time that's what was put into them. On other occasions filling had been apples and spice, pork, or lamb.

No-one does pancakes like Russians. Pancakes in butter week (the week before lent) equals heaven.

Wafers from the Czech Republic. They're kinda pale brown, with a bunch of different fillings and coatings. In the UK wafers are kinda relegated to occasional fare for kids' parties, and are usually bright pink and flavourless, but the Czech ones seem to be an entire confectionery branch of their own. I had one that was almost the size of a dinnerplate, filled with hazelnut paste and chocolate.

Memory fails me as to where, but somewhere not far outside Zagreb was a baker and confectioner that made chestnut puddings, with fresh cream and nuts. The queue would be literally out of the door for these things when they were freshly made. We drove right across Zagreb to get them, and it was well worth the journey. I'd kill for a recipe for that pudding.

I know Knusperflocken! Incredible delicious! And Baklava is something I forgot to mention. You can buy it everywhere here, and seriously, its addictive.
I never knew about east european pancake and wafer stuff. Ill give it a try!

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Indomie Mi Goreng fried noodles - BBQ chicken flavor
Pearl River Bridge soy sauces
Tiparos fish sauce
sausages from the British Isles
real Parma prosciutto, Italian and Spanish hard cheeses
Spanish angulas

I used to keep an eye out for Aussie lamb but I find I enjoy American lamb more these days.

You obviously don't import bread, but Portuguese papo secos are the bomb.

 

[Rokko]

Indomie Mi Goreng fried noodles - BBQ chicken flavor
Pearl River Bridge soy sauces
Tiparos fish sauce
sausages from the British Isles
real Parma prosciutto, Italian and Spanish hard cheeses
Spanish angulas

I used to keep an eye out for Aussie lamb but I find I enjoy American lamb more these days.

You obviously don't import bread, but Portuguese papo secos are the bomb.

TBH bread is nearly perfect here if I can say that.
I visited the uk a couple of times, in cambridge I had the traditional breakfast with sausage, fried tomatoe, beans etc. I simply love that.
With my recent order I got "ye olde oak hot dogs" which i have not tried yet. Amazon reviews describe them as horrible. But I dont care!
What sausages from the isles do you like?
Do you like angulas? We have plenty here, but I never tried it tbh.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

What sausages from the isles do you like?

I like the breakfast style ones, though the big fuckers have the same flavor for the most part.

Do you like angulas? We have plenty here, but I never tried it tbh.

I guess it's a snob thing these days, with them being overfished to scarcity. I first had them back in the 90s in Bilbao and enjoyed them. I've had them in the US a couple times but it's never really the same. These days, they are more expensive than cocaine, which seems silly for a slightly fishy bean sprout.

 

[ES 148]

Sauerkraut

 

[Rokko]

Sauerkraut

I second that, of course. With bacon absolutely delicious and healthy. We even have sauerkraut pills:

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

Jaffa cakes

 

[AnOminous]

Massaman curry.

In ingredients: kombu, wakame, bonito flakes, miso.

 

[Forever Train Engineer]

Greek Feta Cheese
Japanese Famine drinks
Korean BBQ Chips, and Irish Garlic cheese potato chips
Greek lemonade drink, I think it was simply called "juice."
Australian cherry licorice candy
Ice cream mochis
Stroganoff

There was this other Slavic recipe I make every now, and then, its my absolute favorite, its pork and carrots with rice. I'll post the recipe if you guys ask.

 

[Rokko]

its pork and carrots with rice. I'll post the recipe if you guys ask.

Yes please!! Though we have recipe thread. Anyway I´d love to hear it!

 

[Forever Train Engineer]

Yes please!! Though we have recipe thread. Anyway I´d love to hear it!

Its a very basic meal, designed to be cheap, the original recipe called for minced meat, but since that is unavailable in the country I live, you can make the meal with any kind of meat, or with potatoes if you are a vegetarian.

You first want to cup up about 4 or 5 large carrots, and 4 porkchops, then you need to boil about 1 1/2 of water in a small, or medium saucepan, then youll want to wait for the water to boil, then add 1 cup of white rice to the water, set to medium heat to simmer for 15 minutes. Immediately after you set the time to cook the rice, you should get to work adding the carrots an pork chops into a large pan, cook the carrots until they're soft, and the pork chops until theyre completely white. When the rice is done cooking, add the cooked rice to the pan with the pork chops and carrots. Add salt, pepper, and 2 bay leafs, mix them all together, and youre done.

Quote me if you think I made any measuring errors, or anything else, I'm still an amateur chef.

Though we have recipe thread.

Eh, I'll post it later on there.

 

[pozilei]

Stroganoff

It's so fucking tasty.

I do love a lot of Eastern European food (Lecsó, langos, goulash, cevapcici etc) but it doesn't really feel foreign to me because it's stuff from just around the corner.

Regarding OPs interest of trying certain foods: I was kinda obsessed with British food for a while and trying Brown Sauce in particular. Not sure why. After years of searching for it I finally found a bottle and was gravely disappointed. Not sure what I was expecting

 

[d12]

There's this NZ chocolate bar called 'Flake' made by Cadbury that I am absolutely enamored with. The chocolate melts in your mouth no joke. It is absolutely delicious, miles ahead of anything Hershey's can produce but since I live across the Pacific it's like some ridiculous price to ship over. Every time someone I know even looks at NZ I ask them to get a couple boxes for me.

 

[ATaxingWoman]

This thread is making me incredibly hungry ...

Blynai (Lithuania)
Langos (Hungary)
Ramen (Japan)
Bibimbap (Korea)
Borshch (Russia)
Baklava (Turkey etc)
Prosciutto (Italy)
Börek (Balkan etc)
Peking duck (China)
Bánh Xèo (Vietnam)
Raclette (Switzerland)
Currywurst (Germany)
Quesadilla (Mexico)
'Murican pancakes (United States)
Merguez (Algeria)
Kibbeh (Lebanon)

 

[Hakurei Zero]

Kinder Schoko Bons are one of my favorite. The chocolate shell, coupled with the hazelnut filling, just melts in your mouth.

 

[Judge Holden]

Well the most obvious one is my single most favourite food in the whole world.

Jambalaya. Closely followed by a bunch more Creole and Cajun dishes including Gumbo and Etouffee. I really do love the spice palate and the meat/seafood/veg combinations, and will cook up a batch of jambalaya at any excuse

However a fairly close second would be the Etheopean Doro Wat, which I would describe as a very onion heavy curry with a pretty unique flavour/spice palate (with the red berbere and mead used in the cooking, and a sauce literally made of finely minced onions cooked down to perfection) with chicken and hard boiled eggs.

If i could recommend any basic food from the UK for amerimutts here to try their hand at cooking I would suggest Scotch Eggs and/or sausage rolls. Easy to make, and really fucking satisfying

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Sashimi and most sushi meals.