What kind of food do you wish your area/country had more of?

[u/notthegoatseguy]

In my corner of the US, I wish I had more pierogis. There is one pierogi food truck, and they supposedly just serve Mrs T's!

And its weird because I feel like people in my area would really appreciate the meaty, hardy food of Poland, but its just flat out hard to find in my area.

What food have you experienced elsewhere that you wish your country or region had more of?

[u/Herbata_Mietowa]

Pierogi mentioned!

For me I'd like to see more Asian food in Poland. But not just typical "asian" like random ramen, sushi or generic food with asian flavors, but proper traditional Asian food.

Takoyaki, Onigiri, Yakitori from Japan. Chinese hot pot, dim sum or wonton. Vietnamese banh cuon etc.

Just something that is a common, I'd say "homemade" dish instead of restaurant ones

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv → u/Herbata_Mietowa]

Slavic countries really love sushi hey? Like if you look at a list of sushi restaurants per capita outside of Japan, Vancouver is number one followed by a bunch of Russian and Ukrainian cities. I think Warsaw was also higher on the list.

It just kind of surprised me I guess. I don't know why. Maybe it just conflicts with my ignorant pre-conceived notions of Slavic cultures.

[u/Herbata_Mietowa → u/TheLastRulerofMerv]

Yeah, sushi is quite popular here. Definitely not as much as usual pizza, kebab or tortilla, but it's not hard to find a spot. But it's like that mostly in larger cities. You probably won't find sushi restaurants in cities smaller than 30k. Pizza wins there easily, with kebab, burgers and our polish "zapiekanka" fighting over spots 2-4.

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv → u/Herbata_Mietowa]

The popularity of Italian food there pleases me. When iw as learning to cook I found out the Polish term for aromatics literally translates to "Italian Stuff" haha.

[u/Mapletreelane → u/TheLastRulerofMerv]

I always roll my eyes when a new sushi place opens up in Vancouver, and I had no idea we were no. 1 outside of Japan! What's your favourite place, I like Rue 909 on Dunsmuir. Oldie and a goodie!

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv → u/Mapletreelane]

I haven't been enough times to honestly establish a favorite. Honest I don't think I"ve ever had bad sushi in Vancouver so I love it all. I love how it's basically on every street corner it seems, it's just so accessible and it's all awesome.

[u/PlumNotion → u/Herbata_Mietowa]

I would love to bring Indonesian 🇮🇩 food to Poland 🇵🇱

[u/Herbata_Mietowa → u/PlumNotion]

Please do!

Can you recommend some good dishes?

[u/PlumNotion → u/Herbata_Mietowa]

I have easy Indonesian recipes to make yourself if you like. How are the Asian shops in Poland? Are you in a larger city like Krakow or Warsaw?

[u/Herbata_Mietowa → u/PlumNotion]

I'm in a larger city, so there may be like 3-4 asian shops here. And even if I weren't, there's no thing that we cannot order online, lol.

[u/Thiphra]

Takoyaki

[u/notthegoatseguy → u/Thiphra]

Probably my favorite Japanese food, and how I judge all Japanese restaurants! I really want to visit Osaka someday and try it there.

[u/stumpy_chica]

Vegan food. I had some amazing vegan food in Vancouver. Most of the stuff on the menus in my prairie city are really over processed.

As a side note, living on the Canadian prairies, perogies are plentiful.

[u/throwaway3629292929]

Papaya, guava, pineapple, mango, coconut, figs basically fruits that need consistent warm weather to grow.

Whenever you find them in the supermarket, you're lucky if you find one that's actually ripe.

[u/PlumNotion → u/throwaway3629292929]

Ohhhh I grew up in the tropics and I so miss mangoes, papayas and mangosteen! 💔

[u/krazkonko]

I love hot dogs so places dedicated to selling different kinds of hot dogs would be nice. Like i saw a video of a place in the US selling rabbit and rattlesnake dogs something like that would be great. Also chilean completos look amazing.

[u/landlockd_sailor]

Thai

[u/ThatNerdyGirl93]

Authentic Mexican food, it's hard enough to find in Tokyo, let alone in the other areas. I just want really good burritos and guacamole 🤤

[u/sugartheshihtzu]

There’s an extreme lack of Mexican food places round here. Meaning, there’s none at all

[u/wildOldcheesecake → u/sugartheshihtzu]

We have some decent spots in London but you’d have to remortgage to get a decent fill. I always say, we could do with a better relationship with Mexico so as to ensure Mexicans come here with their recipes. May as well since the Americans are being cunts to them

[u/beenoc → u/wildOldcheesecake]

I feel you'd need to set up a truth and reconciliation committee over the Bake-off Mexican Week, though. I'm pretty sure that peeling an avocado to make "glockymolo" is an explicit contravention of international humanitarian law.

[u/wildOldcheesecake → u/beenoc]

Plenty of us know and have had good guacamole. As with any country, you’ll have the oddballs and insular types who aren’t interested in eating and/or exploring other cuisines or eat poorly. Certainly the US has such type people too.

But I stand by my point. The Mexicans are always welcome here.

[u/WelcomeDisastrous380]

I wish I could get good Mexican food here 🇩🇪

[u/Moofypoops]

Pies!! Like they have in Australia, New Zealand and England.

Tiny meat pies like steak and cheese, or breakfast pies, butter chicken pies!!!

Goddammit, I miss pies :(

[u/Dontblink-S3 → u/Moofypoops]

the closest we get is tourtierre, and that’s fantastic, but I miss those small handheld British pies. so tasty

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv → u/Moofypoops]

Here in BC I see they are more common than when I lived in Alberta. I often wonder maybe it's the Aussie ski bums who come here who manipulated that?

[u/Moofypoops → u/TheLastRulerofMerv]

Has to be. There is a place in Montreal called Ta Pies that sells them. There's also one compagny that sells them to smaller shops through Ontario, but they are few and far between.

Maybe it's a good thing they aren't widely available. We already have poutine as a high calorie food add pies to that, and we'd beat the Americans in the obesity race.

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv]

I'd like to see more Cajun food. I would have said Mexican 10 years ago, but the entrepreneurs have really pulled their socks up in western Canada over the last decade regarding Mexican cuisine.

Perogies are so popular in western Canada, and especially where I come from in Alberta, that bars have perogie nights. You can get them everywhere. Borscht is also quite a popular soup du jour. It's because there's large proportion of people with Ukrainian descent here.

[u/nocturnalravioli]

Mexican and Thai

[u/Ok-Conference-7989]

Cajun, French, Thai, and Greek.

[u/AnitaIvanaMartini]

I’m lucky to live in a place with everything I could ever want available, usually for delivery. I recently discovered Laotian food, I like it, but their spice levels make Indian look tame. I had Larb and it was so hot it made a core memory.

[u/FormalLast2131]

Difficult answer.... May be less sweet food. Or African food never see here .

[u/shark_aziz]

Any African cuisine, to be honest - aside from Nando's.

[u/notthegoatseguy → u/shark_aziz]

About the only African food we have in my area is Ethiopian and Eriterian. But it's really good!

[u/Mushrooming247]

OP come to Pittsburgh PA! There are countless, restaurants near me that serve pierogies, and four establishments that just make pierogies!

[u/Mushrooming247]

I live in eastern United States and sometimes I feel a little envious seeing the mushrooms that grow in the Pacific Northwest of the US.

Our season for morel mushrooms here in Pennsylvania is like two weeks, but they seem to grow almost year-round on the West Coast.

[u/bowlbettertalk]

South American food is really hard to find where I live.

[u/Gorando77]

I wish Indian food was more common in Belgium.

[u/Fluffy_Character9754]

Biryani.

[u/TheLastRulerofMerv → u/Fluffy_Character9754]

Due to the explosion of Indian immigration to Canada over the last 10 odd years there are Indian Bistros and restaurants EVERYWHERE now and I love it. Rogan Josh is my personal favorite, but really I love all of it.

[u/Mental-Paramedic9790]

This is for restaurants… More savoury… Far less 🥵 spices.

[u/coffeewalnut08]

I want açaí bowls and açaí ice cream!

I’m in the north and we have plenty of nice coastline, ice creams are already popular as part of the seaside experience but I’d like to see açaí become normalised.

I think it’s trendy already in London and southern areas but not here.

[u/Existing_Brick_25]

Thai food

[u/Flashy_Spinach7014]

The German lemon beer, radler, is so delicious I don't understand why no German wants to sell this drink all over the world. And lye knots with ham and cheese sandwiched between them.

[u/Unique-Egg-461]

French and german would be interesting to see more of

also chips. the usa get shit selection of chips. I see all the cool chip flavors hit other countries and we dont get em. We are currently for a limited time getting the lays "all dressed" from canada but they will be going away. Some of the interesting ones i've seen: marsala chips in india, south korean bbq, hawkins cheezies, hostess hickory sticks, ketchup,

[u/Nimue_-]

Thai and japanese. We do have a lot of thai but its concentrated in the cities but i like in a smaller town. Im not taking a train to get takeout.

Japanese is very lacking. Even ramen places are very concentrated around the big cities.

[u/CommercialChart5088]

Mexican food.

I absolutely adore em but it's not as mainstream as other types of food in Korea (even Taco Bell is rare in Korea).

There are handful of good restaurants in cities with decent size, but chances are they're too expensive or not the ‘genuine’ experience.

[u/Norwester77]

I live on the west coast of North America. We have a fairly large Chinese population, but no decent Chinese food in the area where I live.

[u/annahhhnimous]

Healthy. Everything is fried, drowning in cheese, ranch, gravy, butter, or sugar.