To ask what your most/least favourite cuisine is and why?

Favourite= Lebanese because I love all the ingredients such as aubergine, yogurt and chick peas
Least Favourite- Chinese - I get bored of it vety quickly

Love Chinese, Greek, Moroccan
Hates chips, mash or any type of potato so most British food
No keen on Italian, mainly pizza but going out to pay for pasta seems daft

My oldest daughter went to Cambridge (gotta do the humble brag wherever I can) but the very first thing i did when she was accepted was go on trip advisor to see what restaurants I could go to when I visited 🤣

And then COVID happened and she hated it and I didn't get to try anywhere.

She went to Canterbury and is now a Sen teacher and I've eaten loads there and I love it so all's well that ends well! I want to move there too!

There's a new restaurant called salt that's on my demand list for next months visit 🤣

I believe I've gone off a tangent, sorry.

So glad I'm not alone with the lemongrass hate! Utterly vile stuff.

I don't really have a disliked cuisine per se. More specific flavours (the afore mentioned lemongrass, as well as pine nuts, coffee and olives) that I would avoid, but there's usually enough variety within any particular cuisine itself I could avoid them. Also octopus, squid, mussels, oysters, and prawns. Blech. I guess the hardest hit would be Greek and Spanish as a result, but I do love a good gyro and paella.

As for favourite cuisines I love: Mexican, Japanese, English, Italian, and Indian. I would include Chinese, but I get the feeling takeaways don't really mirror true Chinese cuisine. If it counts, I would also include Texas BBQ. It's so very bad for you, but it tastes sooooo good.

There's probably a good reason I'm so fat.

I love Thai, Chinese and Indian. My least favourite is Italian. I’m not keen on pasta and pizza.

Favourite- Japanese
Lear favourite- probably the worst food I’ve ever eaten was backpacking in Mexico. I know Mexican food can be wonderful but this was mainly boiled meat with tubes and brown slop.

Oh god this is me. I read recipe books like novels. I watch every programme going. We go on holiday to places we dont know purely because we want to try new foods, restaurants. I put more effort into restaurant and food place choices than my actual job! Love the history of food, love the combinations and similarities with different nations cuisines, there is so much shared and so much different.

I love lots of food but my favourites are Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese, Italian and Indian (not curry house style Indian although that’s ok).

I like most things but not a fan of British Chinese takeaway. I do like more authentic Chinese dishes but haven’t had loads as don’t eat meat! Also wasn’t a fan of Persian when I had it but again not eating meat probably limits that so not a fair representation.

Same!

Good username!

I think I subconsciously turned food into a hobby so I'd eat more of it. And dear god it worked. I love the history behind food too. All of it. Techniques, crop growing traditions, preparation methods. It makes me happy.

Love East / South East Asian food and Levantine.

I was vegetarian for a long time and a lot of Middle Eastern food is veggie by default, so an easy choice.

I like Italian food, but I wouldn't choose it to eat out, because I'm a very good cook and can make most Italian dishes at home. The exception would be a restaurant serving fresh, hand-made pasta or similar (a faff I can't be bothered with).

@CoffeeCantata

Thai.
This probably makes me unique. But that smell of lemongrass, ginger, garlic and coconut makes me retch

Nope, I'm exactly the same.

I'm not a fussy eater by any stretch of the imagination, and I don't mind garlic or ginger, but the taste of lemongrass immediately provokes a gag reaction from me so I avoid Thai completely.

Anything else I'm fine with. Love Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Italian, just anything with lemongrass is a total no. A friend brought back a holiday gift of lemongrass chocolates. Vile, had to bin them after one bite.

Let down in the main course???

Waterzooi, ever had that? gorgeous, had it on a cold winters day in Bruges far out of town, it was rabbit but we made it with chicken when we got home
Austria, fantastic cheesy noodle type things, gorgeous
Any country which celebrates the cabbage and preserved meats also get my votes

Well most food gets my votes. I could talk about food all day long.

Least favourite - fast food, so cheap burgers, pizza, kebabs, nuggets etc.

Love Japanese, Lebanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, French, Greek, Caribbean, Ethiopian - all the foods!

Hate cheap Chinese takeaway food.

I have never met a foodstuff or cuisine I dont like (although see below). I would say overall I am not overly keen on chinese food and thats because I dont like chinese 5 spice as a flavour. However I wouldnt say I actively dislike it, its just not my favourite

There are a few things I dont like, liver, kidneys, trout, beetroot, some blue cheeses, tripe

I cant actually think of anything else I dont like.

Its a problem!!!

I love Indian and Italian

Hate Thai and Japanese

Chinese would be least favourite as I'm veggie and the available options tend to seem like afterthoughts or side dishes.

Hard to pick a favourite though! Indian, Japanese and Thai would all be up there.

My favourite is probably English food. Done well I absolutely love it.

I like all other cuisines equally, with the exception of Thai and middle eastern. I despise lemongrass and I'm not keen on sumac/za'atar.

Favourite probably would be Iberian as a whole/Mediterranean. You just never get tired of it and it relies mostly on good products to begin with.

The further north we go, the less I like it. Nordic food just seems… eh.

I think we can find goods bits on every cuisine though. Even British food I think it has an undeserved bad rep now that I’ve been here for a while - I don’t think traditional food is the problem, modern day consumption is (takeaways, ready meals and so on).

Same!

My least favourite though is probably Italian, I view pizza and pasta as a “can’t be arsed” kind of meal, although obviously I’m not making it properly. It just doesn’t feel like a treat.

I’ve never really had Thai or Japanese, just doesn’t appeal to me.

I do love Indian. Also lived in Italy as a child so have a nostalgia for Italian food.

I personally don’t like the Thai food I have had; I don’t like seafood, soy gives me an upset stomach and lemongrass/coriander/coconut milk combination are the only flavours/smells that seem to trigger a migraine.

I do love most Indian food that I’ve tried, I could probably live on Dahl and roti alone and be very happy.

Love Indian, Sri Lankan, Thai, Malaysian, Italian, Middle Eastern and Mexican. Recently went to a Peruvian restaurant the food was fantastic

not so keen on Chinese (or what we tend to get in restaurants, and I don’t mind Japanese but dislike sushi. I prefer stronger flavours in food,

love burger or steak and chips too

I love nearly everything.

Which is a bit weird as I had that avoidance thing growing up due to neurodiverence. I would only eat fruit, veg and meat or fish that I could recognise as them and I only drank water or lemonade (you can see through it). I refused nuggets, chips and coke, abhored chocolate! I was desperately underweight til I got pregnant and had a dietician. And then I discovered fat goes really well with fresh produce. They started me with avocado and peanut butter.

I still like really fresh food, mexican (crema!), Japanese(mayo, ramen broth) middle eastern (hummus, tsatsiki!). But I also love a stew or hot pot. From anywhere. And I really really fell in love with hot dogs when I went to Germany, and America does stuff like that so well! And i like chips now as long as there's cheese on them, or they come with a really good dip. Italian is also a firm favourite. I love the freshness of thai.

I wouldn't eat tripe and I'm funny about shellfish, but they're not really cuisines. So I think I like everywhere that I've tried.

Now I'm hungry.

Favorite is Italian.

most hated is Indian. It made me sick for years and I never understood why. It finally got to the point I refused to go to lunch with coworkers at the local beloved by everyone else restaurant. Once my allergies got severe enough to be diagnosed I figured it out. It’s because so many of the dishes contain things I’m allergic to now. I was having mild reactions and just didn’t realize what was happening.

Starters
Veg samosas with tamarind and mint sauce. Fried but they don't have to be greasy if they're fried well.
Dhokla - steamed sour and very mild gram flour cake with hardly any oil.
Main course
I do a really nice Bengali dry potato curry with mustard seeds.
Channa - chickpea, tomato and onion. The sauce isn't oily.
Chapati - done with almost no oil
Pudding
Pistachio kulfi - Indian ice cream with cardamom