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Italian and Mexican

Indian and Chinese are excellent options, since they’re basically a couple dozen (minimum) cuisines in a trench coat.

For me it would be Indian and Italian with mexican as an honourable mention id sorely miss.

All three are super easy to make on your own too and almost everything I make could be classed as imitations of either. Heck, I already make Christmas pizza every year instead of the usual Christmas dinner. A few years I've made Christmas enchiladas too which is why I'd miss mexican but I definitely have more curries than mexican over the course of any given year.

Does "American" count as a cuisine? 'Cause it encompasses just about everything else, as long as I don't need it to be "authentic."

India is an entire sub continent of food, its like saying "european"

My local one and either Japanese or Chinese. These folks have nailed it, but I still want to eat something familiar as my staple.

1. Ethnic
2. Fusion

Figure that pretty much covers all of my bases.

I go with the two big Is.

Italian - because you have never truly lived if you didn’t eat authentic Italian food. There is a reason Italians take their food serious and there is so much to explore beyond pizza and spaghetti.

~~Indian~~ UK - because sometimes you just want to shove that Chicken Tikka Masala in your face. Fun fact: The best Chicken Tikka I ever had was in fucking Perth, Scotland. Make of that what you will.

Edit: Turns out what I call Indian food is British. So, at least one good thing came out of the Brits colonising half the world.

Japanese
Indian

British - obviously includes the greats like full English/Scottish breakfast, roast dinners, fish and chips, but also includes a wide varieties of Indian/Bangladeshi curries (Balti, Jalfrezi, Madras, Chicken Tikka Masala, etc), and similarly with westernised Chinese dishes.

American - mostly from the south: fried chicken, barbecue, jambalaya, gumbo, etc.

1. Thai
2. Lean

Italian and German.

Vietnamese and Italian.

Mexican and Indian.

Or Mexican and Mediterranean.

Or Mexican and something I haven't discovered yet. I hear Thai is good.

Middle Eastern and German

mexican and mexican

Mexican and Chinese.

But like the american type chinese takeout with a seventeen page menu of sushi and bubble teas I will never once get. And the mexican restaurants that also serve americanized tacos, so you know everything else has extra cheese and sauce.

Indian and Thai, but I'd really miss pho.

That being said, no way I don't grill some steaks and burgers and brats..

Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern (I should probably give other cuisines a try). There's a lot more to this stuff than shawarma, y'all.

Give me Japanese, and give me Thai.

Japanese cuisine runs far and deep, and so does Thai food.

Of course, this begs the question: what about a good burger with kewpie on it, or what happens if I put carnitas in pad thai? Where’s the delineations?

Eventually I can argue that frosted animal crackers, the pink and white ones, furthest from any kind of national or regional cuisine whatsoever, are Thai food cause they’ve been eaten by Thai people.

For my mouth and dopamine, Italian. For my health, Greek.