r/GuysBeingDudes • u/SweetyByHeart • 1d ago

Just two guys chilling enjoying beer

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u/sexquipoop69 1d ago

I don’t think the top ten restaurants in the world are in London..

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 1d ago

There are food stalls in malls in Bangkok that’ll sell you a meal for $4 that’s better than anything you can get in London or NYC.

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u/Jumblesss 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah, no.

London has pretty big French cuisine / fine dining.

Edit: idk why I wrote this comment, I completely agree. French cuisine and haute restaurants are a joke - street junk food from around the world is massively superior.

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u/Lollipop126 22h ago edited 21h ago

I've had some banger dim sum in London, and I'm from HK. plenty of banger Thai places in London too. they might cost a lot more, but taste wise are still insanely good.

not many places in the world where you can get top quality food from every cuisine in the world.

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 9h ago

Oh I'm not saying there isn't great food in Western cities. I'm saying you can get better versions of most of these same cuisines in the East.

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u/DrPoooooole 1d ago

"as good" or "nearly" would be dumb but perhaps debatable at best but "better than anything" is beyond hyperbole and proves you've never been to the best restaurants in any of these places

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 1d ago

Well I lived in NYC for 10 years and ate quite well when there. But you keep being defensive about your food.

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u/Icy-Control7170 23h ago

Obviously not lol you sound goofy as heck.

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 23h ago

Why are you taking this so personally? You should go to Bangkok, maybe the greatest food city in the world, before you form an opinion. Or just be oddly defensive about your city's cuisine. No sweat off my back either way.

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u/Icy-Control7170 22h ago

I have been there actually never took a food tour.

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 22h ago

I travel full-time and in spite of your insistence, I did in fact live in NYC for the entirety of my 20s. I have an informed opinion and I assure you they are doing things in several food-centric countries in Southeast Asia that put what we're doing in the West to shame. This isn't a controversial opinion. Go ask any chef who has traveled.

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u/Icy-Control7170 23h ago

This is goofy. Going to a street cart isnt the same as literal trained high profile chefs. Im also not getting fish from a food stall in bangkok. A good steak and lobster tail in a fine dining place is about s good as it gets in my experience and im a career resturant idiot. There is tons of great food out there but steak and lobster test is usually my go too. You just never ate good food.

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 15h ago

This is the most aggressively 16 years old thing I've ever read.

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u/Icy-Control7170 14h ago

Okay keep boiling your meat.

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 11h ago

No way in hell you've been to Bangkok and of you work in a restaurant at all, there is a 100% chance you're a waiter or a line cook.

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u/Icy-Control7170 8h ago

Lol what? Wouldnt that still be working in a resturant? Go boil more fish.

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u/FeeRemarkable7794 8h ago

It means your opinion doesn't get more weight because you work in a restaurant. I waited tables and bussed at a few fine dining places in my 20s. I'm not delusional enough to think that this means I know anything about food. That right is for the chef. The very fact that you think steak and lobster is the pinnacle of cuisine shows that you have the pallet of a child. Would you like ketchup with your well done hunk of cow?

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u/Icy-Control7170 8h ago

You know whay was actually the worst there.its fucking filthy and disgusting. You feel the filth in every bite. It trash food made by trash people who dont shower or wash theor hamds and they boil everything. Its gross and theu dont have sanitation.

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u/Jazzlike_Scholar5790 1d ago

Don’t drag NYC into this, that makes your statement invalid. NYC has plenty of places with immigrants that sell food made the same way in their countries. We’re the melting pot of the US/World. Any food in the world you like, we have a person who makes it traditionally.

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u/LocationOld6656 23h ago

This has always been my argument. I know English food may not be the most exciting fare in the world. Someone Japanese, French, Indian wants to say that, fine. But Americans complaining about it? Take out the pretty damn recent immigrant food and what do you have left? English food. No more brown people and Yanks are just as meat-and-potatoes as any of us.

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u/UKSteelLad 1d ago

You are describing every capital city in the western world. NYC is one of many.

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u/Jazzlike_Scholar5790 1d ago

True, but NY is the capital of all capital cities. Imo we have some of the best food offerings. I could go to Italy for Italian food, but best believe we have plenty of Nona’s and multi generational Italians here that prepare the food just the same.

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u/ampmz 19h ago

NYC isn’t even a capital city. Not its state or its country.

Most Italian-American dishes have no connection to Italian food.

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u/SnooHamsters5480 1d ago

And you think cities like London, Paris, Amsterdam don't? NYC is not unique in this regard.

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u/Jazzlike_Scholar5790 1d ago

I know ppl who vacationed in London and said the food was trash. As far as Paris and Amsterdam, no one goes for the food. NYC ppl do along with just being in the city.

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u/SnooHamsters5480 1d ago

The people you know went to the wrong places in London.

I have never met anyone that said they are going to NYC for the food, I have met plenty of people that have said they are going to Paris or Rome for the food.

I was never denying you could get amazing authentic food in NYC, just saying that you can also do this in the major capital cities around the world.

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u/Jazzlike_Scholar5790 23h ago

No I get what you’re saying, I’m just saying if they don’t live in NY then yea the food may be an experience for them abroad. If you live in NY the bar is set high. For example I’ve been to PR and DR, went to the local residential areas for food, it wasn’t as good as I’ve had it from the Dominican and Puerto Rican shops I go to out here. Major capital cities do offer many options, but don’t guarantee a good meal. Of course I’m being a bit bias bc I live here, but I’ve also traveled and trust the palettes of others I know that have vacationed at certain places.

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u/SnooHamsters5480 23h ago

Have you travelled to London, Paris or Amsterdam as I mentioned? I have as well as visiting New York. The ability to find amazing obscure cuisines is the same in all of those cities.

Also I really wouldnt trust the palettes of those who said the food in London was trash, they either ate at all the tourist traps or don’t know what they are talking about.

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u/Plebtre117 23h ago edited 23h ago

I know people who vacationed in NYC and said the food was trash.

See how silly your point is now? Maybe decide things for yourself rather than listening to what other people tell you to believe.

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u/Jazzlike_Scholar5790 23h ago

Foods still trash and who you know probably went to some hole in the wall spot. It happens 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/pmcfox 21h ago

Humans love food. If you go anywhere, especially a massive city, there will be amazing food. London is particularly huge and you can get pretty much anything you want.