wow, let's see who is taking that more serious, another run of "7" points of B/S!
we are not talking about a respect of tastes of different culture.
You showed your disrepect and ignorance by starting to criticize on the "look" of Chinese cuisine which are worse than "western" cuisine even on an amateur vs professional level, when the "western" look can be so awful and amateurish photo of Chinese cuisines are just as good as the western pro.
Take a look what you said on post 1054 and my posting refuting yours completely on post 1059!
That's right.
China is THE world's cuisine superpower, with no one coming close, even the French.
The East:
1. the superpower-Chinese
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remote 2. South East Asian such as Thai, Malays, Viet,etc which are also combined with some sino influence.
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3. probably Southern Indian (I don't eat Indian food)
The West:
1. French
2. Italian
3. Spanish
Northen European countries such as UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, etc have ZERO clue on cuisine.
e.g.
I tasted both Finnish and Icelandic national cuisine ...they're, with all the respect, nasty.
Holland's "national" cuisine is Indonesian
, and Meat Ball.
Talking about glorious meat ball that i have on a weekly basis, Swedish one is even worse
The best meat ball i've has was the one from a Chinese restaurant.
Germany's traditional national cuisine is the holy trinity "sour carbage, pork sausage & mash" (sauerkraut) - the same as zuurkool of Holland , Austria and Southern Belgium and the western part of Poland. I wanna throw up whenever i think about it to be honest - ate way too much when was little
Actually the best I ate was cooked exclusively for me by an European royal family member himself, with the help of his gf, in his house.
UK's fish&chips, yorkshire pudding, some lamb dishes etc are not bad at all. And that's about it. And those are not cuisine. The next best British "hero" is probably Indian curry
The best areas to eat in Europe are France in general, Northern Belgium (french actually), Italia,Spain, probably some parts of Portugal and Greece as well.
The best authentic Chinese restaurants in Europe are concentrated in London/Man/Liverpool area, Paris(Chinese, Vietnames and Cambodian fusion though)and Amsterdam/Utrecht(there're a few pure Cantonese ones that are really authentic).