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Your top 3 food styles - apart from local. Also, anything you are not keen on .

(63 Posts)
nanna8 Sun 28-Sept-25 09:23:56

At the moment, for me, they are probably
Japanese
Vietnamese and
Thai
I am not keen on Mexican except for some dips like guacamole.

Babs03 Sun 28-Sept-25 09:25:53

Italian
Thai
Indian

Never liked Chinese food find it a bit oily.

Grandmabatty Sun 28-Sept-25 09:27:35

Italian
Indian
Spanish

Flippinheck Sun 28-Sept-25 09:32:42

Anything. Oh dear.

Charleygirl5 Sun 28-Sept-25 09:35:19

Chinese
Indian
French

Curlywhirly Sun 28-Sept-25 09:51:18

Italian
French
Thai

Patsy70 Sun 28-Sept-25 09:55:32

Italian
Thai
English

TerriBull Sun 28-Sept-25 10:04:39

A hard one! Italian,French, Spanish, I love all their cuisines. Maybe Italian coming out top for me. Cuisines of the East, I love Indian above all the others, I've never really tried Japanese, apart from sushi, so I couldn't say. One son loves Korean, again, I've not really tried that either. I also quite like Middle Eastern cooking from what I've tasted of Lebanese, but such restaurants outside metropolitan areas appear to be a bit thin on the ground.

Sago Sun 28-Sept-25 10:16:41

British, lots of wonderful casseroles, pies, fish and chips and of course roasts.
Mediterranean, soups, risotto, pates, salads, pastas etc.
Indian, I love all homemade curries, dhals, pakora, bhajis, dips and chutneys.

Greyduster Sun 28-Sept-25 11:05:33

Thai; in a good Thai restaurant the food is a feast for the eyes as well as the palate.

Indian; we have a family run restaurant that never disappoints. I would queue all night on the doorstep to eat their mustard pepper lamb chops, Viceroy’s Keema or Rajasthani Railway Lamb.

I also like Polish food, but there are not many Polish restaurants hereabouts. Used to be a nice one in York.

nanna8 Sun 28-Sept-25 11:17:28

Where we live ( Melbourne ) that’s what they do - food. We are really spoilt for choice in that direction. That and coffee. Not a lot else - many shops are disappearing so we are left with food food food and real estate agents !

winterwhite Sun 28-Sept-25 12:32:50

British
French

paddyann54 Sun 28-Sept-25 12:38:01

Greek
Italian
Indian

GrannyGravy13 Sun 28-Sept-25 12:53:52

Authentic Indian, as opposed to the Bangladeshi Curry houses on every High St.

Thai, cooked by a Thai Chef with authentic ingredients, not just jazzed up Chinese

Mediterranean cuisine, authentic Spanish, Italian, French.

Esmay Sun 28-Sept-25 12:59:01

If I'm honest more than three-anything Asian so Chinese , Japanese ,Indian,Korean and Thai .

I'm not that crazy about some Italian food .
I love some of their meat and fish dishes without pasta .
And I'm not wild about Spanish nor Mexican food either.

MollyNew Sun 28-Sept-25 13:00:04

Indian
Italian
Greek

I also like a proper burger - not keen on the takeaway ones but some restaurants do them well.

I'm not to keen on middle eastern flavours such as tagines etc but I'm willing to be converted.

kittylester Sun 28-Sept-25 13:09:31

We are lucky enough to have a punjab restaurant just up the road. The food is fabulous.

I have been a keen cook of Indian food since an Indian friend taught her own recipes in the 70s. Living near Leicester meant that the authentic ingredients were fairly easy to track down and then Madhur Jaffry (spelling?) appeared on the scene.

We also love Italian food and new takes on Brutish food.

kittylester Sun 28-Sept-25 13:10:12

Or even British!!

My cooking is that bad!!

Baggs Sun 28-Sept-25 13:39:39

I had to look at this thread to find out what a "food style" is.

I don't have one.

nanna8 Sun 28-Sept-25 14:15:07

I didn’t include Australian either because it tends to take stuff from everywhere and is a bit hard to define - prawn on the barby, barramundi, Pav perhaps ? I can’t stand kangaroo meat and neither can my cats. I wasn’t sure how to say what I meant but most people seem to have worked it out anyway.

CariadAgain Sun 28-Sept-25 14:17:05

Middle Eastern top of the list.

I'd also be happy at the thought of French food or Scandinavian smorgasbord.

Gin Sun 28-Sept-25 14:40:40

Lebanese, Egyptian and Italian. I eat food based on Italian food most of the time but like something different on special occasions.

Norah Sun 28-Sept-25 14:43:10

Italian, Thai, Indian

LaCrepescule Sun 28-Sept-25 14:48:55

Italian
Thai
Indian

Whiff Sun 28-Sept-25 15:34:40

Italian
British
French