[Game] Anagrams: Dishes of the world

[Jenny]

Hello everyone!

As the song says, “food, glorious food, we’re anxious to try it”.  There are so many delicious international dishes available, and travelling gives us the opportunity to try food that we might not have tried before.  You might even have discovered a new dish after hosting a guest from another country.

With that in mind, I’d like to start a new game.

The rules are easy!  Below I’ve listed twenty international dishes, and scrambled the letters up, so it’s your task to unscramble the letters and tell me what the dishes are!  Bonus points if you can tell me the country that the dish comes from!

✅ Haggis - Scotland

 ✅ Cheese Fondue - Switzerland

✅ Pho - Vietnam

✅ Dim sum - China

✅ Tagine

✅ Meat Pie - Australia

✅ Moules-Frites - Belgium

✅ Poutine - Canada

✅ Frikadeller - Denmark

✅ Fish and Chips - England

✅ Crêpe - France

✅ Moussaka - Greece

✅ Nasi Goreng - Indonesia

✅ Lasagne - Italy

✅ Sushi - Japan

✅ Kibbeh - Lebanon

✅ Enchiladas

✅ Kimchi - Korea

✅ Bigos - Poland

✅ Paella - Spain

I hope you enjoy the game!

Jenny

[Kushnirov0]

Must see it's hard

[Emilie]

Correct yet again, @Emiel1! I've never tried either of those dishes actually ... have you? 👀 

[Emiel1]

@Emilie 

Nasi Goreng is also a popular dish in The Netherlands, not only in Indonesian / Chinese restaurants but also to cook at home.

I never tried the Danish Frikadeller. Wikipedia shows me it is related to  "meatballs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikadeller

BTW

In NL we have a snack with almost same name, it is called "Frikandel".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikandel

So now there is one unknown dish in the game (Belgium)

When i think of Belgium in Dutch (Flemisch) language,  first "patat" or "friet" (UK: fries) comes to my mind ! But also mossel (UK: mussel)

Then suddenly i released: it is all in French language !

Moules Frites   (Mussels with fries)

[Emilie]

@Emiel1 That one was super tricky, well done! Moules-Frites is such a classic in Belgium, as well as in the north of France (which I'm more familiar with personally).

Frikandel does sound very similar to Frikadeller ... @Sybe and @Quincy does it bring back memories from home? ☺️

[Emiel1]

@Emilie 

9:  Frikadeller - Denmark

13: Nasi Goreng - Indonesia

[Laurelle3]

@Emilie @Jenny is no 10 Fish and Chips. One year we were staying in Whey- on- Went and we queued for over an hour for fish and chips in a shop that had served them for over 100 years the advertisement said.

To our Aussie tastes they had thick batter and were fatty and they weren't worth the waste of time but we did enjoy the conversations with the people in the front and behind us. 

[Emilie]

@Laurelle3 Shame they weren't the best, hopefully you'll get a chance to have a proper good one sometime - they can be delightful! 😊 Did you get vinegar on your chips to make it even more authentic?

[Laurelle3]

@Jenny @Emilie No  6 is it Meat Pie yes we eat them but I would consider them from our mother country. England. 

[Emilie]

@Laurelle3 You got it! Fair point - I think many anglo-saxon dishes kind of overlap, don't they? It's one of the great things about cuisine, you can see how dishes travelled and evolved as cultures and nations did. 🙂 

[Emilie]

@Emiel1 @Ann72 @Laurelle3 @Mike-And-Jane0 Sorry guys! I've just updated the list for you, poutine and enchiladas were indeed correct guesses. 😃

As clues for the remaining ones, perhaps I can give you the countries linked to the dishes? 

6 - Australia

7 - Belgium

9 - Denmark

10 - England

13 - Indonesia

What do you think, any more ideas with those in mind? 🙂

Emilie 

[Ann72]

@Emiel1  I gave it one more try and discovered one -

8:  Poutine - Canada

@Jenny I had poutine for the first time when I went to Canada in 2019.  

[Emiel1]

@Ann72 

I already found that one (see 30 july) , including a demonstration how to make it :>).

But @Jenny  is not updating the list, maybe she has eaten to much of the dishes we already found and needs a break before to continue with the remaining ones....

[Ann72]

That does seem possible, @Emiel1  😳

[Laurelle3]

@Jenny and @Emiel1 is no 17 Enchiladas.

I would rather have Tacos. Our famiily serve them as a self hejp meal with bought Taco boat shape shells - heated, cooked mincewith onion, garlic and taco mix, grated cheese, diced capscicum, onion, celery, lettuce, and tomatoe. I try to make a complete meal and our family members can put what they want.

[Emiel1]

@Ann72 @Laurelle3 @Mike-And-Jane0 

This puzzle is still unfinished..... i am out, no idea about remaining dishes.

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Emiel1 sorry but @Jenny has beaten me as well!

[Emiel1]

@Jenny 

8: Poutine - Canada

The Swedish Chef makes poutine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lOP5sNnvBA

[Ann72]

@Jenny 

14 - Neslaga - Lasagne

Although Italian in origin, according to the internet, "one of the first references to modern-day lasagne can be found in a 14th-century English cookbook that highlighted a dish with layers of pasta without the tomatoes."

Kind of cool!  It's a staple of the American family kitchen.  I have one in my freezer right now in case there's an impromptu dinner chez moi.

[Jenny]

Thank you so much for keeping things going here @Emiel1 - I think we can safely crown you the winner of this post!

[Emiel1]

@Jenny 

19: Bigos - Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigos