Thread 2814150

>take trip to Berlin
>look up things to do
>every video and article says you MUST try the ICONIC currywurst
>day 1 go to a food stand and try it
>it's complete ass
Any other disappointing overhyped cuisine you've tried in the world?

>>2814150 (OP)
Borscht.
I tried it in Poland and I was expecting a lot since its the national dish of Ukraine or whatever, but it really doesn't taste good. It's like warm beet juice, what's the point?
Pic related, it's the borscht

Ramen
It's utter slop, yet weebs rave over Noodles, Japan like it was some amazing gift from heaven.

>>2814150 (OP)
Fish and chips in London, was such utter garbage I didnt eat half of it.

>>2814189
You need to find an actually good fish and chips shop that batters a whole fucking fish filet, something like pic related.
Find some British man in a bar and ask him what the best local fish and chips joint is.

>>2814195
It looked exactly like that, unironically the one of the worst meals Ive had traveling and at an exorbitant price.
>Find some British man
And demand my quid and pence back before asking him where the French resturant is at? You know what, fuck it, I'll just get a flight to Paris and eat there...

One of the best: random cafe in a random suburb of Paris. Would go back just for a food tour.

>>2814195
>>2814189

you know who does good fish and chips? culver's (in springtime)

>>2814150 (OP)
Yeah but curry ketchup is an S tier condiment

>>2814200
what about Long John Silver's?

>>2814153
What in God's name ... no, that's not borsh. Yes, it suppose to have beetroot but also a lot more.

>>2814158
If you didn't like Ramen, you went to the wrong place son.


The correct answer to this question is pizza in Italy. They serve it with the crust soggy, uncut, with crushed tomatoes as sauce and with one blob of mozzarella cheese in the middle and a 3 basil leaves. We tried so many highly rated places in Italy and they were universally terrible. Your average NYC pizza joint shreds any pizza you can get in Italy and it's not even debatable.

>>2814216
>We tried so many highly rated places in Italy and they were universally terrible.
Restaurant ratings (including the Michelin meme) are complete nonsense in genral, but in Italy, they are even more so than any other country I've visited.

Thankfully, most Italians are fully aware of this. Hence, your best bet for finding good food is just asking the locals directly.

>>2814158
Agreed, other noodle-based dishes such as soba, yakisoba, etc. were all superior. Ramen is meh at best.

I was really big on "eating like a local" in every country I visit. But man it was fucking hard in the Netherlands.

>look up iconic Dutch meals
>"omg you HAVE to try the Stamppot!"
>it's literally mashed potatoes & meat
>it's not terrible, but I've already had this
>try other Dutch meals
>it's pretty basic stuff that I've technically already had

I will admit that Dutch cuisine really shines in snacks. Kroketten, bitterballen, stroopwafels, etc., at least it's tasty and more importantly, distinct.

>>2814158
Ramen is Chinese anyway.

>>2814246
You do know BBQ was invented in 1,124,307 BC by M'tugu in what is now South Sudan, right?...

>>2814213
Okay good to know, I won't base my opinion off of that then. I have a Ukrainian interpals friend in Kyiv, I've met up with her in Krakow but one day when things are peaceful I need to go to Kyiv and have her show me real borscht

>>2814247
I don't have a problem with that.

>>2814251
So youre ok with gastro-colonialism and cultural appropriation? Typical urban mono-culture supremacist...

>>2814150 (OP)
I didn't think currywurst itself was bad, I just thought the amount I got for how much I paid was disappointing.

>>2814239
....And that's what everyone always says when you hate the pizza in Italy. "Ask the locals" And so you take a few suggestions from the locals and you end up eating the worst meal of your trip. The locals only eat at the cheapest places because they're all broke. I ate pizza at least10 times in Italy and never had a decent pie until we ate a New York style pizza place in Venice called L'Angelo.

I found the food in Italy very bland. It's probably a great country if you're a picky eater because they're deathly afraid of spice or variety.

>>2814206
do they got the walleye?

>>2814247
There are Americans who will say that BBQ is something like slow cooked pork ribs with a specific sauce, so no it was not created in 124 million BC in Africa.

>>2814282
>There are Americans
...Im gunna stop you right there. I need not comment on why. "Thats not champagne, thats sparkling wine."

Yes, and it was not a warthog, but a pig, so its not BBQ, its intellectual property theft and false advertising.

Im sure its good...whatever it is.

>>2814150 (OP)
>>2814158
>>2814189
shit taste

>>2814150 (OP)
I want some, you just went to a bad place. It's just fries and sausage, but some places still manage to fuck it up. I could eat that all the time

>>2814213
>>2814153
There's two equally popular variants in Poland, barszcz czerwony and barszcz ukraiński. The former is clear fermented beetroot juice and is meant to be eaten with mushroom and cabbage dumplings or a croquette. It's often just drank from a cup along with nibbling the sides.
The latter is the borsh you're thinking of that's a proper soup with loads of chunky vegetables and a dash of cream.

>>2814324
your language needs vowels urgently

>>2814325
>Barshch chervony
Better now?
You want a language that actually hates vowels, look at Czech. Polish just has a shitton of digraphs.

>>2814282
Educate yourself fool. There is literally nothing like this anywhere in Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRHP_5vjfC8

>>2814333
See, those are cows, not aurochs, so it cant be BBQ. Legally its "cooked meat product".

>>2814189
>>2814196
You went to a tourist trap didn't you? Probably frozen chips and overly dense batter. 9/10 a takeaway will give you better, there are very few full on restaurants that'll do a proper fish and chips. There are some gastro-pubs that can do a phenomenal one but they're rare. You've should also try it with salt and malt vinegar.

Find a good takeaway or a place where all the tables have fake plastic gingham "table cloths"

>>2814189
You're not supposed to eat FISH and chips from London.

>>2814333
You were saying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxF-E7tvTQg&t=743s

>>2814347
That's mother fucking Terry Black's son. If you ate it, you'd understand instantly how uninformed you truly are. That fucking beef rib they sell is the best hunk of meat I've ever eaten.

>>2814466
God damn you for whetting my appetite

I had the same experience and also with döner and Vietnamese food
The only good food I had in Berlin was fischbrötchen

>>2814247
Based. Got any good recommendations for restaurants in Juba? Or would you recommmend the more local places out in Bahr el Ghazal?

>>2814508
>The only good food I had in Berlin was fischbrötchen
Oh boy, if you liked fish sandwiches in Berlin, you would probably love Hamburg.

>>2814510
IDK if Namefag ever left Georgia (the country). He was gonna go across Iran to Dubai, but then the war with Israel kicked off, and it's doubtful Iran would take kindly to a retired ZOGbot traipsing across their country and taking selfies at the bombed nuclear sites.
>>2814360
If the fish is undercooked, then it will have a nasty rubbery texture, and the breading will be likewise soggy. I've had some really shitty fries before as well. Mealy, dry and difficult to swallow - like they were cooked a week before being served. I LOVE me a crispy fried fish fillet with properly fatty fish inside, but I had some pretty shitty fish and chips at a Chinese night market in Seremban, Malaysia, served with that disgusting sugar-laden imitation mayonnaise that Asians love. (I've even had an Asian pizza which had entire spoonfuls of the shit smeared across the bread, which was completely white on the bottom. Fucking disgusting.) This is all the fault of the cook, not the fault of the dish.
>>2814466
Nigga, we're here to talk about the worst foods, not the best foods.

>>2814514
Im in Dubai right now. The war added a whole new set of issues to an already issue laden trip, Im not interested in that much risk for such a high cost tour.

>This is all the fault of the cook, not the fault of the dish.
Nigga, we're here to talk about the worst foods, not the best chefs.

>>2814150 (OP)
>go to tourist trap
>”wow the food sucks here”

>>2814150 (OP)
Chinese food. All of it. Oily as shit, protein-free, labor intensive to eat, full of parts of animals we throw straight in the trash.
I love Indian,Thai, Japanese even Ethiopian. Chinese food does not deserve a seat at the table.

>>2814573
>Chinese food does not deserve a seat at the table.
Well, I don't want any food placed on any seats at all. They should be on the table.

>>2814573
>I love indian
We know, ranshit.

>>2814573
Don't forget Filipino food. It is the best in Asia.

>>2814577
That is a retarded statement. Filipino food can't hold a candle to Viet, Jap, Korean, Indian or Thai. It's not even debatable.

>>2814577
>>2814601
I really don't want to be a pessimist, but I gave Filipino food multiple earnest tries, and I just could not like it. The one thing that I even remotely enjoyed was Lumpia, but I doubt you can even call that a purely Filipino dish. Lots of cultures have deep-fried spring rolls.

t. attended a lot of Filipino potlucks and invitations to dinner

>>2814601
>>2814604
Do any of those countries have ube? I don't think so.

>>2814601
>>2814573
Indian food looks the same going in as it does going out. It’s not good, healthy, or even edible in most cases.

>>2814613
>Indian food looks the same going in as it does going out.
That's fine, it's good sloppa

>>2814607
Sorry anon, one ingredient isn't going to negate my typically unsatisfactory experience with Filipino food.

And generally speaking, when I criticize a country's food, their desserts are usually exempt. It's hard to fuck up a small sweet treat.

>>2814613
>if it looks like shit before it turns to shit, it must be shit
Damn, I have to stop eating oatmeal with cinnamon.

>>2814613
This is why Asians cant' stomach peanut butter.

>>2814617
Filipino food is the goyest goyslop of planet earth. Absolute pig swill. I spent a whole evening walking around Manila getting so frustrated once. I had money, I was willing to spend it to eat well. There was nothing. In the end I got American food which was made like if someone had seen a picture of it but never eaten it. Sugary, oily, fried too long. Just throw it out for the rats. Bottom of the world rankings outside Africa.

>>2814620
?
Asians eat all sorts of crap

>>2814623
>outside Africa
I had a dish of dried baby fish with dumplings in Rwanda that literally reminded me of of homecooked meal back home. Simple, not spiced to death, good balance of flavors. Could eat it every day kind or meal.

It was at a locals spot in a small sized town too.

>>2814618
indian food literally has shit in it

>>2815064
Do you want to elaborate on that, or was it just something you wanted to say?

>>2815069
There was some article from the UK stating an indian chef was whipping his ass with his hand and then using the same hand in the food for “natural flavours”. There’s countless other examples of indians eating literal cow shit

I know several people who rave about paella like it's the greatest dish on earth. Tried it in Spain and it was disappointing AF. Not bad, just utterly mid. We tried several different restaurants/varieties and had home cooked paella once. Mediocre all around.

>>2814158
Agree. Ramen can be dressed up to be pretty good. Overall it's not great. I'd rather have any other kind of noodle than ramen.

>>2814150 (OP)
Japanese food is by far the most overhyped. I'm genuinely not sure if it's just because I spend half my time on an anime imageboard but I would be led to believe that it's the greatest cuisine on earth while in reality it's really fucking boring slop.

The only thing that's genuinely good is sushi and it's fucking raw fish on rice lmao.
Everything else is either extremely bland with barely any flavor or deep fried and covered in weird sugary sauces that are not even tasty.
The food in Japan was one of the most forgettable things about the place for me and it got boring after like a week (I stayed in Japan for 2 years for work).

>>2815098
No Japanese BBQ or ShabuShabu? Were you just too poor to have decent food?
Opinion discarded.

Nasi Goreng. It was hyped up a few years ago as this new great big thing. It's literally just fried rice. Not terrible by any means, it just doesn't live up to the hype.

You know that "Place, Japan" soijak meme?
>Fried Rice
>Fried Rice, Indonesia

>>2815100
>shabu shabu
Chinese hotpot is miles better
>Japanese bbq
Korean bbq is miles better

they even serve kimchi in Japanese bbq places in Japan now because they realized how fucking boring their way of serving it is

>>2815098
>raw fish on rice lmao
I would go to the grocery store and buy a filet of salmon and cut it up at home, eat a big ass bowl of sashimi for like $5. Every resturant I went to was mediocre or tasted "commercialized".

One coffee place in Osaka was really nice, fancy imported beans and specialty roasting processes and brewing options.

>>2815106
>Chinese hotpot is miles better
Midwit detected.
Chinese hotpot:
>Here are some raw ingredients. Cook it yourself
>Oh wowee this so much fun!

>>2814150 (OP)
Sachertorte.

They really overhyped this thing. I even made sure to try the "original" Sachertorte at Hotel Sacher in Vienna. Still underwhelming.
Is it really just an average cake, or are there any unofficial versions in independent bakeries that do it better?

>>2815109
>Here are some raw ingredients. Cook it yourself
>Oh wowee this so much fun!
Isn't that every hotpot ever, regardless of country? Why would using pre-cooked ingredients be any better?

>picrel, first image result for shabu shabu

>>2814189
dunno about london or authentic fish n chips but the quality of battered and fried cod you can buy varies a lot from one restaurant to another
>>2814195
>>2814196
its still fast food its not meant to blow your mind

>>2815106
>>2815109
>>2815115
There is no such thing as “Chinese hotpot”. There is Chongqing Hotpot, Beijing Hotpot, Inner Mongolia Hotpot. Beijing Hotpot is just as bland as Japanese hotpot. Therefore you don’t know shit about anything you’re saying if you say Japanese hotpot is worse than Beijing Hotpot

>>2815119
I'm not even arguing about which hotpot is better. I was just asking a question (>>2815115).

>>2814216
>>2814239
had the same experience trying "italian food" in rome. Only the ice cream and coffee were good. The pizza is pretentious slop>>2815098
>>2815098
>>2815100
its overrated because japanese food is just western and chinese food copied and rebranded with japanese names and packaged with a gazillion different animes with girls creaming their pants when trying said "japanese food"

>>2815119
>There is no such thing as American cars! There is Chevy, Ford, Tesla!
Holy midwit!

>>2815117
>its still fast food
Nasi Lemak in Malaysia is something I could eat every breakfast, from practically any stall in the city.

>>2815122
>japanese food is just western
Their pancakes are pretty fire, sometimes its a 2.0, not an imitation.

>>2815120
Sorry my fault. Yes you’re correct. Almost all hotpot style food comes uncooked.

>>2815122
>a tourist going to tourist traps finds food not good
Shocking
>>2815124
You can’t even get your strawman correct. If you’d want to do cars it’d be types of vehicles like cars, trucks, SUVs. Ironically all those companies have more factories outside of the US than inside the US to sell to the US market, so even in your strawman you’re retarded.

>>2815128
Holy midwit....

>>2815133
>Holy midwit....
This.>>2815128
>You can’t even get your strawman correct. If you’d want to do cars it’d be types of vehicles like cars, trucks, SUVs. Ironically all those companies have more factories outside of the US than inside the US to sell to the US market, so even in your strawman you’re retarded.
Hi midwit. People group things. When grouping things, the individual can choose how to group things. I hope this helps. Please feel free to take a screenshot. If you have any questions, I am happy to help.

>>2815119
>>2815128
What disability is this?

>>2814150 (OP)
Spanish paella. Gotta fish out my shrimp and remove the tails. Also tastes like shit

>>2815274
East Asians don't really eat beef that much regularly. Sure they have an interesting way to make BBQ but it's not really a staple diet or part of the culture.
Except for the Mongolians.

Korean BBQ in particular looks fake as fuck, it's a TikTok-tier trend that popped out of nowhere like 20 years ago. They didn't know what beef was before the Korean War. They love spam. Pretending these are BBQ cultures is a massive LARP.

They already have a million other dishes, seafood, kimchi, ramen, broths, soups, fruits, salads, different types of bread, sushi, spring rolls, now they are claiming to be the BBQ masters of the world, it really feels like the East Asians want to monopolize every single consumer trend fuelled by massive shilling on social media and weeaboo fags.

literally
>thing, Japan
or the new one which is
>thing, Korea

>>2815285
Meant for >>2815106

>>2815106
>>2815286
>>2815285
Also
>putting kimchi on the beef
You aren't even tasting the meat that way
What's the point?

>>2815285
nice post schizo. Korean BBQ has hundreds of years of documented history and is what Japanese BBQ is directly based on (Japanese BBQ started from Korean restaurants in Osaka opened during the occupation of Korea by Japan).

>>2814623
Philippines has JollyBee. Nobody else in Asia has anything comparable.

>>2815348
>Jollybee
that's literally goyslop

>>2814158
I used to like ramen but one bowl of ramen is worse than like 5 burgers. It's pure salt and bad carbs.

>>2815351
If you read his statement carefully, you will find that it is completely accurate.
>Nobody else in Asia has anything comparable.
This is 100% true. Nobody else in asia has anything comparable.

This Cult of Passion fellow sounds like the quintessential /trv/ poster: acts exactly like Anthony Bourdain whilst insisting nobody could ever hate him as much as he does. LOL!

>>2815274
>>2815087
I haven't had it but it certainly looks tasty. How does it taste like shit, is it too salty? Rice is hard to fuck up unless they put in too much salt

>>2814269
>Bland
>Muh spice
You're a retarded nigger with a dogshit palate. Opinion discarded

>>2815390
I was a fan in the mid 2000s...now Im the one who would give the worldly advice to him, like a father to a wayward son. Ive been on the road longer, no crew, more existential, more despair, more everything. Living life on an edge beyond the world's, living the one people read books or watch movies about but never expect people to actually live out...and when their own friend or family member does they dont react with positivity....it only reminds them that their failed life was their choice, and every dream they had was within reach but cowardice and apathy kept them in mediocrity.

They love the ideal but hate the actualization...behold, the duality of man.

https://youtu.be/fbE4wBKgEmY

>>2815415
They eat like 3 dishes in Italy. It's noodles with red sauce, or noodles with cheese, or pizza. If you're an autistic man-child, it's a fantastic place to eat. No surprises with noodles and red sauce. Sometimes they get really fancy and add black pepper and a sprig of basil. Sometimes. And they have the worst bread and baked goods I've ever eaten. I bet you like to vacation in Gatlinburg and Disney.

There's just no comparison to French cuisine, Thai, Indian, Vietnamese. The French treat food like an art form.

>>2815415
Imagine seething this much over a sarcastic comment.

>>2815436
La luz extinguido that doesn't have a passport and never left his county detected.
How was your chicken marinara at Pajeets "Si italia"?

>>2815449
you you're a peasants have such thin skin lmao

>>2815432
Sorry, I don't speak English

>>2815457
>Sorry
Oh, you're Canadian. My condolences for your condition.

Im off to go eat breakfast at a Korean inspire pastry shop in Dubai. Having a "우유 케이크". Having two. (I'll eat like four or five, Im an American.)

>>2814150 (OP)
>Any other disappointing overhyped cuisine you've tried in the world?
Specific restaurants moreso than cuisine. I went to Argentina last month and went to a place that's gotten "mentioned in Michelin" (not sure if that's the Bib Gourmand thing or what) called "Nino Gordo" (Fat Baby (male)). It was 2X the price of the most expensive other restaurant that I went to, completely jam-packed, and the food was bottom-tier.

One was some overcooked salmon in a pesto sauce with a bunch of little slices of apple (I think) placed over it in a scale pattern. Underneath was what I thought were scallops but turned out to be cylindrically cut pieces of potatoes. The sauce was flavorless, the scallop was massively overcooked, and the deep bowl it was all served in made it hard to get the food out (the sides of the bowl interfered with gripping anything with the chopsticks). I get it, Michelin places pay attention to their presentation, and yeah it was "artistically" presented, but FFS you're supposed to make it taste fabulous too.

I got a second dish, and it was not much more than a slab of barely-seared veal between two slices of Texas Toast. The veal itself was good, but there was twice as much bread by volume as there was meat, and the bread was flavorless.

Total amount of food was barely enough for a meal, forget about feeling satiated. Cost was around US$80 for the "experience".

>>2814150 (OP)
I guess in "cuisine" terms, probably Taiwanese beef noodle soup. Also Taiwanese "lu rou fan" (braised pork rice). And pretty much anything else Taiwanese for that matter.

The beef noodle soup is just your basic beef noodle soup. Beef broth, soba noodles, and the cheapest shit-tier beef heel meat sliced across the grain so that it's not impossible to chew. Throw on some scallions and maybe some spicy oil, wa-la. I mean, it's beef noodle soup, what more can you really say about it? But people go around raving about this basic stuff.

And as far as the braised pork rice, it's some plain white rice with some pork grease slopped over it, maybe a few little bits of meat that somehow disintegrated into the pan of grease while you were frying it up to render, and then the really fancy places will -- get this! -- put a hard-boiled egg on top. Whole, not sliced up or diced or anything, you just get a shelled hard-boiled egg sitting on top for your actual protein content. I guess they cook the pork grease with some spices so it tastes like something Chinese. Such wow, much oriental cuisine.

Give me a nice General Tso's Chicken (invented by a Taiwanese IN CANADA because nobody in Taiwan could afford the actual chicken meat at the time) any day.

>>2815464
>Korean inspire pastry shop
Oh no! Its not Korean [arsenic-coughs] its Chinese [cadmium-groans]!

>>2815449
People who love Italian food are on the same tier as preschoolers who only eat dino tendies and fries. I was shocked at how dull and uninspired Italian food was. Your average dish had 2-3 ingredients at the most. They have this fear of mixing things. "NO! You can't put garlic and onion in the same dish!!!" There's no adventure in Italian food, no mystery. It's like marrying the girl you dated in high school.

>>2815496
Dude, you need to go to better restaurants. Domino's Pizza doesn't count as Italian food.

>>2815411
It’s just mediocre. Not nearly as much flavor as you expect. Spanish food is bland all around

>>2814158
>>2814216
>>2814573
>>2815436
>>2815496
tastelets

>>2814466
>central TX bbq
based
>beef rib instead of brisket
unbased

>>2814189
Unfortunately I found the food in London to be incredibly mediocre. Not bad, mind you, just not good. It's worse than pretty much any other big city I've been to, and a far cry from somewhere like NYC. I even have friends that had lived in London for many years when I visited, so it's not like I was just going to random spots and getting unlucky. I'd bet there are better chippies somewhere near the coast.

>>2815490
>cheapest shit-tier beef heel meat
Not in my experience. 120 TWD for a bowl in multiple Taiwanese cities included pieces of the best beef I've eaten in Asia. The broth and noodles, meh. Taiwanese food all has that same teriyaki onions sauce flavor, it gets tiring after a while. In general I've been disappointed by Chinese food. They love serving low-effort slop that has very little depth of flavor beyond onions and umami.

I like fatty, flavorful chunks of pot-roasted beef tho
Pic is from Taiwan

>>2815496
Nobody who says this about Italian food provides any real-life examples of Italian restaurant menus. For all we know, you're talking about Chef freakin Boyardee, or some shitty Italian joint in the Philippines that is nothing but shitty red sauce on mushy pasta with a bit of meat.
>>2815464
>four or five pastries
Too many empty calories, seed oil and refined flour.

>>2814620
Asians use more peanut butter than actual butter

>>2815700
Have you been to Italy? The food is pedestrian and dull. They line up around the block to eat at Tonnarello in Rome to eat spaghetti with red sauce.

>>2815706
Italian kitchen is not the shit you eat at Pajeets "Italian kitchen" in rural Iowa bro. Yes some super simple but tasty pasta dishes are a staple as intermediate course but they're still great.
Italian kitchen changes every 50-100km from north to south and 25-50km east to west and there's some great stuff you will never experience as you don't have a passport and just shitpost on /trv/ instead of >>>/r9k/ where you belong.

>>2815706
Italian food is great retard.
The pasta was great, the wine was great, the gelatto was great, the pizza was great, I don't know what sort of tourist trap you've been to.

>>2815706
>tourist eating tourist trap food
Wow I wonder why it’s garbage?

>>2815703
>Asians use more peanut butter than actual butter
That’s simply not true dude. We Indians love using cows butter in many dishes.

>>2815762
Butter chicken is delicious, anon. I hope you are enjoying some good curry and buttered naan.

>>2815700
>real-life examples of Italian restaurant menus
Checkmate.

>>2815779
Dammit lol...

>>2814324
> barszcz ukraiński
fuck off that is called botwinka nothing to do with "ukrainians". I bet you call your pierogies ukraińskie too

>>2815496
>It's like marrying the girl you dated in high school.
Explain in rational terms what is wrong with this.

>>2815706
Simplicity is a virtue, midwit.

>>2815796
>NO IT MUST HAVE 67 DIFFERENT APICES TO COVER THE COWSHIT AND ROTTING MEAT FLAVOUR SAR

>>2815796
nta, it depends on the dish. I can eat a steak with just salt and pepper on it. I can't necessarily say the same thing about boiled strings of wheat covered in cheese and pepper.

The problem isn't the presence of spices, the lack of spices, the simplicity, or the complexity. It's that carbs are gay.

>>2815799
There's the "muh rotting meat" argument again. Jeets don't even eat meat.

Tim Horton's. It's the most mediocre coffee and donuts ever. Why do Canadians hype it up so much? And this was like 15 years ago back when the workers were white, it is probably awful now.

Jolibee was also awful

I’m convinced 99% of /trv/ never actually travel and are only looking for some sort of community online to complain about other cultures or people to strangers for internet points. Maybe 1/1000 threads have an OC photo of someone traveling and it’s usually just one person posting the photo(s). Therefore all of your options should be discarded as worthless.

>>2815810
>Jeets don't even eat meat.
They absolutely eat chicken, rat, pig, lamb. Everything but beef.
Maybe the south jeets don’t eat meat but all the others do.

>>2815796
That's exactly what people who only eat basketti and pizza say. It's food that appeals to adult babies with autism.

Most english food dishes are a meme
>be american from east coast around DC but regularly go up north
>have some UK friends online
>finally have the ability to go to UK
>OI BRUV U GOTTA GET SOME REAL FOOD
>land in London stay a few days for post flight before going to meet them want to try out some fish and chips
>ask for advice AW M8 ANYTHING SHOULD BE GOOD
>look up a few places find one place that's not too on the tourist foot path
>go in order some take a pic send it to my friends
>THAT LOOKS FUKIN GOOD M8
>it's mid at best compared shit in Boston, NYC, PH, some of the smaller spots around the Chesapeake Bay area
>tell them about it when we meet up
>OH LET'S TAKE U TO A REAL PLACE THEN M8
>it's still just plainly mid

Get told how my mouth has been rotted by 'not real food' and how it doesn't have enough sugar on it or some retarded shit. After that we went to a few places, all the time they'd just eat shit from greggs, basic bitch meals, and the most tasteful food we had out of anything was some turkish people making kebabs or tacos(for some weird reason). I think a "full english breakfast" is possibly the only thing that could tie in overratedness.

This fuckin retards need like some mexican breakfast dishes or some southern cooking to have any kind of flavor. I stand by my sentiment that the average bong is just too inebriated or hungover at all times of the day to care about decent food.

Pad Thai is fucking slimy slop. I won't touch that shit.

>>2815928
I recently are this in Udon Thani. Actually a full Irish breakfast but barely a difference. If you don't like eating this you should eat a dick instead

>>2815932
I didn't say it was horrible it's just your average shit, thought this thread was about overhyped food. I mean that's what the OP is talking about anyways.

The way it's talked about from people I know in England is like that it just demolishes everything ever created for breakfast in the USA or world. I mean sure it's fine, kinda overpriced every time I've had it I felt, like would have rather just paid a bit extra for a hotel with a breakfast buffet for the most part.

I'll take it for sure, but I won't go out of my way for it or look forward to it as a great meal of my overall food experiences.

>>2815932
Your's looks uckie.

>>2815937
Dafuq is that? Moldovan breakfast?

>>2815941
Irish breakfast. The best "Anglo brekkie" Ive ever had.

>>2815784
>REEEEEE this style of barszcz popular in the east has been named after the borderlands since forever REEEEE fuck Ukraine bandera wołyń pamiętamy, this is exactly like retards renaming ruskie three years ago
Oh fuck off. Botwinka isn't even the same soup you cooklet retard. It's seasonal and made from a shitload of young beetroot leaves, this is not a requirement for barszcz ukraiński.

>>2815947
Sorry m8. You got scammed

>>2815947
Looks delish, but is that 33 euro for a plate of breakfast?

>>2816119
$12.24.

>>2814326
What you need is cyrillic, but none of you would admit it.

>>2815832
wtf we have /int/ for that

>>2816121
It's too bad there aren't Irish restaurants in the states

>>2815832
This looks gross.

You know a meme food that totally did live up to the hype were those fucking churros and chocolate in Madrid at San Gines. I went back twice for those bad boys.

>>2814150 (OP)

I found Italian cuisine to be incredibly underwhelming. I was there for a month, not as a tourist but actually part of a work-study program so it was as authentic as it gets and I did eat out in multiple places and cities as well. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't amazing that it's always purported to be. The pizza in Naples was pretty bland, hardly any cheese. Noodles were more al dente than expected. Tomato and mozzarella as a dish is...what it is. Not bad, not good. Italian-American food is way better, I fear.

>>2816156
Go to Portugal next time.

>>2816270
Not surprised. If you go into he back of any restaurant in Italy, you'll find the same boxes of Barilla and De Cecco pasta you could buy in any grocery store for a euro. 99.9 percent of the restaurants in Italy used boxed pasta, especially in Rome. They do way too much business to make pasta from scratch. You'll also find shelves stacked with canned tomatoes.

>>2816154
Korea BBQ is fantastic fucking faggot

>>2816271
The fuck do I want a cake for in the morning?

>>2816271
you can get the same shit in china

>>2816283
Egg custard. And how else are you gunna perma-bulk every morning so you can burn 1,500 calories at the gym?
>cake
>churro
>A stringed cake.
I ate mini pies that make me feel like a giant and drink cherry pit tea, you eat penis-cakes and drink candy-poop slurry.

>>2816285
>in china
They are freshly bakes every morning and I would eat a bunch before taking the ferry to Lisbon.

>>2815493
>Its not Korean [arsenic-coughs] its Chinese [cadmium-groans]!

>>2816275
I love Korean BBQ. I go like twice a month to a place down the street. But that looks fucking gross.

>>2816298
it tastes good but it's just not worth it. you leave that place smellingl ike a bbq pit for the next week. it's worse than indian food in this respect

It's really [chromium pangs] good [mercury cramps]...but no where near like in Lisbon [hash coofs].

>>2816313
Change your clothes and take a shower retard. Is basic hygiene foreign to you?

>>2816316
Clothes should be worn until they feel sticky

>>2816322
Post your curry stained hand

>>2816316
all of us have a responsibility for water conservation and clothes like coats cannot be easily washed and they will stink up your whole closet with bbq gook smells for a week or more. with indian food, no amount of shower will take the curry out of your body. that has to seep out of your pores for another week until then you walk around smelling like a marinated tandoor chicken

>>2816337
> all of us have a responsibility for water conservation
We literally fly on planes across the globe for travel. Stfu with your fake concern for the environment. Plus you can conserve all the water you want, meanwhile countries like india spew out tons of toxic shit directly into said water.

>>2816332
Ok whitoid. But we are the best dressed men

>>2816351
>we
That’s not you. You live in a hut with a dirt floor and 1000 bikes hoking their horns 24/7

>>2816361
I look very similar. Your mother and sister want to pass my dick around

>>2816316
Where do you think we are?

>>2816363
You are a waste of skin and life, and literally eat cow shit, you bobble-headed skinnyfat stinky jeet.

>>2816363
I doubt many women could find your little brown pecker, jeet.

Meanwhile, your mothers, sisters, and arranged brides, thirst for BIG WHITE COCK (that your grandmothers whisper about) and our SUPERIOR DNA

>>2816464
Oh my dear. You think yours is a big one. Why does your nutsack look like my granny's purse? Do you not have any testicles inside?
Your penis is average, white derp. My penis is bigger and has sprayed your mom's womb

>>2816338

Can we just all agree that tandoori chicken is better than Korean BBQ?

>>2816490
No shitjeet, nothing indian is worth eating

>>2814206
My dad was a big fan of Long John Silvers when I was a little kid, and I have no earthly clue why.
Place was disgusting. Are they even in business still?

>>2816636
Sounds like you have never had samosa with a good chutney

>>2816636
I'm in India now. The food is S-tier. Only been here a few days. Not sure how long it takes for me to get sick of it though

>>2816655
Lots of them still around if you don't live in the woods.

>>2816667
>>2816655

we never went there when i was a kid. it was always red lobster. but i here they're in trouble now too

>>2816656
No such thing
>>2816664
Why tf would you willingly go to india unless it’s to make a “I hate India” video for YouTube money?

>>2816675
>Why tf would you willingly go to india unless it’s to make a “I hate India” video for YouTube money?
Want to volunteer in a slum for a year so I can save my soul after a life of degeneracy and self-centredness

>>2816678
>im indian
Oh you should’ve said so. That’s neither a Christian or Islamic belief to do that for redemption

>>2816679
sounds like you never heard of mother teresa

>>2816680
Have you? Doing kind acts alone is meaningless. Are you in the clergy?

>>2816680
>sounds like you never heard of mother teresa
Tf are you talking about

Just ate this for 90 rupees ($1.03). It's bottomless refill from those containers. Was actually great. The only thing is you have to eat that wet sloppy food with your hands. This is primate behavior imo

>>2816688
>you have to eat that wet sloppy food with your hands
I see three spoons in front of you.

>>2816708
>I see three spoons in front of you
Those are ladels for dolling out the slop, dipshit. People don't use spoons in India, they eat with their hands. I thought everybody knew that

>>2816709
Eating with hands means delicious liquid poo will bless you sar

>>2816688
you got something on your pants

>>2816709
>ladels
Deep dish spoon.

>>2814150 (OP)
>omg Austria has amazing schitzel
>get served a sad piece of beat, battered to fuck, made even drier by putting it in fucking breadcrumbs
>takes hours to eat, as this sad piece of meat covers the whole plate
>shitty cabbage given as a '''sauce'''

>>2816688
Looks disgusting

>>2814216
This. Italians invented pizza, New Yorkers improved on it, and Chicagoans perfected it.

>>2816688
They wouldn't serve that in prison here.

>>2814158 >>2814244
The issue I had with Ramen was that the quality varried wildy from place to place. Some ramens were outsdanding with tender pork and veggies, while others were only a step above the 50 cent packets they sell at Walmart.

>>2814239
The best food I had in Italy was this 1$ aracini from some random shop in a Palermo neigberhood, followed closely by another random family business where we were the only people who knew English in the place.

>>2814508
I tried döner all over Istanbul and none of it held a candle to the kebab I had at some random kebab stand called "Alex Foods" in Plovdiv Bulgeria. The whole thing with fries was like 6$ and was smothered in sauce. None of the stuff in Turkey even compared.

>>2814150 (OP)
NYC cart Hot Dog.
There are good places, but the cart it is because of the meme

a lot of fussy boys in here lol

>>2817591
Where are the good places in NY? I have never had a good dog in that city. Picrel is what a real dog is supposed to look like.

>>2814195
>Find some British man in a bar and ask him what the best local fish and chips joint is.


Lol! They dont even eat it anymore. If you want to eat where the locals eat you'll end up at McDonalds or the local chicken shop.

Turkish pide......... by all accounts I should like it, and Turks had some bangers...but it's just a worse pizza. I'd prefer to eat fish+onion sandwich by the Bosphorus, than their much touted pide.
>>2814150 (OP)
I'm semi-regular in Germany, it's above avg. It's good festival slop, the one I had in Alexander Platz (Berlin) was underwhelming though.
>>2814153
Just by the plate I can tell this is the wrong place to eat.
>>2814158
Way too general of an expression. It's like saying Italian Spaghetti is bad.
>>2814189
Worst post of thread. Utterly disappointing.

>>2817774
isn't this a chicago dog?

>>2817931
they look like vagina. not very appetizing.

>>2814150 (OP)
Any Indian food. They're disgusting

>>2817774
One friend took me to one place around Broadway and the 72nd after I told my experience

>>2816688
Did $1.03 include the tip ?

>>2818000
>Did $1.03 include the tip ?
No. I tipped once. He had no idea why I was giving him money so I realized it was not a thing and didn't tip again

>>2815780
Those 24 hour pajeet cafeterias in the UAE offer some true-blue goyslop, kek. The staff treated a white guy very well at the ones I visited, but the flavor and quality of the food was disappointing.
>>2815706
This is only one dish on the Italian family table, dimwit. What about the other eight dishes that Grandma prepared for dinner?
>>2815762
>Indian cooks use butter
Happy to hear this. I get so fucking tired of cheapass chinks and chink-adjacent Southeast Asians dumping "vegetable" oil on everything they prepare. Real butter makes food taste so much better.
>>2815832
As a solo traveler, these kind of traditional Asian meals are off-limits to me, unless someone invites me to their table. One time a Lao family invited me to share their traditional breakfast, and fat pregnant flies were walking all over the food laying eggs. Needless to say, that breakfast made my gut do a little grumbling.
>>2816156
I never got the hype behind churros. They're literally deep-fried sweet dough, utter slop. Always absurdly overpriced for the low value of the ingredients.
>>2816271
You can find bomb Portuguese egg tarts in Malaysia. When they're hot and freshly baked, they're incredible. Sold cold and stale, they're not worth eating.
>>2816338
Owning nothing and traveling short distances overland is surprisingly low-impact. It easily offsets the impact of three or four long-haul flights a year.

>>2816688
Good point. In Malaysia the Indians always brought me silverware, but in India I will make sure I go everywhere with a spoon in my pocket.
>>2816688
Why are you eating so poor? Eating cheap crap wastes belly space that could be filled with genuinely delicious food.

>>2814158
Agreed. Completely overrated.

>>2818236
>in India I will make sure I go everywhere with a spoon in my pocket
That's one way of showing you're a prissy faggot I guess.

>>2818236
>Why are you eating so poor? Eating cheap crap wastes belly space that could be filled with genuinely delicious food.
I saw people eating it and wanted to try it. Not taking advice from a dork who carries a spoon in his shirt pocket

>>2818444
>I saw people eating it and wanted to try it.
Do you feel sad, envious, or angry, when you see this picture?

If so, youre not alone. There are millions of men who have been diagnosed with Nonsexhaveritis.

>>2818518
Only beta white men go for Asians

>>2818538
>beta
>contempt, envy turned into rejection with disgust
How would you feel if you did have sex for breakfast?

Worst meme food I've eaten was paella. I lived in Spain for years and knew Spanish food very well but paella is a specialty of the Mediterranean region so I never tried it (it's very looked down on to eat regional dishes served in the wrong region in spain). Finally went on a vacation to Elche and tried their regional paella dish and it was complete ass, both in the ingredients and the preparation. It's a lot dryer and more undercooked than you would expect. Like barely hydrated undercooked rice that's somehow also been burnt. Apparently the burnt part is considered the best part of the dish. Traditional paella also has snail and rabbit as its main ingredients but I didn't try that one.

Worst food in general? For sure the Netherlands & Flanders. Unless you go to Michelin star tier restaurants, most brasseries and restaurants sell frozen sysco crap that's just thrown into the deep fryer. They have perhaps the worst cuisine in Europe. "Traditional" dishes wouldn't be served in an American prison, that's how bad it is. I tried a traditional Belgian dish with coworkers once that was unseasonably, baked chicken drumsticks served with a ladlefull of canned apple sauce. Untoasted Wonderbra was available was available as a "side dish". If you want to see culinary despair, watch a Dutch person prepare their own "lunch"

>>2818767
The best Spanish seafood dish is pulpo a la gallega. My grandpa was born in Spain and often cooked that and it was always amazing.

Paella is overrated imho, but pulpo a la gallega it's never mediocre.

>>2818645
There is nothing more disgusting than a white beta coomer

>>2815932
I gess i'd eat half of it, but the mystery saussage and the white bread, no.

French here, needless to say only a few countries are on our level food-wise (Italy being our only real equal, then Spain, Switzerland maybe).
Anyways, i would spend days shitting on foreign food.

That being said, Italian food is the best i've tasted beside us, but their desserts aren't very good.
They seem to rarely use chocolate, so it mostly taste like sugar and almond... i get they took those from arab cultures and it became their taste, but i don't like arabic pastries either.
German countries do desserts the best (beside us, again).

Also in Japan, they have those ice cream parlors with like 50 different flavors.
I've tasted a few, all flavors usually taste the fucking same but with a different color, bland as shit. Japanese seem really scared of real flavors.

When i was on the west coast, i met a family from the midwest and they told me "If you go to San Francisco you have to taste Ghirardelli chocolate, it's the BEST IN THE WORLD".
So i went i bought Girardelli chocolate and it was like the lowest grade cadbury type of shit.

I was sad for americans because the family was nice and they have basically never tasted actual good chocolate, artisan chocolate or even the most basic european industrial franchises (Leonidas, Jeff de Bruges, Godiva...). You are like food blind.

>>2818538
yes i hope she is a tiger mommy

Schnitzel was kind of overrated

>>2818815
you should have had the scharffenberger

>>2818815
They have leonidas cafes in my city. Very good.

>>2814153
why do americans put a t in the word borsch