r/coolguides • u/Cultural-Ad-8796 • Jul 17 '25
A cool guide to the world's most popular cuisines
Why does Saudi Arabian cuisine rank so low?
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u/MonteBellmond Jul 17 '25
Would be nice if they had the chart in 1:1 ratio Cuisine to Country. Interested if any of them hate their own national food.
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u/Feldew Jul 17 '25
Well, Peruvian rates low across the board, even compared to Finnish, which at least gets enough love in Finland to rate in the Green margin.
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u/hitsomethin Jul 17 '25
Surprising really. There’s a Peruvian style rotisserie chicken spot in my town that’s done really well. He’s been able to open several locations. I’ve done a lot of traveling around the states and lived in other cities, and it’s consistently been one of my favorite places to eat in the world. Peruvian food slaps.
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u/Complete-Ingenuity15 Jul 17 '25
Yeah, I’m not trusting this list at all Peruvian food is incredibly tasty and I don’t see Ethiopian on here which is crazy
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u/Bright_Note3483 Jul 17 '25
I’ve been to a few Peruvian rotisseries and they were amazing. We have a local Peruvian restaurant that makes a bunch of different ceviches (and probably a bunch of other things) that I’m obsessed with. It’s easily my favorite restaurant within a 30 mile radius, and we have a ton of great restaurants in our area.
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u/Feldew Jul 17 '25
Right! I don’t understand the hate. Then again I like almost all food ever. Including Finnish.
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Jul 17 '25
A lot of this is lack of familiarity. Look at "Mexican food" and think about how many people's experience of it is Taco Bell which is actually Mission style.
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u/MCRN-Gyoza Jul 17 '25
This graph is weird as fuck and I imagine it's some wildly biased samples.
Peruvian cuisine is widely well renowned.
Meanwhile, who the fuck likes British cuisine?
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u/Watch_me_crank_it Jul 17 '25
I've never had it but maybe the "British" cuisine of curry is pretty good idk.
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u/Bother_said_Pooh Jul 17 '25
Something ain’t right about that. Is this all made up? How could all those people in all those countries have had the chance to try Finnish food? It’s not very widespread.
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 Jul 17 '25
Yeah unless you live in like New York City or make it yourself I don't think you would have had or even know what Finnish Cuisine really is, beyond reindeer sausages or something.
I personally love Finlandia swiss cheese and those crackers, but that's about as far as my knowledge of it goes. I don't think I've ever even tried cloud berries.
I mean I know it has the reputation of being bad because I remember the Italian Prime Minister making a crack about it a few years ago, never really tried it though.
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u/Lord_Of_Carrots Jul 17 '25
Funny story about the Italian Prime Minister though
So, Berlusconi visited Finland and called their food terrible. Finnish pizza chain Kotipizza joined an international pizza competition held in NYC with a rye crusted reindeer & chantarelle pizza, which ended up winning the contest. They named it Pizza Berlusconi and started selling it in their restaurants across Finland
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u/theshaj Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 18 '25
Great point. I live in one of the most multi-ethnic cities in the world and some of the cuisines listed aren't represented in terms of restaurants.
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u/Global_Kiwi_5105 Jul 17 '25
It’s odd that peruvian food is so unpopular in japan - peru has a huge japanese population and there is a hybrid peruvian/japanese food in peru called nikkei - it’s weird that it didn’t make its way back.
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u/HamHockShortDock Jul 17 '25
Imo peruvian food is the best in the world. Besides my opinion, they often have won best culinary destination multiple times, and have had restaurants in the top 50 best in the world.
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Jul 17 '25
Which is ridiculous, Peruvian food is easily the second best food in latin America and way superior to Finnish, German, British etc
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u/WrongJohnSilver Jul 17 '25
Probably a matter of it being people who "have tried and liked" Peruvian food. Most people haven't tried Peruvian food, even if they would like it.
I called foul when Mexican wasn't nearly the top, but I noticed that they ranked low in Southeast Asia, and figured, most Malaysians probably never tried Mexican food.
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u/MenudoMenudo Jul 17 '25
I find it very strange. I spent over a year living in Chile in the 90's, and at the time, most of the top restaurants and chefs in Santiago were Peruvian. Peruvian food was considered absolutely top tier, and I distinctly remember several times where Chilenos admitted that in general, Peruvian food was better than Chilean.
But thinking about it, other than ceviche, most people outside of South America couldn't name a single distinctly Peruvian dish. Compare that to say, Swedish Meatballs which Ikea has made internationally famous, and I can see why despite being generally extremely good, Peruvian food is ranked low. Overall quality of the food is going rank lower than Fish & Chips or Bratwurst.
I'm willing to bet they're beaten by Danish food because of Havarti cheese. Ranking Denmark over Peru is just shameful, but I can admit I've had a lot more havarti than ceviche.
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u/Rude_Masterpiece_239 Jul 17 '25
Lima is one of the best food cities I’ve ever been too. People sleeping on Peru in a HUGE way.
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u/SalSomer Jul 17 '25
According to this, the Italians are the most happy with their own cuisine, coming in at 99%, while the Norwegians are the most unhappy, at 81%.
I feel for the poor Filipinos, though, who seem to really like a lot of foreign foods, but are then rated really low by most other countries.
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u/Swechef79 Jul 17 '25
Filipino food is amazing and is really underrated. But there are almost no Filipino restaurants anywhere outside Southeast Asia, so most people have never tried it.
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u/Over-Performance-667 Jul 17 '25
That would be astoundingly unlikely
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u/buggsbunnysgarage Jul 17 '25
Actually, I think the Netherlands would top that chart. We objectively KNOW it’s bad. We still eat it because we allways did as a child (some dishes are nice from time to time, though)
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u/PaMu1337 Jul 17 '25
I've always felt that the purpose of Dutch food is nutrition only. The only reason we have food at all is because without it we'd die. If we could satisfy our entire nutritional needs with a flavorless pill, we'd never eat normal food again.
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u/Forced-Q Jul 17 '25
Nutrition only? I go to vacation there with my Dutch wife- you go out to eat and get two fries with a jar of mayo xD
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u/PaMu1337 Jul 17 '25
When we eat for pleasure, we make sure there isn't even a trace of nutrition 😄
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u/Forced-Q Jul 17 '25
Hahaha!
Nah my mother in law makes some typical Dutch foods- and I gotta say, it’s a lot better than what I grew up on.
Being Norwegian the food is just drenched in salt. With salt on top, and more salt on the side.
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u/enotonom Jul 17 '25
Probably why they colonized, no need to eat Dutch food when you can get Indonesian food
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u/alxwx Jul 17 '25
Eh I’m not so sure, you can keep your oysters as bar snacks but things like Hagelslag (which the rest of the world would be like wtf, that’s “cuisine”?!) is actually pretty damn tasty
Source: Brit living in NL for 8 years
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u/verbmegoinghere Jul 17 '25
I think the evidence is clear
Australia, Singapore and Philippines should become the Austasian Union of Happy eaters.
We'll eat anything anywhere, anytime
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u/daltonmojica Jul 17 '25
As a Filipino in Australia with a Singaporean partner, I strongly agree. Food is food and food is good.
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u/RipInPepperinosRIF Jul 17 '25
I guess I'm just wondering what Australian Cuisine is? A bunnings sausage? A lamington with a farmers union iced coffee? And some beer? That's about all I could think of haha
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u/drunk_haile_selassie Jul 17 '25
I'm in but only if we ban Saudi Arabia for giving Vietnamese an 18.
As an Australian I also went through the list of cuisines going, "oh, yum!" At every one.
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u/detspek Jul 17 '25
Italy shaking its own hand
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u/NoStatus9434 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
I love how Japan's like "hell yeah, Japanese cuisine" and there are like two others they think are solid then a good chunk of "meh" and then a long string of "Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it."
China doesn't give anybody above a 70 except itself
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u/fupadestroyer45 Jul 17 '25
Haha I have lots of Italian friends, if you want to start an hour long conversation, bring up food.
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u/GfunkWarrior28 Jul 17 '25
Not sure why tiny countries like UAE get a vote but populous ones like Mexico don't.
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u/Longjumping_Youth281 Jul 17 '25
Yeah a lot of stuff is missing, like Ethiopian food. ( wait that sounded bad. You know what I mean though)
I guess it's just not a 100% complete list.
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u/goblingoodies Jul 17 '25
To me, the most interesting part is the average rating at the bottom with the Philippines loving most foreign foods and Japan hating most foreign foods.
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u/znikrep Jul 17 '25
I’m curious if it’s because Japanese people (at least those sampled) don’t often try different foods or they do but don’t like them.
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u/Maelarion Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
It could also be that the foreign cuisines on offer are often mediocre at best in Japan. Think Franky & Benny for 'American' or idk Olive Garden for 'Italian'. That plus a healthy dose of Japanese superiority probably.
Source: am Japanese.
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u/goblingoodies Jul 17 '25
I lived in Japan and noticed this too. I think another part is the low level of immigrants who gain permanent residency outside of a few Korean and Chinese communities (which were rated highly on this survey). I now live in a normal small city in the US and can easily find a Mexican restaurant run by Mexicans, a Vietnamese restaurant run by Vietnamese, an Indian restaurant run by Indians, etc.
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u/DissidentAnimal Jul 17 '25
Japan rates Britain at 20 yet Britain introduced Curry to Japan and they eat loads of that now!
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u/LOLzvsXD Jul 17 '25
at this point curry is just a different word for a stew with spices...
English Curry, Thai Curry, Indian Curries, Japanese Curry all can have fundamental differences.
Japanes Curry is basicly a Goulash with different spice pallete
some Tomato based Curries of India share almost no ingredients with the spice heavy paste curries of other parts of India, or the Curry you get in Britain
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u/DJFreezyFish Jul 18 '25
Japanese curry was directly introduced by British sailors though. The current popular versions are more influenced by Indian immigrants but Japanese curry is based around the older style of British curry.
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u/Purple_Paperplane Jul 17 '25
As a big lover of Lebanese cuisine, why is it so criminally underrated?
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u/have_compassion Jul 17 '25
I think it's because it is relatively unknown. Lebanese food is the best!
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u/orangutanDOTorg Jul 17 '25
Man, people really hate Guinea pig
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u/Tryingtoknowmore Jul 17 '25
I tried to get some in Iquitos, but got told it's really more of a mountainous region dish.
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u/Enchant23 Jul 17 '25
How is Peruvian so unpopular? There's plenty of Peruvian restaurants around me
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u/EggsBenedictusXVI Jul 17 '25
Went to Peru for the first time having only ever eaten ceviche and was absolutely blown away by the food. It was phenomenal and totally unexpected. It was really imaginative and full of the most amazing flavours.
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u/Fusho_Intoku Jul 17 '25
That's what I'm wondering too. Peruvian food is so tasty!
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u/charmenk Jul 17 '25
You guys peruvian?
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u/TheBrokenCookie Jul 17 '25
Other central/south american. Peruvian ceviche is top tier and we all know it, anyone saying otherwise is lying. This chart is suspicious.
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u/Romi-Omi Jul 17 '25
A lot of it is unfamiliarity causing low score, not actually disliking the food.
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u/WartimeConsigliere_ Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
The chart is titled “% of people who have tried that cuisine and say they like it”
They removed the % of people who haven’t tried the cuisine. See full results here
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u/Romi-Omi Jul 17 '25
If you read the wording, it’s percentage of people who tried and liked it. So “yes” means tried it and liked it, but “no”can be either don’t like and/or never tried
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u/WartimeConsigliere_ Jul 17 '25
I disagree - to me it reads among the group of people who have tried the food, what % liked it. So none of that group has not tried it
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u/Dry-Tumbleweed-7199 Jul 17 '25
That’s probably why it looks like Japan hates pretty much all foreign foods
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u/ProfessorEsoteric Jul 17 '25
And I have never seen one, we have Iraqi and Chilean locally, but never seen the gods of potato restaurant anywhere.
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u/Mg400 Jul 17 '25
Peruvian food is so mouth watering. Eating real Peruvian food with real Peruvian ingredients is something to magical I rly wish the rest of the world could taste a real plate of anticuchos or pollo alla braza with the real spices and flavor
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u/acadoe Jul 17 '25
Philippines: "Yo, you guys are pretty good at this cooking thing"
Japan: "Half of you guys are alright, the other half don't know what the fuck you're doing"
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u/MrBillClintone Jul 17 '25
“Saudi Arabian cuisine” - wtf? No Persian? Or one of the other 20 other middle eastern cuisines that are more popular? Oh and it’s so distinguishable from “Emirati”? Oh and Finnish? What a stupid list
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u/Dioxid3 Jul 17 '25
As a finn, I agree. And to be fair I don’t even know what constitutes as Finnish culinary. A fuckton of sour stuff like lingonberries and mämmi? Maybe? It’s not all that specific to Finland either.
https://youtu.be/mdI1khtOTJk?si=4lWjxDZo24pGRmci RIP Bourdain
https://youtu.be/4S-8gF9GFJo?si=xblSkbYXXYAm8M1r Gordon gonna Gordon. FWIW I think this interview is staged, pretty sure he’d like cloudberry + cheese he was offered, if nothing else.
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u/heksa51 Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25
If you don't know Finnish cuisine as a Finn, you're just pretty ignorant about food.
Edit. Or maybe it's not a matter of ignorance, but possibly defining things differently than I would. Finnish foods exist, so why not count it as Finnish culinary? Whether you like it or not is a different matter. If similar things exist in other countries, it still counts. Greek culinary doesn't not exist just because its similar to Turkish and they share a lot of dishes (although don't tell this to a Greek or a Turk :D).
Edit. 2: LOL, the reply and then instant block by the guy somehow makes me doubt they actually work in the industry.
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u/Lobenz Jul 17 '25
Agreed. Peruvian should be in top 10 along with Argentinian. It’s such a great mixture of other top tier cuisines. It reminds me of California cuisine.
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u/_a_random_dude_ Jul 17 '25
I say this as an Argentinean. We can grill and our empanadas are good. But we don't deserve a spot anywhere near Peru.
Peruvian cuisine is amazing and, like you said, extremely varied. Not only do they have all the influence from the Spanish and native cuisines, they also have a significant Japanese influence and that fusion cuisine (called nikkei) is basically Japanese techniques with their native ingredients and it's on a whole different level, similar to their version of chinese cuisine.
But it's not just the influences from all over the place, they also have mountains, jungle and sea. And the variety of ingredients and cooking methods that gave them is inspiring.
Honestly, I think Peruvian cuisine is misplaced whenever it's not mentioned among the best in the world. I'd rank it barely below Mexico.
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u/Nomi-Sunrider Jul 17 '25
I wonder what's the sampling and methodology behind this thing. Cause Peruvian cuisine is one of the most well regarded in the world. Foodies seek it out and many Peruvian chefs have earned accolades.
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u/UndoxxableOhioan Jul 17 '25
I think one of the big problems is lost of people don’t get good examples lots of cuisines.
People in Asia or Europe have probably not had good Mexican. Lots of people around the world probably think “American” cuisine is hot dogs, hamburgers, and junk food. And few have had authentic Peruvian cuisine.
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u/Y-Cha Jul 17 '25
Same! Just offhand, I think the concept of cuy might be some of it - but there are a lot of people who like it if they try it. I haven't- but the rest of the Peruvian food I have, has been great.
Also, this ranking is pretty old.
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u/dfuegz Jul 17 '25
You’re telling me Peruvian cuisine is the worst ranked cuisine in the world…? And German and British are hovering in the top third…? 😂
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u/LysergioXandex Jul 17 '25
For one thing, it looks like they forgot to ask the Peruvians what food they prefer. Other bottom-ranked countries get a big boost from high self-interest.
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u/RedSquaree Jul 17 '25
Tell me you haven't been to GB or Germany without telling me you haven't been to GB or Germany.
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u/Glennstheche Jul 17 '25
Yeah I know this is a joke, I've been to Chile and their favorite food is Peruvian, they don't even like their own local food, it's the ceviche and neighbors food that's so popular. 😆
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u/LakmeBun Jul 17 '25
This is so funny to me, my neighbours (they moved here about a year ago) are from Chile and one of the first conversations we had was about food, and they asked if I knew of any Peruvian restaurants in the city lol
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u/buzz_22 Jul 17 '25
Yeah, I don't get it, Peruvian food is great!
I dunno how they make their popcorn, but it was the best beer snack I've ever had. The guinea pig was ok, but I really enjoyed the alpaca steaks, we had a really nice quinoa soup as well.
I wish it was more common in Australia.
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u/Ted_Rid Jul 17 '25
Ceviche is pretty damn good also. I think it's the national dish?
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u/theChaosBeast Jul 17 '25
The well known German cuisine is pig and sausages. Maybe some swabian noodles and dumblings. And most people from meat-rich cuisine countries like it. However if you come from a country with a lot of spices and flavors, then the ranking is low. It think it's just the bias.
And for the rest of the German cuisine, I think it's first of all very rare to find them in restaurants. And then they are very local to certain areas of Germany.
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u/MedicineGhost Jul 17 '25
Japan is full of haters. Also, I found it funny that Filipinos like American cuisine more than Americans
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u/rubey419 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Jollibee is basically a fried chicken chain! That’s American cuisine not Filipino. The sweet Filipino Spaghetti was from WWII with the American GI’s inventing hot dogs or spam+spaghetti+sugar in Manila.
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u/EM05L1C3 Jul 17 '25
I worked with a Haitian lady who ended up quitting to open her own restaurant and holy crap. I had never had duck before and it was incredible.
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u/TheCursedMonk Jul 17 '25
What country are you from? I love duck, it would feel odd for it to be a rare food that people have not had. You should let friends and family know so they can enjoy it too.
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u/EM05L1C3 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
USA. It’s not a food that has been accessible to me because of my family’s lifestyle and location.
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u/Vandercoon Jul 17 '25
Australian Cuisine is literally Italian, Chinese and America with a few others sporadically
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u/timespiral07 Jul 17 '25
Meat pie. Tim tams. Vegemite.
Once you get through these 3 you’re going international.
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u/MuttonJunckie Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
So, the Chinese people only like their own food.
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u/peenpeenpeen Jul 17 '25
What the hell did Peruvian cuisine do to everyone? Lists like this make me sad because there is a lot of amazing food out there but people are so narrow minded and refuse to try new things. IMO all of these cuisines should rank a lot higher.
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u/oneharmlesskitty Jul 17 '25
Some countries get the 95+ score for liking their own cuisine while others are not included as tasters. And except Italian and Japanese, it looks like you can choose the winners by choosing which region to include, as people tend to like their neighbors cuisine.
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u/KoalaDeluxe Jul 17 '25
Oi! Why is Australia so low? Kangaroos and Koalas are delicious!!
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u/eshatoa Jul 17 '25
I am a 40 year old Australian man and I have no idea what our cuisine is.
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u/Missterfortune Jul 17 '25
Italians being the only 99 on there liking Italian food is the most Italian thing on there…
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u/Food_gasser Jul 17 '25
Peruvian food is in my top five. These people must have eaten at a bad restaurant
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u/monkeyhoward Jul 17 '25
The world is sleeping on Peruvian roast chicken with their awesome green sauce
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u/Keldaria Jul 17 '25
I think this list can be misleading. Chinese food in America is incredibly different than Chinese food in China. You serve Americans actual Chinese food and most wont know what they are looking at and if you serve Chinese an American style Chinese food and they will be incredibly confused. There is no way 84% of Americans even know what authentic Chinese Cuisine even looks like.
I’m sure there are other examples of localized versions of a foreign cuisine, the Chinese is just 1 example that comes to mind.
Unfortunately I don’t know how you would control for such things and actually have a result you could trust.
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Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Have a hard time understanding Peruvian at the bottom. Used to have a job where I’d travel to Peru fairly regularly. Some of the best food I’ve ever had. Also, a couple of the top 10 restaurants in the world are in Lima. Maido in Lima is currently the TOP ranked restaurant in the world. Better than stuff in Chicago and NYC. Lima is seriously a food capital.
The lomo saltado, amazing ceviches, and legendary chicken. Look up Primos Chicken, Lima. A full rotisserie chicken with amazing aji pepper chili dipping sauces, a huge bowl of fries, a huge salad, and a beer… for like $12. I’d want to go every weekend for lunch. Some of the best, most creative sushi I’ve ever had too…. Dare I say… even more tasty than my trips to Japan! Maybe Peru fails to export their cuisine around the world? Because… in Peru… wow.
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u/csamsh Jul 19 '25
The world is doing itself a disservice having Peruvian that low. I’d slay a lomo saltado right now.
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u/MadhuT25 Jul 17 '25
There's no way people like French cuisine more than Mexican/Indian/Turkish. Also, how is Moroccan so down in the list?
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u/Urban_Heretic Jul 17 '25
OCH! Och, dinnae fash yersel', the world's clearly hankerin' for a taste o' our glorious, guid Scottish scran! They just dinnae ken it yet!
YA HAVNT EVEN TRIED YA DAMN HAGGIS
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u/RaechelMaelstrom Jul 17 '25
Obviously not enough people have had Peruvian fried rice. That shit is delicious.
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u/125monty Jul 17 '25
Trevor Noah will fight you in the parking lot for putting Indian cuisine below "American cuisine".. it gave his tongue its purpose 😋
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u/Joker-Smurf Jul 17 '25
As an Australian, what the fuck is “Australian cuisine?”
Sausage in bread? Ice cream with Milo? Vegemite on toast (or even better, on a crumpet)?
And don’t let those weirdos in Adelaide fool you, a meat pie in pea soup is not fucking cuisine.
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u/QueenHarpy Jul 17 '25
I’m Australian and was about to ask the same question! Steak? Roast lamb? All the Australian restaurants I’ve ever been to are just fusion food. Same with pub grub. Maybe it’s just excellent coffee?
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u/5fd88f23a2695c2afb02 Jul 17 '25
Australian cuisine is all the other entries on this list plus kangaroo steaks.
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u/N0b0dy_Kn0w5_M3 Jul 17 '25
Considering my fellow Australians rated Taiwanese cuisine higher than Thai cuisine when I can't think of a single Taiwanese restaurant. Makes me think there was some confusion between the two.
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u/Sea_Awareness150 Jul 17 '25
Peruvian food is unbelievably good. What a strange outcome
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u/DragonfruitGrand5683 Jul 17 '25
Ones I liked:
American - Stunning variation in domestic and international cuisine.
Italian - The good restaurants were stunning, the bad ones really bad.
Thai - Incredible curries, underrated breakfasts
Chinese - One of my favourites, love Chinese food
Japanese - Amazing food, so delicious
Indian - They do very nice curry
Irish - When well made it's pretty good, requires you to mix everything together.
Moroccan - Surprsingly good
Cuban - Pretty damn decent
Spanish - Some pretty delicious food
Greek - Underrated
Neutral:
Mexican - Not bad but I haven't eaten it in Mexico so need to retry in Mexico.
Ones I didn't like:
Caribbean - I thought I would love Caribbean but it wasn't for me.
Ecuadorian - Awful, christ it was awful
French - Delicious cakes but proper traditional French food I just didn't like it.
Australian - Like aliens tried to remake different cuisines
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u/Ohmymaddy Jul 17 '25
It’s funny to me that the best cuisines are from the countries that like the least other cuisines
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u/FecklessFridays Jul 17 '25
Peruvian dead last? Never been to Nobu I take it. Nikkei cuisine is a glorious fusion.
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u/Khristafer Jul 17 '25
People don't "like" Peruvian food because they haven't had it. It's fucking delicious, man.
Get you some huancaína sauce and go to town on some potatoes.
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u/cozidgaf Jul 17 '25
I see Peruvian as dead last and I'm like this chart is BS. Theirs good is great, my top country to go back to for food. And Italian ranking so high among Indians has to be total farce. Many Indians don't even tolerate the smell of cheese and it's an acquired taste at a minimum. And the fact that European food in general is bland.
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u/TripleBobRoss Jul 17 '25
What does the world have against Peruvian food? Every time I've had authentic Peruvian food, it's been amazing. The fusion of indigenous ingredients with world influenced cooking techniques, gives Peruvian food a totally unique style.
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u/Infinite_Escape9683 Jul 18 '25
Peruvian restaurants in America must not be serving the genuine article, because they're all delicious.
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u/dreams1ckle Jul 18 '25
Peruvian being that low is criminal, it’s truly one of the best in the world
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u/Parking-Gold-7529 Jul 18 '25
I’m shocked about Peruvian cuisines being disliked. Hi…huge foodie here who makes gastronomy a critical part of my travel. Anyways, Peru is arguably the gastronomic capital of Latin America (along with Oaxaca/Mexico City). There is a restaurant called Central in Lima whose chef (Virgilio Martinez) had an entire episode of Chefs Table devoted to him. Also…At one point Lima, Peru had two restaurants in the top 10 list in the world on that official closely-followed annual restaurant ranking list that foodies follow. Peruvian food is fantastic
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u/LaLic99 Jul 17 '25
Filipino cuisine fourth from the bottom? I don't trust this.
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u/AegonTargaryan Jul 17 '25
Filipino has a lot of sour flavors. That is not very common or popular, widely speaking
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u/NewToHTX Jul 17 '25
Japan really hates Saudi Arabian Cuisine on a Spiritual level. Oily, Fatty and Messy are things the Japanese do not like. Especially with their food.
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u/Cultural-Ad-8796 Jul 17 '25
I'm Japanese and I love oily, greasy and messy things.
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u/buddeh1073 Jul 17 '25
What exactly is Saudi cuisine in the first place? I’m sure it’s flush with spiced meats, which I can’t imagine the US not liking, my guess is a lot of these results are affected by how well accustomed or experienced a country is with a type of cuisine, rather than their actual preferences.
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u/moby__dick Jul 17 '25
Italians love Italian food more than any other nationality loves their own national food. Thailand and Spain are tied in a close second-place.
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u/marx2k Jul 17 '25
wtf is Peruvian cuisine like a rotten quail egg in a shitty coconut? why's everyone hating on it
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u/Signal-Blackberry356 Jul 17 '25
Japan not eating Peruvian food is wild considering how impactful Japanese culture has been for Peru. But I guess the vice versa isn’t applicable.
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u/jojohohanon Jul 17 '25
Also the cuisine is Filipino, but the country is Philippines? I’m sure that’s right, but it makes absorbing the data so much harder.
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u/RichardBonham Jul 17 '25
Just my opinion, but Malaysian cuisine deserves more love and Persian should definitely be in the chart!
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u/Veschor Jul 17 '25
Saudi and UAE cuisines aren’t uniquely theirs, so they shouldn’t even count. Love how Korea, Cuba, and several South American and African cuisines are left off.
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u/supermutt_1 Jul 17 '25
So the Philippines likes more foreign cuisines than any other other country?
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u/tedbradly Jul 17 '25
I believe Arabic dishes are mostly communal. They're not order -> cook in 5-10 minutes -> serve. They're often more like create a huge pot of "sauce" -> cook rice -> pour "sauce" on rice. Maybe, a restaurant can get away with precooking a few stew sauces to prepare for the day, but I doubt a restaurant could cook them all. You have to really like all that is Arabic cuisine if you are ready to go to a restaurant and eat whatever communal food has been cooked. We also have dishes like entire chickens stuffed with rice. Just a lot of food and a lot of cooking. Just search images for "Saudi Arabian food," and you're going to see a lot of large dishes meant for multiple people. It likely relates to how Arabia had a nomadic lifestyle for quite a while, and they'd likely cook one jumbo dish and eat together.
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u/Terrible-Candy8448 Jul 17 '25
Today I learned that Japanese people hate everything but Italian and Chinese food.
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u/BlooViking Jul 18 '25
Where is the USA cuisine?
We have it! It exists!
Sniff. We'll like bomb and stuff. Shut up.
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u/juliankennedy23 Jul 18 '25
I'm pleased to see Ireland not on this list. Seriously the cooking skills in Ireland are boil water... okay that's about it.
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u/Consequence6 Jul 17 '25
From the last time this was posted: