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Chinese food: the cheapest, you can eat in buffet way for maybe 14€/18USD Asian food: othert than Chinese or mixed, a bit more expensive but still OK. Italian food: pasta and pizzas, losing popularity because it is expensive and people prefer fast food pizzas. Mexican: some companies opened.
Then we have: Brazilian, Indian, Arabic, Greek... but less popular.
In no particular order, just thinking of places that have over a dozen different places within the city:
Boston Metro Area:
Italian
Chinese
Brazilian
Japanese
Thai
Vietnamese
Korean
Azorean (Most of the Portuguese here are from the Azores)
Haitian
Jamaican
Irish
Salvadoran
Indian
Middle Eastern (Mostly Shawarma places)
Turkish
Mexican (Our Mexican mostly sucks here outside of a few places, but there is alot of it)
Dominican
Armenian
Khmer
Spanish
French
London: Haven't explored as much as Boston, but from first glance:
Indian (Food from all over the Subcontinent)
Thai
Malay
Chinese
Vietnamese
Jamaican
Trini
Japanese
West African
North African
Mexican
Colombian
Middle Eastern of all types
Turkish
Spanish
Italian
Greek
Korean
French
Honorable mentions right at the beginning: Hungarian and French cuisine. It's hard to find a restaurant that explicitly focuses on one of those two cuisines, but I still think that Hungarian and French dishes are amongst the most popular here.
Most of the Hungarian dishes are thought to be (at least partly) Austrian in the first place and nearly all restaurants that serve modern Austrian food are using French techniques.
I guess the most common restaurants are:
- Italian: Quite decent here.
- Turkish/Middle Eastern/Israeli: Nice sit down restaurants are pretty rare, though. A shame, if you ask me.
- "Asian": Chinese, Japanese or stuff that is sometimes referred to as Mongolian BBQ. It's a shame quality wise and far from being authentic. I guess that's the reason why there are hardly any old-school all-you-can-eat buffets left (€8-12; $11-16)
- Balkan cuisine: Especially Croatian and Serbian stuff.
Less common, but still easy enough to find:
- Indian/Pakistani: Quite the rage in recent years.
- Thai
- Greek: Seems like it was more popular a decade ago or so.
Easy to find in Vienna, but hard to find elsewhere in Austria:
- Authentic Japanese: Expensive as ****. $17 for a bowl of udon noodles...
- Authentic Chinese
- Mexican: We have a handful of really nice Mexican restaurants here in Vienna. Like... 3 or 4. They are doing a great job. All the others are just serving frozen/deep fried Tex-Mex stuff. Yuck.
- Vietnamese: There is a Vietnamese restaurant on every corner where I'm living. Not easy to find a decent place in Graz, Linz, Salzburg or Innsbruck, though.
Stuff that is rather hard to find in Vienna and that I miss:
- Korean: There only 2-3 Korean restaurants here and all of them are pretty lackluster.
- Cantonese: Impossible to find Cantonese BBQ or real Wanton Mee...
Not including American style fast food like McDonald's...
1. Italian/Chinese
3. Indian
4. Thai
5. Vietnamese
6. Malaysian/Singaporean
7. Indonesian
8. French
9. German/Spanish/American/other
As you can see, Asian food dominates...
MAN how could I forget the Middle Eastern cuisines? I'd say Turkish and Lebanese would probably be no 5 or so a bit above Vietnamese. Also Greek would be around no 8.
I would also now put Korean above French and other European...
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