There are some exotic foods we tend to take for granted exist. Almost every city for example has a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and maybe an Outback Steakhouse. But this isn’t universal for some reason. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to an Egyptian restaurant and I was like “wait, they have restaurants?”
A question for all those who would say they consider themselves ethnically fluent. What are all the cultural categories of food you’ve had?
I’m in US… not sure I’d say fluent. “Exotic”…… Thai, Japanese, Indian, Vietnamese. And one time I got oxtail from a roadside food stand 30 years ago… one of my students was from Trinidad and his mom recommended it. But the food I had in Belgium was to die for. Food in Denmark was interesting too.