How They Eat It: Weird Combinations of Common Foods Favorite by Foreigners

When we travel, we very quickly become convinced that food in other countries is often not at all like what we are used to. Sometimes its taste seems divine to us, and sometimes we do not understand how this can be combined in one dish, says AdMe.ru.

Chocolate for meat

Chocolate lovers will confidently say that this product goes well with almost everything, but even they will not always be ready to hear that it is added to meat in Mexico. The classic Mexican Mole Poblano sauce is made from hot chili peppers, chocolate or cocoa powder and a number of other spices. It is served with chicken, turkey, shrimp, but no one will be surprised if the mole is poured on beef or pork.

Strawberries with vinegar

Strawberries and chocolate or strawberries with cream - that is the question. But take your time to choose between these two options. How about strawberries with balsamic vinegar? This is how berries are eaten in Italy. Here it is believed that the rich sweet and sour taste of aged wine vinegar gives the usual sweetness of strawberries new flavoring qualities.

Yoghurt for any meal

In Turkey, where spicy food is adored, it is customary to add yogurt to almost all dishes. Quora user Gizem Acar writes about it: “Yoghurt on pasta, in pilaf, with chicken, beans, spinach, potatoes ... The list is endless. How to complement the dish? Just pour in the yogurt and everything tastes much better. Only when I went to study abroad, I realized that this habit is peculiar only to the Turks ”.

Soda with condensed milk

“In Indonesia, we drink with Fantu condensed milk or soda with strawberry syrup. We call this drink Happy Soda. I personally love drinking it with ice cubes, ”says Quora blogger Ray Djufril.

Peas as a base for jelly

In China, yellow split peas are used to make nothing more than jelly. The peas are boiled with water and salt until they turn into a paste, then cooled, cut into chunks and served in a bowl with rice noodles, bean sprouts and hot chili peanut sauce. The dish is called Liangfen.

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Tea in salad

All over the world tea is brewed and drunk, but in Myanmar (Burma) a salad is made from fermented or pickled tea leaves, called lepkhe. They are seasoned with sesame oil, fried garlic, toasted sesame seeds, peanuts, chickpeas, as well as grated ginger, fried chopped coconut, and shrimp are added.

Avocado for dessert

It is not enough for us that avocado is an exotic fruit, but it is also used not only in salads, rolls and sandwiches. In Brazil, its pulp is ground with sugar, lime juice is added there and served as a dessert.

Sausages and marshmallows

Spit sausages topped with molten marshmallows are a traditional treat served during children's parties in the Philippines. Once upon a time, Filipinos bought army rations, which included hot dogs and marshmallows. The islanders came up with their own way of serving these products, which became delicacies for them. True, nowadays they use local sausages, bright red, made from very salty pork.

Beets in a burger

In the country, a kangaroo burger will not be considered a real burger unless it contains a slice of pickled beetroot. Quora user Ruth Zweigenbaum Durfee writes about it: "I have developed strange habits in Australia: putting beets and eggs in a hamburger and eating pancakes with lemon and sugar."

Sweet pretzel with boiled eggs

In Austria, Easter cake is served with boiled eggs and ham. Quora user Errieta Zeha wrote about this: “My grandmother always cooked this delicious meal for her children and for us grandchildren, but the rest of my family (from my mother’s side) thinks it’s a strange combination, because the cake is sweet, and the ham is salted, and eggs are usually salted. " Butter bread, lampropsomo, with boiled eggs in shell pressed into it, is served at Easter and in Greece, as well as in other countries with Greek communities.

Confectionery sprinkle on a sandwich

Sweet sprinkles can be used to decorate more than just a dessert. For example, in the Netherlands, buttered bread is generously sprinkled with chocolate sticks called hahelslah. Reddit user Holska writes: “If the bread is hot, it melts. It looks like a more piquant version of Nutella. Hahelslach is practically the only reason why I want to move to the Netherlands. "

Potato sweets

In America during the Great Depression, there was such a strange dish as potato candy. Reddit user miscalculatedrisks describes them as follows: “I grew up thinking potato candy was a normal thing everyone knows about. You take a small piece of baked potato and mix it with enough powdered sugar to make a pliable dough. Then you should roll it out, spread it with peanut butter, roll it into a tube and cool it. Then it needs to be cut into slices about 1 cm thick. It's ridiculously cheap, and it's kind of fun for kids. "

Eggplant with honey

In Andalusia, they believe that serving eggplants exclusively with garlic and herbs means limiting your culinary imagination. Fry the vegetable slices in oil and eat them dipped in honey. That's how it should be!

Fruit with pepper

In some countries of Latin America, for example, in Mexico, hot red chili is so fond of that they are even ready to sprinkle it on fruits. Mango and watermelon, orange and pineapple - it is perfectly normal to cut them into pieces and sprinkle them generously with hot seasoning.

Raw carrots in salad

Boiled carrots are most often used in salads. We eat it raw, but with sugar. But in France, this vegetable is grated, but served with a vinaigrette dressing - from vegetable oil, lemon juice, Dijon mustard and herbs. Sometimes raw beets are added to this salad.

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Bread crumbs for breakfast

Bread is eaten as an addition to main courses, and sandwiches are also made with it - right? Not really: in Spanish-Portuguese cuisine, migas is made from it. Bread crumbs, soaked for several hours in a brine of water, garlic, pepper and olive oil, are fried and served for breakfast or dinner. Previously, it was a completely self-sufficient dish, but now they began to add pieces of sausage or vegetables to it.

Fried cucumbers

After the novel by Fannie Flagg, it is difficult to surprise someone with fried green tomatoes. But American cuisine is fraught with many more unusual combinations. For example, in the south of the country, a common treat is deep-fried breaded cucumbers. They are fried in Korea too, and served with sesame oil and sesame seeds. In China, stir-fry with cucumbers is fried in peanut butter together in a beaten egg.

“I was a curious child and once also cooked cucumbers like that. I wondered what would come of it. I remember that this dish tasted good, ”recalls a Reddit user under the nickname cuddlesandnumbers.

Chicken for sweet

Turkey is famous for its sweets: baklava, Turkish delight, many sweet puddings. Among them there is one special one. Silky texture, delicate sweetness, pleasant texture and a great vanilla cinnamon aroma. You will never guess what lies at the heart of this dish. It is called tavuk-gyoksu, and it is made by boiling chicken breast in milk with sugar and spices for a long time. As Reddit user j4mm3d writes, "it tastes like sweetened condensed milk."

Raw minced meat on bread

What is not made from minced meat: cutlets, "hedgehogs", meatballs, it is put in the fillings for pies, dolma and cabbage rolls are twisted with it. One thing unites such different dishes - heat treatment. But in Germany, minced pork is seasoned with spices, smeared on bread and eaten in this form. Matt is the name of this raw minced meat. At parties it is served in the shape of a hedgehog, decorated with "needles" made from slices of onions or bread sticks. The appearance of this dish is often so original that, as a Reddit user under the nickname martcapt writes, "it looks like it is ready to come to life and pounce on you for your sins."

Herring with milk

In fact, milk with herring can be combined without unpleasant consequences for the stomach. In Finland, both of these products are part of a traditional dish called kalalaatikko. This is a hearty milk-based fish and potato casserole that is very popular with the Finns.

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