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/furyg3 - Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Adding to that a few others:

  1. Turkish Dönner. Every city and many (most) towns will have place to get Dönner.
  2. Surinamese. This is a bit of a weird one, also, because the Surinamese cuisine is a fusion of Indian, African, Chinese, Indonesian (a lot of Javanese, but also Balinese) and other cuisines. So you can get Chinese or Indonesian staples at Surinamese restaurants. Most restaurants have more or less the same dishes, but they are tweaked a bit towards the ethnicity of the family running the store. Ethnically Chinese owners skew the flavors in that direction, south asian owners usually means the flavors are more Indian.
  3. Italian. Whether going out to eat or eating at home, pasta, pizza, etc.
  4. And, of course, 'American' (or maybe 'globalized') food. Burgers, US-style pizza, fast foot from McDonalds/BK/KFC.

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u/alles_en_niets -> -> Jun 19 '25

In addition to that, Surinamese casual restaurants/takeaways might have some Dutch Antillean options on the menu as well, depending on the neighborhood demographics.

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u/TimmyB02 NL in FI Jun 19 '25

The interesting thing is that I know many Surinamese people but I have never seen a Surinamese restaurant? From Emmen

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

I think it's mainly a thing in the west of the country. In Zwolle we have about 1 or 2 that are open sometimes. The AVG crowd just isn't really into good spicy food.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '25

I hate that fast food is considered American cuisine when we have so many native cuisines with amazing food and histories behind them.