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What are some food fads in your country or city? Things that have only seemed to have become popular in the last few years (and may or may not last the test of time). In Melbourne some of them are...
I would say sushi but that's kind of already established...
Food vans/trucks/stalls in general
Crepes
Macarons
Wagyu beef
Tapas bars
Fusion food
American BBQ, e.g. pulled pork, ribs, brisket.etc
'Gourmet' pizza, anything from teriyaki prawn to tsatsiki to escargo
Wheatgrass/kale smoothies/shakes
Haloumi cheese
Mexican/Latin restaurants/cantinas
Chinese dumplings
Sichuan cuisine
Ethiopian food
Asian street foods, from Vietnamese spring rolls to Chinese wraps and kebabs
Anything with ganash in it
Cupcakes
European, craft and microbrewery beers
Bubble tea
Chai lattes
'Reductions' and 'consumes'
Among others
Which of these apply in your country? What are some others?
Sushi. That's it. It's all anyone ever eats. We don't even have Vietnamese yet, and one Thai restaurant in a city of ~160,000, but at least 6 Sushi places, of which 5 are all you can eat. You could open up 5 more and probably none of the other restaurants would take much of a hit either.
I'm not sure why. There was one or two places and then as of the last couple years several more sprang up. These places are all packed on weekends too. This is just Sudbury, though. You can find anything in Toronto and I'm completely out of touch with most of Canada West of here. I wonder what's big in the prairies.
Cupcakes. Gosh, they were everywhere...
Bubble Tea. Even McDonalds sold it for quite a while.
Soup and salad lunch restaurants.
Asian fried noodles. Lots of traditional sausage stalls closed down. Now they are frying noodles on the street.
Falafel. Kebab has been around for years now, but everybody just ignored falafel. That changed.
Frozen yoghurt. Some places are quite good, some less so.
It's so amusing for me to keep reading these threads about food fads and other quirks of urban life. Here in my city (70,000), there don't seem to be any fads, and most other urban threads just have me scratching my head. Every once in a while, somebody here comes back from a day in Houston, and talks about something cutting edge that they did or saw, but it remains just a curiosity from the periphery of life.
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