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Originally posted by ice house



well we are better cooks!
:o:p

You can't get SE Asian in Italy like you can in Oz though or fusions thereof...:p

...and I love Asian food...especially North Vietnamese and Thai. "Thai Food" was written by an Aussie and is the bible on Thai food...the Thais use it for teaching.;)

Italian food is also great, and the Italians obviously do it the best. My favs are baby octipus in tomato sauce and fried white bait, but many others like wild mushroom risotto which I helped make in a friend's restaurant. :thu:

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Originally posted by 4Kenoath

You can't get SE Asian in Italy like you can in Oz though or fusions thereof...
:p

...and I love Asian food...especially North Vietnamese and Thai. "Thai Food" was written by an Aussie and is
the
bible on Thai food...the Thais use it for teaching.
;)



I nearly said exactly the same thing ... Aussie fusion is the great modern world food and our chefs are in high demand around the world because of it. Italy has a great tradition and I cook Italian at home all the time ( You don't have seven years with a Napolitan girl and not come away with recipe's! ) ... but the modern world cuisine is Aussie Fusion. :thu:

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Originally posted by fernmeister

There is some very good new Australian food and it has made an impact, especially people like Tetsuya...


...but, if there is an emerging world cuisine, it is either Tapas, Sushi, or an Indian curry.

But these have always been mainstays...they're traditional cuisine.

Hmmm...tapas.

Actually, hmmm...sushi.

I'm not as big on Indian, but it's good occasionally.:freak:

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I think the curry is a popular alternative in the UK but outside the UK and Indian diaspora it is not a rising world cuisine --- when we think of cuisine generally we are talking about how chefs shape the type of food that is becoming popular in home cooking and in the resteraunt scene at large ... you see allot of sushi joint around but they have more of a fast food status these days than anything else ... tapas is not huge in Australia or anywhere else apart from Spanish diasapora countries ... they really don't make that big a blip on the radar. Australian fusion is informing how cuisine in the world of food is being approached - it is a revolution in food as opposed to an existing ethnic cuisine.

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Originally posted by TIKIROCKER

I think the curry is a popular alternative in the UK but outside the UK and Indian diaspora it is not a rising world cuisine --- when we think of cuisine generally we are talking about how chefs shape the type of food that is becoming popular in home cooking and in the resteraunt scene at large ... you see allot of sushi joint around but they have more of a fast food status these days than anything else ... tapas is not huge in Australia or anywhere else apart from Spanish diasapora countries ... they really don't make that big a blip on the radar. Australian fusion is informing how cuisine in the world of food is being approached - it is a revolution in food as opposed to an existing ethnic cuisine.

 

 

ahh no.

 

tapas is huge in most global cities, sushi is both fast food and haute. here in hong kong, Indian is the fashion and Japanese is the number two cusine for serious dining. indian is the emerging food trend on most continents. australian fusion is mostly unknown, outside a small influence in the UK and the west coast of the US and where it is, it comes from people like tetsuya who openly admits being influenced by Ferran Adria and El Bulli, which of course brings us back to Tapas.

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Originally posted by fernmeister



ahh no.


tapas is huge in most global cities, sushi is both fast food and haute. here in hong kong, Indian is the fashion and Japanese is the number two cusine for serious dining. indian is the emerging food trend on most continents. australian fusion is mostly unknown, outside a small influence in the UK and the west coast of the US and where it is, it comes from people like tetsuya who openly admits being influenced by Ferran Adria and El Bulli, which of course brings us back to Tapas.

 

 

Ahhh yes.

 

Tapas ranks nowhere in the cities I have visited of late ... it's barely on the map in Sydney or London the last time I was there. I'll have to disagree with you on the importance of Sushi as being the big cuisine - but agree that it is street food fashionable ... Indian is very popular in the UK but I don't see a hell of allot of it outside there and the Indian diaspora nations.

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Indian will never become even as popular as Chinese has been for decades everywhere.

Japanese is a little bit the same for me...it's never really gotten huge in Oz apart from fast food style.

As much as I like tapas (and I've had lots from a Belgian chef friend who specialises in it), I just can't see it going beyond it's limited boundaries.

I don't know about Oz fusion taking over, but fusion heavily based on Asian cuisines like Thai and Vietnamese have limitless boundaries. The flavour palette of these cuisines leaves Indian and Japanese in its dust.

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