Vietnamese breakfast that isn’t pho or rice is just, ‘1800s French breakfast, but add soy sauce’.
I adore it
(I don’t adore the reasons why this is the case)
Always dreaming of this place (also Mark Wiens really knows his shit, I trust his recs more than any ‘influencer’)
Speaking of fusion foods: in Singapore and Malaysia, the Hainanese chefs who used to cook in the British military barracks in the early 1900s also developed their unique strain of ‘British Hainanese food’. It still lives on. I am very fond if it.
Basically ‘add 10x more black pepper, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup and chillies’ to whatever the colonials were eating
‘Russian’ Chinese food is also very much a thing
@skinnylatte how big is the shared border
@grumpasaurus Russian and northern Chinese food is prob quite diff from this. This is southern. People cooking Russian food due to trade I think
@skinnylatte oh the hk stuff.
But yeah a lot of people in Russia cook Chinese food too!
@skinnylatte My Dad, who was born in Pakistan, swears up and down that Pakistani Chinese food is the best Chinese food.
@skinnylatte this is fascinating, thank you! I always wonder about how different cuisine are reinterpreted in different countries away from their homeland.
@skinnylatte I’m told this market has excellent Uzbeki Korean food, lots of kimchis
@skinnylatte there's a Georgian restaurant in Los Altos called Bevri that serves these massive soup dumplings called khinkali that you grab by the top, turn them over and then eat from the base. Don't see anything else on the menu that looked like Chinese food though.
@skinnylatte The borscht is kind of funny to me because they actually got everything exactly right, it's just like the one I grew up with... except for the key ingredient, the beets.