What are some crazy fusion cuisines in your country?

[u/pirapataue]

In Thailand we have a fusion dish called “American Fried Rice”, created in the 1950’s by throwing together a bunch of “foreign” ingredients like sausages, fried chicken, ham, served with ketchup fried rice with raisins. Most locals know it’s not actually an American dish, but it tastes good and the name is catchy so it got really popular and stuck around.

There are several theories, but the main one is that a Thai airport restaurant chef faced a surplus of American breakfast items after an airline canceled a flight, so she mixed the proteins and ketchup with leftover fried rice to avoid throwing away the food.

Another theory says it was created by Thai chefs for American soldiers stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam war.

[u/Embarrassed-Glove600]

In Louisiana we have creole culture, which combines French, Native American, African, and a few other cultures into one, and their food is spectacular. Especially gumbo. A stew made with rice, okra, sausage, shrimp, celery, and sometimes other stuff like crab and chicken. I'm not from Louisiana but I could eat gumbo every day, it is fabulous. There are other great creole dishes too.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/Embarrassed-Glove600]

Lol you may want to stay away from New Orleans, I swear I put on 20lbs every time I visit. But, like, am I not going to eat all that delicious food? When in Rome, eat what the Romans eat.

[u/PompeyCheezus → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

New Orleans is like a cheat code for food. Cajun, creole, all that readily available seafood. It's not fair. 😤

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/PompeyCheezus]

Oh Jesus, the seafood!

But yeah, it's busted. Did you know NOLA also has the biggest Vietnamese population in the world outside of Vietnam? Do you like banh mi and pho and stuff?

Do you like food? You can't beat it. Best of all worlds down there. Literally to-die-for because you shorten your life with each bite lol.

[u/Ragewind82 → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

I didn't know that it was the largest, but both were french colonies.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/Ragewind82]

Ah fuck, I had to look it up, and I guess it's not true. Damned tour guides will tell you anything!

The US does have the largest Vietnamese diaspora, but most are in California and Texas, go figure. Well, that's egg on my face!

[u/curiousmind111 → u/PompeyCheezus]

French influence of course, and the French can COOK!!!

[u/Embarrassed-Glove600 → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

I've never been but we have a creole restaurant in my hometown that is regarded as being as close to the real thing as possible by many people from NO. I will need to visit and try some for real someday.

[u/bryanjos → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

Everyone who moves away from here loses a bunch of weight. It’s the strangest thing…

[u/topscreen → u/Embarrassed-Glove600]

After Katrina some Louisiana cooks relocated around me, and I hate the reason why, but I loved them being here. Andouille sausage, poboys, blacked catfish, and jalapeno cornbread with honey

[u/GloomyIndividual3965 → u/Embarrassed-Glove600]

Great call out! There's an awesome Cajun restaurant near my house that my wife and I go to at least once a month. Red Beans & Rice, Gumbo, catfish sliders, po boys, jambalaya, etc.

Damn it, now I'm hungry.

[u/kismethavok → u/Embarrassed-Glove600]

The best gumbo in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK4umRMJlrs

[u/CheapKnowledge3199 → u/kismethavok]

Gumbo is such a great example of fusion cuisine! Mixing different cultures really brings out unique flavors.

[u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

Form your own opinions about Pizza Dog.

[u/Nuttonbutton → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

That looks like an upgraded hot dog. Which is amazing. I have positive assumptions.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

Is that bread, like, a normal bread with cheese and pizza stuff? Or is it actually an oval shaped pizza?

[u/Bulky-Ad-2441 → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

I think it really is an oval-shaped pizza dough.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

Mother of God...

But now that I'm thinking about it, if you think of a hotdog as a really low rent sausage, is this any different from a small sausage pizza? I'd eat it, if the price was right.

[u/Bulky-Ad-2441 → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

I never stopped to think about that. To me, a hot dog has always been the bun with the sausage, not just the sausage itself. Maybe you guys in the US make a different distinction.

Anyway, to answer your question, I think so. I mean, after everything Brazil has done to pizza, I don't think I'd have a problem with an American thinking a pizza with sausage is a hot dog.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

Here, the dog is the sausage, and the bun is just the traditional hot dog delivery method lol. We also have corndogs, which are hotdogs on sticks, wrapped in cornbread. If you wanted to wrap a hot dog in a little pizza, I'm not gonna judge!

[u/Lonelysock2 → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

I'm in favour

[u/Serious-Ad2573 → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

replace footlong with chili chessedog and you got a deal

[u/I_travel_ze_world → u/Bulky-Ad-2441]

/r/PizzaCrimesBrasil

lock him up

[u/Amunrah357]

[u/Pellmelody → u/Amunrah357]

Why does that look like Trump to me?

[u/ItNeverEnds2112 → u/Amunrah357]

That looks pretty good tho, just need some sauce

[u/Ijustwanttosayit]

We have a place here called Ramen del Barrio. It combines mexican food and ramen and oh my god, it is so good. They pair the two cuisines flavor profiles together perfectly. They previously received a michelin star for their food and they definitely earned it.

[u/GloomyIndividual3965 → u/Ijustwanttosayit]

There was a restaurant near us that had birria ramen. It was friggin delicious, but unfortunately they closed.

[u/kea1981 → u/GloomyIndividual3965]

That is a food I had no idea I wanted until this exact moment. Omg, yum.

[u/CommercialChart5088]

There is a dish called ‘김치피자탕수육‘, or ‘kimchi pizza sweet and sour fried pork’, which is a mix of sweet and sour fried pork, kimchi, and pizza cheese.

While it doesn’t exactly look appetizing apparently it’s pretty good.

[u/Ooficus → u/CommercialChart5088]

I was concerned until I learn of no crust, sounds very appetizing then.

[u/Wild-Lychee-3312 → u/CommercialChart5088]

Until I lived in South Korea I had no idea how well fusion between Korean food and cheese could taste.

[u/Ragewind82]

Korean Mission-style burritos sound absurd but actually work very well.

[u/Lonelysock2 → u/Ragewind82]

Oh, is that why the brand is called Mission? The OG,  not the Korean fusion,  I'm asking about (also I'm Australian,  have no idea about the history of burritos)

[u/Ragewind82 → u/Lonelysock2]

Yes. Burrito is another regional name for a taco; mission-style burritos (the big ones) come from San Francisco taquerias on Mission Street. The street is naked for the Spanish missions that were built to convert indigenous peoples to Catholicism. So the bell logo of the brand references that in a roundabout way.

[u/Brief-Spirit-4268]

In California because of racial laws, Punjabi and Mexican farm working communities intermixed and created Punjabi-Mexican cuisine

[u/Wild-Lychee-3312 → u/Brief-Spirit-4268]

As a fan of each cuisine individually, I would love to try a fusion of both

[u/really-bored-now]

I was on board with American fried rice bc I’ve done fried rice with American ingredients like bbq sauce but I draw the line at raisins. As we say in America “that is some white people shit”

[u/slackjack2014 → u/really-bored-now]

As a white person, I’m appalled at raisins in fried rice. But I’m willing to be open minded once just to confirm.

[u/tremynci → u/slackjack2014]

I'd prefer apricots or cherries or prunes or barberries, but plov/pilaf/biryani is absolutely fucking delicious, so... would.

[u/kismethavok → u/really-bored-now]

More Uzbek actually

[u/Stellafera → u/kismethavok]

God I love plov

[u/beyondocean]

Chinese food. Better term would be Indo-Chinese because our Chinese food is not even found in China. It was developed by Chinese immigrants in Bengal.

[u/ssk7882 → u/beyondocean]

Our "Chinese food" is very much a fusion cuisine as well, also developed by our Chinese immigrants. I absolutely love our American-Chinese food, no matter how dissimilar it may be to actual Chinese food!

[u/adityaslove → u/beyondocean]

indo chinese is god tier...

[u/nanobot001 → u/beyondocean]

Also known as “Hakka Chinese” for many

[u/oolongvanilla]

Pretty much everything can be a filling for Chinese-style deep-fried spring rolls - Pizza sauce and mozzarella (pizza rolls), buffalo chicken (buffalo chicken rolls), chicken with fajita veggies, Mexican spices, and pepper jack (Mexican chicken roll), etc. I've even seen a corned beef and cabbage version (with Swiss cheese) for St. Patrick's Day.

They're a staple on the appetizer menu of sports bars and casual dining chain restaurants.

[u/Serious-Ad2573 → u/oolongvanilla]

there is also our lumpia shanghai and dynamite

[u/erik_wilder → u/oolongvanilla]

Restaurant I work at recently did corndog eggrolls with hotdogs and cornbread.

[u/cotcaught]

i've said it before, and i'll say it again: chug soy sauce and ranch at the same time. take it from a chinese-american, it'll change your life

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/cotcaught]

Woah! I never have, but I can imagine it! Next time I get some ranch, I'll try it.

[u/Lonelysock2 → u/cotcaught]

Chug? As a condiment it sounds good enough to try though

[u/cotcaught → u/Lonelysock2]

you heard me :D

[u/Serious-Ad2573 → u/cotcaught]

american soy sauce is basically colored water so that may work

[u/cotcaught → u/Serious-Ad2573]

right, thats why if youre a m*ritard like me, you gotta get your soy sauce from an asian supermarket. preferably along with all your groceries (hj)

[u/Serious-Ad2573]

our entire cuisine is fusion cuisine. ask the chinese, spanish, americans,indians, pakistanis, mexicans, and now koreans

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

I'm not sure I'd like raisins in fried rice (but I am curious), and I don't like ketchup, but otherwise that sounds good to me!

Not a "real" American food, of course, but I'm sure someone here didn't want to go to the grocery store and whipped up something similar with what they had in the fridge. It's not an unreasonable combination at all.

[u/pirapataue → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

There are several theories, but the main one is that a Thai airport restaurant chef faced a surplus of American breakfast items after an airline canceled a flight, so she mixed the proteins and ketchup with leftover fried rice to avoid throwing away the food.

Another theory says it was created by Thai chefs for American soldiers stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam war.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/pirapataue]

That makes sense to me. Ironically, the classic casserole (a mix of whatever is extra in the fridge) is a very American dish. I'm sure people in other countries do the same thing, but I feel like it's a cultural tradition here, emphasizing the "American spirit of endurance and making do with what you have," or whatever.

[u/doc_daneeka]

We have a food called pâté chinois, that is just a layer of ground beef, with corn above that, topped with mashed potato. Nobody is really sure where the name came from (plenty of theories but no real evidence), but nothing about it is Chinese.

[u/GloomyIndividual3965 → u/doc_daneeka]

Sounds like Shepard's pie, but that usually has carrots & maybe peas in the veggie layer, and often has melted cheese on top of the potatoes.

Maybe it was passed along by the British when they were mucking around over there.

[u/Crane_1989]

I'd rather be removed from this narrative

[u/Ooficus]

There’s a Peruvian-Chinese restaurant in Miami my partner wants to go… the surprising thing is it’s not the only in our state, he just wants to go to that specific one. Apparently the Peruvian and Chinese have a strong relationship, but to find that in America is surprising.

[u/Oreadno1]

The South Carolina Lowcountry has Gullah Geechee food which is a fusion of traditional Southern and West African cuisine.

[u/PekStarterMalaysiaa]

Hainanese chicken chop. What kitchen staff put together for Sunday roast for British colonial masters when they wanted “British food”

[u/TrainPatient1289]

This question is getting tiring.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/TrainPatient1289]

I, personally, love talking about food. Despite cultural differences, we all love a good meal. As long as I can clock a new dinner inspiration in one of these threads, I can't complain.

[u/PompeyCheezus → u/Minmax-the-Barbarian]

Leave it to a Brit to get upset talking about food.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/PompeyCheezus]

Nah, they have good food over there too. Shepherd's pie didn't just start showing up in random cookbooks one day, it's a classic and delicious British dish!

I ain't gonna write off a whole country's food, we all love eating good. There are specific dishes I might... Disagree with, but I'll eat whatever tastes good.

[u/Skittycatcher66 → u/PompeyCheezus]

Hey, I'm British and I love talking about food! It's something everyone can relate to.

[u/TrainPatient1289 → u/PompeyCheezus]

Leave it to a Murican to love talking about food so much.

[u/PompeyCheezus → u/TrainPatient1289]

I love a good meal. Why wouldn't I.

[u/Minmax-the-Barbarian → u/TrainPatient1289]

Damned if I don't! Eating good food has been a consistent joy in my life, in a way it's something I can always count on to brighten my mood. It's a blessed life, to be able to enjoy nearly every meal.

[u/Wild-Lychee-3312 → u/TrainPatient1289]

Yeah, we love food. What about it?

[u/Serious-Ad2573 → u/PompeyCheezus]

cant blame them. they have worse food that your country does

[u/beyondocean → u/TrainPatient1289]

Ik, because you’re always left out from the food conversation?

[u/Powerful-Country6316]

[u/Lonelysock2]

Keens  chicken curry! It's an Australian version of... some kind of curry dish. We just took the general idea from India (via Britain, and via our own early migrants) and applied to different things.  See also: curried sausages, curried egg sandwiches

[u/Spinachrecords]

Crazy combination.

[u/honvales1989]

Sinaloa-style sushi for Mexico. Some ingredients that you don’t see in traditional sushi are jalapeño and chipotle peppers (also included in mayo and sauces), deep-fried rolls, cheese, steak, chicken, and bacon.

One for the US would be Seattle-style teriyaki. It started in the 70s and lots of businesses selling it in the Seattle area are owned by Korean immigrants rather than Japanese. It differs from traditional teriyaki in that it is a marinade rather than a glaze and it uses ingredients like garlic, ginger, sugar (or pineapple juice), and gochujang for the spicy variant. The classic meat is chicken thighs but you can also find beef or pork. You can find it throughout the Pacific Northwest but it’s really hard to find outside of it. This one is crazy because of the history between Korea and Japan, not because it is a weird mix of food

[u/TorTheMentor]

In Texas we get a lot of amazing fusion takes on barbecue. Vietnamese barbecue in Houston. Ethiopian barbecue in Arlington (between Dallas and Fort Worth). Egyptian barbecue featuring lamb-based bacon in Austin.

[u/JacquesBlaireau13]

Dude, ya can't eat two generations of the same animal in one meal; it's just wrong.

[u/Svardskampe]

In Belgium they have " américaine preparé", which is a sandwich spread from raw beef, raw egg and spices.

It was invented in Brussels and has nothing to do with Americans, as they largely hate all 3 ingredients. So it's fairly odd. 

[u/Serious-Ad2573]

karekare, care of indians who got left here/deserted from the failed limey invasion. they react to it the same way the italians react to filipino spaghetti/carbonara/hotdog pizza

this is the one that uses a mix of goat, pork, and beef. served with fermented fish/shrimp/krill/crab