Lately I've been eating Ethiopian food at least a couple nights a week, not because it's my favorite but it's just the most widely available aside from Arabic food and I'm sick of shwarma, plus a lot of that meat on skewer looks really ratty.
It's actually pretty good, my favorite is the goat tibbs (sauted meat and vegetables) cooked on gergera, which is like a small pot on coals and it's served with some different spices. Last night I had kitfo, which is minced meat with injera. I didn't realize until looking it up that kitfo is raw or rare meat, it tasted pretty normal to me so I think it wasn't raw. Today I had chicken tibbs with injera.
Injera is very odd, it's like a cross between a huge pancake and a tortilla. It's soft and spongy and tastes sour. It's an acquired taste, the first couple times I had it I thought it was interesting the first few bites and then decided it was gross, but today I really felt like eating it again and I think it's pretty good with the right spices to offset the taste. There are different types I've heard but the one I've seen every time was brownish/grayish colored and looks like an old rag.
I'm hoping to learn some other dishes, I'm afraid to just order something I don't know off the menu. It's a little gross when you walk into the restaurant and see a bunch of people sitting around a plate of pasta eating it with their hands.
Among other lesser known cuisine, I love Georgian food. Khachapuri, bread with cheese baked in it is my favorite, although some of the cheese can be a bit too salty tasting for me. My favorite is the Ajarian khachapuri with an egg on top. Khinkali, the Georgian dumplings are also very good.
What sticks out in my mind most about Azerbaijani food is Xash, a soup of sheep's feet usually eaten with vodka. I had that at breakfast after a long train ride and after a couple attempts at eating it I gave up and just stuck to the vodka. I do like Azerbaijani paxlava (baklava) and their version of Xingal (khinkali) is good too.
With Bulgarian food, I had some fried cheese dish which I assumed was served with bread or something so I was surprised to find out it was just cheese, but very good, and I had some potatoes with three types of cheeses, also very good.
So, I started this thread to discuss lesser known types of cuisines - not Italian, Mexican, Chinese etc. but more lesser known ones.
It's actually pretty good, my favorite is the goat tibbs (sauted meat and vegetables) cooked on gergera, which is like a small pot on coals and it's served with some different spices. Last night I had kitfo, which is minced meat with injera. I didn't realize until looking it up that kitfo is raw or rare meat, it tasted pretty normal to me so I think it wasn't raw. Today I had chicken tibbs with injera.
Injera is very odd, it's like a cross between a huge pancake and a tortilla. It's soft and spongy and tastes sour. It's an acquired taste, the first couple times I had it I thought it was interesting the first few bites and then decided it was gross, but today I really felt like eating it again and I think it's pretty good with the right spices to offset the taste. There are different types I've heard but the one I've seen every time was brownish/grayish colored and looks like an old rag.
I'm hoping to learn some other dishes, I'm afraid to just order something I don't know off the menu. It's a little gross when you walk into the restaurant and see a bunch of people sitting around a plate of pasta eating it with their hands.
Among other lesser known cuisine, I love Georgian food. Khachapuri, bread with cheese baked in it is my favorite, although some of the cheese can be a bit too salty tasting for me. My favorite is the Ajarian khachapuri with an egg on top. Khinkali, the Georgian dumplings are also very good.
What sticks out in my mind most about Azerbaijani food is Xash, a soup of sheep's feet usually eaten with vodka. I had that at breakfast after a long train ride and after a couple attempts at eating it I gave up and just stuck to the vodka. I do like Azerbaijani paxlava (baklava) and their version of Xingal (khinkali) is good too.
With Bulgarian food, I had some fried cheese dish which I assumed was served with bread or something so I was surprised to find out it was just cheese, but very good, and I had some potatoes with three types of cheeses, also very good.
So, I started this thread to discuss lesser known types of cuisines - not Italian, Mexican, Chinese etc. but more lesser known ones.
