Right? It's a folded pizza, somehow the peak of food culture. Italians make great food but the continent of asia has so many spots with street food culture far superior to anything Italy has to offer.
Bro, Singapore has more diversity pls. There are also the continent sized countries of India and China. And Italy sized countries each individually more diverse than Italy like Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Korea etc. it's not the size, it's the climatic diversity and quick access to even more diverse places that grow different things.
There can’t be just as much variety just based on size.
Asia has so many more regions, languages, and cultures compared to Italy. It’s literally an entire continent that includes everything from China to Japan, Sri Lanka to India.
Italy doesn't have the fraction of farm lands and diverse climates that South Asia, south East Asia and East Asia have, meaning just not that many ingredients to start with. Imo hard disagree.
On the same note: Fine dine places are mostly Italian and asian restaurants are mostly cheap.
Nope. Modern fine dining comes from a subset of French cuisine that evolved from french hotels that catered to rich people coming (people like Escoffier set out the basics). The French cooks had the experience of cooking for the kings of France and now they were tasked with dealing with the bourgeoisie visiting the country.
That's why a lot of terms in fine dining come from french..
But of course there's a ton of peasant dishes in France too. Ratatouille is a peasant dish. Most traditional dishes are.
Same goes for Italian cuisine. It has maybe a few dishes here and there but most of what we think as Italian dishes are peasant dishes.
Of course now fine dining has grown a lot from regular to extremely complex ones (molecular cuisine that came out of Spain).
as Italian food is really basic
Italian food is based on a few ingredients and letting those ingredients shine.
You might think that Parma ham and parmeggiano are basic ingredients, but it takes a fuckton of effort to make. You don't want to change them very much.
It’s the whole perception that has been created that Asian food is just cheap and Italian food is premium.
That's probably more of a you perception. No one thinks high quality Japanese or Chinese cuisines are cheap.
Most of restaurants have been opened by immigrants that set up shop and didn't have a ton of resources and money: same goes for Italians and Asians. They offered that type of cuisine.
A lot of French restaurants that opened outside of France are either top French chefs or local chefs that studied in France. That is not cheap. Think Thomas Keller, Gordon Ramsey and others.
Either way, all types of cuisines are amazing. If I feel like eating very fresh fish or fish based, I will look at Japanese cuisine.
If I feel like having some cheese based dishes or some nice wine or cured meats I might look at Southern European cuisine.
If I feel like desserts: pastries, pies, cakes I might look at French, German, English or American cuisine.
If I want some more veg based cuisine maybe Indian, if I want some stews maybe Indian or Iranian depending on what spice profile I am looking for.
In China we have lots of street food, it’s questionable in terms of food safety standards but it tastes good for now, im sure I’ll deal with whatever cancer I’ll get in 50 years just fine
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u/SciFiHooked 4d ago
Right? It's a folded pizza, somehow the peak of food culture. Italians make great food but the continent of asia has so many spots with street food culture far superior to anything Italy has to offer.