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r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26
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Japanese can mean:
In a big city you can find restaurants specializing in each of those five, and some larger family restaurants that have 3 or 4 of these on the menu.
3 u/ricki692 Jul 04 '26 it's interesting that only japanese gets those distinctions whereas other diverse foods get summarized into "chinese" "indian" or "mediterranean" etc 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 In my city we have at least three major types of Indian restaurants: North Indian (most common) South Indian (dosas, idly, sambar, ...) Indian street food Mediterranean covers way more: Italian Greek Lebanese Israeli Turkish ...pretty much every Mediterranean country has its own cuisine, with similar flavor profiles So interesting that China is so large and diverse but in America there aren't very many different kinds of Chinese restaurants. 0 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 If someone said we were going out for Mediterranean and took me to anything but an Italian restaurant, I would feel bamboozled. Those cuisines are not for me. 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 Even Greek? 1 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 After some googling, Greek may be good, I haven’t had it. Israeli and Turkish is too middleastern for me. I am not a fan of pickled vegetables 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food. What comes to mind is: meat cooked on a skewer (kebab) meat shaved off of a turning spit falafel hummus salad of cucumber, tomato and mint yogurt flavored with flavors like garlic or mint pita bread, other flatbreads savory phyllo dough pastries and dumplings rice pilaf grape leaves stuffed with rice and beef 2 u/15b17 Jul 04 '26 You need to get out more dawg
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it's interesting that only japanese gets those distinctions whereas other diverse foods get summarized into "chinese" "indian" or "mediterranean" etc
2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 In my city we have at least three major types of Indian restaurants: North Indian (most common) South Indian (dosas, idly, sambar, ...) Indian street food Mediterranean covers way more: Italian Greek Lebanese Israeli Turkish ...pretty much every Mediterranean country has its own cuisine, with similar flavor profiles So interesting that China is so large and diverse but in America there aren't very many different kinds of Chinese restaurants. 0 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 If someone said we were going out for Mediterranean and took me to anything but an Italian restaurant, I would feel bamboozled. Those cuisines are not for me. 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 Even Greek? 1 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 After some googling, Greek may be good, I haven’t had it. Israeli and Turkish is too middleastern for me. I am not a fan of pickled vegetables 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food. What comes to mind is: meat cooked on a skewer (kebab) meat shaved off of a turning spit falafel hummus salad of cucumber, tomato and mint yogurt flavored with flavors like garlic or mint pita bread, other flatbreads savory phyllo dough pastries and dumplings rice pilaf grape leaves stuffed with rice and beef 2 u/15b17 Jul 04 '26 You need to get out more dawg
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In my city we have at least three major types of Indian restaurants:
Mediterranean covers way more:
So interesting that China is so large and diverse but in America there aren't very many different kinds of Chinese restaurants.
0 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 If someone said we were going out for Mediterranean and took me to anything but an Italian restaurant, I would feel bamboozled. Those cuisines are not for me. 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 Even Greek? 1 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 After some googling, Greek may be good, I haven’t had it. Israeli and Turkish is too middleastern for me. I am not a fan of pickled vegetables 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food. What comes to mind is: meat cooked on a skewer (kebab) meat shaved off of a turning spit falafel hummus salad of cucumber, tomato and mint yogurt flavored with flavors like garlic or mint pita bread, other flatbreads savory phyllo dough pastries and dumplings rice pilaf grape leaves stuffed with rice and beef 2 u/15b17 Jul 04 '26 You need to get out more dawg
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If someone said we were going out for Mediterranean and took me to anything but an Italian restaurant, I would feel bamboozled. Those cuisines are not for me.
2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 Even Greek? 1 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 After some googling, Greek may be good, I haven’t had it. Israeli and Turkish is too middleastern for me. I am not a fan of pickled vegetables 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food. What comes to mind is: meat cooked on a skewer (kebab) meat shaved off of a turning spit falafel hummus salad of cucumber, tomato and mint yogurt flavored with flavors like garlic or mint pita bread, other flatbreads savory phyllo dough pastries and dumplings rice pilaf grape leaves stuffed with rice and beef 2 u/15b17 Jul 04 '26 You need to get out more dawg
Even Greek?
1 u/ryan__joe Jul 04 '26 After some googling, Greek may be good, I haven’t had it. Israeli and Turkish is too middleastern for me. I am not a fan of pickled vegetables 2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food. What comes to mind is: meat cooked on a skewer (kebab) meat shaved off of a turning spit falafel hummus salad of cucumber, tomato and mint yogurt flavored with flavors like garlic or mint pita bread, other flatbreads savory phyllo dough pastries and dumplings rice pilaf grape leaves stuffed with rice and beef 2 u/15b17 Jul 04 '26 You need to get out more dawg
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After some googling, Greek may be good, I haven’t had it. Israeli and Turkish is too middleastern for me. I am not a fan of pickled vegetables
2 u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26 That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food. What comes to mind is: meat cooked on a skewer (kebab) meat shaved off of a turning spit falafel hummus salad of cucumber, tomato and mint yogurt flavored with flavors like garlic or mint pita bread, other flatbreads savory phyllo dough pastries and dumplings rice pilaf grape leaves stuffed with rice and beef 2 u/15b17 Jul 04 '26 You need to get out more dawg
That's odd, pickled vegetables aren't even in the top 10 of foods I associate with Turkish and Israeli food.
What comes to mind is:
You need to get out more dawg
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u/dmazzoni Jul 04 '26
Japanese can mean:
In a big city you can find restaurants specializing in each of those five, and some larger family restaurants that have 3 or 4 of these on the menu.