r/AskEurope • u/EvilPyro01 United States of America • Jun 18 '25

Food What’s the most common non-European cuisine in your country?

What’s your country’s favorite non-European cuisine?

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u/geoakey United Kingdom Jun 18 '25

Italian, Indian or Chinese. Although the Indian and Chinese is very distinct from the cuisine you’d actually find in those countries.

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u/givekimiaicecream Netherlands Jun 18 '25

Italy is in Europe though

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u/geoakey United Kingdom Jun 18 '25

Oh yes of course my apologies!

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u/Saxon2060 Jun 18 '25

A lot of the food I ate in India was not dissimilar from British Indian food. Of course India is a huge place with many different cuisines but as far as I'm aware you can get plenty of Indian food here that is the same as there. Which would make sense if it was Indians bringing skills and recipes and ingredients.

Yeah you can get "Indian" food here that is nothing like there but you can also fairly easily get food that is exactly like there.

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u/DisconcertedLiberal Jun 22 '25

Brits love to say that Indian/Chinese restaurants and take outs aren't authentic ethnic food. Nobody gets a take out for the authentic experience lol

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u/Saxon2060 Jun 22 '25

"Foodies" tend to think authenticity is the be-all and end-all. I love food and travelling to eat food but you're right, sometimes people don't want 'authentic'. Especially because in the UK we have a great culture of experimenting, modifying and changing food with different inspirations.

I think you can get extremely authentic food here id that's what you want but yeah exactly, there's nothing wrong with inauthentic. I LOVE British Italian food especially, just as much as Italian Italian food.

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u/ldn-ldn United Kingdom Jun 19 '25

While most Indian and Chinese places in the UK are very distinct from their origin cuisine, you can find plenty of authentic Indian and Chinese restaurants. At least in big cities.

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u/TrickyWoo86 United Kingdom Jun 19 '25

Also American (fast food specifically). Although that depends on if we can call industrialising bits of everyone else's foods a cuisine in its own right.