When it comes to food, am I expected to have a favorite one in particular?? There are too many to list. My food preferences usually come with nationalities. Generally I group the cuisine of one nation into either the “love it,” “like it,” “it’s okay,” or “hate it” category. This is especially true for three of my favorite types of cuisine: Japanese, Italian, and Chinese.
Japanese is definitely at the top of my list; the food is simply delicious. I love the sushi and sashimi especially when combined with soy sauce mixed with wasabi. The tempura shrimp is also a favorite; its crunchiness and the yummy sauce are an amazing combination. Other japanese foods that I love include beef terriyaki and japanese curry. The terriyaki sauce is really good. Japanese curry is not spicy at all compared to indian curry, but includes some kind of yellowish sauce and potatoes and chicken. Udon is a type of japanese noodle in a soup; its really thick and chewy and usually I eat it noodle by noodle. Even the appetizers are good; salad with a sesame or ginger dressing, and miso soup. In addition, I think all the japanese snacks and candy are awesome, including pocky, mitsuya cider candy,
I also love italian food, at least all the stereotypical ones, meaning pizza and pasta. There are so many ways to top a pizza and I love making my own style and changing the flavor around a bit. Pasta is a really general word for just about everything to do with noodles. Sphagetti is the really generic one, which I love, but I think sphaghetti with white clam sauce is really amazing. The thing I like about pasta is that there are so many different shapes and sauces. There’s the spirally thing, bowtie, angel hair, macaroni, ziti, and many other types of which I do not know the name of. Sauces include the usual tomato sauce, as well as alfredo sauce and cheese. When I am bored, sometimes I just pick up one of many great recipe books lying randomly around the house and stare at the pictures of different pasta.
Chinese is an obvious choice for favorite food. I have no idea where to start with on this; my chinese food range is extremely huge, owing to the fact that I eat chinese at least once a day on weekdays, and 3 times a day on weekends. At home, I would eat something simple, like rice with whatever random leftovers there are from the last day. I also eat stereotypical chinese food sometimes, like dumplings or fried rice; sometimes I mix ketchup to the fried rice, and it tastes really good. Pot stickers in my opinion are way better than dumplings. I aso like the various types of bao zi, which is a bit like a sphere of bread with meat inside of it. Breakfasts are really good in Taiwan. Breakfast foods include the xi fan which is like mushy watery rice, fried bread stick things with hot soymilk, omelettes with soy sauce, sandwiches, and bakery breads, and even the occasional milk tea. Mini hot pot buffets are a great part of chinese food; each person has a little pot of soup base on a fire that they control, and the buffet consists of raw chicken, beef, pork, lamb, shrimp, clams, fish, and anything else that can be added into the soup and cooked. They also have lots of desserts like flan, ice cream, yang le duo, jello and maybe even a chocolate fondue fountain. I also love the dimsums, which are sort of a cross between al a carte and a buffet. People walk around the restaurant pushing carts of food, and you can select anything from cart, and the waiter writes down the selection on a little piece of paper. I love these because they are like buffets but with much more food, and the food comes to you instead of you having to walk to the food area. In short, chinese food is amazing and I am glad I can eat it every day.
