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[quote=Anonymous]OP, what are you asking?

If you're asking how people celebrate Thanksgiving in, say, Bangladesh, and what foods they serve, then that's not a thing. (Every culture has gathering/party/holiday foods, though.) American Thanksgiving is an American holiday.

You can certainly make whatever you want for the meal, though. So whip up some pad thai or couscous. Go to town! That's all easy to Google or check out of the library.

If you just want to add some "flair" to typical Thanksgiving foods, I mean, curry is good on pumpkin or butternut squash, turkey with harissa? Like others have said, search Epicurious for "[major ingredient]" or w/e and scan for any turkey or potato or yam or corn dish that includes some of those flavor accents.

If you're asking what American people from those cultures serve at Thanksgiving, okay, that is the only question that makes more sense to crowdsource than to Google, so maybe that's what you're asking.

It's at least a specific question to which the answer is not obvious, but that's partly because it's not exactly a thing. Most people will serve a couple of American TG dishes-- usually a whole turkey, though some E/SE Asian people serve duck instead, mashed potatoes and maybe sweet potatoes or squash or something, prepared in a European/American style... and then serve whatever else they like from their culture. For ex, pancit, tagine, paratha, rice instead of potatoes or rolls, etc. Not too many Asian/MENA families have been in the US for more than 50-100 years, if that, so there's not a semi-standard "menu" for A Very Vietnamese American Thanksgiving or anything. Of course, I'm not sure there's a Very Jewish American or Very Polish American or even a Very Irish American Thanksgiving, either. It's more of a family by family thing. I guess there are region-wide traditions, and there is something of a Very Black American Thanksgiving (more likely to require mac'n'cheese, sub sweet potato pie for pumpkin pie), but even that varies widely.

If you want to serve a meal like a, say, Afghani American family would at Thanksgiving... like specifically with that idea in mind... That's a little odd to me?

The best way to get-- or already have-- this information is to have friends and family that come from these cultures. If you don't, then no wonder your question is so opaque and confusing. I have some doubt you're even clear on what you're asking.

I'm not saying this is you, but it reminds me of people who ask how Jews celebrate Christmas. Hmmm... that example is too obvious and too religious. Maybe it's like when someone asked my Indian American cousin what toppings Indian Americans order on their pizza. He was like, uhhhh... pepperoni? Did they expect him to say okra? Or paneer?[/quote]

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