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

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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.

Frenchgalinspain Mon 29-Sept-25 13:50:19

I am also a grand fan of Greek Mezze .. and of course, Spanish Tapas ..

Frenchgalinspain Mon 29-Sept-25 13:48:28

French
Italian
Japanese

keepingquiet Mon 29-Sept-25 13:47:38

My food style?

Buy it
Cook it
Eat it

IamMaz Mon 29-Sept-25 13:44:10

I dont like spices so definitely not Indian.
I dont like processed meat so no burgers, sausages or kebab type stuff either!
I’d choose Italian or Chinese probably.

Iam64 Mon 29-Sept-25 13:43:46

Greek, North African, Indian
Anything from the Mediterranean

yogitree Mon 29-Sept-25 12:52:03

Indian
French
Italian

Marg75 Mon 29-Sept-25 12:32:06

Italian
Spanish
French
Indian
Chinese but only restaurant, not takeaway

lixy Sun 28-Sept-25 17:51:11

Italian - really good delis and restaurants here

German - hearty stews and decent bread

Scandi - super fresh, simple, lots of fish and seafood

I don’t like the taste of miso so Japanese is challenging for me.

Allira Sun 28-Sept-25 17:10:32

nanna8

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.

Greek as well
And goulash (Croatian style)

You can't beat fresh barramundi, *nanna8!
Followed by pavlova.

Allira Sun 28-Sept-25 17:09:05

Apart from local:

Italian (difficult because DH dislikes pasta)
Indian
Thai

Not Chinese.

JamesandJon33 Sun 28-Sept-25 16:32:25

Italian
Greek
Indian

ViceVersa Sun 28-Sept-25 16:05:54

Not including British, because the OP did say 'not local', so I'm going to go with:
Turkish/Greek (because they are very similar)
Chinese
Italian

Jaxjacky Sun 28-Sept-25 15:47:14

British, particularly game.
Kashmiri (Pakistan)
French

Not fond of fast food

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

Italian
British
French

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

Italian
Thai
Indian

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

Italian, Thai, Indian

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Or even British!!

My cooking is that bad!!

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.

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.

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.

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.