Jook is also what it's called in Avatar: The Last Airbender (and what I guessed first) since it's based on Chinese culture, or kinda just an amalgam of Asian cultures
sushi is just the rice, anything can go in or on it. and kimchi can also be any pickled or fermented vegetable. Yes, I see the disclaimer. I tried "shrimp po'boy" before getting "po'boy"... the restaurant I used to order it from all the time always had it listed that way. But that was in Virginia, not Louisiana, so they might have just attached the extra adjective for people who didn't know what po'boy was.
Is it just me or do most of these dishes sound really disgusting? Other than the Shepherd's Pie, the Goulash, and maybe the Gyro, I wouldn't put any of these nasty things in my mouth!!
From my experience, poi and vegemite are rather disgusting. Pierogis (with sour cream), sushi/sashimi, gyros and goulash are delicious! Sauerkraut is wonderful on a hot dog with mustard.
Kimchi, paella, shepherd's pie, gazpacho, po'boys and gnocchi are okay.
I would try any of the others if someone I knew (and trusted) recommended them as being particularly good, even though some of them (haggis, lutefisk) sound a little nasty.
Haggis is a mixture of the heart, kidneys, lungs, liver, etc with barley and different herbs filled into a sheep's stomach and cooked. Guts i.e. intestines etc are not usually involved but are used for sausage skins (still are). Funnily enough it is really an old Lancashire recipe that was first mentioned in Lancashire and published in recipe books there before anywhere else in UK.
Lutefisk is popular where I’m from but only tried it once. Think heap of whitish/translucent fish jello without much taste that just slips down your throat. Ughh- must be an acquired taste.
Pierogi are not necessarily potato. They came come in practically anything - cabbage and mushroom, meat (like corned beef) or even fruit like plums cane be made into pierogi for desert.
Yep, that's what they're called in Australia. Even the ones which are actually gyros and not souvlakis at all are called souvlakis. And they're delicious!
The different names actually exist already in Greece. Souvlaki means gyros or any pita wrap in Athens and southern Greece in general, while in the north (Thessaloniki) it's called gyros and souvlaki means grilled meat on a skewer.
In Mexico, in addition to the usual meaning of "cake", a torta is also a sandwich. The question remains why it is in the quiz. It's not a special food that you wouldn't find anywhere else in the world and there are other more representative options for Mexican cuisine.
Quizmaster, in Japan the rice porridge that you eat when ill is called "okayu". You should either accept that answer, or specify "Korean" instead of just "Asian."
The poi we had at a festival on Kaua'i wasn't "liquidy", it was more of a paste. A local woman sitting next to me commented it was really good poi so maybe Hawaiian taro paste would be a better description? (Ours had a hint of sour taste to it and was actually pretty good when eaten with the lomi lomi salmon and laulau pork.)
Please accept "khao tom moo" or just "khao tom" for "congee". It's a Thai rice soup/porridge, and once I thought of it I couldn't get my brain to go anywhere else.
Kimchi, paella, shepherd's pie, gazpacho, po'boys and gnocchi are okay.
I would try any of the others if someone I knew (and trusted) recommended them as being particularly good, even though some of them (haggis, lutefisk) sound a little nasty.
Pierogies, gnocchi, sauerkraut, kimchi, gyros- yum!
Lutefisk is popular where I’m from but only tried it once. Think heap of whitish/translucent fish jello without much taste that just slips down your throat. Ughh- must be an acquired taste.
Also, Gyro is very US. In Australia (and I think Greece) we say Souvlaki for the same thing.
The "s" and "sh" sounds are the same phoneme in Japanese, so they're actually interchangable