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The problem with this poll is that the country that has the best cuisine within that country does not necessarily have the best cuisine when transplanted into restaurants in another country. For example, the everyday food eaten in China has no resemblance at all to the fare in an a Chinese restaurant in America. Mexican food does not occur at all in the USA, where "Mexican" restaurants serve Tex-Mex border cuisine.
Furthermore, atmosphere has a lot to do with it, and eating Middle Eastern food in the US, surrounded by Americans, falls completely flat compared to eating in Damascus or Amman. Not even counting that fact that many of the ingredients and serving styles in the cuisines of some countries would be illegal in the us.
If I had to go to one country to spend a week pigging out economically at everyday restaurants, it would probably be Turkey, but I couldn't be bothered going to a Turkish restaurant in the USA, which I fear would be totally pretentious.
I absolutely love Thai curry oh my god mmm. I hate that disgusting yellow curry. YUCK!!!!!!
I love the Mexican Fajitas aswell, we eat the El Paso stuff quite alot. Quesadillas too mmmm.
American food is nice but its kind of the same as our food.
Its a pity we didn't have the Taco Bell restaurants here.
@Owenc, the yellow curry is to real curry (which is a generic term encompassing thousands of dishes with very different ingredients) what a cheap soup mix is to Grandma's made from scratch soup.
I've always believed that the tastiness of a dish is a function of the quality of the ingredients used and the skill of the chef, not the country of its origin. Many of the cuisines I didn't care for growing up are now among my favorites after eating it in a proper establishment. As such, I find it a meaningless exercise to rank the various national/ethnic/regional cuisines since I've had both good and bad from all of them.
I forgot to vote for Greek, but it's one of my favourites as well
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