33 Foods worth travelling the world to eat

[Keith009]

Love modern, inventive Michelin standard cuisine, wherever in the world it is. Part of the joy of travel is being able to tick off my global bucket list of restaurants.

And some of my fave more traditional stuff which I actively travel for especially from places unrestrained by political correctness:
* Foie gras in all its forms but especially entier and poached with figs, cognac or mushroom charlotte or just plain with a bit of salt on top. Have found a few markets in Australia that sell foie gras but nothing like eating it fresh in France or Hungary (though some of my fave foie gras dishes have oddly been from French restaurants in Japan).
* The best bob veal dish anywhere - the Italians have magnificent ways to prepare veal and all parts of veal such as Rigatoni con la Pajata
* Sevruga caviar anywhere other than Australia (where it's a rip off). Caviar House & Prunier is one of the few places where I can make an exception for the decidedly fuddy duddy decor.
* Xiaolongbao in Shanghai
* Taiwanese beef noodles in Taipei
* NoCal Mexican food
* Some very elaborate Japanese tasting dinner in Kyoto with everything cutely arranged, kind of like a degustation, can't remember what it's called in Japanese but I'm assured it's distinct to Kyoto. Would go back to Kyoto just to have it again. Reassuringly expensive too.

 

[medhead]

The best meal I've ever had was a simple steak, with bernaise sauce, salad and chips in Nice. This was after about 8 days in Spain were I basically felt staved of a real meal. Constantly searching for that taste. But know I will never get the same set of circumstances.

Pasta and pizza in Italy, full stop. Nothing here tastes as good anymore.

I have a habit of ordering a margarita pizza in search of the true italian taste. constantly disappointed. At least I can go back to italy and find it.

Problem is that you go to most restaurants - high end or otherwise - and you hardly see pavlova on the menu. It's difficult enough to go to the bakery and find a good one; might be better going to the supermarket and getting a ready-to-eat pav in the plastic container, for a very sweet version of it.

Even though we fight bitterly with New Zealand for its provenance, we hardly take pride in the pavlova. In fact, the only real reference to pavlova on this board is the fact that the QF F Lounge makes a mean one.

You'd have a better chance of claiming Australian pride in the humbler Lamington than you would a pavlova. I doubt people would cross the world for a Lamington, however.

Pav is actually something that I find people take pride in making themselves at home. Numerous times socialising and Pav has been presented as the highlight.

 

[drron]

But Keith we are now talking about a different sort of list to that in the OP.But I am in agreement with you particularly on Foie gras.

 

[Keith009]

But Keith we are now talking about a different sort of list to that in the OP.But I am in agreement with you particularly on Foie gras.

I thought we're talking about food we'd travel for as per the link provided by the OP. Also love the way they do foie gras in Spain - tried it in Barcelona entier with strawberry jam, lemongrass and peaches, different but good.

Oh - left one out - goose rice in Hong Kong. That really famous place ground floor of the same building as Kee Club on Wellington St, whatever its name is.

 

[amaroo]

Oh - left one out - goose rice in Hong Kong. That really famous place ground floor of the same building as Kee Club, whatever its name is.

Yung Kee Yung Kee Restaurant: Profile

Fabulous, larger than ground floor these days.

 

[Keith009]

Yung Kee http://www.yungkee.com.hk/profile/profile-e.html

That's the one. I thought it had a similar name to the coughtail bar upstairs.

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

Pure Japanese Class...Tableaux(

I cut a deal here in 1999 and, lets say, It's still paying dividends.

 

[drron]

I thought we're talking about food we'd travel for as per the link provided by the OP. Also love the way they do foie gras in Spain - tried it in Barcelona entier with strawberry jam, lemongrass and peaches, different but good.

Oh - left one out - goose rice in Hong Kong. That really famous place ground floor of the same building as Kee Club on Wellington St, whatever its name is.

Except the original list is more street food or ethnic cuisine.Michelin restaurants and foie gras don't really fit that description but again I am totally with you.

Brisbane Flyer Tableaux is now on the list.Even serve foie gras!

 

[amaroo]

Pure Japanese Class...Tableaux(

I cut a deal here in 1999 and, lets say, It's still paying dividends.

Try this one when you're next in town - low key, fun, exquisite but still OTT expensive Roppongi-Robataya roppongi robataya

Recommend the Choice Kobe Beef Course

 

[Keith009]

Except the original list is more street food or ethnic cuisine.Michelin restaurants and foie gras don't really fit that description but again I am totally with you.

Brisbane Flyer Tableaux is now on the list.Even serve foie gras!

Foie gras fits ethnic! It's French! I also listed Xiaolong bao, Italian style veal (lots of great Roman delicacies), goose rice and Taiwanese beef noodles which are hardly haute cuisine.

I also forgot white truffles...

Heck too many yummy things to list! What is life without yummy food, Prada shoes, Dior manbags and Morgenthal Frederic sunnies?

Tableaux is also now on my list too. Also do check out L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Roppongi if you haven't already for another great, reassuringly priced option - it's the best L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon anywhere in the world and I far prefer the service to its counterpart in Paris (not a cultural statement - just the one in Paris seems to be resting on its laurels).

I understood the list as things I'd personally travel for to eat. Other than the stuff I singled out, much prefer imaginative and re-interpreted cuisine.

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

In Tokyo I typically go for the ramen houses, usually around 3a with a pint or seven. Or a beautiful pork sandwich at Lawson.

Tableaux got me a lifestyle I never knew existed, my wife jokes around saying, u do know that ugly three letter word that starts with a J and ends with a B...I know golf doesn't have a J or a B in it.

A beautiful Laksa can be had at Singapore Island Country Club, my home away from home.

I'm in SG now, very low key, hawker stalls at midnight, dry noodles with chili.

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

Waffle House and Chick Fil-A in Buckhead, Georgia...down home country...and bring your guns

 

[Ric]

Cebu Lechon!

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[TomVexille]

This may sound like a joke, however i am being serious; "Olympic Donuts" at Footscray railway station. It's about as good as it gets.

You mean I have to go to Footscray :shock:

 

[boomy]

This may sound like a joke, however i am being serious; "Olympic Donuts" at Footscray railway station. It's about as good as it gets.

+1

Awesome donuts!

You mean I have to go to Footscray :shock:

If you do go there one day make sure to ask for extra jam and eat them all while hot

 

[Foreigner]

Victoria Markets is where I used to enjoy hot donuts sold in food trucks...up until 1991.

 

[Warks]

Rotorua (of all places) has a great food market on a Thursday night. Too much great stuff to choose from.

 

[Sprucegoose]

No coconut crab from Ternate ?

 

[SamR]

Proper Texas barbecue with all the fixin's.

And at the risk of sounding nitpicky at the list, I'm aghast that the Reuben sandwich came from a deli in California. Get thee to New York!

 

[Milboo]

Food is a fundamental part of my travel. My next trip to New York is designed to coincide with winter Restaurant Week.

I am off to South Africa in a couple of weeks and as soon as I had plane tickets I had reservations to Test Kitchen, Cube and The Tasting Room lined up.

I had another for my list - street pizza from a hole in the wall from Trinidad, Cuba. Some simple but so good.