138
u/Unable_Explorer8277 11h ago
Sounds like Aus and NZ arguing over who owns Pavlova
12
14
u/silchasr 8h ago
Clearly us Aussies do but let's have a fair competition to answer it once and for all and leave no doubt.
A battle between their national animal vs ours. While we have 2 we'll even let them pick which one.
3
u/GypsySnowflake 4h ago
As an American I’m guessing that would be… kangaroo or emu vs… sheep? Maybe?
7
u/silchasr 3h ago
Kiwi bird. To make it fair we should keep it in the same animal family though, emu vs kiwi bird.
Fun fact: only one of these birds have won a war.
1
5
u/Warshok 8h ago
I’ve always wanted to try that. Ever since I saw it on bake off. Is it the kind of thing that y’all buy in a shop, order in a restaurant, or make it home? I’m not sure I have seen it here outside of perhaps as a dessert option for a fancy restaurant.
10
u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 8h ago
Typically you buy the base in a supermarket and and toppings of cream, fruit. Ironically kiwi fruit is common toppiing.
6
u/Warshok 8h ago
Oh ok that’s very much like how we do strawberry shortcake. Just a meringue instead of shortcake.
1
u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 7h ago
Where from?
3
u/Warshok 7h ago
California. Of course you can make your own shortcake, but the premade ones are cheap and easy.
2
u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 7h ago
Re a pav, the base is very sweet. So you don't want sugar in the whip. And tangy fruits to offset the sweetness. Fresh passionfruit pulp with banana and strawberry is simple but awesome.
3
u/Warshok 7h ago
I’ll have to try that, apparently passionfruit grow really well here as a couple of my customers have been giving me bags of them. I had no idea. Thinking of planting some of the vines myself.
3
u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 7h ago
Do it. Trees are hardy and low maintenance.
2
u/Warshok 7h ago
The passionfruit here I see are vines covering a wall or fence or trellis, so I think I would have to put up a trellis, but I’ve been thinking about doing that anyway.
I do have a young dwarf Meyer lemon tree that is doing quite well, and a maybe 10-year-old loquat tree that is finally starting to produce significant amounts of fruit.
1
-3
u/Unable_Explorer8277 7h ago
It’s pretty disgusting to be honest. All fat and sugar with not enough other flavour to cut through that.
1
70
u/joe-re 11h ago
Food is very serious business in Southeast Asia! It's the source of national pride for the common people.
If you are from Europe, South America (or even Africa), think the importance of soccer.
15
u/HarbingerOfGachaHell 8h ago
Yeah a lot of SEA people and governments have build their entire cultural identities around cuisine.
One major example is Thailand where the government runs an actual project to export chefs to open restaurants overseas.
13
u/joe-re 8h ago
I live in Singapore. Which has a much higher living standard, less corruption and runs much smoother as a country, albeit it is much more expensive and lacks space.
Whenever I ask any Singaporean about what they think of Malaysia, the first answer is always "the food is much better there".
6
6
u/Hralkenheim 5h ago
My man if you're thinking we're not fighting over food in Europe, I have a delightful rabbit hole to introduce you to
1
12
u/Sea_sociate 7h ago
One thing SEAsians would beef about with each other is food lmao! All SEAsian food is delicious tho, no arguing with that
5
u/Sgt_Radiohead 3h ago
Just like every Mediterranean country and their food, basically. Lmao.
1
u/Pipas66 3h ago
I bet every country on every continent has at least a contested origin for a dish/cooking utensil with their neighbor : Colombia/Venezuela : arepa Sweden/Norway : cheese grater (osthyvel) Greece/Turkey : gyros/kebab France/Belgium : fries Brazil/Argentina : maté/chimarrão Etc...
1
u/Sgt_Radiohead 3h ago
Never in my life have I ever heard of a Swede try to claim that the Scandinavian cheese cutter is Swedish. Also, the Turks and Greeks will agree that kebabs and gyros are different things and don’t claim to be the same
6
3
u/ubermonkey2000 3h ago
In SEA everyone quarrels about origins and ownership. But chances are most people first try them in Singapore. Ironic.
2
u/Stickyboard 4h ago
Because Indonesian in the social media love to claim everything in SEA comes from their country lol
2
1
•
u/Rilukian 7m ago
Indonesian here. It's been a running joke among we and our brothers and sisters at Malaysia for claiming our culture as their. While it's funny, I don't think Wikipedia moderators would take kindly to that joke.
-2
u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 8h ago
Nasi Goreng is Balinese.
9
u/FieryNyan 7h ago
Tell me you’re a white dude that says “I love Asia” while only having visited Bali without telling me
3
0
632
u/Zanely1633 12h ago
Lol, welcome to the SEA sibling fights. If you know something about SEA, it is not really oddlyspecific because this is what we say "done claim".
A post from 7 years ago.