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Lebnan Zaman
Today we happened to carry out from Lebnan Zaman and we thought their carry out platters were impressive and a lot more pleasant to look at than a bunch of plastic/styrofoam containers. These are listed on their menu as Pazzaz for Two and cost around $23, depending on what you get.
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Hi, I just found your blog because I was googling “ethnic food.” My friends and I have the same idea as you, we want to shake up our dining by visiting restaurants from every country in the world. Except when you do that you hit the problem that cultures and boarders don’t always fall along the same lines (ie, some groups of countries have pretty much the same cuisine while countries like India and China have many.) So I’m trying to put together some list of the different types of cuisine in the world and try to find them all. How did you put together your list? Are you going by countries or are you going to branch out by cultures also?
Sorry, I would have liked to send this as a message instead of a post, but I couldn’t find a link for that.
Thanks for looking at our site! We don’t have a master list. We go by impulse in determining where we eat next. Sometimes someone suggests a restaurant to us and we select it that way. Other times we just drive around until we find a place we like. We are hoping to focus more on hole-in-the-wall restaurants and lower-end restaurants, but that doesn’t always happen.
We have a lot of eating ahead of us, so right now we are trying to eat country by country. However, in some cases we plan to repeat countries or divide the country. For your examples (India/China), we have found that these restaurants seem to have cuisine from various regions within the country. So, we could hit Hunan, Cantonese, etc. at the same restaurant. However, we’d have to plan a special side trip to try dim sum. We’ve already decided to split up China a little bit and separated out Hong Kong, since their cuisine is quite different from mainland China.
We also have enjoyed seeing the small variations between countries that have seemingly similar foods, i.e., variety in kebab/baklava.
You bring up the interesting point that within countries there are often other ethnic groups whose cuisine might be different and otherwise be overlooked by us. For example, I found this link on Romani cuisine: http://books.google.com/books?id=MG0ahVw-kdwC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=romani+cuisine&source=bl&ots=PiVFTPmpUb&sig=l1hzPnOJ4Cu04yDz-jbQeeOIeLE&hl=en&ei=wHTZS56mNJDA9QTCuKBW&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=romani%20cuisine&f=false
Let us know how your project is going!
Thanks! Your blog is definitely inspiring. So far we’ve only done (officially) Thai, Salvadorian, and Argentinian. We have a long, tasty road ahead!
P.S. I love learning about Romani culture.
I’m glad you like the site. If you find anything cool, tell us about it! We’d love to here about your positive/differing/negative experiences. Happy eating!