your top food travel experience?

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Anonymous wrote:Favorite food destinations include New Orleans, Memphis, Italy, NYC and Tucson- best Mexican food IMHO.

I’m Germany, all the food is prepared with care, but kind of tire of it after awhile.

I agree with you about German food. It’s delicious but of a very limited variety and so heavy

The new German cuisine is very light and healthy. I’ve seen it almost take over at many places where locals go.

Well I was just in Munich in April and the traditional stuff was as heavy as ever

I can appreciate and even really like German food- in moderation. I can only eat so much of it. And not to make this all negative about Germany- it's one of my favorite countries I've visited, but I think they've lost bragging rights as far as beer. They have some great beers, but I think the U.S. takes the lead in terms of innovative brewing.

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Anonymous wrote:Italy
S Korea
Beijing (duck!)

South Korea is great. I love Korean food, but also appreciated the other great Asian food that was available. Also am a huge fan of Korean fried chicken.

I was just in Italy for the first time. We had a couple great meals and a few meals that gave Olive Garden a run for their money.

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Argentina, Spain (especially San Sebastián/Basque), and New Orleans.

I can confirm there is a ton of vegan food in Poland, as of 2 weeks ago. I imagine the vegan food was even more mediocre than the rest of Polish cuisine. I will say there are a LOT of excellent Italian/pizza joints in Poland. Lovely thin, crisp, chewy crusts. Way better than pierogi and pork cutlets.

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Anonymous wrote:Italy
S Korea
Beijing (duck!)

South Korea is great. I love Korean food, but also appreciated the other great Asian food that was available. Also am a huge fan of Korean fried chicken.

I was just in Italy for the first time. We had a couple great meals and a few meals that gave Olive Garden a run for their money.

Han Woo beef is amazing. Soem of the best beef in the world. Had a fantastic meal at the meat market in Seoul where we ordered it. Can't buy it outside of the country.

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Anonymous wrote:Paris
Hong Kong
Zanzibar

Zanzibar? What places do you recommend there? Will be there later this month.

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Anonymous wrote:My top three are stable after a lot of traveling:
-Turkey (top notch vegetables and fruits, kebabs, meze, borek and other baked goods — really all of it, but be mindful of avoiding touristy places)
-Kuala Lumpur (Malay, Chinese, Indian (especially South Indian which is harder to come by at home), tropical fruits)
-Mexico (all the antojitos, it’s fun to explore the regional varieties like DF style tacos v. Northern style on a flour tortilla v. Panucho topped with cochinita pibil in the Yucatan)

Agree with all of these - Turkey is really underrated.

Turkey is pretty great at Thanksgiving, but it otherwise isn’t at the top of my list. Am I missing something?

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Sicily

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Anonymous wrote:Thailand
Japan
South Korea


There's really no competition and it's not even close. On a per dollar basis, no better place in the world for food than Asia.

And it's even Asian foods....best Italian, Indian and French food I've ever had were in countries like Thailand or Japan.

On the Netflix show Ugly Delicious, half of the episodes end with David Chang finding the platonic ideal of whatever food he was discussing on that episode, in Japan.

+100

The Japanese have a knack for taking something from another culture/country and perfecting it. I always loved Japanese patisserie especially!

Also, I enjoyed several memorable Indian meals in Japan, both in Tokyo and Sapporo.

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Alba (and Piedmont in general) during truffle season
Barcelona

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Brittany - every meal was absolutely delicious.

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Anonymous wrote:Argentina, Spain (especially San Sebastián/Basque), and New Orleans.

I can confirm there is a ton of vegan food in Poland, as of 2 weeks ago. I imagine the vegan food was even more mediocre than the rest of Polish cuisine. I will say there are a LOT of excellent Italian/pizza joints in Poland. Lovely thin, crisp, chewy crusts. Way better than pierogi and pork cutlets.

I've lived there and traveled back several times and, while I love the country, I find the food pretty lackluster.

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Anonymous wrote:My top three are stable after a lot of traveling:
-Turkey (top notch vegetables and fruits, kebabs, meze, borek and other baked goods — really all of it, but be mindful of avoiding touristy places)
-Kuala Lumpur (Malay, Chinese, Indian (especially South Indian which is harder to come by at home), tropical fruits)
-Mexico (all the antojitos, it’s fun to explore the regional varieties like DF style tacos v. Northern style on a flour tortilla v. Panucho topped with cochinita pibil in the Yucatan)

Agree with all of these - Turkey is really underrated.

Turkey is pretty great at Thanksgiving, but it otherwise isn’t at the top of my list. Am I missing something?

A brain.

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Anonymous wrote:Iceland was a really surprising one for me! I wasn't necessarily thinking of the food when we booked the trip and it far exceeded my expectations.

Me too, especially considering they were so poor and had almost nothing to eat till the second half of last century. My tour guide said people did not eat cod till recently. I asked why, thinking maybe it was too plain. He said because cod was for export, why do you want to eat money?

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Anonymous wrote:New Orleans
Singapore
Grand Case, St Martin

Where the chefs go to train. Food and wine were impeccable. Glad I went back a few more times. It’s not the same since the devastating hurricanes.

Food was underwhelming in Rome. Phenomenal in Sicily.

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Italy was incredible. Just hands down the most consistently spectacular food.

Agree with a pp that the fruits in central and northern South America can't be beat. Costa Rica, Colombia...

Someone mentioned Iceland which had awful food imo.

I also found South African food pretty underwhelming.