Any non-mainstream dishes or cuisines you can recommend?

Interested to know what recommendations you guys have on lesser mainstream dishes or cuisines that you've tried recently. Picked up quite a few cooking skills lately and also been eager in trying different places for take-out that are less on the beaten path.

 

My recommendation for you is to try out everything. Easter european, Asian (indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian etc. ), jamaican, italian, french, mexican, peruvian, and native american.

I assign you native american cooking for this month. Try a dish with acorns.

 

I recently made some Borscht, Eastern European beet soup. Good stuff. Serve it with a spoonful of sour cream and black Russian bread.

Also cooking with plantains could be fun.

Just to list more exotic food I've personally tried - haggis, soondae (Korean blood sausage), natto (Japanese fermented soybeans) w/ a dash of soy sauce and raw egg, sea cucumber sushi, abalone sushi (expensive clam), jellyfish salad, etc...

Food I'd like to try - reptile meat (snakes, crocs/gators), frog legs, donkey meat, tuna eyeball (some weird Japanese thing) with tuna tear (some liquid from the eyeball) infused sake.

 

Ethiopian/ Etrian food. I had it a food stall (Greenwich Market) - its so delicious but hard to find. 

Lebanese food is also amazing - stuffed vine leaves, kibbleh, tabbouleh and the milky rosewater and pistachio dessert 

Are you on tik-tok? There is so much gourmet inspiration on there with people uploading authentic, home-made recipes from different cultures. Fascinating to see how  people around the world use the same basic  ingredients to create unique feasts.

 
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If in NY: Xi'an Famous Foods. Western (not westernized) Chinese. There are a bunch of other good options from Korean through Vietnamese as well.  You've got to go out to Brooklyn, but Georgian is also worth a try (The country, not the state)  I know some good places for German and French as well, but I'm not going to share. As a rule of thumb, if it sounds ridiculous any respectable place will have only put it on the menu if they're proud of it, so order it.  Also: liverwurst is awesome, and don't be scared if a dish just happens to be vegan.

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Not bad food. Strong recommend.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

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