Food

if you had to only eat food from one cuisine for the rest of your life, what cuisine would it be? 

(obv an artificial and implausible situation — but this question is probably the best one i've come across for clarifying what kinds of food i really enjoy. it is very effective at cutting through hype and trend)

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south india :-)
or mexico

<3 beans, rice, corn

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they are so good

i changed my mind about beans when i tried them cooked from dry, and from freshly dried beans. almost any shelling bean is magnificent, and then there are some very good ones

if from a can, they're pretty meh

i recommend getting very good freshly dried beans, then soaking them and cooking them in just water and a bit of oil, very slowly. i don't have good sources in SEA yet but i usually get my beans from rancho gordo when i pass through US or, if in sta monica, i get them fresh dried from 2 peas in a pod

yeah i think the chinese (and possibly also the jp and kr) way is to not treat the intact bean as an object worth careful cooking in itself. it gets cooked with things or turned into pastes — all fine, but the bean in itself can be excellent.

cooked form dry, never had a dish like that, usually what i get are dried beans soaked overnight, then cooked in soup or stir fried