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What’s the best regional cuisine?

• Loughla 3y ago
  Midwest, but specifically the cuisine of German/Irish immigrants from the early 1900's who were already poor when the great depression hit. The middle of Illinois, North Missouri, parts of Iowa, Indiana, and Wisconsin is where to find it. Hearty fall dishes full of fat, flavor, and the feeling of being home. Light summer dishes with local and wild greens. Not the "regular" fried midwest foods, but dumplings, ox-tail soup, cabbage soup, so many beans, so much pork belly, cattail flour flatbread, fresh watercress and mustard greens; those sorts of things.
• tomcam 3y ago
  Szechuan
  • thaumasiotes 3y ago
    Of Chinese regional cuisine, I actually favor Xinjiang, though that is in large part because the need to be halal prevents them from serving pork. Xinjiang cuisine also avoids the slimy glop coating that is so common in ethnic Chinese cuisine. [A problem that gets much worse if you have food delivered - the food doesn't get drained, and it's packed into delivery containers pretty tightly, so your food arrives bathing in a deep sea of sauce that would have, if served on a plate, fallen below the actual food.] My second choice would be Hunan food.
    • selimthegrim 3y ago
      If you ever go by Rosemead, CA I highly recommend the China Islamic restaurant there.