What regional, cultural, family food or dish is unique to you?

Question

Name your home area and the food.

In MN it is casserole, noodle and rice dishes that cook for a long time. Pretty bland, but very midwestern. I'm wondering what is the signature dish to you where you live?

Answer 1

Beef Tri-Tip
Santa Maria, CA

Answer 2

I moved to Mexico and a unique dish I'd never heard of before seems to be a traditional party favorite is Pozole.
It's made with hominy cooked with chicken or pork pieces, topped with raw shredded cabbage and some chopped white onion and a couple of green chilis. The pork, or red, is usually swimming in grease and neither is appealing to my tastes, but it's all about the good times. You need a lot to feed the crowd. I live amongst the poor people and pozole is fairly inexpensive and can go a long ways. Buen provecho!

Answer 3

Utah is in the middle of the Jello Belt. For a tasty variety, cook up white rice using pineapple juice instead of water, then add it to your cherry Jello before it's set. Utahns can also make a caserole out of ANYTHING as long as there's a can of cream of mushroom soup left in the pantry. lol.

Hawaii's signature dish is kalua pig. A pig is cleaned, rubbed down with sea salt, then baked in an underground oven (imu) for 12 hours. It is served over rice with steamed cabbage and shoyu (soy sauce). Our favorite dessert is haupia - a coconut milk pudding that is almost as firm as Jello. It is most delicious as the bottom layer of a chocolate pie.

Answer 4

I am in Australia and the food here is historically based on English cuisine - fish and chips is very much a "local neighbourhood" food. May be vegemite on toast would also be classified as uniquely Aussie too.

Although I heard that curry pie is uniquely Australian.

Forget Kangaroo meat - it is NOT something we eat as a normal everyday meal. Only some restaurants serve this. It is available but not everywhere. It is nice though. I have had it.

Answer 5

I live in Northeast Ohio on the edge of Lake Erie. We have a lot of wineries here and very cold temperatures at night in the fall,so we have "ice wine". The grapes are left on the vine and allowed to freeze,then harvested and made into wine. The harvest is very small and the wine is very sweet and concentrated,so the price is higher. It's like drinking ambrosia of the Gods.

Answer 6

Chippino: the Marinara based fish stew where everyone brings some fish or shellfish or vegetables to add to it. Everyone "Chips" in.
I live near San Francisco, Calif. and word is the dish was invented here by Mediterranean immigrants.

Answer 7

I don't think we have any unique dishes but a Sunday Lamb Roast is considered here in New Zealand.

Answer 8

We're a Korean family in Oklahoma. I guess our signature dish would probably be bulgogi. Everyone seems to love it anyway.

Answer 9

Here in Hong Kong we are famous in authentic Cantonese Cuicine - Dim Sum, Seafood and homemade long boiled soup with various ingredients...long list!

Answer 10

Vietnamese soups such as Tom Yum and Pho (I'm not vietnamese but its asian dining) and spring or egg rolls. And chow mein, or just rice with whatever food XD;