There are some exotic foods we tend to take for granted exist. Almost every city for example has a Chinese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, and maybe an Outback Steakhouse. But this isn’t universal for some reason. Someone asked me if I wanted to go to an Egyptian restaurant and I was like “wait, they have restaurants?”
A question for all those who would say they consider themselves ethnically fluent. What are all the cultural categories of food you’ve had?
Chinese Japanese Thai Vietnamese Korean Mongolian Cambodia Indian Pakistani Nepalese… Those are just the Asian ones off the top of my head.
I’ve made a bunch international friends throughout my life and anyways get them to cook or to take me to the most authentic place they know.