My homemade gefilte fish.

My DDIL's Japanese food....no matter what she makes it is so good.
She makes the best gyoza I have ever tasted.

Had my first Matzah ball soup, two weeks ago, at newly opened Jewish deli. Was good.

Baklava! Yes! Had this one in a restaurant on a little Greek island, two years ago.
Can't find any here to compare with this one!

Glenda is that a dessert or what? Looks good!

Anything Asian, especially Japanese. When we left NYC, I missed fresh tofu so much that my DH eventually went into the business and became a commercial tofu manufacturer.

I haven't made matzo balls in way too long! Now you've got me craving them.....

Yes, baklava is a dessert. phyllo dough baked with nuts and dripping with honey.

My favorite Greek pastry, however, is Galaktoboureko...

Here is a link that might be useful: Galaktoboureko recipe and picture

Japanese, plain and simple. I will choose it over any other food offered to me.

Jodi-

Yes, dessert, and I ate the whole thing. That was my serving.

MIL came from Naples italy around 1920. She made the most delicious Italian food I've ever eaten, including from restaurants.

My ex-MIL's tamales. I wish I could find some at least 1/2 as good.
Leslie

Yes, Gramma! Tamales, and fresh sopapillas!

My favorite is Thai.

Greek and Italian

My favorite is Mexican.

Deb

Thai is my favorite but I also like Vietnamese, Cambodian, Mexican, Japanese and Chinese.

Greek and Arabic are my favourite foods. I seem to always have a craving for fattoush salad and a shuwarma sandwich with garlic sauce on the side. Greek gyros and a salad are my next favourite thing. Always have a piece of baklava with my Turkish coffee.

Anne

Made-from-scratch cabbage rolls and made-from-scratch pierogi. (I've got my Russian Grandma's recipes!)

Since you can't get good gerflúgenblúgen anymore I'd have to say my favorite ethnic food would be Lefse and maybe Swedish/Norwegian meatballs. Don't know if it's truly "ethnic" but fat-American Hamburgers & properly made fries rate right up there too! Then again, I make a pretty good lasagna too.

What Linda in Iowa said. Love ethnic food of all kinds.

My favorite is probably Japanese and I preferred my mom's and some of her friend's cooking to any restaurant.

Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Greek - love 'em all!

Kashas varnishkes. I made some on Sunday and I'm eating it for lunch this week....yum!

Cynic all I can picture is Rose on The Golden Girls telling a St. Olaf story with that g word you used. Ikea sells bags of swedish meatballs but I haven't tried them. As far as ethnic food...I could eat Chinese every day if I could.

I guess I would have to say Mexican because I love everything highly spiced, especially with hot peppers. I do get tired of it though, as we eat so much of it. We only have 3 cafés in my little town and they all specialize in Mexican food.

Hmmm you wanted the Ethnic food? I would definitely say caldo with rice and lots of hot salsa.

In Texas, some might say chicken fried steak is our Ethnic food...I sure love a good one myself. lolol

THAI.....I absolutely love it!!! My favorite is Drunken Noodles. Thai has so many choices for those of us that like little or no meat.

Well, granlan, I grew up in the NYC metro area (where I still live). I've had many many different ethnic foods over my lifetime (some great, some not-so-great).

But I've never had chicken fried steak. Maybe I need a road trip to try it out? LOL!!!!!

deemarie,
We'd love to have you visit Texas, but skip the chicken fried steak. It's a cheap cut of beef beaten to death, breaded and deep fried, then covered in gluey white gravy. Yuck! Instead, try our barbecue. The brisket, sausage, chicken and ribs are not to be ignored!
However, my favorite ethnic food is cheese, olives and a good red wine--Italian, Greek, who cares!

Korean Bulgogi served with plain sticky white rice. Just 'died and gone to heaven' good.

I had a very good Korean friend who taught me how to make it. It REEKS of sesame oil and garlic, both which are heavily used as a marinade - the odor which will stick to the very walls of your home forevermore, so I have this tiny outdoor garage fridge - it's kind of stir fried in a frying pan and I make it outside over a little grill in the pan and store the leftovers in the garage fridge. The paper thin slices of meat are marinated for at least 12 -24 hours, and it is done in the garage fridge. We eat it outside. It's the only way we can keep the overwhelming odor if it out of the house because if we dont, we can smell it for weeks afterwards. It's a delicious smell when you are eagerly awaiting the meal, but like the odor of a fish dinner which lingers the next day? The lingering odor of Bulgogi - not so good. ;)

So, we do the whole thing out of the house and make enough to invite several good neighbors who love it too.

Honestly, it's heaven on a fork. Or with chopsticks, whatever you prefer :)

To slice the meat paper thin, use a sharp knife and slice when the meat is almost frozen, you can get it beautifully thin that way and it stir fries much better and very quickly that way. Don't over fry, keep it rare for tenderness.

Emeril's recipe is the closest to what my Korean friend used a *lot* of sesame oil and tons of garlic (easily four cloves crushed) but I think a mistake is made on his soy sauce amount - not two cups but maybe two tablespoons. Two cups would RUIN this recipe. She added long thin strips of carrots (paper thin) right before stir frying.

Add a tablespoon of sugar to the marinade. We don't add the red pepper, neither did my friend, this was not a hot dish. She also served authentic Kimchi as a tiny side dish for "heat" - one bite had your tongue on fire.

Also, chopped scallions in long lengths added right before stir frying.

She marinated her meat for 12 - 24 hours.

Served not on on top of sticky white rice but alongside it.

My favorites are Mexican, Norwegian and Jamaican!

Well, cynic, that marks you as a Minnesotan!
My favorites are Indian, Greek, Middle East, or Thai. Anything but the native meat-and-potatoes German/Midwestern cusine I grew up with! Luckily we now have some good ethnic restaurants in the Twin Cities. My least favorite is Korean--just can't get into the spices they use (and despise kim chee). This has been somewhat problematic for me since a good friend of mine is Korean and invites us for many dinner parties. . .

Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French and my grandmother's Danish cooking.

*L* at Granlan, who is so right! My faves are Mexican and Italian.

My favorite is Chinese. Especially Egg Drop Soup.

Ethiopian/Eritrea. Almost anything, but particularly their vegetable combination plate. They use some unusual spices. We now have about four restaurants locally to choose from...all very good.

While I'm sure all of those dishes are very tasty, I prefer an old fashioned New England Clambake. Done in the sand on the beach on a beautiful afternoon, with strawberry shortcake for dessert. That's about as ethnic as this New Englander gets.

all time fav is German, Rouladen with red cabbage and potato dumplings. YUM

Moni

mike1975, yes I must agree with Rose, when Dorothy suggested she do like the rest of the world and get frozen gerflúgenblúgen. I too could NEVER serve my guests frozen candied herring...

Italian/Mexican here too...sneaking in a little Greek/Mediterranean with it. Although matzah ball soup really is something I've wanted to try I've never had it. Maybe I can give this recipe a try? Of course if I do an I blunder I'll blame YOU rth.. :)

I sometimes make my matzah balls out of green frog legs. Slurp....Eyes get hit.... and so on and so forth.