What foreign dish can you cook (really well)? (meals, Mexican, chicken)

[Chatteress]

Originally Posted by JL

I can finally make some really good Vietnamese noodle soup. It took a few months, but it was well worth the time.

You referring to Pho (Beef noodle soup)? I'd love to learn how to make that.

[the minx]

Pretty much everything I cook comes out tasting "foreign," and not in a good way.

[Miaiam]

That is not exactly the "foreign cooking" I asked about, but it was a great post, though.

[Opyelie]

Hungarian Potato Paprika and Chicken Paprika - oh and Aussie Pavlova, that's "foreign" too, right? = )

[Oildog]

Spaghetti

[Opyelie]

Originally Posted by Oildog

Spaghetti

No fair, we ALL think we can cook spaghetti really well (even Chef Boyardee did)

[20yrsinBranson]

Originally Posted by Miaiam

Some people have a passion for international cuisine and try their best to cook foreign dishes.
Do you have any preference? Is there any foreign dish you can cook (or you wish you could cook) as well as a native? How did you learn it?

My posole is to die for.

20yrsinBranson

[MelanieGermany]

I went to many international restaurants in Miami, especially asian and thai restaurants. I went to Thailand 3 times for vacation and i am sorry to say that all of the restaurants i visited in Miami, have nothing in common with authentic thai cusine! The thai food is very spicy and when i ordered my food spicy, it was always frustrating. I missed the lime leaves, the fresh lemon grass, and more which is very important for thai dishes.

But there was a really good chinese restaurant, calles "Tony Chans Waterclub", the food was perfect! ( they have a glass enclosed kitchen, so you can see, that the cooks are all chinese people).

When i visited italian restaurants in Miami and looked in the menu, i ALWAYS found Key Lime Pie or New York Cheesecake as dessert. You dont get any Key Lime Pie or Cheescake in Italy! There`s Panna Cotta, Tiramisu or others....

But... to come back to the topic ( i am german) i would say, that my thai dishes ( Thai Currys) are very very good. I buy my ingrediants only in Asia Shops...

Melanie

[NicoleJ]

I'm good w/ Mexican, German, Chinese and Mediterranean foods.

['M']

I love chicken mole, which is Mexican. Have quite a variety of cookbooks with mole recipes. There are as many different mole recipes as there are people There is one recipe that I really like, pretty authentic...from a south Texas cookbook. I think it's quite good. Unfortunately, my departed SO (I departed him doesn't care for Mexican, but I made it anyway