What types of cuisine do you think are underrated? For me, Puerto Rican food is better than almost every other Latin American food besides Mexican

>>21430121 (OP)
American cuisine is the best and I'm tired of people pretending otherwise

That looks like fancy Puerto Rican food. Every PR restaurant I've been to is a hole in the wall that sells all kinds of delicious fried things from a glass case on the counter to go with the rice and beans and mofongo.

>>21430129
America is essentially multiple countries in one country so you're gonna have to be more specific. Are you talking about BBQ? Tex-Mex? Italian-American? New England cuisine?

>>21430121 (OP)
I had Koshari once and it was delicious. Never really hear people talk about Egyptian food

>>21430167
It's an Egyptian garbage plate.

>>21430173
I live on the complete opposite side of the country but i would fly out to Rochester just to try a garbage plate at least once in my lifetime. I would get very drunk and high before of course

I think Indonesian is underrated. Especially because many of the favourite dishes in other SE Asian cuisines originated in Indonesia, but they don't get the credit! They get overshadowed by Thai and even Malaysia.
Taste Atlas ranks Indonesia #7 in their top cuisines of the world 2025. The highest ranking Asian country, and above French cuisine. So maybe things are changing

>>21430190
Number one is Greek btw...
https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines

>>21430190
Turkish Cuisine also gets overshadowed by Ethiopian and Moroccan (at least where i live in the states). There's nowhere near me that serves lahmacun and i'm starting to think i might just have to go to Turkey to have it

>>21430195
just make your own, my mother fakes it with a tortilla. of course it's not the same but it's close enough

>>21430195
Lamadjinns are Aremenian

>>21430195
>the states
which states?

>>21430138
You can make that argument about all the countries most renowned for food. China, Mexico, France, Italy, Nigeria, Vietnam, and India certainly. Perhaps you could argue some middle eastern cuisines are "unique," but they all seem like variations on the same themes which is a detriment.
Japan and Argentina perhaps might be the only countries with a distinct cuisine where regional variation seems minimal? But I suspect that has much to do with those countries geography.
>>21430195
Turkish is wonderful. Muslim counties in general seem to make great food.

>>21430293
>Japan and Argentina perhaps might be the only countries with a distinct cuisine where regional variation seems minimal

What? Japan and Argentina have extreme regional variation. Muslim food is literally all the same versions of Greek food.

>>21430309
>Muslim food is literally all the same versions of Greek food.
I'll bet this arrogant, dense cunt thinks Muslims eat Greek food because their prophet Muhammad ordered them to do so.
That's not how religion works.

>>21430309
Maybe I am ignorant, but can you walk us through what those regional variations are? I've traveled in Argentina fairly extensively and the variation was minimal.
I know that Japan has claims to "X city has the hyper specialized dish!" but from what I can tell it's fairly samey, really just bragging about making the same dashi everywhere else does but with a different fish as the base. Ive never actually been though.

>>21430121 (OP)
Mexican food is the most overrated shit on this planet

>>21430121 (OP)
I had some pretty good PR skirt steak with this bomb ass chimchurri sauce in FL
i hate bananas but their fried plantains were good too

>>21430309
>>21430329
https://www.maff.go.jp/j/nousin/kouryu/kyodo_ryouri/pdf/english.pdf

>>21430195
It tough to admit considering they almost got our country extinct during the Ottoman empire but Turkish food is amazing.

>>21430321
Stfu abdul.

lebanese

>>21430309
>Muslim food is literally all the same versions of Greek food

More that Mediterranean food has existed since antiquity so it is all basically the same arrangement of ingredients with a few religious exceptions

>>21430121 (OP)
I find that Filipino food ranges from delicious to disgusting but when it's good it's really good

When I lived in Connecticut, there was a Puerto Rican food truck down on Long Wharf and that was where I was introduced to arroz con gandules. So fucking delicious.

Usbek cuisine
Central asia is ignored as hard as scandis but man lamb plov is literally god tier

>>21432189
What are some good examples? It does seem Central Asian cuisine gets ignored

>>21430365
The tex mex you get in fucking Iowa or whatever shithole your from isn't representative of real Mexican food.

>>21434069
YWNBAW

>>21434071
You Will Never Be A Hoagie