Mexican National Cuisine: Corn Banquet
The main food for Mexican is corn, and therefore their national banquet includes dishes of delicious maize. “Thorltia” is a kind of corn pancake that baked in the pan, which is as sweet, crispy and tasty as the spring rolls in China, and especially the pancakes made by green corn are the most delicious ones. “Dacko" is a kind of fried corn rolls that filled with shredded chicken, salad, onion and chili hot pepper; the top grade “Dacko” is filled with locusts. “Damarace” is kind of corn pyramid-shaped dumplings wrapped up by maize leaves and stuffed with chicken, pork and nuts, green vegetables, and the flavor of meat and scent of underdone leaves made people still enjoy the wonderful appetite in their month and heartafter eating them. “Penso” is a type of fresh soup that is boiled with corn grains and some fish and meat. The whole corn banquet includes bread, biscuit, ice-cream, candy, wine that are all made by maize as the main resource, which really broadens people’s horizon.
German National Cuisine: Sausage, Ham
Germany is a nation that is famous for their life style of “eating pork bulkily and drinking beer heavily”. The annual German pork consumption per person is 65 kilograms, which ranks the first place in the whole world. Since the German people have a favor for pork, most Germany cuisines are pork products. The most famous food in German is red sausage, sausage and ham. There are at least more than 1500 kinds of sausages they make, of which are pork products. The most famous one is called “Schwarzald Ham”, which is marketed to different areas in the world, and can be sliced as slight as a piece of paper, and has an incomparable delicious scent. The German national cuisine is sour cabbage that spread with various sausages and hams; and sometimes it takes a whole porcine hind-leg instead the sausages and hams. The German people could have the thoroughly-cooked porcine hind-leg calmly and unhurriedly.
Ugandan National Cuisine: Banana Rice
The African Ugandan always serve their guests with bananas. After guests coming in a house, they are served by a cup of delicious banana juice, and then some banana pastries that roasted to yellow. Their main food is a type of banana rice called “Matoki”, which is made by a kind of non-sweet banana variety as the raw material, and then peels off the banana skins and smashes to mud, and mixes red-beam juice, peanut butt, braising chicken, curry beef after steaming. People whoever have had “Matoki” praise it as the “the most delicious rice in the world” universally, and therefore it becomes the Ugandan national cuisine. The national drink of Uganda is fermented and engendered with banana and sorghum, which is sweet and mellow. When having a banquet, it puts the wine jar on the table, which inserts a one-meter grass pipe above the top of the jar so that guests and hosts could suck the pipe and inhale the wine directly.
Japanese National Cuisine: Sashimi
Japanese call themselves “wholly fishing-eating nation”. The fish catch size of Japan ranks first in the world, however they still import large quantity of fishes and shrimps, and one person could have more than 100 kilos of fishes per year, which has exceeded the rice consumption. There are several ways to eat fishes, such as have them raw, cooked and dried, bloated and so forth, among which the sashimi is the most rare one. It is the highest etiquette to serve sashimi in national banquet or normal stand treat. The Japanese people call raw fillets “Sashimi”. When having banquets, the hosts assure you see a vat of fresh fishes, and dredge them and kill them right after that, and scale off them and remove fish bones, and then cut them into transparent slices like pieces of paper, when serving into the table, dipping with condiments and chewing delicately, the taste is so wonderful that can not be described by words. Foreigners who do not eat sashimi usually want to have a second try after having the first one.
Brazilian National Cuisine: Roast Beef
Roast beef is one of national cuisines when serving high-class guests in Brazil, and is one of the most popular dishes among ordinary people at the same time. When roasting beef, only adds a little bit salt on the surface of beef that makes the surface fat seeping with yellow outside and fresh inside, which makes them have a special smell. The parts of a cattle can be roasted are thigh, front and back rumps, peak, steak, T-bone and other sections, each of which has different color and different style. Waiters can cut any part you want and bring to your plate. Before holding the national cuisines, there are several roast “appetizers”: roast sausage, roast chicken blood, roast drumstick, roast pork spinal, roast pork chop… Guests would better to not have too much of these dishes, and not full of their stomachs, since these are only “supporting roles in this banquet”, and roast beef is the real “stars”. All the experienced guests wait to have a big meal till the appetizing roast beef coming out.
Danish National Cuisine: the Devil Sun
The Danish people like egg cakes and desserts, and they have made Danish butter biscuit that is fashionable in the world. It is cold in Denmark, hence the land is a natural freezer that could assure the meat is fresh enough and could be eat the raw fresh. The most famous national cuisine in Denmark is fresh beef that is chopped as smash mud, on which put a raw egg yolk, and eaten mouth by mouth after rolling them by a spoon. This is “the Devil Sun”, and some people who have weak spleens and stomachs may puke for three days when seeing this dish; however the Danish people take it as a great delicacy.