I think it would be fair to say that in most British towns it's easy to get Chinese, Indian and Italian food, whether in a restaurant or from a takeaway. Thai is probably catching them up, and maybe Spanish (in the form of tapas). But which less frequently found 'foreign' cuisines do you eat regularly, or have you tried occasionally ?

Boshintang and Kimchi from Korea. Difficult to buy online you can't read Hanji, but I get a lot of it delivered every month and it's delicious.

Tried Persian/Middle Eastern food on the Edgeware Road once.
Had these little sausage type things, spicy and sitting in a lemon flavour oil. Were tasty.

Quite a few Turkish restaurants around. They sometimes have a barbecue / fire pit thing in the restaurant where they cook all their meat.

Quite healthy and delicious. Probably my favourite foreign food. Well actually it's a toss up between that and thai. Depends what kind of mood I'm in.

Japanese

We had a Japanese restaurant, which also had a Teppanyaki section, but it closed down.

We also have a couple of Greek/Cypriot restaurants but they tend to be general mediterranean.


Are you lumping Thai in with Chinese? Several of the Chinese restaurants and takeaways have a Thai section.

There is a dedicated Thai takeaway but it does have some Chinese meals also.

There is a Nepalese near me, also a Moroccan/Lebanese place in town.

Loads of Japanese in central London......I can think of 5 within a couple of hundred yards of my flat.

But I've never tried them......

I should really......I suppose it's just that thing of not knowing what to ask for.....

Turkish, Thai, Mexican, Japanese...

There was a wonderful Turkish restaurant in Dundee, I used to love going there. I really miss it!

I've been to a Greek restaurant here in Nottingham. Had the mese(?). Never had Greek food before, was lovely.

There's a distinct lack of good Spanish tapas places around the UK, although London is probably an expection.

Too many 'tapas bars' are too quick to peddle the usual chorizo, patatas bravas and albondigas.

My town (well its more of a very big village) has 1 chain Italian (ask) and 3 Indians no Chinese though

Eat a lot of Korean food. Deliciously spicy. There is a Korean supermarket about 7 or 8 miles from where I live, and I frequent it quite a lot.

Bit pedantic I know, but Hanji are the Chinese characters that are used less and less in Korean these days. The Korean alphabet that you are seeing online is actually called Hangul. (Studying Korean language for 2 and a half years).

Are you near New Malden?

Ah no, I live in Birmingham. 'Seoul Plaza' has a branch of it's franchise in Birmingham.

In my neck of the woods we've had a spate of Argentine-style steak houses and barbecue places opening.

My big three to eat out are Japanese, Indonesian and Vietnamese.

We have a tapas bar/restaurant and although my mates love it I keep telling them it's the equivalent of a chinese buffet restaurant - not the self serve ones but the ones where you order and the food is cooked / plated to order.
The food is nice enough but not much more than ready meal standard.

I'm very lucky as I live about a 10 minute walk from a massive street littered with bars and restaurants.

From the top of my head I can think of:

Chinese
Sushi
Vietnamese
Thai
Morrocan
Veggie noddle bar
Italian - several
Turkish - several
Tapas
Mexican
Argentine
Indian
French - several
General British Cuisine - Several

Not to mention the "gastro cafes" (very posh places that mainstream in lunches and early evening meals) and Gastro pubs

There is also an Ottelenghi plus your usual chanins (Pizza Express, Strada, Nando's, Gourmet Burger Co, Wagamama)

I used to be a big fan of the Vietnemese restaurant in Swansea. Unfortunately there's not one near me where I live now.

There are Mexican, Jamaican, Nepalese, french and thai in addition to the standard english/chinese/italian/indian.

and the problem with those dishes are? Have you actually been to a regular working mans tapas bar in spain that isn't in a tourist area?

Is that one that has a turn on?

Garuda on St Helens Road?

No it was out of town in Uplands I think. Although this was over 10 years ago now when I went to Uni so it may well not be there any more.

I tried mexican for the first time recently and its catapaulted to my top spot! Im not too keen on spice so i am restricted as to what i can enjoy but now ive found a few things, im hooked!