What new dishes or foods did you try this year?

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This year, I tried 
spam musubi, 
loco moco, 
saimin, 
Lahaina fried soup
https://medium.com/spiralbound/remembering-lahaina-fried-soup-7814184d6f8f
poi,
chicken long rice https://www.foodland.com/recipe/chicken-long-rice , 
mochi donuts, 
Tiroler Gröstl (https://www.austria.info/uk/things-to-do/food-and-drink/favourite-austrian-recipes/tiroler-groestl),
Austrian Barley Soup, 
Wähe (a Swiss Küchen
 https://www.helvetickitchen.com/recipes/2015/9/16/zwetschgenwahe), 
Nürnberger grilled bratwurst (small thin sausages from a woman grilling them at the main train station in Nürnberg
https://www.bavaria.by/experiences/food-drink/bavarian-specialties/german-sausages-nuremberg/), and a Bolivian salteña (at Bolivian Llama Party in NYC)

I also tried a Vietnamese Beef 7 Ways dinner for the first time. 

What have been the new foods that you have tried in 2019?

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Lardo. I don't get it.

Quick tofu Thai curry, a new regular in the rotation. Heat sliced onions and carrots in curry paste. Add coconut milk. Add a splash of oyster sauce and a little sugar. Throw in other vegetables. Add cubed firm tofu last, and serve on brown short grain rice topped with chopped peanuts, chutney, and mustard pickle.

Cheating quick ramen. Season vegetable broth with mirin, light soy sauce, ginger, and garlic. Simmer with sliced shiitakes and julienned carrots. Add very thinly sliced sirloin, then buckwheat noodles. Top with half of an eight minute boiled egg, peeled, chopped green onion, and snow pea shoots.

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Thanks to my fantastic work team, this year I ate - and subsequently purchased and cooked - lamb trotters, tindora, bitter gourd, and taro leaves. I also had a number of types of spicy fish fritters and jollof rice - those were not totally new to me but we had a cook-off at work so got to try lots of different mamas' versions.

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Balut. It was ok. I'd eat it again if somebody else bought it, but that's about it.

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I also tried Choripan, the Argentinian sandwich. I would order that again.

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Having been in Vietnam recently, Vietnamese food. I didn’t know much about it except for pho, which is delicious, but everything else is too. 
The further south you go in the country the spicier the food gets. 
I had a great noodle broth soup in the Mekong Delta that was the best soup I think I’ve ever had.

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I don't think I tried anything new. I tried new recipes but nothing that qualifies as a new dish or new cuisine.

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I also tried my first tlayuda in Oct.

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I made lamb tongue for the first time - I had a memory of it from a restaurant meal probably 15 years ago. It was delicious.
I also had farro - I cant say I never had it, but I don't recall having it, and now I love it!

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Impossible Burger, I love it, Cheesecake Factory is my favorite so far. 

Vegetable Biriyani, I've had biriyani before not the vegetarian version

Jackfruit, served all kinds of ways, my favorite is Jackfruit Thai Curry

Pakoras, I might have had these unknowingly at an Indian buffet, but the ones I had this year were homemade and infinitely better. First time eating bhaji too. 

Vegan Cheese, see a theme here. :-)

Oh... how could I forget, there was this amazing Indian eggplant curry I cannot recall the name. It was amazing. It wasn't Eggplant Bartha. 

I've tried a ton of other vegan/vegetarian dishes, I'll report back as soon as I remember them.

And I've absolutely fallen in love with Indian food and I haven't even scratched the surface of all that it has to offer.

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Great thread!

-Uni udon - first time I had Japanese noodles with cream sauce! Delicious
-Chinese dry pot, tried beef intestines. Probably my fave offal
-Taiwanese hot pot
-apricot 
-Vietnamese carmelized short ribs, I usually order pho at restaurants and it’s the first time i tried a clay pot dish
-just got into tea lately! Jasmine and earl grey 
-tteokbboki 
Korean rice cakes
-Texan BBQ

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New dishes/signature dishes that kind of stuck out.
Went to the Walt Disney World with the kids/grandkids.
Tonga Toast
Naan bread service

Traveling back home
Scrapple which I enjoyed.
An Italian Sandwich at Big Al's Italian in Chicago

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For me, it's been the year of South Asian food - mainly Mumbai street food and Gujarati vegetarian dishes. These are the sort of restaurants opening up near me. Indian restaurants, owned by Indians - not the westernised food of the Bangladeshi "curry houses".

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I’ll play. 

I tried eggplant - have disliked the mushy texture since childhood. Well, I still don’t like it. But I had promised myself I would give it a shot this year, so I did.

In terms of cuisines - nothing new eaten out, but that’s mostly an abundance-of-riches situation in nyc. 

New restaurant dishes: whole fried fish sauced with larb dressing that was fantastic, paper-thin zucchini chips at a Greek restaurant that were addictive, and a duck pot pie in Montreal that was very rich but wonderful. 

At home: I learned to cook Vietnamese restaurant dishes courtesy COTM Vietnamese Food Any Day - many things I would never have attempted otherwise - lemongrass marinated grilled pork chops were my favorite new home dish. 

Baking - new-to-me dish: I went on an olive oil cake spree recently to find a repeatable recipe - fun for me, and for the recipients :)

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Halo Halo at Eating House 1849 in Waikiki

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Impossible Burger & Beyond Burger
PLEASE do NOT serve either of these to your vegan/vegetarian guests without warning them in advance #StillScarred

Vegan version of this dish:
https://www.vickypham.com/blog/vietnamese-fermented-fish-seafood-vermicelli-soup-recipe-bun-mam

Vegan "haggis"
Yes, it was as amusing as you picture :P At least no impossible/beyond burger trauma was involved!

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samosas
praat with fenugreek dressing
bibimbap (meh)
erdapfulpuffer (from a food stand in Vienna; similar to potato pancake but very thin and crisp)

Seeing the post in Food Media regarding fraudulent labeling of extra virgin olive oil reminded me I recently had a taste of the real thing. The bottle should have a date on it and the oil should have a slightly peppery bite.

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Peinirli, Greek Pontian cheese pie

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Poutine is the most memorable that I remember the name of, when visiting upstate New York. We enjoyed trying it, and curds are showing up in supermarkets down south now, but next time will no doubt be someday, when the urge hits while visiting again. 

New dishes that have come home with me include namuru/namul, sides of blanched and still crunchy veggies dressed with salt, sesame, garlic, that sort of thing. So fast and easy, and so good. Made me finally start sprouting my own beans to have the beans still whole. And similarly, "cold noodle" dishes, another very light and fast meal from whatever's in the fridge, including leftover namuru, perfect especially for summer when the air in Georgia feels like cream soup.

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Sabich. Love it. Wish more places served it in Toronto.

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Your mention of loco moco reminded me that my wonderful in-laws gifted us this spring with a Maui trip they didn't want to take. First time I'd been there and loved trying different foods, and really loved everything about Maui - told my wife we'd retire there, until I got a gander at housing prices... 

Anyway, I loved the loco moco (or Slappy Cakes' version of it) and found it a really great breakfast, although probably enough calories for breakfast and lunch.

I also really liked the grilled spam musubi we found at another nearby restaurant. I'd run over and grab a couple in the mornings to just eat as snacks while we were hiking or whatnot. 

And I remember that I really liked every "mixed plate" meal I ate while we were there, but sadly don't remember what any of them were called.

Other than that trip, I don't recall that I've eaten anything this year I haven't eaten previously. That said, in the past year I've cooked for the first time many Indian, Malaysian, Thai dishes that we'd eaten before here or there, but I'd never tried cooking until fairly recently.

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Marionberries - pure magic!
Patacon - also delicious
Za'atar - the special blend made by the proprietress of a local Syrian grocery. Now I buy it by the large bagful.

Great thread!

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For me, it was the house made rotisserie spam prepared at a new playful retro-esque diner called Eugene's in Port Chester, New York. I have had it out of a can years ago, but this fresh version was very good...www.eugenesdiner.com

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Boba Tea 
Rote Beete Salat - German Beet Salad
Hummingbird Cake - Made it using a recipe
Vegan dishes including Seitan and cashew cheese
Morcilla - while I've had this before this was a fusion take on blood sausage in a dish It was tasty
Grouper Cheeks
Smoked Mullet Fish Dip 
Bread and Butter Sweet Pickles - Revisted hated them as a little kid. Like them now but prefer dill 

Nothing too crazy this year. I do want to try iguana though.

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Japanese breakfast 
2 new kinds of shellfish
Royal Milk Tea
Kakiage Udon

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I made corn pudding /corn casserole for the first time tonight.

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While it was not totally new to my palate, it had been years since I enjoyed a plate of beautifully herbed filet mignon steak tartare at a favorite local steakhouse. Served with buttered toast points, it was a deja vu experience...www.macelleriaitaliansteakhouse.com 
Last time I had it was at Sardi's in the theater district of Manhattan.
On another level, the first time I tasted Cape Cod potato chips, I was hooked...

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This year, I’ve been making more Asian foods at home.

I’ve tried different Vietnamese toast chickens https://www.seriouseats.com/vietnamese-style-baked-chicken-recipe


These fried noodles. I make this with rice vermicelli as well as udon .https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/better-than-takeout-stir-fried-udon/amp



This Crab Fried Rice

https://thewoksoflife.com/crab-fried-rice/

I made Cranachan for Robbie Burns Day.

I made a Ash Reshteh, a special Persian garbanzo and noodle soup, for Persian New Year. https://www.thedeliciouscrescent.com/persian-noodle-soup-with-beans-and-herbs/

I’ve been making a lot of baked beans recipes from scratch, soaking local beans. 

I made gluten-free Snickerdoodles, first time to make gluten-free cookies.

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Morkovcha, Russian Korean carrot salad
https://petersfoodadventures.com/carrot-salad/

Olivier- aka Russian Salad, with potatoes , carrots, peas , mayo, and often pickles, capers- it’s a standard for Russian NYE and NYD.

Rosolli / Rosolje, a Finnish/ Estonian beet, apple and potato salad

https://www.notquitenigella.com/2021/06/11/rosolli-beetroot-salad-finnish

https://cookingwithalisa.com/rosolje-estonian-potato-beet-salad-estonia/

Omurice

Galbi Jjim https://mykoreankitchen.com/galbi-jjim-korean-braised-short-ribs/

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First time savouring this Spanish Conservas:
Char-grilled Razor Clams in EVOO. Sweet, chewy, tons of savory umami and amazing aroma! Soooo addictive!

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We liked this recipe and it would be nice for breakfast too. I've made something similar with farmer's cottage cheese but the crepes were thicker served with a raspberry syrup.
These ingredients were available at my regular grocery store so this is easily sourced.
I really want to try Nadia's Zucchini blossom recipe when in season.

https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/nadia-g/ricotta-crepes-with-raspberry-chile-coulis-and-chocolate-shavings-1960165

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Pain de Mie. It’s delicious. Mine is from a café that sells bread. Here’s a recipe. https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/pain-de-mie-recipe

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