Unknown foreign dishes!

Col_M

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I'm sitting here scoffing some selyodka pod shuboy and wondered to myself what other foreign cullinary wonders are out there that the general British population aren't widely aware of.

So OcUK what can you bring to our attention that will broaden our collective nosh knowledge?

I'll start...
Selyodka pod shuboy - Russian salad, think layered coleslaw. Translated as "herring under a fur coat", it's herring layered between mayo, grated egg, beetroot, potato, onion and carrot. It does't sound or look terribly good but it's great especially with or after alcohol :D
Pelmeni - Russian version of ravioli.
Smazeni syr - Czech breaded and fried cheese, cholesterol by the kilo but oh so tasty.
Solyanka - Russian soup, salty and meaty.
Svickova - Czech marinated beef in a creamy sauce served with dumplings, sour cream and cranberry sauce.

I'm expecting this to die a death but I guess it's better than something along the lines of "spec me a toothbrush".
 
In France there is a meal which goes by the name of "les haricots blancs dans une sauce tomate sur du pain grillé".

Roughly translated, it's "beans on toast".
 
All Polish.....

Zapikanka, a polish rival to the kebab in post heavy drinking munch!! basically
a sliced in half (length ways) toasted baguette with cheese and mushrooms, then some
outlets allow other toppings and different sauces etc..... awesome stuff.

Golabki: Cabbage leaf stuffed with meat, can be bought in jars in tescos and in a tomato
type sauce, tastes a lot better then it sounds!!!

Pierogi: Boiled or boiled then pan fried dumplings with different stuffings, i especially
like them when my girlfriend does homemade ones with mincemeat, and mushrooms
mixed....amazing!

and many more....
 
poosemon said:
Golabki: Cabbage leaf stuffed with meat, can be bought in jars in tescos and in a tomato
type sauce, tastes a lot better then it sounds!!!
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Hmmm sounds very similar to Kohlrouladen, I might have to keep an eye out for that.
 
poosemon said:
All Polish.....

Zapikanka, a polish rival to the kebab in post heavy drinking munch!! basically
a sliced in half (length ways) toasted baguette with cheese and mushrooms, then some
outlets allow other toppings and different sauces etc..... awesome stuff.

Golabki: Cabbage leaf stuffed with meat, can be bought in jars in tescos and in a tomato
type sauce, tastes a lot better then it sounds!!!

Pierogi: Boiled or boiled then pan fried dumplings with different stuffings, i especially
like them when my girlfriend does homemade ones with mincemeat, and mushrooms
mixed....amazing!

and many more....
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Ukrainian dishes....

Sorry, but Pierogi's are unkown or their origins, therefore, I can call them Ukrainian Varenyky or Ukrainian Pierogi's :D My grandma makes the best ones EVER, and I love them to bits. They are always required for the Eastern European Christmas (January the 7th) along with all other delicacies. Our pierogies are filled with potatoes, and served with a splash of butter and fried onions. YUM!

Borsch - Love the stuff. Beetroor Soup, what more can I say?

Holubchi - Rice wrapped in cabbage leaves to make small 'dumplings' they are beautiful!
 
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I can't even pronounce half of these...

Although remember they're generally unheard of for a damn good reason ;)
 
Pav89 said:
because Brits are lazy enough to only care about the takeaway round the corner?:o
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Which is why you can find chinese, indian, pakistani and bangladeshi food in almost every town and mexican in most.

Compared to some countries I've been to we're pretty darn adventerous in our eating habits.
 
In general, its the foreign countries that have a rather limited selection of food available. While the USA probably leads the world in the choice of cuisine available.

The differences are mainly that a lot of foreign countries have cuisine utilizing parts of animals in the west we wouldn't use.


As for eastern european food, I find it all rather repetitive, plain, over-cooked and starch filled. Some interesting dishes but nothing I would go crazy over. Even things like perogie are pretty bad relative to Italian ravioli!
 
Telescopi said:
Which is why you can find chinese, indian, pakistani and bangladeshi food in almost every town and mexican in most.

Compared to some countries I've been to we're pretty darn adventerous in our eating habits.
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Add to that Thai, vitnamese, korean, mongolian, turkish, greek, italian, french, spanish, various south american, moroccan, filipino, Malaysian, portuguese, north american, hungarian, .....
 
this is just nasty its a Philippine appertizer called balut
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beaten to it didn't even see the post
 
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poosemon said:
All Polish.....

Pierogi: Boiled or boiled then pan fried dumplings with different stuffings, i especially
like them when my girlfriend does homemade ones with mincemeat, and mushrooms
mixed....amazing!
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GFT - although, no sledgi (sp?) Raw pickled herring?
 
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