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Italian by far. Followed by French, especially in haute cuisine.
Pasta is the new potato, we drink espresso and cognac, and eat ciabatte and croissants. The only exception is red wine, where Chile is the most popular, and Italy and France comes behind. Cognac, pizza and baguettes are such Finnish staples that we don't really even realise that they are French and Italian in origin.
But of course, if you want to turn it around from a different perspective, Swedish is naturally the most common foreign cuisine, because I doubt anyone can draw the line where Finnish cuisine ends and Swedish starts. Lutefisk is Norwegian, cured salmon is Swedish, and the most Finnish or Swedish traditional food - meatballs, are actually from Turkey.
In Melbourne it's mostly Chinese food outside of the fast food joints.
I'm not sure Chinese really qualifies as "foreign"; the Chinese and Chinese food have been part of Australia since its early days.
I see lots of quisines other than Chinese whenever I'm in Melbourne: Vietnamese, Malaysian, Lebanese, Indian, Japanese etc. Italian probably doesn't come count as "foreign" either; its been part of Australian life for generations, and is pretty much a cook at home staple for a lot of people regardless of whether they have an Italian background or not, hence the sizeable pasta sections in most supermarkets.
If so, italian cuisine is the most found in my city, and probably in every single city of Brazil.
I think since the pizzeria is a specialized restaurant focusing on one dish, and the variety of that dish can vary dramatically in ingredients and preparation, and the fact that pizzerias are ubiquitous in every western nation on earth and many non-western countries as well, it doesn't quite qualify as a representative of 'foreign cuisine'.
Funny, I and most other Canadians on here didn't even think of American cuisine as "foreign"...
That's because " American " cuisine reflects it's immigrant past, just like Canada. They basically grew together.
That's why the phrase " As American as Apple Pie " is so silly, since apple pie is not an American creation.
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