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Looking for foods to try and share a bit of my own culture. My family is cantonese viet and I grew up eating in a lot of traditional banquet hall restaurants. Usually these are dim sum menu for lunch and traditional shared foods for dinner. Most people have tried the common ones like siu mai (pork wrapper dumpling) and haw gow (shrimp rice dumpling) but my favorites are the uncommon ones like ngau zaap (beef offal) and baak wan fung zaau (pickled chicken feet).

Ngau zaap is basically braised brown sauce using off cuts, usually stomach and whatnot, with chinese radish. Its very savory, kinda like if you made an asian gravy.

Baak wan fung zaau is just chicken feet pickled in white vinegar. If you had pickled radish it's essentially the same pickling and the chicken feet is gelatinous and a bit crunchy. You can also get them sometimes boneless since eating around the bones is kinda a pain. I really like pickled foods so this is one of my faves

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[–] neidu4@piefed.social 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Lutefisk, probably. But doing it well from scratch will take you half a year, and it's easy to fuck up.

I hear Brunost somehow became very popular in South Korea, but that's not really a dish on its own.

Fårikål is less known, but easy as hell to make. Traditionally the only spices are whole black pepper and salt, but I stumbled across a persian dish that wasn't that different, so I'd think whichever spices and herbs you normally use with lamb would work well.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Lutefisk is always talked about jokingly as being like super gross, but I've always wondered if it could be good if done right.

Can it actually taste good? And not just like ammonia or whatever?

[–] neidu4@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It tastes pretty "normal", it's just the prep method that is very strange to most, which gives it a different texture (extremely tender). The only strange part about the flavor (to many) is the fact that mustard is used on fish, but I consider that optional. I like it, tho.

If prepped poorly, it fucks up both the flavor and the texture, and the result can be anything from jell-o that tastes extremely of fish (too much lye for too long), to just regular boiled cod (watered too long or boiled too long, or not enough lye.

And using quality Stockfish as a starting point is of course essential.

And no, it doesn't taste of lye. It might have the tiniest hint of it, but not too much. It's not really noticeable because of the bacon and mustard.

A really picky Texan I know liked it, so that's an indication that the end-result isn't that strange.

Oh, and the actual ammonia flavor is reserved for various kinds of candy.

[–] Tradwench@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 hours ago

TIL that Iranian abgoosht has a Norwegian version.

[–] MindMovie@feddit.dk 1 points 11 hours ago

When I worked in a very, very multi-ethnic place, I habitually asked people to teach me recipes from their cultural origin. The Norwegian guy refused, stating that Norwegian food was basically too fat to be edible.

For the uninitiated, Fårikål is Sheep-in-Cabbage, ie basically Irish Stew but with less variety in the veggies. The name is brillant, though.