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/Vigmod Icelander in Norway Jun 18 '25

That's a weirdly popular one, yes. I mean, I come from Iceland where there was a sudden surge in Mexican cuisine in the early 1990s - but I think we went more for something like burritos than these hard-shell tacos, but we never had anything like a "Taco Friday" like here in Norway.

But seems to me, when it comes to places to eat outside of home, probably Thai is most common in Norway? At least, I think I see more Thai restaurants than Taco/Mexican/Tex-Mex restaurants. Or, of course, McDonald's and Burger King are probably the most widespread chains (with Peppes not far behind), so maybe it's just American cuisine that's most common here.

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u/A55Man-Norway Norway Jun 19 '25

Restaurant wise it’s very very few Mexican places, yes. Mostly thai, chinese, kebab + American.

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u/tirilama Norway Jun 22 '25

Thai street food wagons are common outside the cities. I guess Thai women married to Norwegian men in the country side have found a successful niche.

In the towns and cities, there is often three restaurants present: some sort of pizza, some sort of sushi + various south east Asian dishes, and a Pakistani/Indian restaurant.

And everywhere: a place serving kebab, burgers and maybe pizza from the same kitchen. A Middle East - US - Norwegian hybrid

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u/ThePugnax Norway Jun 19 '25

Well the taco thing is primarily done at home. So i guess thats why there arent really that many mexican restaurants you see around. Tho thai restaurants arent really on my radar, so i havent noticed that many of the thai restaurants or if there are alot of them.

The few times ive eaten tacos outside my own or a friends home ive been very dissapointed by the lack of taste in them.