item 1. WORLD CUISINE WORLD CUP.

[luka]

sixth place FRANCE
fifth place VIETNAM
forth place LEBANON
third place ITALY
second place THAILAND
first place INDIA

thats horribly unfair but i cant b botheered shuffling them around. france has incredible cheese. this is all coloured by my lifelong vegetarianism too. its also horribly unfiar to china but the thing about china is as well as amazing food they have some of th nastiest things anyones ever put in their mouth. japan is the only country ive never eaeten a single bad meal though so they must be top ten easy. i will do a revisd list on th off chance that this thread takes off.

 

[BareBones]

i don't get how this is a world cup - you've got to put them in groups and stuff and do quarter-/semi-finals and everything. this is just a list!

edit: i do pretty much agree with you though. china wouldn't be anywhere near for me, i cannot stand chinese food

 

[baboon2004]

brilliant thread idea. have often discussed this with friends.

Lebanon/Syria definitely worth a place at the top table - good call. I'd go with:

1/Japan
2/Georgia/Russia
3/France
4/Lebanon/Syria/Turkey (seems to me to be a lot of crossover in my experience betwen these cuisines)
5/China
6/Iran
7/India (prob should be higher, I know)

 

[luka]

barebones im sure you are right and i will not object if you orgnaise it. just dont expect me to do it. i could maybe stretch to a poll if we can establish a shortlist.

 

[luka]

substitute levant for lebanon if you want i guess. i think lebanon is acknowledged as the big boy but as you say its all much of a muchness. i hav no idea what russians eat. borsch and what? you look a bit russian.

 

[BareBones]

yeah no sorry luka i can't really be bothered either, i'm just being an awful pedant

 

[Slothrop]

I've had really good chinese food very occasionally and it's been amazing but I'm tempted to knock them out in qualifying because almost all chinese restaurants in the UK are so awful. I mean, most indian restaurants in the UK are awful but if you go to Tooting or Bradford you get proper ones that are good, most kebab shops are awful but if you go to North London you get proper ockabashi that are good whereas even chinese immigrants / expats in the UK seem to eat boring bland mush when they go out.

I don't understand this phenomenon.

Following that logic through I guess I'd have to lose Britain as well. Loads of amazing stuff if it's done well, fantastic range of ingredients, traditional recipes etc at least as good as Italy if it's done well but it almost never is.

 

[hucks]

1/Japan
2/Georgia/Russia
3/France
4/Lebanon/Syria/Turkey (seems to me to be a lot of crossover in my experience betwen these cuisines)
5/China
6/Iran
7/India (prob should be higher, I know)

You can't have Georgia/ Russia! That's like having, erm, hang on....Jamaica/ UK. OK it's not.

But Georgian food is lovely and Russian food is crap. Dill with everything. Gah.

 

[BareBones]

In the final for me would be Italy vs. Greece/Turkey/Lebanon (i'm a food philistine i think and i can't really tell the difference between these three)

India narrowly being knocked out in the semis and winning the 3rd place play-off against Thailand

 

[luka]

im not sure greece gets to be part of the levant does it? feta cheese is nice tho....
always thought greece was fairly different, and worse actually.... whats moussaka? ive never eaten it but i hate the name. it sounds disgusting. yuck. ouzo, fucking disgusting, always someone would have to steal it from their parent liqour cabinet. is that greek?? i hate it.

 

[baboon2004]

You can't have Georgia/ Russia! That's like having, erm, hang on....Jamaica/ UK. OK it's not.

But Georgian food is lovely and Russian food is crap. Dill with everything. Gah.

Nah, it's great. Moscow and St Petersburg were two of the best places I've ever eaten. Though much of it was Georgian, hence the conflation in my mind....

 

[baboon2004]

substitute levant for lebanon if you want i guess. i think lebanon is acknowledged as the big boy but as you say its all much of a muchness. i hav no idea what russians eat. borsch and what? you look a bit russian.

i've been told I look French a lot before. And eastern European, though not speciifcally Russian. I shall treasure that.

Food in Lebanon itself was surprsingly disappointing I found. Syria was much better, thoguht that's just proabbly luck of the draw

 

[luka]

WHAT DO THEY EAT?

 

[baboon2004]

In lebanon - stuff liek in leb restaurants in london, but i'v ehad better in west london to be honest. syrian similar, but more fruit (or so i found anyway), and slightly better, but that's only a selection of restaurnats anyways. i'll bet the home cooking is awesome.

 

[luka]

im talking about the russians. i know what the lebanese eat. i eat lebanese food every week made by lebanese people and i work for a lebanese family. i have no ida what russians eta besides beetroot soup

 

[baboon2004]

im talking about the russians. i know what the lebanese eat. i eat lebanese food every week made by lebanese people and i work for a lebanese family. i have no ida what russians eta besides beetroot soup

ah, i see. what do you do for said lebanese family?

georgian food - best thing is walnut and garlic paste inside fried strips of aubergine - amazing. caviar, obviously. lots of nice stews. horse, i think.

fact: 'bistro' is Russian for 'quickly', ors oemthing. Form the Russian conquest of Paris in the 19th century, and hurrying up waiters.

 

[luka]

i make coffee.

 

[hucks]

Nah, it's great. Moscow and St Petersburg were two of the best places I've ever eaten. Though much of it was Georgian, hence the conflation in my mind....

Yeah, Georgian, Armenian, proably Uzbeki or whatever - all great. Russian food itself is awful, tho. I spent a year there as a student and mainly ate in McDonalds cos evertyhing else was so greay and bland. Also McDonald's had clean toilets.

 

[baboon2004]

i make coffee.

ah yeah, knew that, didn't realise it was a Lebanese place though

 

[luka]

its not