TasteAtlas is a great content generator, but the methodology is effectively garbage. You get a lot of culinary nationalism for dishes that aren't known outside of their home countries, most strongly seen in Eastern Europe -- these really are some of the weaker cuisines of the world, but nations of a million people find themselves above culinary powerhouses. Lithuania above Iran is a hysterical result, it's 4000 years of culinary tradition vs potato dumplings.
Uzbekistan and Yemen's exclusions are the most shocking: these are very significant cuisines known regionally and globally. That's what you get when you don't have online English speakers to bump up your ratings, of course.
I just wanted to make a fun quizz with something different, I also differ on the way they have decided which cuisine is "better" than other. Also, every year their ranking changes, what makes their ranking even funnier.
However, I hope you had fun trying to guess the 100 countries :)
This. Ireland and Northern Ireland are separate but all of China is lumped under one entry? Similarly India. The US is somehow divided into "Puerto Rico" and "all the rest"?
Nepal is the strangest exclusion to me, I've seen Nepalese restaurants both in Europe and Australia and assumed it was a pretty well-known cuisine.
Seems to be a stupid list made by Western world. Literally it is like listing down all countries of the world from the West and the top ones from Asia and Africa.
Uzbekistan and Yemen's exclusions are the most shocking: these are very significant cuisines known regionally and globally. That's what you get when you don't have online English speakers to bump up your ratings, of course.
However, I hope you had fun trying to guess the 100 countries :)
Nepal is the strangest exclusion to me, I've seen Nepalese restaurants both in Europe and Australia and assumed it was a pretty well-known cuisine.