A Complete Guide to American Food
Introduction: When talking about American food, the only things that come to mind are hamburgers and chicken legs. Not only that, the United States is a country of immigrants. It covers delicacies from all over the world, and there are also strange restaurants, including Chinese, fast food, etc. Are you salivating after hearing this? Hurry up and eat?
When it comes to eating in the United States, many people will sneer at it. How can there be delicious food in a place that only knows fast food? However, the United States is not just KFC and McDonald's. Influenced by the early pioneers, the English Puritans, traditional American cuisine is very rough and honest. Huge portions, no fancy cooking techniques.
However, as a country of immigrants, the blending of races will naturally bring about the collision and spark of delicious food. The invention of the California hand roll brought new life to Japanese cuisine. What Americans think of as "famous Chinese dishes" are leftover rooster and fortune cookies. If you have to look for them in China, you won't find them. Taking European cuisine as its roots, it is also compatible with cuisines from Asia, Africa and Latin America, and it feels like a melting pot of gourmet cuisine. Florida is the link between Latin America and the United States. Mexican, Cuban, and Argentinian food are dazzling.
Hamburgers are the most common fast food in the United States. The beef is cooked according to your needs. There are also several choices of cheese. The bread is toasted to the right level, soft and charred, and it is the most delicious. The best thing is the bacon inside, which is juicy and fragrant after being heated. When you take a bite, the refreshing taste of tomatoes and vegetables offsets the greasiness of beef and bacon, and the taste is quite rich.
Traditional Western dinners are naturally based on steak. Just a simple piece of meat, cut it and taste it slowly, but you can feel the deliciousness of the beef itself. This places high demands on the beef ingredients themselves.
Street hot dog, the cheapest civilian delicacy.
Western-style fried chicken originated in the southern United States. In the traditional southern town of Savannah, we attended an American-style banquet. Every ten diners sit around a table, eating twenty or thirty kinds of southern home-cooked delicacies, passing them to each other, and chatting.
The traditional American South is also famous for its barbecue. In Brunswick, we made a special trip to Right On Q BBQ, which is known as the best barbecue restaurant in the South.
Café lalo, which is listed as one of the top ten famous coffee shops in the world along with Café de Flore in Paris, is also one of the main scenes in the movie “Electronic Love Letter”. We had coffee and breakfast here early in the morning, walked through the autumn-filled Central Park, and spent a whole day in the Metropolitan Museum. Fully experience New York style elegance.
Nowadays, there is a popular frozen yogurt chain store in the United States called Mochi, which is healthier than ice cream and full of DIY fun. Make it yourself, add dozens of toppings, and pay by weight, 45 cents per ounce.
11 dollars for a dozen boiled oysters. Taking a chisel and a fork, I broke open the oyster shell. It was warm, with a bit of salty taste from the sea, and very fresh. Doing it yourself is also fun. Their shrimps are also very fresh, sprinkled with fried sea salt and pepper, which is very special.
For those who have always wanted to go to Spain to taste paella, it would be a good idea to try the Cuban style first. The freshness of the seafood, the acidity of Key West’s unique lime blended into the fragrant yellow rice, the homemade butter biscuits, and the grilled bananas are also delicious.
The United States is a country of immigrants and a country that is very good at absorbing other people's cultures. Not only are American delicacies brought to the United States by immigrants from all over the world, but many of them are original in the United States. Over the past 232 years, they have invented many creative, bold, and even crazy foods. Of course most of those were too greasy, too much cheese, and too fried. But these are their local dishes, and you can try them when traveling to the United States. Here is a list of the top six specialty foods in the United States.
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
In 1937, Ruth Grave from Massachusetts added chopped chocolate to her butter cookies. This resulted in the creation of the world's most delicious Chuqi biscuits. While the American people enjoy her uniqueness, they are always thinking about how to make this delicious food even better. More than 10 years later, I had a surprising realization: Because someone was too lazy to bake this unique biscuit, he discovered that eating the mixed dough was actually more delicious than the baked product. With the joint efforts of the American people, they finally came up with a spectacular idea: cut the dough into small pieces and mix it into the ice cream! Now that's American Cooking!
2. Extra-large Turducken
Such a clever and simple creation, it’s hard to believe that 5,000 years of world civilization didn’t think of it first. Take a turkey, stuff a duck inside it, and then stuff a chicken inside the duck. From here you can play freely. However, the recommendation is to stuff the chicken with some sausage and bacon and fry it for 2-3 hours. Extra points if you can figure out a way to add melted cheese products to this "spectacular" dish.
Some Americans want to make this dish a traditional Thanksgiving meal, and some have already started eating it at Christmas. However, such an American invention is best enjoyed on the 4th of July.
3. Buffalo Wings
Well, the chicken is okay. Most Americans think it is not as greasy as pork and not as tasty as beef, so they can only make do. Wait, what if we try frying it in 600-degree oil until it becomes crispy, until you don't recognize it as meat anymore? Then pour it with XXX hot sauce and eat it with melted blue cheese? Thats more like it! Special mention is made of the vegetables added to the bottom of the plate, which absorb the oil that fell from the chicken, making ordinary vegetables delicious.
4. Cobb Salad
After eating so much greasy food, some Americans began to say: "I think I will just eat a bowl of salad today." ?Of course, the salad they are talking about does not mean the green vegetables and red tomatoes that boring Europeans eat. When Americans make salads, they must first have enough meat types and weights, and then there must be avocado and cheese. Basically everything you would find in a Double Cheese Burger can be put in it. The Best Cobb Salad: Throw in bacon, fried chicken, avocado, diced eggs, blue cheese and whatever else you can find in the refrigerator.
5. Chinese Food?
The best thing about American food is that they are crazy about it. Sometimes they can’t even admit what they come up with, so they just find a similar style and follow it. That's called. Example: ?Chinese Food?. Spanning all 50 states, so-called Chinese fast food offers more than a dozen beautiful, deep-fried, soy sauce-grilled items. The chicken is dipped in sweet and spicy sauce and breaded and then deep-fried called orange chicken. Cheese or cream is added to the spring rolls. After eating the fried rice and noodles, the remaining oil on the plate can be used to make 2-3 more side dishes. These dishes all have one thing in common. They are all templates that Americans came up with and borrowed from Chinese dishes.
6. S'mores
I have never understood why S'mores are so popular in the United States. The biscuits are made from British Graham crackers, which few people eat in the United States. Sandwiched in the middle are gummy candies, which are used by American children to bake on sticks during picnics. They are usually thrown aside after they are baked, and not many people like to eat them. Maybe it’s the cinnamon nugget in the middle. Anyway, Americans like to eat when they are together.
Restaurants in the United States can be divided into three types
The first is a cafeteria, which is suitable for beginners who are not familiar with English. It is particularly convenient for visitors or tourists. European buffets are more formal, but the United States is generally different from Europe. On the counter of the buffet restaurant, there is a dazzling array of food, both hot and cold. Customers carry plates and knives and forks to the counter to take whatever they want. , and then go to the cashier at one end of the counter to pay. The food in the cafeteria is cheaper and there is no need to tip; the customer carries the tray to the empty table by himself. Generally, he should first obtain the consent of the guest who is already sitting there, and then Only then can you sit down.
The second type is formal restaurants, which vary in size. Small restaurants have low prices and low service quality. The big restaurants are magnificent and have everything customers need; big cities have many ethnic and foreign restaurants to choose from.
Most formal restaurants are divided into a la carte, full meal and special meals. The classified foods for a la carte include fish, meat, salad, eggs, etc. Customers can order whatever they want; full meals are divided into For appetizers, main courses, vegetables, desserts and drinks, there is also a choice of dishes. The special meal is a daily meal, which includes a dish of meat or fish, plus vegetables, salad, bread and butter. Among them, a la carte is the most expensive and secret service is the cheapest.
When dining in a formal restaurant, a tip is required, and the amount is approximately 15% of the meal price. When dining in a high-end restaurant, or when the service is particularly attentive, the tip will be even more; the tip is not included in the bill, and the tip is Customers pay separately and can pay without giving change or leave money on the table.
The third type of restaurants are fast food restaurants, snack bars, delis and lunch rooms; there are popular fast food restaurants everywhere in big cities, selling French fried potatoes and Italian pies. , hamburgers, fried fish sandwiches, roast beef sandwiches, etc.; no tip is required when eating here.
Breakfast in the snack bar is donuts and coffee, and lunch is a sandwich. It is cheaper to eat in the store or buy it away, but you have to pay a tip when eating in the store.
Delis also sell quick and affordable lunches, usually stocking a variety of sandwiches and salads. Tips are required when eating in the store.
Lunch rooms are generally located in stations or shops, selling breakfast, light lunches and fast food. There is no long counter in the shop. There are chairs or gridded seats in front of the counter, and customers can sit there. Dining; The lunch room has a wide variety of food, fast service, and is very economical. It is a place frequented by people on the go; a tip should be left on the counter after dining.
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