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Caesar said:
I was exaggerating a bit, but you've got to admit that Mexican food is hardly very varied. I always shudder when someone wants to go to a Mexican restaurant.
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You need to go with this man

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He'll shoot the cook even if the food is good.
 
Caesar said:
I was exaggerating a bit, but you've got to admit that Mexican food is hardly very varied. I always shudder when someone wants to go to a Mexican restaurant.
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Tex Mex is what you're thinking of. It's like saying Indian food is similar and bland when the only Indian food you ever eat is from food courts.
 
I don't think so. I've never been to Mexico but there are quite a few places around that are run by Mexicans and pride themselves on being authentic (Senoritas in Melbourne, for one). It's not that the food is bad, but there just doesn't really seem to be that many basic ingredients in Mexican cooking.
 

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Caesar said:
I don't think so. I've never been to Mexico but there are quite a few places around that are run by Mexicans and pride themselves on being authentic (Senoritas in Melbourne, for one). It's not that the food is bad, but there just doesn't really seem to be that many basic ingredients in Mexican cooking.
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That surprises me. I wouldn't think that there was anything boring about a good mole sauce. I haven't been to Mexico either, but I went to a restaurant in LA that specialised in Yucatan cuisine; the use of spices was out of this world.
 
Pho - especially those from the CBD is shit as. If you want a good pho get homemade or failing that one from the suburbs (especially down Hanson rd in Adelaide)

Indian food - new one seems to be pop up every week. I don't mind a good curry but some places are charging like 15-20 bucks for 2 dollars worth of meat, of oil/fat/coconut milk and bad service is a bit of a rip.
 
1. The Cheesecake shop.
2. Steak - It's ok if it's medium or if it's grass fed, but it's generally the sauce that makes it nice and eating a slab of meat makes you feel gross after. People take great pride in being able to consume a large portion of the stuff, I just dont get it.
3. Lamb. It's filthy.
4. Caviar. It's a status symbol that really isn't rated for its taste.
 
I agree on steak. I would always order the expensive cut over the big cut. Eye fillets and T-bones.

Now I rarely eat beef. Overrated meat that clogs your digestive tract and causes cancer in large doses. (opinion loosely based on China study).
 
Caesar said:
Got to admit, I have always found Mexican food really boring. There's only so many things you can do with beans, rice and mince.
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I haven't found a good Mexican feed in Australia, but if you are ever in California (where about half the population is Mexican), try it there - totally different, extremely spicy and really, really good.
 
volcboy said:
I haven't found a good Mexican feed in Australia, but if you are ever in California (where about half the population is Mexican), try it there - totally different, extremely spicy and really, really good.
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Best Mex I have had was in San Diego about 30 years ago, in the backstreets near Coronado beach

Forget the name of it but it just looked like a bar or pub

Had a great spicy seafood dish that went beautifully with the dark Dos Equis
 
Jab said:
1. The Cheesecake shop.
2. Steak - It's ok if it's medium or if it's grass fed, but it's generally the sauce that makes it nice and eating a slab of meat makes you feel gross after. People take great pride in being able to consume a large portion of the stuff, I just dont get it.
3. Lamb. It's filthy.
4. Caviar. It's a status symbol that really isn't rated for its taste.
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Steak is great imo, cooked rare, if its good it is the fat ect that gives it the flavour last good steak i had i barley used the sauce.
 

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Dominoes Pizza is garbage, heaps of better local pizza places around here.

I've only had a bad experience with Subway a couple of times from a particular store.
My local Subway makes a great pizza sub, always put plenty of meat/salads on it.
 
TheKanga said:
Dominoes Pizza is garbage, heaps of better local pizza places around here.

I've only had a bad experience with Subway a couple of times from a particular store.
My local Subway makes a great pizza sub, always put plenty of meat/salads on it.
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Who rated it?
 
Caesar said:
That molecular gastronomy crap (or whatever it's called) that Heston Blumenthal has made insanely popular.

My housemate basically worships him. The recipes he (my housemate) makes are absurdly complicated and time consuming, leave the kitchen looking like a bomb has hit it, and the end result doesn't really seem that much more impressive than what you get from following a normal recipe.
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SO MUCH THIS.

It's utter bullshit too - so many people who love this stuff pour scorn on things like processed food, when the molecular approach to cooking is basically just doing the industrial scale food processing at home.
 
Artichokes. I find them absolutely foul. I'm seeing them more and more as a pizza topping too. No thanks.

Avocado. Bland/tasteless. I understand it's suppose to be good for you, but you can shove that up your...

Pumpkin. Roasted, as a soup, whatever, I just can't bring myself to eat it.

Wine. I've tried hard to like it, but I just can't enjoy it. I especially cannot understand when people go on about how this specific wine tastes good with this specific food. i.e white wine/seafood, red wine/red meat. It tastes exactly the same to me.

Really spicy food/chilli. Yeah, I want to sit there burning my mouth off whilst trying to enjoy the meal and then afterwards my arse whilst sitting on the toilet.
 

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aNty said:
Pho - especially those from the CBD is shit as. If you want a good pho get homemade or failing that one from the suburbs (especially down Hanson rd in Adelaide)

Indian food - new one seems to be pop up every week. I don't mind a good curry but some places are charging like 15-20 bucks for 2 dollars worth of meat, of oil/fat/coconut milk and bad service is a bit of a rip.
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Melbourne's a damned good place for Vietnamese grub, especially Footscray. The Indian food situation's improved greatly here in the last 5 or so years. I've got a bad Dosa jones, so I get my regular fix in Barkley Street, West Footscray

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CLUBMEDhurst said:
Melbourne's a damned good place for Vietnamese grub, especially Footscray. The Indian food situation's improved greatly here in the last 5 or so years. I've got a bad Dosa jones, so I get my regular fix in Barkley Street, West Footscray

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I must try this place!

Loved them when I was back packing through India. Havn't even had one since ive been home.
 
Joe King said:
Artichokes. I find them absolutely foul. I'm seeing them more and more as a pizza topping too. No thanks.

Avocado. Bland/tasteless. I understand it's suppose to be good for you, but you can shove that up your...

Pumpkin. Roasted, as a soup, whatever, I just can't bring myself to eat it.

Wine. I've tried hard to like it, but I just can't enjoy it. I especially cannot understand when people go on about how this specific wine tastes good with this specific food. i.e white wine/seafood, red wine/red meat. It tastes exactly the same to me.

Really spicy food/chilli. Yeah, I want to sit there burning my mouth off whilst trying to enjoy the meal and then afterwards my arse whilst sitting on the toilet.
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Pumpkin is gross. It's not for me.

Wine, spicy food and avocado are a different story, however.
 
Mexican food in Australia is shit. A few restaurants have tried to wank it up a little bit with mixed results (and popular acclaim), but there is nowhere really for honest Mexican food here in Melbourne.

Best Mexican at the moment is probably out of a truck, and even then it's not great compared to whats available elsewhere.
 

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