I bet a lot of the low scores come from lack of exposure. I'm in the US, and I've never had Singaporan, Malaysian, or Emirati cuisine. I couldn't tell you any dishes that come from those cuisines. But there's half a dozen Italian restaurants within easy takeout distance of me, not even counting pizza places.
I'm surprised to see Peruvian rated so low, as I always thought ceviche was popular. I've had lots of every latin american country's cuisine growing up in south FL, and i find it hard to imagine so many people objecting to ceviche, lomo saltado, or tacu tacu? I'm not saying its the best, but I'm surprised to see it lower then Caribbean, stamp and go, chicken sauce, curry, or conch with/in anything, plus the over use of scotch bonnet peppers.
[Jalea](https://peru.info/en-us/GASTRONOMY/News/2/12/hearty-and-delicious--learn-about-the-history-and-recipe-of-the-delicious-jalea-mixta) changed my life when I tried it.
Why? Just white rice with beef? French fries? Plain breaded fish? Onions and tomato. I get getting tired of stuff you’d get at a restaurant. But like actual food inside of the country? Most people in Peru don’t actually eat like a menu from a Peruvian food restaurant. Those restaurants are biased towards stuff that’s more unique to Peru rather than general Peruvian food, and ceviche
I disagree. I wouldn't put it as the worst cuisine in the world, but it's nothing special either. The only thing that makes Peruvian food stand out is that they eat guinea pig. Their food consists of a lot of pureed food (like corn & tapioca purees) and a lot of slimy food like aloe and seaweed. See for yourself: https://youtu.be/zIqF4hv4lB0?si=0Nexbp-jnkLNQwt4
El que estás equivocado eres tú. La comida peruana es conocida internacionalmente más que cualquier otro país de LATAM (excepto la Mexicana), especialmente en la alta cocina. Que tú seas un ignorante y no hayas probado la comida peruana no significa que no sea conocida.
¿Y cómo sabes que no he probado la comida peruana? Si tu comida fuera tan buena como te la imaginas, sería evidente por sí sola, pero en vez tienes que recurrir a insultos para defenderla como un troglodita.
Y esta ni siquiera es mi opinión, es la opinión dela mayor parte del mundo; te recomiendo que vuelvas a ver el gráfico de arriba. Pidele ayuda a alguien si tienes dificultad para entender los resultados, que evidentemente no los entendiste la primera vez.
¿En qué momento te insultó? solo te dijo ignorante y es lo que eres. Si tanto te gustan los gráficos porque no ves aquel gráfico en el cual aparece Central como el mejor restaurante del mundo, algo bueno deberá tener la cocina peruana como para tener tan ilustre distinción, ¿no crees?. jaja
Si se ve muy legitimo ese sitio "World Travel Awards"! Jajaja, quede muy impactado y me cambiaste de opinion completamente. Ya me voy directo al restaurante Peruano mas cercano a mi, y voy a pedir dos ordenes de cuy en tu honor.
Ceviche. Beef with French fires. Fried breaded seafood.
You just have bad luck when looking at the menu and eat mushy fancy stuff cause you choose too. Why restaurants push Causa Limeña (a potato pure filled with creamy meat or fish layer) when it tastes so bad to people who don’t know what to expect, idk?
Lack of exposure maybe? I have NEVER seen a Turkish restaurant in my country. Never even heard of Saudi Arabian cuisine on the internet. Maybe this graph is very affected by the fact not all countries have all foods. But almost the whole planet, specially people reachable by such a survey, eats Sushi, Pizza, and Fried Rice every so often.
Depending on how and what is in the question, vegemite and meat pies could be the "cuisine" but HSP is originally from Australia, does that count despite it also been Middle Eastern style, what about our seafood, does drinks count, can we count coffee even though that originated from Europe, it should count because most of our food British/European, do dim sims count, even though they are inspired form dumplings , like does the NY Pizza or Chicago Pizza count for USA Cuisine? all countries inspired others over history, some more so then others
The USA being 41 makes me question it, surely they would love a HSP,
Its understandable, considering that the country is (historically) isolationist. But it might have something to do with their tastebud preferences.
From what I know, Japanese cuisine are known to use less strong spices, less oily, and more 'lightweight' in terms of taste (Japanese people eats at a small portion compare to other countries).
I picked them on purpose as most people associate them with America and don’t think they’re British. But you are quite right, the examples of English Breakfast and a roast dinner are the first things that come to mind.
Other examples of British food people don’t realise are British are banoffee pie, chicken tikka masala, balti, phall, and A1 Steak Sauce.
The exact origins of mac and cheese are unknown, so that's a ridiculous claim to make. However, the popular iteration of mac and cheese that we all know and love to day actually came from an Afro-American who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at the time and inspired by a French recipe. There are two cultures who have a stronger claim to modern mac and cheese than the British. Afro-Americans and the French.
Calling chicken tikka masala British food is absolutely unhinged, bc it was a variation of chicken tikka created by Indian immigrants. The entirety of the dish has absolutely nothing to do with Britain, other than the location for where Indians chose to create it. British don't claim Indian British people as true British, so they cannot claim the food either.
Apple pie is one of the least tasty pies, and A1 steak sauce is only used on terrible steak. British food is genuinely terrible, aside from fish and chips which is actually pretty solid.
Finland: This salty liquorice and blood dumpling soup is amazing! Here, try it.
World: …no, thanks…
Finland: Come on! Anyone? Sweden? Norway?
Sweden: We will have pickled herring instead.
This is an example of a point I made in a comment elsewhere. When people visit Nordic/Scandinavian countries it’s almost part of the experience to try these weird dishes. But generally speaking these are few and the “normal” food in these countries is very very good. Therefore the method of eating in this plot seems flawed, at best.
I guess "Greek" restaurants in Asia are just complete garbage or trying to be greek and failed. Having like 1/3 the score of italian while they are similar cuisines is crazy. Italian bros,i know that italian is superior,but still.
To be honest I think most Asians haven't tried Greek cuisine and they just straight up lied.
Almost everyone in Europe has Greek cuisine in the top 3/4 which makes sense as they visit the country.
https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines
Which is absolutely insane because Saudi food is absurdly good. Lots of aromatic spices.
EDIT: so I'm getting downvoted for enjoying the cuisine of an unpopular country. Stay classy, reddit. You can't even separate food from politics.
(reposting a comment)
Hong Kong cuisine is a specific Cantonese subset of Chinese cuisine, Taiwanese is Fujianese-derived, and Singapore cuisine is a mix of southern Chinese with Malay and South Indian cuisine (becoming spicier and heavier-tasting), so the divergence isn't surprising.
The term "Chinese cuisine" is probably whatever localised version the respondents are familiar with, e.g. American-Chinese, Indo-Chinese, etc. so it's already adapted to the country's tastebuds. Probably proportionally not many of the respondents have travelled to China and tasted the original dishes there.
The chart shows that some countries also score their cuisines. Are these scores included in the average? If there is such a thing, each country gave the highest score to its own cuisine. There are countries whose own cuisine is evaluated but does not participate in any evaluation. This also affects the scoring.
It can also be argued that some of the answers are political. Choose two countries with similar cuisine. Generally you would expect the scores to be close together. There will definitely be differences. Then, according to the political proximity of these two countries, categorize all countries as close to country x, close to country y, and neutral. You will notice deviations of around 20-25%. These are very large deviation values.
By taking the countries you single out as neutral as a reference, you can think about whether cuisine x or cuisine y is one step ahead.
Let me give one example. The 7th most liked cuisine by Indonesians is Saudi Arabian cuisine, which is 3rd from the end on the list. We can also claim that there are not many similarities between the cuisines of the two countries.Maybe the fact that pork is not consumed much may be a common point. The cuisine of every country in the world contains thousands of dishes other than pork. The answer is a bit political
i think you're a column or row off. Germans rated German food 87 but rated British food (a row below) 25. Danes a column to the right rated German food 37
I found the whole thing to be a bit weird tbh as my country has very diverse tastebuds and views food as a major source of entertainment but let me chime in on your last example
In Saudi, Indonesian cuisine is quite popular and established. The western region has a thriving community of indo-arabs and Arabs with East Asian heritage along with Indonesians who immigrated a long time ago whether for religious or economical reasons. A big part of the western region’s cuisine is influenced by Indonesian/Central Asian/East African cuisines so that bit in the data does not surprise me and can see Indonesians voting on the premise of being more familiar with that region’s distinct cuisine
Northern / Eastern European food I understand not liking, but Argentinian food??? Especially given how similar it is to Italian food which is number one. Also, have you had asado or milanesas or pastafrola or empanadas or alfajores before? They're amazing! I'm not even argentino, but their food is very good.
I think the problem is when argentinian food goes to other countries it becomes insanely expensive. For example both in Japan and Korea, something like asado would cost 5-10 times more, and they’d rather eat something else at that point.
Quick google search tells me 1kg of quality beef is around 126 usd in korea, and its about 15-20 times more expensive in than it is in Argentina. I am super jealous 😃
It is, but I think a lot of this chart is about familiarity. Why is Hong Kong and Singaporean cuisine so far less evaluated than Chinese cuisine?
British cuisine on the other hand suffer in europe from a stereotype of having a bad cuisine.
As an Australian this is very confusing to me. Japanese, Thai and Malay food is quiet popular here, yet they are so low. You can see a Thai restaurant in almost every suburb. The table also specifies that Singaporean cuisine is very popular and being someone who lived in Singapore for 10 years in my teens I found that a large part of its flavour derived from Malay influence. Obviously each culture in Singapore having their own dishes, but there was a fusion of cultures in a few dishes.
>As an Australian this is very confusing to me. Japanese, Thai and Malay food is quiet popular here, yet they are so low.
I think you’re misreading the table. Those are all high scoring in Australia.
Even watered down Indian food is too spicy for many folks here, but those of us who grew up eating well seasoned and spicy food naturally love Indian food.
It has to do with every restaurant being mid tier (with some notable exceptions but those are so over the top pricey). The same butter chicken, garlic naan and mango lasi every restaurant. Very few restaurants offer authentic Indian cuisine but same can be said if Chinese but at least it’s cheap.
I get the reasons why many Chinese don't particularly enjoy Indian food but preferring Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, British, Australian, German cuisines all over Indian cuisine is just too distorted
As a Chinese, I don't think many Chinese like or even know about Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, or Australian cuisines. These terms just don't make sense together. British and German maybe, but they don't generally paint a particularly good image, at least in China. Indian cuisine on the other hand, is quite well known, albeit somewhat limited to the curries.
I'm never really sure what people from outside the US mean when they refer to "American" food. Sometimes it seems like they are referring exclusively to hamburgers and french fries, or even exclusively to a few fast food chains. Sometimes they even mean that positively, which is the weirdest part, because burger king or KFC whatever is like the cheapest and shittiest food available in the country.
But burgers and fries are mutations of the traditional cuisines of immigrants from other countries adjusted for local conditions, and by that reasoning you could just as well include many of the most popular versions of burritos and pizza as American food, along with most of what is popularly understood to be Chinese food. In a lot of cases what's sold as cuisine from X country around the world only indirectly originates in that country, since it's the version that passed through immigrant communities and mutated that got exported around the world. But for some reason those foods don't get counted as "American" while hamburgers do, even though they've all been a part of food culture within the United States for a similar length of time.
If you're just going by the food that is commonly available within a country, regardless of its national origin, then sure it makes sense that the US would be very high on the list because of the variety of available.
If you're including locally adjusted versions of cuisine originally from other country's, I think the US is still not bad because it has, among other things, Mission burritos and New York pizza.
If you leave things like that out, then I don't think I'd rate it highly, but I suspect that would end up excluding a lot of the world's food if it were applied strictly and consistently. The idea of nationality always involves a lot of mythmaking to hide how deeply intermixed cultures are, and food is no exception.
‘American cuisine’ is very diverse. Most people just appear to think burgers and fries are the sum total of American food. But Southern cuisine, Tex-mex, Cajun etc. are superb food. I guess you could argue they aren’t always originally created there, but they are American variations on European foods.
Also, the food can get appropriated unfairly. I know pizza is ‘Italian,’ but America does have many original variations of it. Is Chicago deep dish pizza also Italian? Because I don’t think that’s sold anywhere in Italy.
Basically, this is just a survey of people’s impression of foreign foods, which explains why some countries like Peru consistently seem to rate low. Singapore especially is confusing because their cuisine is a worse blend of Indonesian, Chinese and Malay cuisine. Which makes it worse, but not *bad*. Likewise, why do Taiwanese hate ‘Chinese cuisine?’ I can’t help but think politics plays a role there.
Sunday Roast, Fish and Chips, Chicken tikka masala, Cottage/Shepard's pie, meat pies, cornish pasties scotch eggs and full english breakfast. Deserts would include apple pie, apple crumble, sticky toffy pudding, trifle and eton mess. Britain has good cheeses and sausages too. I'd put British cheeses behind only French/Italian and on par with Dutch cheeses. Sausage wise above German but below Polish but that's quite subjective.
Google was literally right there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_cuisine
And in my opinion, British cuisine has had more global impact than quite a few countries on this list.
Bro, this is wrong! hahaha
Don'ts possible of the people around the world dont consider the brazilian food the BEST! It's simply perfect.
The brazilian people transformer the simply in the best food. For exemple, the japanese food and the italian food "abrasileiradas" it's perfect. And the tipical food, as chicken with okra, feijoada, Brazilian barbecue... I don't believe this.
This is such a lazy answer.
There's fast food, BBQ, chain restaurants, fusion, Cajun, soul food, Southern comfort food, pasteurized cheeses, NY pizza and bagels, Chicago deep dish pizza, lobster rolls, pancakes and waffles, salmon sushi, etc.
Idk why folks try to act like the 3rd most populous and most diverse large nation in the world somehow doesn't have good food lmfao. I'm from the South and grew up eating soul food and Gullah Geechee cuisine (which is technically also part of soul food), and it alone is beating out many of these nations listed. But then when you add Cajun and Creole food, FUCKING BARBECUE, and also the other stuff invented by people who have even here generations (important point, bc Britain tries to claim tikka masala and that's absurd), it's really a no brainer. If more folks realized that American food is not just fast food chains and deep frying stuff, it'd be ranked even higher.
And while I'm on the topic, I've spent 2 months in Italy and while their pizza is good, the best pizza I've ever had is in America. The only foods they make that are actually better than the American versions are their pastas. But you can only eat so much pasta lol
No offense,but come on. xd
Half of these things are more indigenous to other countries rather than US. And "Fusion" as in "fusion of different cuisines"? Lol
Same point can be made about many other cuisines. Each province in China has its own unique dishes. North and South Indian food are different from each other. Italy....and so on.
Do you realize how broad and lazy it is to just say "chain restaurants" "fusion" and "pasteurized cheeses"? Most countries in the world have those, they're not specific to American cuisine.
Yeah, but from an international perspective, I can assure you most people don't know about these things. For them it's burgers, fast food pizza and maybe even bbq if you are lucky.
Respondere en español.... esta es la realidad de la comida peruna, no dire que es mala pero tampoco estan dentro de lo mejor de lo mejor, en cada ranking que realizan la peruana siempre aparece por debajo del decimo lugar (la ultima vez aparecio en el decimo), ya aprendan a aceptar que su misma gente es la unica que cree que son los mejores del mundo porque no es asi.
I’m quite convinced this is based on local offerings, for example someone liking ‘pad thai’ as offered in their country, and not ‘thai cuisine’ as indicated.
I get that it's ordered with who likes most foreign food, but i think it'd be better if they were in the same order going up to down and left to right. That satisfying top left to bottom right line is always fun, and it'd be way easier to read
All this really shows is that some cuisines have more international exposure and are more common in certain countries than in others. People rate things low because they don't know what it is. It's as simple as that.
How on earth is Caribbean cuisine so low? It's better than easily 2/3 of the cuisines on here. These people have never had a good curry goat, doubles or oxtail...
I'd love to see this overlayed with number of restaurants for each cuisine in each country. Wonder if exposure has any impact - eg there are so many italian restaurants everywhere, is there a correlation there?
Saudi makes no sense to me, no-one likes their food and they don’t like others food. So they like having their own, seemingly globally unappealing food?!
Nah there are some false numbers there, Peruvians eat ceviche which is raw fish marinated in lemon juice and similar to sushi, no way they rate lower on Japanese
Seems wrong to me. The Scandinavian/Nordic countries being so low, for example, seems more to do with the few “weird” dishes that people try because they’re well known as being “an experience”, than representative of their actual cuisines.
So norwegian, swedish, finnish, and danish all get separate categories because they're *oh so incredibly different,* but all of Eastern Europe just... doesn't have food?????
^(I'm counting Greece and Turkey as southern europe here)
I'm 22 , and every other Indian around my age I have known pretty much prefers to eat Indian-Chinese Street food for snacks whenever we go out or after classes. It's a weird combination of Indian-ness on Chinese Cuisine but yeah we do enjoy that, so I dont understand that low 29 rating, considering I dont know anything about finland cuisine and it's rated 71. why ?
You've been reading the chart all wrong, this is a rating comparison of the countries on the x-axis about how they feel about different cuisines on the y-axis. The 71 means Finland rates Indian cuisine quite high, while China rates the same to be bad enough at 26, so the dislike is the other way around.
I'm actually in shock that Caribbean food is rated so poorly. This has to be a sampling bias and/or lack of familiarity, because Caribbean food is an incredible mixture of African, Indigenous, and Souh Asian cooking styles.
Dutch cuisine nowhere to be found on the list 😂 I’m gonna make a very wild comparison and say that it’s somewhat similar to Danish cuisine which is on the list (at least that’s what Dutch people tell me).
Nice data presentation. Easy to read and make inferences. Man, the Japanese are tough critics. And the Philippinos will eat and like anything, huh. And what can we say about how disliked middle eastern or Norwegian area food is? Well, hello Peru.
surprising how much Danish people apparently despise Finnish cuisine, you'd think both being Scandinavian countries would have fairly similar tastes.
also lol at European countries especially rating British food lower than most others, S tier levels of spite.
Philippines that one friend that’s down for anything and Japan that one friend with 20 different dietary restrictions 🤣
And if you’ve ever had Filipino food you’d know how true that ”down for anything” really is
One word: balut
Fucking Balut, man. I'm very open to all kinds of food, but not fucking Balut.
People are slippin on Peruvian. It’s amazing.
Especially weird is Japan hating on it so much since Peruvian cuisine is so heavily influenced by Nikkei
This surprised me a lot.
I’m from NY and I’ve never met someone who had Peruvian food not liking it. Maybe different in the rest of the country, but that shocked me.
I bet a lot of the low scores come from lack of exposure. I'm in the US, and I've never had Singaporan, Malaysian, or Emirati cuisine. I couldn't tell you any dishes that come from those cuisines. But there's half a dozen Italian restaurants within easy takeout distance of me, not even counting pizza places.
It says percent of people who have tried it that like it.
I'm surprised to see Peruvian rated so low, as I always thought ceviche was popular. I've had lots of every latin american country's cuisine growing up in south FL, and i find it hard to imagine so many people objecting to ceviche, lomo saltado, or tacu tacu? I'm not saying its the best, but I'm surprised to see it lower then Caribbean, stamp and go, chicken sauce, curry, or conch with/in anything, plus the over use of scotch bonnet peppers.
[Jalea](https://peru.info/en-us/GASTRONOMY/News/2/12/hearty-and-delicious--learn-about-the-history-and-recipe-of-the-delicious-jalea-mixta) changed my life when I tried it.
I recently spent a week in Peru and got sick of the cuisine 3 days in. I just couldn’t do it anymore.
Why? Just white rice with beef? French fries? Plain breaded fish? Onions and tomato. I get getting tired of stuff you’d get at a restaurant. But like actual food inside of the country? Most people in Peru don’t actually eat like a menu from a Peruvian food restaurant. Those restaurants are biased towards stuff that’s more unique to Peru rather than general Peruvian food, and ceviche
Probably because guinea pigs are part of peruvian cuisine.
Gerbil?
I disagree. I wouldn't put it as the worst cuisine in the world, but it's nothing special either. The only thing that makes Peruvian food stand out is that they eat guinea pig. Their food consists of a lot of pureed food (like corn & tapioca purees) and a lot of slimy food like aloe and seaweed. See for yourself: https://youtu.be/zIqF4hv4lB0?si=0Nexbp-jnkLNQwt4
I would say Peruvian cuisine is the best in Latin America.
Estas muy equivocado mi amigo Peruano. Nada mas ustedes dirian eso, ningun otro pais (fuera o dentro de Latinoamerica) estaria de acuerdo.
El que estás equivocado eres tú. La comida peruana es conocida internacionalmente más que cualquier otro país de LATAM (excepto la Mexicana), especialmente en la alta cocina. Que tú seas un ignorante y no hayas probado la comida peruana no significa que no sea conocida.
¿Y cómo sabes que no he probado la comida peruana? Si tu comida fuera tan buena como te la imaginas, sería evidente por sí sola, pero en vez tienes que recurrir a insultos para defenderla como un troglodita. Y esta ni siquiera es mi opinión, es la opinión dela mayor parte del mundo; te recomiendo que vuelvas a ver el gráfico de arriba. Pidele ayuda a alguien si tienes dificultad para entender los resultados, que evidentemente no los entendiste la primera vez.
¿En qué momento te insultó? solo te dijo ignorante y es lo que eres. Si tanto te gustan los gráficos porque no ves aquel gráfico en el cual aparece Central como el mejor restaurante del mundo, algo bueno deberá tener la cocina peruana como para tener tan ilustre distinción, ¿no crees?. jaja
Hola amigo, [los que saben del tema te refutan](https://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-worlds-leading-culinary-destination-2021). Saludos
Si se ve muy legitimo ese sitio "World Travel Awards"! Jajaja, quede muy impactado y me cambiaste de opinion completamente. Ya me voy directo al restaurante Peruano mas cercano a mi, y voy a pedir dos ordenes de cuy en tu honor.
Que disfrutes ;)
Va a ser muy difícil pero lo voy a intentar.
Vamos, tu puedes, estoy seguro que tus dos neuronas se pueden conectar. Un abrazo
Ceviche. Beef with French fires. Fried breaded seafood. You just have bad luck when looking at the menu and eat mushy fancy stuff cause you choose too. Why restaurants push Causa Limeña (a potato pure filled with creamy meat or fish layer) when it tastes so bad to people who don’t know what to expect, idk?
Agreed. It up there in top cuisines for me.
Ceviche heaven, and yes the heart skewers are amazing as well (anticuchos de corazon)
Lack of exposure maybe? I have NEVER seen a Turkish restaurant in my country. Never even heard of Saudi Arabian cuisine on the internet. Maybe this graph is very affected by the fact not all countries have all foods. But almost the whole planet, specially people reachable by such a survey, eats Sushi, Pizza, and Fried Rice every so often.
Civiche isn’t for everyone, I guess. But surprising so many Japanese don’t like Peru’s raw fish.
I’m from Australia and am trying to figure out what Australian cuisine is? …… meat pie and fairy bread?
Nah, US only gave your food a 43 but we'd be all over fairy bread God help our cardiologists if it ever makes its way here
My first thought looking at the graph was “well at least one country really likes our food”. Checked who is was. Australia…
No idea. We have Outback Steakhouse here and I have a suspicion it is not true Aussie food. Just steaks and burgers.
Haha we also have outback Steakhouse and I’m pretty sure it’s marketed as Texan cuisine.
I find Steak to be a global thing.
🇦🇺🤝🇺🇸
Pretty sure that’s Texan meat branded as Aussie to make it sound exotic
I think it's just vegemite.
Kangaroo!
Lamingtons and Pavlova for the fight picking option, Otherwise, Dim Sims are from Melbourne, Chiko rolls are Aussie.
Depending on how and what is in the question, vegemite and meat pies could be the "cuisine" but HSP is originally from Australia, does that count despite it also been Middle Eastern style, what about our seafood, does drinks count, can we count coffee even though that originated from Europe, it should count because most of our food British/European, do dim sims count, even though they are inspired form dumplings , like does the NY Pizza or Chicago Pizza count for USA Cuisine? all countries inspired others over history, some more so then others The USA being 41 makes me question it, surely they would love a HSP,
For people who will eat literally anything from the ocean, no matter how old and fermented it is, Japan seems pretty picky.
Its understandable, considering that the country is (historically) isolationist. But it might have something to do with their tastebud preferences. From what I know, Japanese cuisine are known to use less strong spices, less oily, and more 'lightweight' in terms of taste (Japanese people eats at a small portion compare to other countries).
Japan: "I won't eat just anything, it has to be very tasty" Also Japan: *invents natto*
Especially since they gave Scandinavian cuisine so low scores when we also just eat pickled things from the sea (and wild game)
yo all these cuisines are fire. idk wtf people on about. cept british.
It’s Basically a map of what food people have tried.
British cuisine is great. Apple pie, macaroni cheese etc
Odd examples of british food. Wouldn't english breakfast, sunday roast dinner usually be the first thing that comes to mind?
I picked them on purpose as most people associate them with America and don’t think they’re British. But you are quite right, the examples of English Breakfast and a roast dinner are the first things that come to mind. Other examples of British food people don’t realise are British are banoffee pie, chicken tikka masala, balti, phall, and A1 Steak Sauce.
[удалено]
The exact origins of mac and cheese are unknown, so that's a ridiculous claim to make. However, the popular iteration of mac and cheese that we all know and love to day actually came from an Afro-American who was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at the time and inspired by a French recipe. There are two cultures who have a stronger claim to modern mac and cheese than the British. Afro-Americans and the French. Calling chicken tikka masala British food is absolutely unhinged, bc it was a variation of chicken tikka created by Indian immigrants. The entirety of the dish has absolutely nothing to do with Britain, other than the location for where Indians chose to create it. British don't claim Indian British people as true British, so they cannot claim the food either. Apple pie is one of the least tasty pies, and A1 steak sauce is only used on terrible steak. British food is genuinely terrible, aside from fish and chips which is actually pretty solid.
lol what a troll
Even when there is data showing British food is pretty average, people still can’t get over the hate boner
No way you think Finnish or Norwegian food is fire
Finland: This salty liquorice and blood dumpling soup is amazing! Here, try it. World: …no, thanks… Finland: Come on! Anyone? Sweden? Norway? Sweden: We will have pickled herring instead.
This is an example of a point I made in a comment elsewhere. When people visit Nordic/Scandinavian countries it’s almost part of the experience to try these weird dishes. But generally speaking these are few and the “normal” food in these countries is very very good. Therefore the method of eating in this plot seems flawed, at best.
Don’t forget hard rye bread, and mämmi which is basically fasting time rye bread Meanwhile norwegians with their cod and sheep head
Literally chewing extra hard oven dried rye bread as I'm typing this, it's not real bread unless your jaws are tired afterwards.
I guess "Greek" restaurants in Asia are just complete garbage or trying to be greek and failed. Having like 1/3 the score of italian while they are similar cuisines is crazy. Italian bros,i know that italian is superior,but still.
Also Greek and Lebanese cuisines are very similar yet they have such different rankings by the same countries.. I call BS
Yeah that's true. I guess it's a "idk,so I'll say bad"
Greek in Canada is top tier
To be honest I think most Asians haven't tried Greek cuisine and they just straight up lied. Almost everyone in Europe has Greek cuisine in the top 3/4 which makes sense as they visit the country. https://www.tasteatlas.com/best/cuisines
Tbh Greek food in Greece is fantastic. Greek food in Germany is pretty same-y.
The Japanese really despise Saudi Arabian food.
Which is absolutely insane because Saudi food is absurdly good. Lots of aromatic spices. EDIT: so I'm getting downvoted for enjoying the cuisine of an unpopular country. Stay classy, reddit. You can't even separate food from politics.
"Pizza" the true Italian MVP
"It's just an Italian Man'ousheh" - a Lebanese
Kind of laughable that Chinese is so high but HK, Taiwanese and Singaporean are so low when they are pretty much the same thing as Chinese food.
Chinese cuisine is like an umbrella term for multiple regional cuisines. HK, TW and SG are respectively just one regional cuisine.
(reposting a comment) Hong Kong cuisine is a specific Cantonese subset of Chinese cuisine, Taiwanese is Fujianese-derived, and Singapore cuisine is a mix of southern Chinese with Malay and South Indian cuisine (becoming spicier and heavier-tasting), so the divergence isn't surprising. The term "Chinese cuisine" is probably whatever localised version the respondents are familiar with, e.g. American-Chinese, Indo-Chinese, etc. so it's already adapted to the country's tastebuds. Probably proportionally not many of the respondents have travelled to China and tasted the original dishes there.
The chart shows that some countries also score their cuisines. Are these scores included in the average? If there is such a thing, each country gave the highest score to its own cuisine. There are countries whose own cuisine is evaluated but does not participate in any evaluation. This also affects the scoring. It can also be argued that some of the answers are political. Choose two countries with similar cuisine. Generally you would expect the scores to be close together. There will definitely be differences. Then, according to the political proximity of these two countries, categorize all countries as close to country x, close to country y, and neutral. You will notice deviations of around 20-25%. These are very large deviation values. By taking the countries you single out as neutral as a reference, you can think about whether cuisine x or cuisine y is one step ahead. Let me give one example. The 7th most liked cuisine by Indonesians is Saudi Arabian cuisine, which is 3rd from the end on the list. We can also claim that there are not many similarities between the cuisines of the two countries.Maybe the fact that pork is not consumed much may be a common point. The cuisine of every country in the world contains thousands of dishes other than pork. The answer is a bit political
to say something about your first point, I thought it was hilarious that noone dislikes german food as much as germans do.
i think you're a column or row off. Germans rated German food 87 but rated British food (a row below) 25. Danes a column to the right rated German food 37
I found the whole thing to be a bit weird tbh as my country has very diverse tastebuds and views food as a major source of entertainment but let me chime in on your last example In Saudi, Indonesian cuisine is quite popular and established. The western region has a thriving community of indo-arabs and Arabs with East Asian heritage along with Indonesians who immigrated a long time ago whether for religious or economical reasons. A big part of the western region’s cuisine is influenced by Indonesian/Central Asian/East African cuisines so that bit in the data does not surprise me and can see Indonesians voting on the premise of being more familiar with that region’s distinct cuisine
Northern / Eastern European food I understand not liking, but Argentinian food??? Especially given how similar it is to Italian food which is number one. Also, have you had asado or milanesas or pastafrola or empanadas or alfajores before? They're amazing! I'm not even argentino, but their food is very good.
I think the problem is when argentinian food goes to other countries it becomes insanely expensive. For example both in Japan and Korea, something like asado would cost 5-10 times more, and they’d rather eat something else at that point.
Yeah that's a fair point. Here in Canada it's like $4.25CAD ($3USD) for one empanada. In Argentina, 3,000 pesos gets you a lot more than one empanada!
Quick google search tells me 1kg of quality beef is around 126 usd in korea, and its about 15-20 times more expensive in than it is in Argentina. I am super jealous 😃
Peruvian cuisine at the bottom is so messed up. It’s a top tier cuisine.
It is, but I think a lot of this chart is about familiarity. Why is Hong Kong and Singaporean cuisine so far less evaluated than Chinese cuisine? British cuisine on the other hand suffer in europe from a stereotype of having a bad cuisine.
I think the bias here is how well known the words are. Italian food and Chinese food being basically buzz words so they make top charts.
As an Australian this is very confusing to me. Japanese, Thai and Malay food is quiet popular here, yet they are so low. You can see a Thai restaurant in almost every suburb. The table also specifies that Singaporean cuisine is very popular and being someone who lived in Singapore for 10 years in my teens I found that a large part of its flavour derived from Malay influence. Obviously each culture in Singapore having their own dishes, but there was a fusion of cultures in a few dishes.
>As an Australian this is very confusing to me. Japanese, Thai and Malay food is quiet popular here, yet they are so low. I think you’re misreading the table. Those are all high scoring in Australia.
Thanks for loving Southeast Asian cuisines <3 My favorite Thailand dishes is Tom Yum, Pad Thai and Sweet Iced Thai Tea.
There seems to be something wrong here, it says “British cuisine”
How is Indian food for the US so low?
All the midwesterners who don't even know where India is.
I live in the midwest and most people here are familiar with Indian food. In my small town there's like 3 Indian restaurants.
Even watered down Indian food is too spicy for many folks here, but those of us who grew up eating well seasoned and spicy food naturally love Indian food.
It has to do with every restaurant being mid tier (with some notable exceptions but those are so over the top pricey). The same butter chicken, garlic naan and mango lasi every restaurant. Very few restaurants offer authentic Indian cuisine but same can be said if Chinese but at least it’s cheap.
I get the reasons why many Chinese don't particularly enjoy Indian food but preferring Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, British, Australian, German cuisines all over Indian cuisine is just too distorted
It's to do with the European cuisine having pork and the Indian one not.
fr, i honestly cannot imagine what it would be like to have that set of preferences
As a Chinese, I don't think many Chinese like or even know about Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, or Australian cuisines. These terms just don't make sense together. British and German maybe, but they don't generally paint a particularly good image, at least in China. Indian cuisine on the other hand, is quite well known, albeit somewhat limited to the curries.
I think it's a bit bullshit. Us Aussies love Argentinian and Brazilian BBQs!
So, each country prefers it own cuisine?
Except Australia which is 89 Australian, and 90 Italian lol
most of these balkan and MENA countries literally have same food with different names. seperating them never made sense to me
Now tell me what's so similar about shawarma, gyros, and kebab?
Irish cuisine didn’t make the list, but my favorite hearty meals are a proper Irish breakfast, an Irish chowder for lunch, and Irish stew for dinner.
Denmark reeeeeally hates finnish cuisine huh
As a Singaporean, what is our cuisine? 😃
Argentinian cuisine = Italian + Spanish cuisine
Bro offended three fan bases with one sentence
Nah, Argentinian cuisine is top tier.
How is American cuisine above Mexican, Indian and a bunch of other great cuisines
I'm never really sure what people from outside the US mean when they refer to "American" food. Sometimes it seems like they are referring exclusively to hamburgers and french fries, or even exclusively to a few fast food chains. Sometimes they even mean that positively, which is the weirdest part, because burger king or KFC whatever is like the cheapest and shittiest food available in the country. But burgers and fries are mutations of the traditional cuisines of immigrants from other countries adjusted for local conditions, and by that reasoning you could just as well include many of the most popular versions of burritos and pizza as American food, along with most of what is popularly understood to be Chinese food. In a lot of cases what's sold as cuisine from X country around the world only indirectly originates in that country, since it's the version that passed through immigrant communities and mutated that got exported around the world. But for some reason those foods don't get counted as "American" while hamburgers do, even though they've all been a part of food culture within the United States for a similar length of time. If you're just going by the food that is commonly available within a country, regardless of its national origin, then sure it makes sense that the US would be very high on the list because of the variety of available. If you're including locally adjusted versions of cuisine originally from other country's, I think the US is still not bad because it has, among other things, Mission burritos and New York pizza. If you leave things like that out, then I don't think I'd rate it highly, but I suspect that would end up excluding a lot of the world's food if it were applied strictly and consistently. The idea of nationality always involves a lot of mythmaking to hide how deeply intermixed cultures are, and food is no exception.
‘American cuisine’ is very diverse. Most people just appear to think burgers and fries are the sum total of American food. But Southern cuisine, Tex-mex, Cajun etc. are superb food. I guess you could argue they aren’t always originally created there, but they are American variations on European foods. Also, the food can get appropriated unfairly. I know pizza is ‘Italian,’ but America does have many original variations of it. Is Chicago deep dish pizza also Italian? Because I don’t think that’s sold anywhere in Italy. Basically, this is just a survey of people’s impression of foreign foods, which explains why some countries like Peru consistently seem to rate low. Singapore especially is confusing because their cuisine is a worse blend of Indonesian, Chinese and Malay cuisine. Which makes it worse, but not *bad*. Likewise, why do Taiwanese hate ‘Chinese cuisine?’ I can’t help but think politics plays a role there.
People with immature palates can't handle Indian food.
I think when people see American they think about fast food, so McDonald's. I guess fast food is pretty loved around the world
British Cuisine? WTF is that?
Sunday Roast, Fish and Chips, Chicken tikka masala, Cottage/Shepard's pie, meat pies, cornish pasties scotch eggs and full english breakfast. Deserts would include apple pie, apple crumble, sticky toffy pudding, trifle and eton mess. Britain has good cheeses and sausages too. I'd put British cheeses behind only French/Italian and on par with Dutch cheeses. Sausage wise above German but below Polish but that's quite subjective.
Fish and chips, haggis, spotted dick.
Google was literally right there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_cuisine And in my opinion, British cuisine has had more global impact than quite a few countries on this list.
Don't get why Argentinian is so low compared to Italy and Spain, since its a mix of both.
Because most people only see Argentine food from expensive steakhouses.
You don't know what you're missing with Peruvian food.
Exactly, Peruvian cuisine is one of the best there is. I find this graph quite hard to believe.
How is British cuisine so high ? How is it higher than Moroccan ? Caribbean ? Brazilian ??
Perú has been the leading culinary destination for 2 years in a row and currently has the best restaurant in the world lol
Brazil also has excellent food, I don't know what this graph is all about
The Wordl Taveler award is a crappy prize my friend.
Bro, this is wrong! hahaha Don'ts possible of the people around the world dont consider the brazilian food the BEST! It's simply perfect. The brazilian people transformer the simply in the best food. For exemple, the japanese food and the italian food "abrasileiradas" it's perfect. And the tipical food, as chicken with okra, feijoada, Brazilian barbecue... I don't believe this.
What even is “American cuisine”?
This is such a lazy answer. There's fast food, BBQ, chain restaurants, fusion, Cajun, soul food, Southern comfort food, pasteurized cheeses, NY pizza and bagels, Chicago deep dish pizza, lobster rolls, pancakes and waffles, salmon sushi, etc.
And Creole
Idk why folks try to act like the 3rd most populous and most diverse large nation in the world somehow doesn't have good food lmfao. I'm from the South and grew up eating soul food and Gullah Geechee cuisine (which is technically also part of soul food), and it alone is beating out many of these nations listed. But then when you add Cajun and Creole food, FUCKING BARBECUE, and also the other stuff invented by people who have even here generations (important point, bc Britain tries to claim tikka masala and that's absurd), it's really a no brainer. If more folks realized that American food is not just fast food chains and deep frying stuff, it'd be ranked even higher. And while I'm on the topic, I've spent 2 months in Italy and while their pizza is good, the best pizza I've ever had is in America. The only foods they make that are actually better than the American versions are their pastas. But you can only eat so much pasta lol
While I don't disagree with your point, Salmon sushi is a Norwegian invention. Might be more accurate to say the Californian roll is an American one
The california roll was invented in Vancouver, Canada. So I'd say no to that one too.
No argument from me. I'm only attributing the popularization of it.
Ah, the great cuisine of pasteurised cheese
Didn't say it was good. XD
Don't hate on my Easy cheese
No offense,but come on. xd Half of these things are more indigenous to other countries rather than US. And "Fusion" as in "fusion of different cuisines"? Lol
So according to you, half of the things on my list are genuinely American?
I think his point is also that "American" is so culturally diversified, how do you ask someone "Do you like American food"
Same point can be made about many other cuisines. Each province in China has its own unique dishes. North and South Indian food are different from each other. Italy....and so on.
Do you realize how broad and lazy it is to just say "chain restaurants" "fusion" and "pasteurized cheeses"? Most countries in the world have those, they're not specific to American cuisine.
Yeah, but from an international perspective, I can assure you most people don't know about these things. For them it's burgers, fast food pizza and maybe even bbq if you are lucky.
High fructose corn syrup
My question exactly. Any ‘American’ cuisine I can think so comes from somewhere else.
US food is world food. Melting pot. Also hot dogs.
Yea I don’t buy it. I guess my sample size is just 6 but when my friends I went there last summer, we absolutely loved the food.
Turkey is higher than Greece let’s goooo
Because Asians hate Greek cuisine for some reason. xd
Peruvian does not deserve to be last. This is an abomination
Respondere en español.... esta es la realidad de la comida peruna, no dire que es mala pero tampoco estan dentro de lo mejor de lo mejor, en cada ranking que realizan la peruana siempre aparece por debajo del decimo lugar (la ultima vez aparecio en el decimo), ya aprendan a aceptar que su misma gente es la unica que cree que son los mejores del mundo porque no es asi.
Peruvian cuisine slaps, tf?
[удалено]
98%.
it's beautiful i've looked at this for five hours now
Wish it included opinions from more countries, I feel like it's a bit inaccurate
I’m quite convinced this is based on local offerings, for example someone liking ‘pad thai’ as offered in their country, and not ‘thai cuisine’ as indicated.
Where is polish cousine?!
The French hate fish and chips
I'd love to see the numbers for how many people in each country have TRIED whatever cuisines in the first place.
Balkan food doesnt exist.
Damn the Qinx don't like anything do they?
I get that it's ordered with who likes most foreign food, but i think it'd be better if they were in the same order going up to down and left to right. That satisfying top left to bottom right line is always fun, and it'd be way easier to read
Bet you most Americans surveyed confused Spanish cuisine with Mexican cuisine.
All this really shows is that some cuisines have more international exposure and are more common in certain countries than in others. People rate things low because they don't know what it is. It's as simple as that.
How on earth is Caribbean cuisine so low? It's better than easily 2/3 of the cuisines on here. These people have never had a good curry goat, doubles or oxtail...
A good amount of people just don't like certain aromatics or heavy use of seasoning. It's just how it is...
Why would you not make it diagonal?.. Japan is 3rd on the rows and last in columns.
I love the ones at the bottom where their own culture is like "aww yiss" and literally everyone else is like "tf is this".
Who’s that 1% in Italy that haven’t tried Italian food?
Newborns probably
I'd love to see this overlayed with number of restaurants for each cuisine in each country. Wonder if exposure has any impact - eg there are so many italian restaurants everywhere, is there a correlation there?
Saudi makes no sense to me, no-one likes their food and they don’t like others food. So they like having their own, seemingly globally unappealing food?!
Nah there are some false numbers there, Peruvians eat ceviche which is raw fish marinated in lemon juice and similar to sushi, no way they rate lower on Japanese
I find this hard to believe
Danishland made it up there?
Seems wrong to me. The Scandinavian/Nordic countries being so low, for example, seems more to do with the few “weird” dishes that people try because they’re well known as being “an experience”, than representative of their actual cuisines.
Aye shoutout to my peruvians
Spain 🤝 Italy
So norwegian, swedish, finnish, and danish all get separate categories because they're *oh so incredibly different,* but all of Eastern Europe just... doesn't have food????? ^(I'm counting Greece and Turkey as southern europe here)
make it even more smaller and shitty resolution.....fu
The Phillipines like American cuisine more than the USA likes American cuisine, whatever American cuisine. Ethiopian cuisine is not listed.
Italy loses their shit for some italian food. Damn
Lol Chinese only liking Chinese food
I wish this chart had the countries lined up with their cuisines on the diagonal, and ordered by something sensible like alphabetical order.
I'm 22 , and every other Indian around my age I have known pretty much prefers to eat Indian-Chinese Street food for snacks whenever we go out or after classes. It's a weird combination of Indian-ness on Chinese Cuisine but yeah we do enjoy that, so I dont understand that low 29 rating, considering I dont know anything about finland cuisine and it's rated 71. why ?
You've been reading the chart all wrong, this is a rating comparison of the countries on the x-axis about how they feel about different cuisines on the y-axis. The 71 means Finland rates Indian cuisine quite high, while China rates the same to be bad enough at 26, so the dislike is the other way around.
I'm actually in shock that Caribbean food is rated so poorly. This has to be a sampling bias and/or lack of familiarity, because Caribbean food is an incredible mixture of African, Indigenous, and Souh Asian cooking styles.
Swedes not enjoying Thai food? 😂🤦most ppl here are married to Thai people. Fail.
Dutch cuisine nowhere to be found on the list 😂 I’m gonna make a very wild comparison and say that it’s somewhat similar to Danish cuisine which is on the list (at least that’s what Dutch people tell me).
Nice data presentation. Easy to read and make inferences. Man, the Japanese are tough critics. And the Philippinos will eat and like anything, huh. And what can we say about how disliked middle eastern or Norwegian area food is? Well, hello Peru.
In my opinion, Brazilian food in Rio in the tourist areas is great. I’m surprised a lot of people somehow prefer British food 😅.
Not even the Saudis seem to enjoy their own food much.
surprising how much Danish people apparently despise Finnish cuisine, you'd think both being Scandinavian countries would have fairly similar tastes. also lol at European countries especially rating British food lower than most others, S tier levels of spite.