I've only ever ate at 1 ethnic restaraunt & that was chinese...my town & surrounding towns are very small.....

Question

......and we only have one chinese place to. So, what type of ethnic food do you suggest? On here I've heard allot about Thai food but I haven't a clue what it is. Thanks for the answers!

Answer 1

You need to go to South Carolina and eat some of the soul ethnic food. Tey have opossum, racoon, snake, frogs, chitlins, rabbit, corne pone, and an array of dishes. This is about the same as many Asian dishes. But if you want to use chop sticks, it is bring your own. Oh, these are small towns also.

Answer 2

Try everything you get a chance to! Jump right in and find out firsthand what you like and don't like, no one can tell you if you are going to like a certain type.
Personally, I like some of all the different kinds I've tried, but not necessarily all of any one ethnic cuisine. It can vary a lot between restaurants also, so don't give after trying a certain cuisine one time and thinking you don't care for it , try it again at a different place if the opportunity comes up.
Be adventurous and you will be pleasantly rewarded.

Answer 3

Thai food is of course from Thaliand. I love it personally. It's my second favorite ethnic food besides Mexican. Much of it is curry based which I'm not too crazy about but alot of it also has zesty spices in the dishes. Two staples I usually get are tom yung goong which is a lemongrass soup and any dish with something called pik pow sauce.

Answer 4

A lot of Thai dishes contain hot chili peppers, others have peanuts as a garnish or incorporated in the meal in some fashion, all in all you are missing something awesome. If you ever get the chance try Thai-style shrimp fried rice.

Answer 5

I love Chinese, but not fond of Thai. There's anise and coconut in many dishes. Grab a few cookbooks at a yard sale and just start experimenting! That's how I learned how to cook and become a chef.

Answer 6

well, if you're looking to keep your new experience to the familiar, and you liked the Chinese okay, then Thai would indeed be similar. Stick to the stir-fry dishes to keep it as close as possible to Chinese if that's your goal. Thai will include some red and green and yellow curry dishes, all with their distinctive types of spicing. All of those will be kinda different from Chinese.
But dishes like shrimp with basil (or chicken with basil) will be much closer to the stirfries you've maybe already had, and lovely.
Thai places also typically have fried rices similar to Chinese,
and appetizers called satay that are usually chicken pieces on skewers with a peanut dipping sauce that is pretty
"unexotic" as well.
I tried those dishes..spring rolls, fried rice, shrimp with basil, and chicken satay...with my 10 year old son when I wanted to see if he'd branch out from chinese when I got tired of all the msg they put in the chinese food around my neck of the woods.
Also, lemongrass-based stirfries are nice and simple for newbies.
He loved it all and it was a nice way to try new flavors that weren't too odd for him.
I'd just wait til you're comfy to do the curries, which are also yummy and non too different from chinese, but the coconut milk base and the higher levels of spice might be challenging if you're worried about it somehow!
There's also the famous "pad thai" dish, which is like a lo mein with wide rice noodles and shrimp and peanuts and scallions and carrots if you like that kind of thing, but that is actually nothing like what you'd get in a chinese restaurant to me. Enjoy expanding your food horizons...so much fun!
Other cuisines you might like if you like Chinese would be vietnamese (also lots of stir-fries) and the more meat-centered stir-fry type dishes in japanese cuisine (like sukiyaki, terriyaki), and korean if you don't mind more chili pepper heat and want to try cabbage-and-onion based pickly stuff that makes its way into a lot of dishes (bul go ki is the most mainstream dish for non-adventurers...yummy korean barbequed flank steak strips, served with steamed rice).
Bon Appetite!

Answer 7

Italiian is great. I ate a german restaurant once and it was really good. We went to a Thai restaurant around here and it was so expensive that we could not afford to eat there. Better than chinese is a Japanese hibachi grill. that is some good stuff!

Answer 8

there arent too many ethnic foods i havent tried at one time or another including
ethopian
greek
spanish/mexican/south american
afghani
french
german
English
Irish
scandiavian
russian
native american
chinese
vietnamese
cambodian
phillipino
laotian
aussie
creole
cajun
cuban
hindu
middle eastern

all depends on the types of spices, you like and how much you are willing to try and even with what you want to eat with from regular silverware to chopsticks to your fingers.

Answer 9

Indian and Middle Eastern food are great.

Answer 10

Thai food is food from Thailand and it is quite yummy!