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Korean definitely seems reasonably legit. I've been served some decidedly non-Korean banchan (side dishes) though. I'm fairly certain macaroni salad, mashed potatoes, and broccoli are not dishes native to Korea. I've also heard the rice paper they give you at Korean BBQ restaurants is an American thing, as they use lettuce to wrap the meat in South Korea.
Yes, I just saw this on Kimchee Chronicles. It looked really good, too!
Vietnamese cuisine. The food served in most Vietnamese restaurants is not much different than the food served in Vietnam.
Yes, Vietnamese was what I was thinking when I saw this thread.
I know this wasn't the question, but one can always ask the cooks to make something they actually eat, and you will get authentic food. My fiancee' has always done this, he worked at a Chinese restaurant as a teen, and always ate the real Chinese food, now he can ask for items he likes at any restaurant. There is a traditional Chinese fish dish he loves, but it smells so bad we have to be put in a far off corner so the other patrons don't complain, I even have to leave the table sometimes because it's so intense.
The less popular cuisines in neighborhoods where recent immigrants from that country live.
I'd pretty much rule out most Asian and Mediterranean cuisines. With the possible exception of Thai.
Eastern European is a good bet. Many relatively recent immigrants from the former USSR. In New York, check out Brighten Beach "Little Odessa" for really authentic Russian and Ukrainian food.
I can only comment on how "ethnically comparable" something is if I have been to that country. I can rule out Chinese, Mexican and Thai.
I suspect the Filipino is pretty consistent, it's the same when I go to Uncle's house and they are all Filipino.
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Taco Bell is not Mexican food. Where I live, it's not even considered food, much less Mexican food. There are plenty of authentic Mexican restaurants here. Sometimes the food is totally different in one from another. Why? Because Mexico is a big country and different regions have different styles of food.
This is exactly correct, and one needs to remember that many people (including my family) came to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California in the 1600s. The food they ate was (and still is) a regional form of Mexican cuisine based on the types of food they could raise there.
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Mexico is a certainly a big country with numerous distinct cuisine styles. Unfortunately SA seems to favor the standard Tex-Mex. SA folks love to eat tacos for dinner (not done in Mexico), and love their fajitas and burritos (US inventions). Sure you can get a decent mole and maybe even a milanesa, but those generally come with frijoles (Tex-Mex) and "Mexican rice", another Americanization.
I like Tex-Mex and Cal-Mex. They're both legitimate cuisines on their own. However, I do take exception to those styles being called "Mexican" as I feel it disrespects actual Mexican food.
When you dismiss the Tex-Mex, Cal-Mex and the New Mexican cuisines, you are dismissing the Mexican heritage of the people whose families have lived there for generations before the area became part of the United States. My Mexican ancestors never ate snapper Veracruzana or baked octopus, mostly because those ingredients cannot be found in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. My Mexican ancestors did eat frijoles (pintos), chile verde, menudo, calabasitas, and a whole host of other foods that they could raise on their farms. Just because the rest of Mexico doesn't eat their food doesn't mean that it is any less Mexican.
You and many other people get hung up on political borders. Not all Mexican food originated south of the US-Mexico border. What you should be looking at is the cultural borders. It is from inside the cultural borders that Mexican food originates.
Vietnamese cuisine. The food served in most Vietnamese restaurants is not much different than the food served in Vietnam.
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The less popular cuisines in neighborhoods where recent immigrants from that country live.
I'd pretty much rule out most Asian and Mediterranean cuisines. With the possible exception of Thai.
Eastern European is a good bet. Many relatively recent immigrants from the former USSR. In New York, check out Brighten Beach "Little Odessa" for really authentic Russian and Ukrainian food.
I would agree with Vietnamese, Ukrainian and Polish and love Ethiopian food (yummy and love the
bread that is used instead of silverware).
What about Iraqi or Persian food?
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I've also heard the rice paper they give you at Korean BBQ restaurants is an American thing, as they use lettuce to wrap the meat in South Korea.
