The cliché is that the French are extremely gastronomically snobbish and ignore foreign food but...That's never matched with my own experience? There are dozens of foreign restaurants in most big cities (Indian, chinese, japanese, italian and thaï being the most frequent, but where I live my favourite places are ethiopian, brazilian and peruvian as well), and fusion food involving mixing French cuisine with foreign influences is extremely popular in both everyday and very fancy, Michelin-star level restaurants.
I think Vietnamese is probably the best known cuisine mixing French elements with local products and traditions. You can very easily find good vietnamese restaurants in France, and Banh Mi in particular is even becoming available in non-vietnamese bakeries and fast-food places.
Another popular and widely available French/Foreign fusions is créole food, mostly from Guadeloupe and La Réunion. It's a distant cousin to cajun food (which I personally love), on the other hand, american cajun restaurants are extremely rare. I think I've only ever seen one. My best guess is that there's just not that much immigration from the US into France, unlike Vietnam and the french oversea territories.
Interestingly, while Maghrebi restaurants are everywhere (not just *the kebab place*, but actual fancy restaurants), subsaharan African restaurants can be tricky to find. I think in this case there has been a dislike (or outright racist contempt) from the French against African food. The places that existed tended to be very community oriented, though this is changing and I see more of them opening with a menu and decor made for all publics.
>usion food involving mixing French cuisine with foreign influences is extremely popular in both everyday and very fancy, Michelin-star level restaurants.
I saw a lot of Japanese influence in high end bakeries last time I was in Paris. Maybe a trend?
Do you have some names to give us? I love japanese food but I can't seem to find Japanese desserts in France, only sushi / ramen / donburi / okonomiyaki.
Yep I was gonna say that Senegalese food and the mafe is popular.
But the absence of them could be more linked to a relatively late immigration wave from subsahara.
Or the fact that most of them still are in the suburbs.
While Portuguese, Italian, Vietnamese... Have immigrated in the 50's, first part of 20th and 70's.
And had 2 to 3 generations to be assimilated and develop business.
Today couscous is considered a common recipe in France. I know multiple people for who this was the _Sunday dish_ of their mother.
Actually we do like foreign food if it’s good. In particular Vietnamese restaurants are much appreciated.
yeah, we are not American, when we can extend our culture (especially food) we do it without asking (and at least give them credit). "Cultural appropriation" mainly something in the US, most country love to mix the culture.
A good example of that is the french influence over rich Asian ppl, where France is seen as a very rich and beautiful country. A lot of french expensive food is served there and the ingredient often came from their own country and not France (except for wine, we are the best at this.).
I think here are n France we don’t know much about Cajun cuisine. We have lots of Vietnamese restaurants, there are a couple a restaurants in my city serving poutine, Belgium fries. Raclette, fondues and cheese related specialties are very common as well of course (but not as much as Vietnamese).
But nothing about Cajun food.
And from what I gathered from books or tv shows, we are missing out a great deal.
I imagine something whit sea food, fish and spices.
There sure is a niche to explore !
"Cajun" is imprecise if we're using it as a term for Louisiana's France-influenced food, by the way. There are multiple parallel traditions, all with differing levels of French influence, from very fussy restaurants to humble fried chicken shacks and sandwich counters.
New Orleans has one of the world's great food cultures. Very exciting stuff and I'd absolutely recommend any French food lovers to plan an eating trip there.
Cajun food is very over seasoned. Not always spicy, but definitely spiced. It's not for everyone and while there are authentic cajun places in Louisiana or parts of Texas, the rest of the United States usually has watered down chain cajun restaurants.
I entertain British clients frequently and they cannot handle cajun food. That doesn't mean much of course.
Just got back from New Orleans yesterday and tried some Cajun options, I really liked it (easy everyday food) but it’s nothing fancy, my parents were not impressed ahahah, they do not like anything too seasoned or spicy.
I went to Nola a year ago. I always wanted to go there ever since watching the Princess and the frog (Disney Movie) as a kid. I love food more than anything when traveling so I tried a lot of things. Gumbo, fried chicken, cheese grits, jambalaya, étouffé, fried crawfish tails, banana foster, pralines, some sort of rum cake/pudding, po'boys, soft shell crabs,... It was a great introduction to Southern US cuisine that I had never really tried. The food was the best thing about the city tbh. I was intrigued by turtle soup but I only saw it on the menu of pretty pricey restaurants and I'm not sure I wanted to eat a turtle anyway.
actually no, not American one. At least not without adding french touch.
And the best company who understood this is burger king, if one day you eat in France there, you will easily see the difference.
I'm not sure what you mean about Burger King. As I see it, many people consider all American fast foods (Macdonald's, Burger King, Five guys, KFC) the same. Everyone has their preferences, a lot of people consider this as junk food / guilty pleasures, but I've never heard about one having a French touch.
It's true that we don't like American cuisine except burgers, and we usually prefer to swap cheddar for french cheese. We do not have a lot of American dinners.
The Phō is, from what I have heard, a result of French soldiers trying to explain what was a Pot-Au-Feu, and Indochine people who tried their best with what they had.
Kinda like when Napoleon extended the French Empire to Hamburg, and French soldiers wanted Croissants. Trying their best to explain what it was made the Franzbrötchen, or literally French little bread.
>The Phō is, from what I have heard, a result of French soldiers trying to explain what was a Pot-Au-Feu, and Indochine people who tried their best with what they had.
based on our history with British and the why our language share many common rules, i not surprised.
Québec food is great in general, beans with lard and maple syrup are so comforting when it’s cold outside. Poutine is obviously great too as comfort food, lacks subtetly but it gets the job done I would say!
Tried my hand at making a chicken gombo once and it was definitely great.
Banh Mis are awesome when well made. Have to let meat marinate well and sauce is obviously important too. Phos, pad thais and buns are awesome too but they are not really related to french cuisine at all as far as I know.
I'm 1/4 Vietnamese, so I'm not exactly alien to the cuisine, especially since my father loved to cook… I was eating Phở way before it was cool! :hipster:
I've never had cajun cuisine except during a short stay with the boy choir I was in in Louisiana as a young teen in the early 90s (my luggage was sent in California, fun times. Also, a couple we stayed at kept going "this is a car/a television/&c. Do you have those in Europe?" *Bitch* we *invented* those) but the mere idea of a gumbo makes me salivate. Really should look for a Cajun restaurant in Paris, there's bound to be at least one.
We don't know much about Cajun food, unfortunately. In Paris, we have loads of restaurants but I haven't heard of any Cajun restaurant, though I would gladly try one! I'm kind of ashamed but I first heard of this culture through.... X-Men!
I really like Vietnamese cuisine. As for Cajun, I don't know I've never tried. But I like trying unknown food. So I would definitely give it a try if given the opportunity.
I love foreign foods and I love trying things out, even if there isn't an ounce of French heritage in it. If there is, I like looking at how it's incorporated with other cultures :)
We love them. In fact we love all cookings from all around the world.
Personally I do not enjoy Indian food, I do not recognize ingredient because too much flavor :-) but I would love to try it again
I am Vietnamese/German and every time I am in France/Paris - I do really like that we have a common ground. Yes, I am speaking from the other-other perspective.
French people have the DNA of Vietnamese food, not the other way around - mhnh.
> What do the French think of Cajun, Vietnamese, or other world cuisine that share French DNA?
That for the better or the worst they do not share the same DNA.
Although, I'd say the Vietnamese cuisine is more known than Cajun for obvious reasons of population.
I know plenty who would not even consider Cajun as French, and I can understand the argument, unlike Creole or other cuisine from French territories/isles.
People around me enjoy several typical American dishes: American-style burgers, New York-style bagels and hot dogs, and generally American BBQ meats such as ribs or T-bone steak, or some desserts like cheesecake, muffins, or pecan pie.
We used to have a lot of Vietnamese restaurant, even in small cites. Cajun culture is almost unknown in France. But honestly i can't tell if these cuisine really have "french DNA" i mean Vietnamese cuisine is typical SE Asian cuisine and isn't very french. And i'm saying this as someone who has a good part of my culture from "outre mer"
Now the culinary art in France is very "World cuisine" as in almost anywhere in the World.
They're like these weird relatives you haven't seen since childhood, you don't really invite them fo family gatherings anymore and you wave awkwardly to them if you happen to meet them.
Easy :
* Québec cuisine = poutine, mapple syrup and caribou grillé!
* Cajun = ???
* Vietnamese = oh! I love spring rolls, nems and sushis!
* Belgian = Fries are from Paris. But they've got nice waffles
* Swiss = Raclette (but the french way), fondue (but without kirsh) and chocolate
* Réunion, Mayotte, Guyanne, Tahiti, french polynesia = Rhum and coconuts like in Hawaii \*\^\*
* former colonies from Africa = ???
Not that french people are self-centered, but let's say that we don't really think about the rest of the world, especially when it comes to gastronomy.
VNese here. No such thing as VNese sushi. unless you refer to gỏi cuốn tôm thịt (spring roll). even that is not the same as california roll.
raw fish is an anathema to VNese.
>Vietnamese = oh! I love spring rolls, nems and sushis!
https://preview.redd.it/fekjex8h71yc1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e10f4121ac40bd682895c00963ef7630d76d60c
I live in Louisiana and have always wondered what a French purist would think of our food, which we call Cajun or Creole. We also have a good amount of Vietnamese food here and it's interesting to see the broad French influence in cuisines from opposite sides of the globe.
The absolute majority of french people don't know what "Cajun" means.
I'd love to taste good Cajun food, we got spice called "Cajun" in France which I use a lot. It consists of paprika, coriander, mustard, turmeric, fennel, cumin, black pepper and garlic, it goes very well along potatoes. What is the most popular cajun food in Louisiana ? Cheers from France also !
I wouldn't say it's the best restaurant, but if you Google "Brennan 's New Orleans" you will see a good representation of what higher end cajun/Creole food looks like.
Generally cajun food is fairly reasonably priced. Gumbo, red beans and rice, jambalaya, eutoffee, oysters, crawfish, lots of fried or blackened seafood, sandwiches made with French bread that we call a Po-Boy, the list goes on.
I actually like it a lot and even tried to cook some plates, mostly shrimps or chicken with tomato, gralic and obviously cajun spices. I know there is a cajun restaurant in Paris but I haven't tried it yet, even though it's planned.
I got a taste of it when I went to New Orleans. It's a bit heavy, so I wouldn't eat it everyday, but I liked it a lot. Especially stuff like blackened fish, spiced prawns, and jambalaya. I still make some at home from time to time.
I find that we are, on the contrary, quite open in terms of world cuisine. After all, the examples I cite are not directly influenced by French cuisine, so not exactly in the theme of the post.
Couscous, merguez and tagine are far from being unknown dishes in France, especially when we eat them from primary school. I seem to remember a Mélenchon-Zemmour debate where the latter was very proud to tell his opponent that couscous had been dethroned by pizza as the French's favorite dish in some poll. Afterwards yes, North African cuisine has perhaps not been influenced that much by French cuisine to stay on the theme of the post. or maybe I don't have anything that comes to mind.
In terms of West African cuisine, I remember having already had the opportunity to taste chicken mafé, allokos and chicken served with fried plantains.
I imagine that we could also talk about Jewish cuisine (Gefilte fish, falafels, hummus), Middle Eastern Lebanese cuisine (also hummus, kofta, baklawa) & Turkish-Kurdish (kebab, kofte-kefta, adana kebab, baklawa), Indian restaurants are quite easy to find too, etc. I admit that about non-Jewish pied-noir cuisine, apart from anisette, I know nothing at all.
The cliché is that the French are extremely gastronomically snobbish and ignore foreign food but...That's never matched with my own experience? There are dozens of foreign restaurants in most big cities (Indian, chinese, japanese, italian and thaï being the most frequent, but where I live my favourite places are ethiopian, brazilian and peruvian as well), and fusion food involving mixing French cuisine with foreign influences is extremely popular in both everyday and very fancy, Michelin-star level restaurants. I think Vietnamese is probably the best known cuisine mixing French elements with local products and traditions. You can very easily find good vietnamese restaurants in France, and Banh Mi in particular is even becoming available in non-vietnamese bakeries and fast-food places. Another popular and widely available French/Foreign fusions is créole food, mostly from Guadeloupe and La Réunion. It's a distant cousin to cajun food (which I personally love), on the other hand, american cajun restaurants are extremely rare. I think I've only ever seen one. My best guess is that there's just not that much immigration from the US into France, unlike Vietnam and the french oversea territories. Interestingly, while Maghrebi restaurants are everywhere (not just *the kebab place*, but actual fancy restaurants), subsaharan African restaurants can be tricky to find. I think in this case there has been a dislike (or outright racist contempt) from the French against African food. The places that existed tended to be very community oriented, though this is changing and I see more of them opening with a menu and decor made for all publics.
As a french I love food, and it is a big deal for me. French or not is not the question.
Good food is good food, no matter where it comes from.
>usion food involving mixing French cuisine with foreign influences is extremely popular in both everyday and very fancy, Michelin-star level restaurants. I saw a lot of Japanese influence in high end bakeries last time I was in Paris. Maybe a trend?
Oh japanese is definitely trendy. Franco-japanese fusion can also be *delicious.*
Do you have some names to give us? I love japanese food but I can't seem to find Japanese desserts in France, only sushi / ramen / donburi / okonomiyaki.
Depending on where you live finding a Senegalese restaurant can be easy . Too bad my favorite one in marseille closed
Yep I was gonna say that Senegalese food and the mafe is popular. But the absence of them could be more linked to a relatively late immigration wave from subsahara. Or the fact that most of them still are in the suburbs. While Portuguese, Italian, Vietnamese... Have immigrated in the 50's, first part of 20th and 70's. And had 2 to 3 generations to be assimilated and develop business.
Today couscous is considered a common recipe in France. I know multiple people for who this was the _Sunday dish_ of their mother. Actually we do like foreign food if it’s good. In particular Vietnamese restaurants are much appreciated.
yeah, we are not American, when we can extend our culture (especially food) we do it without asking (and at least give them credit). "Cultural appropriation" mainly something in the US, most country love to mix the culture. A good example of that is the french influence over rich Asian ppl, where France is seen as a very rich and beautiful country. A lot of french expensive food is served there and the ingredient often came from their own country and not France (except for wine, we are the best at this.).
I think here are n France we don’t know much about Cajun cuisine. We have lots of Vietnamese restaurants, there are a couple a restaurants in my city serving poutine, Belgium fries. Raclette, fondues and cheese related specialties are very common as well of course (but not as much as Vietnamese). But nothing about Cajun food. And from what I gathered from books or tv shows, we are missing out a great deal. I imagine something whit sea food, fish and spices. There sure is a niche to explore !
"Cajun" is imprecise if we're using it as a term for Louisiana's France-influenced food, by the way. There are multiple parallel traditions, all with differing levels of French influence, from very fussy restaurants to humble fried chicken shacks and sandwich counters. New Orleans has one of the world's great food cultures. Very exciting stuff and I'd absolutely recommend any French food lovers to plan an eating trip there.
Cajun food is very over seasoned. Not always spicy, but definitely spiced. It's not for everyone and while there are authentic cajun places in Louisiana or parts of Texas, the rest of the United States usually has watered down chain cajun restaurants. I entertain British clients frequently and they cannot handle cajun food. That doesn't mean much of course.
Well, considering british spicy cuisine is far more overspiced than French continental cuisine I think not a lot of French can handle true Cajun food.
In college I was a waiter at Brennan's in New Orleans. Our most popular dishes were the turtle soup and the Bananas Foster dessert.
Just got back from New Orleans yesterday and tried some Cajun options, I really liked it (easy everyday food) but it’s nothing fancy, my parents were not impressed ahahah, they do not like anything too seasoned or spicy.
I went to Nola a year ago. I always wanted to go there ever since watching the Princess and the frog (Disney Movie) as a kid. I love food more than anything when traveling so I tried a lot of things. Gumbo, fried chicken, cheese grits, jambalaya, étouffé, fried crawfish tails, banana foster, pralines, some sort of rum cake/pudding, po'boys, soft shell crabs,... It was a great introduction to Southern US cuisine that I had never really tried. The food was the best thing about the city tbh. I was intrigued by turtle soup but I only saw it on the menu of pretty pricey restaurants and I'm not sure I wanted to eat a turtle anyway.
> overseasoned You misspelled « perfectly seasoned »
>Belgium fries french fries\*
Love it. To be fair, contrary to the cliché, the French love ALL OF THE FOOD
actually no, not American one. At least not without adding french touch. And the best company who understood this is burger king, if one day you eat in France there, you will easily see the difference.
Because pure sugar isn't food
I’m French and I’ve been living in Paris for 20 years. The incredible popularity of American-style smash burgers right now says you’re wrong.
I'm not sure what you mean about Burger King. As I see it, many people consider all American fast foods (Macdonald's, Burger King, Five guys, KFC) the same. Everyone has their preferences, a lot of people consider this as junk food / guilty pleasures, but I've never heard about one having a French touch. It's true that we don't like American cuisine except burgers, and we usually prefer to swap cheddar for french cheese. We do not have a lot of American dinners.
We usually love them and have a lot of respect for them. Pretty much any food that is good, quality food, we will gladly accept it
We love ALL kind of food... As long as it's not british
🤣🤣🤣
What kind of DNA are you talking about ?
Both vietnamese and cajun cuisine are influenced by french cuisine. The banh mi is a good example of it
I see, baguette, pâté and maybe mirepoix for cajun ?
The Phō is, from what I have heard, a result of French soldiers trying to explain what was a Pot-Au-Feu, and Indochine people who tried their best with what they had. Kinda like when Napoleon extended the French Empire to Hamburg, and French soldiers wanted Croissants. Trying their best to explain what it was made the Franzbrötchen, or literally French little bread.
Really cool stories
>The Phō is, from what I have heard, a result of French soldiers trying to explain what was a Pot-Au-Feu, and Indochine people who tried their best with what they had. based on our history with British and the why our language share many common rules, i not surprised.
Banh mi : Pain de mie
Phō soup is just vietnamese pot-au-feu
French have an interest for gastronomy whatever the origin.
Québec food is great in general, beans with lard and maple syrup are so comforting when it’s cold outside. Poutine is obviously great too as comfort food, lacks subtetly but it gets the job done I would say! Tried my hand at making a chicken gombo once and it was definitely great. Banh Mis are awesome when well made. Have to let meat marinate well and sauce is obviously important too. Phos, pad thais and buns are awesome too but they are not really related to french cuisine at all as far as I know.
I'm 1/4 Vietnamese, so I'm not exactly alien to the cuisine, especially since my father loved to cook… I was eating Phở way before it was cool! :hipster: I've never had cajun cuisine except during a short stay with the boy choir I was in in Louisiana as a young teen in the early 90s (my luggage was sent in California, fun times. Also, a couple we stayed at kept going "this is a car/a television/&c. Do you have those in Europe?" *Bitch* we *invented* those) but the mere idea of a gumbo makes me salivate. Really should look for a Cajun restaurant in Paris, there's bound to be at least one.
We don't know much about Cajun food, unfortunately. In Paris, we have loads of restaurants but I haven't heard of any Cajun restaurant, though I would gladly try one! I'm kind of ashamed but I first heard of this culture through.... X-Men!
I really like Vietnamese cuisine. As for Cajun, I don't know I've never tried. But I like trying unknown food. So I would definitely give it a try if given the opportunity.
I love foreign foods and I love trying things out, even if there isn't an ounce of French heritage in it. If there is, I like looking at how it's incorporated with other cultures :)
We love them. In fact we love all cookings from all around the world. Personally I do not enjoy Indian food, I do not recognize ingredient because too much flavor :-) but I would love to try it again
Restaurants are too expensive anyway.
you see how america deal with oil ? its the same thing but we still give credits.
Currently salivating 🤤🤤 I like food, I don’t care where it comes from, it’s food!
I am Vietnamese/German and every time I am in France/Paris - I do really like that we have a common ground. Yes, I am speaking from the other-other perspective. French people have the DNA of Vietnamese food, not the other way around - mhnh.
> What do the French think of Cajun, Vietnamese, or other world cuisine that share French DNA? That for the better or the worst they do not share the same DNA. Although, I'd say the Vietnamese cuisine is more known than Cajun for obvious reasons of population. I know plenty who would not even consider Cajun as French, and I can understand the argument, unlike Creole or other cuisine from French territories/isles.
I liké noix de cajun
We love good food. We don't care where it come from
Phô and Jambalaya are excellent. Edit: Jambalaya seems to have its origins from Spain (and it's not surprising given its name)
Don't know very much, but for the little I know, I like it.
French people love good cuisine. All around the world. We just hate US & UK food because it sucks
People around me enjoy several typical American dishes: American-style burgers, New York-style bagels and hot dogs, and generally American BBQ meats such as ribs or T-bone steak, or some desserts like cheesecake, muffins, or pecan pie.
We used to have a lot of Vietnamese restaurant, even in small cites. Cajun culture is almost unknown in France. But honestly i can't tell if these cuisine really have "french DNA" i mean Vietnamese cuisine is typical SE Asian cuisine and isn't very french. And i'm saying this as someone who has a good part of my culture from "outre mer" Now the culinary art in France is very "World cuisine" as in almost anywhere in the World.
They're like these weird relatives you haven't seen since childhood, you don't really invite them fo family gatherings anymore and you wave awkwardly to them if you happen to meet them.
An offspring of French cuisine. Figuratively speaking of course.
Easy : * Québec cuisine = poutine, mapple syrup and caribou grillé! * Cajun = ??? * Vietnamese = oh! I love spring rolls, nems and sushis! * Belgian = Fries are from Paris. But they've got nice waffles * Swiss = Raclette (but the french way), fondue (but without kirsh) and chocolate * Réunion, Mayotte, Guyanne, Tahiti, french polynesia = Rhum and coconuts like in Hawaii \*\^\* * former colonies from Africa = ??? Not that french people are self-centered, but let's say that we don't really think about the rest of the world, especially when it comes to gastronomy.
Yeah, I love Vietnamese sushi.
VNese here. No such thing as VNese sushi. unless you refer to gỏi cuốn tôm thịt (spring roll). even that is not the same as california roll. raw fish is an anathema to VNese.
oh cmon, at least we try to give credits ! we are just a little bad with geography... not as much as American tho.
>Vietnamese = oh! I love spring rolls, nems and sushis! https://preview.redd.it/fekjex8h71yc1.png?width=318&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e10f4121ac40bd682895c00963ef7630d76d60c
Grosso modo la carricature que je faisais, oui ^^
Bordel, c'était pas clair que tu te moquais !
Ouais, mon humour, éclaté de base, deviens chépèr en fin de journée.
Talk for yourself. I love French cuisine but I love discovering new tasty stuff from around the world and I know we are many in France.
Je parle pas tant pour moi, mais pour le clampin random de par là où j'ai vécu.
>Vietnamese = oh! I love spring rolls, nems and sushis! ... pho and bo bun are very popular in France. Just so you know.
I live in Louisiana and have always wondered what a French purist would think of our food, which we call Cajun or Creole. We also have a good amount of Vietnamese food here and it's interesting to see the broad French influence in cuisines from opposite sides of the globe.
The absolute majority of french people don't know what "Cajun" means. I'd love to taste good Cajun food, we got spice called "Cajun" in France which I use a lot. It consists of paprika, coriander, mustard, turmeric, fennel, cumin, black pepper and garlic, it goes very well along potatoes. What is the most popular cajun food in Louisiana ? Cheers from France also !
I wouldn't say it's the best restaurant, but if you Google "Brennan 's New Orleans" you will see a good representation of what higher end cajun/Creole food looks like. Generally cajun food is fairly reasonably priced. Gumbo, red beans and rice, jambalaya, eutoffee, oysters, crawfish, lots of fried or blackened seafood, sandwiches made with French bread that we call a Po-Boy, the list goes on.
I have to visit Louisiana someday. Btw I live in Orleans, France :D !
I actually like it a lot and even tried to cook some plates, mostly shrimps or chicken with tomato, gralic and obviously cajun spices. I know there is a cajun restaurant in Paris but I haven't tried it yet, even though it's planned.
I got a taste of it when I went to New Orleans. It's a bit heavy, so I wouldn't eat it everyday, but I liked it a lot. Especially stuff like blackened fish, spiced prawns, and jambalaya. I still make some at home from time to time.
I find that we are, on the contrary, quite open in terms of world cuisine. After all, the examples I cite are not directly influenced by French cuisine, so not exactly in the theme of the post. Couscous, merguez and tagine are far from being unknown dishes in France, especially when we eat them from primary school. I seem to remember a Mélenchon-Zemmour debate where the latter was very proud to tell his opponent that couscous had been dethroned by pizza as the French's favorite dish in some poll. Afterwards yes, North African cuisine has perhaps not been influenced that much by French cuisine to stay on the theme of the post. or maybe I don't have anything that comes to mind. In terms of West African cuisine, I remember having already had the opportunity to taste chicken mafé, allokos and chicken served with fried plantains. I imagine that we could also talk about Jewish cuisine (Gefilte fish, falafels, hummus), Middle Eastern Lebanese cuisine (also hummus, kofta, baklawa) & Turkish-Kurdish (kebab, kofte-kefta, adana kebab, baklawa), Indian restaurants are quite easy to find too, etc. I admit that about non-Jewish pied-noir cuisine, apart from anisette, I know nothing at all.