What are your favorite local/regional dishes?

[MaxStout]

What are some of the local dishes where you live (or places you like to go to)? Signature dishes that are associated with the area, like Texas brisket, poutine, Kentucky Hot Brown, Detroit pizza, etc. When we travel we like to seek out the local specialties whenever we can.

A few Minnesota favorites:
--Walleye, baked or breaded and fried. If it's served in restaurants, it's farm-raised and usually quite good, but if you fish or know someone who does, the walleye from a cold lake is awesome.
--Hot dish (basically anything thrown into a casserole dish with cream of mushroom soup and baked). Tater tot hot dish is a big one.
--Wild rice. It's harvested here late summer and if you drive to northern MN in the fall you'll see it sold by the pound along roadsides.
--In the Twin Cities many pubs have Jucy Lucy, a burger cooked with cheese on the inside of the patty.

 

[Ward Chillington]

Lotta pork and sauerkraut here in SCPA this time of year....all the Dutchers keeping the faith. Pennsylvania has a whole lot of German, Polish and Italian heritage and the food that goes with it....Philadelphia is all about the Cheesesteak, the Hogie and the Soft Pretzel. Pittsburgh, from what little time I've spent there, has a large Polish population so Porogies are big...Heinz Ketchsup is HQ'ed there but salsa is been eroding that market for years...there's a local sandwich that's supposed to be big there
but I can't recall the name of it for the life of me! The midstate..Harrisburg tries to span the breach between Philly and Pittsburgh as well as reaching out to Maryland which is all about the Blue Crab...I guess since the Susquehanna River, which feeds the Chesapeake Bay flows through the city, they want to cater to everyone but really don't have anything original to my knowledge..unless you want to talk about sho-fly pie, pumpkin rolls and whoopi pies!

 

[Sunfire96]

Sailor sandwich! A salty, greasy delight
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_sandwich

 

[Zambi]

Favourite food here: nothing comes to mind, except biltong
All else local is boring nshima, nyama & relish. Basically solid maize meal starch with a meat stew and cooked veges. Main spice is salt

Typical food from the country I grew up in (the Netherlands) is sauerkraut, curly kale, bitterballen, herring, prawns, smoked eel and almost anything Indonesian (nasi goreng, rendang, satay, gado-gado, tempeh etc)

Typical food I like from (one of the) favourite country to travel to: Thailand!
Again almost everything

I suppose I really like my SE asian food

 

[Donoroto]

A Northern New Jersey favorite is Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese. You can drop the egg if it's not breakfast.

Officially it is Taylor Pork Roll. It is kin to bologna, but a different flavor profile. And while one can eat it cold (nobody does), its real flavor comes out when it is fried.

In Atlanta there's this great little pizza place called Domino's...

 

[Herm brews]

Lots of good food here in Eugene, Oregon. I have always enjoyed soups made from mushrooms, but it seems the best soups have been here, where there is a mushroom foraging culture. Lots of fresh fish, especially salmon and albacore tuna, in season, along with rockfish and oysters. Things grow well here, so I’m looking forward to fresh fruits and vegetables later in the year.

 

[Daniel Parshley]

Fish taco made with fried Mahi and a good bang-bang sauce. Good comfort food to go with a beer by the sea.

 

[DerrickOlley]

I love oysters in any form))))

 

[Tim Bulin]

Deep fried cheese curds, beer brats.

 

[The Brew Mentor]

Lotta pork and sauerkraut here in SCPA this time of year....all the Dutchers keeping the faith. Pennsylvania has a whole lot of German, Polish and Italian heritage and the food that goes with it....Philadelphia is all about the Cheesesteak, the Hogie and the Soft Pretzel. Pittsburgh, from what little time I've spent there, has a large Polish population so Porogies are big...Heinz Ketchsup is HQ'ed there but salsa is been eroding that market for years...there's a local sandwich that's supposed to be big there
but I can't recall the name of it for the life of me! The midstate..Harrisburg tries to span the breach between Philly and Pittsburgh as well as reaching out to Maryland which is all about the Blue Crab...I guess since the Susquehanna River, which feeds the Chesapeake Bay flows through the city, they want to cater to everyone but really don't have anything original to my knowledge..unless you want to talk about sho-fly pie, pumpkin rolls and whoopi pies!

Primanti is the sandwich I believe you're speaking of

 

[Ward Chillington]

A Northern New Jersey favorite is Taylor Ham, Egg and Cheese. You can drop the egg if it's not breakfast.

Officially it is Taylor Pork Roll. It is kin to bologna, but a different flavor profile. And while one can eat it cold (nobody does), its real flavor comes out when it is fried.

In Atlanta there's this great little pizza place called Domino's...

Pork roll in a grilled cheese....Munster and rye....now we're talking!

Primanti is the sandwich I believe

Yeah...I think that's it! What's in that?

 

[Sandy Feet]

Fish taco made with fried Mahi and a good bang-bang sauce. Good comfort food to go with a beer by the sea.

Same here for fish tacos but sometimes with Grouper. Actually, they are better grilled or blackened though. Cuban Sandwiches are also popular as is shrimp on the coast. It is funny what stays around and what doesn't. We have a fast food, roast beef sandwich place that has been around since the late 60's and is quite popular. I got my fix yesterday

 

[The Brew Mentor]

Lake Erie Perch and Walleye are incredible.
That being said I typically only eat the Fish I catch.
A Slymans corned beef sandwich is extremely popular

 

[Sunfire96]

Yeah...I think that's it! What's in that?

Basically a pastrami sandwich with fries inside. I had them when I lived in Pittsburgh for a short time in 2014. I've heard that the quality tanked and the stores are closing. Plus they were cash only which is so annoying

 

[jschein]

Taylor ham in a grilled cheese....Munster and rye....now we're talking!
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Fixed that for ya

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

Chicago, Italian Beef for sure.

The thing I miss most about living there, and I've tried to make it several times and I just can't reproduce the thin slices of braised tender beef despite wrapping it, freezing it for an hour the next day, and trying to slice super thin with a sharp Japanese knife or my mandoline. I've gotten close but it's not quite the same.

 

[Donoroto]

Chicago, Italian Beef for sure.

The thing I miss most about living there, and I've tried to make it several times and I just can't reproduce the thin slices of braised tender beef despite wrapping it, freezing it for an hour the next day, and trying to slice super thin with a sharp Japanese knife or my mandoline. I've gotten close but it's not quite the same.

I got one word for ya: Steak-umm. Thin as paper, beef (or at least beef-esque).

Some supermarkets will cut fresh meat on a deli-like slicer. Ask around.

Or use roast beef sliced in the deli.

 

[Ward Chillington]

I got one word for ya: Steak-umm. Thin as paper, beef (or at least beef-esque).

Some supermarkets will cut fresh meat on a deli-like slicer. Ask around.

Or use roast beef sliced in the deli.

When I lived in South Jersey, the local IGA did that.... I have never seen that anywhere else...I always figured that was a suburban Philly thing....but then again...im.still thinking about Pork Roll....

 

[Ward Chillington]

Some supermarkets will cut fresh meat on a deli-like slicer. Ask around.

When I lived in South Jersey, the local IGA did that.... I have never seen that anywhere else...I always figured that was a suburban Philly thing....but then again...im.still thinking about Pork Roll....

 

[Donoroto]

When I lived in South Jersey, the local IGA did that.... I have never seen that anywhere else...I always figured that was a suburban Philly thing....but then again...im.still thinking about Pork Roll....

Yeah, pork roll. It's widely available in ATL, surprisingly. Pre-packaged. Some supermarkets even have it in the deli.

We even got bagels! Real ones!