"世界必吃的美食"

來一趟英國、中國和墨西哥的美食之旅。

他們說你吃甚麼就是甚麼，而文化至少有很大一部分是以菜餚來定義的。要深度拜訪以及體驗一個文化，你必須嘗試當地的菜餚，在世界各地一定要吃的美食大異其趣。在英國，當地傳統的食物以覆滿澱粉和油脂聞名，肉以及馬鈴薯派加上一份油炸的薯條（厚切薯條），你一定要吃了才相信。

香脆的北京烤鴨現在聞名全球，令人不可思議的是第一家專門賣烤鴨的餐廳，在六百年後的今天還在營業。這家餐廳每天都要花好幾天處理鴨子，以確定牠們的皮酥脆無比。北京現在有很多這樣的餐廳，最大的一間有七層樓高，一天可以供應五千道菜餚。

最後來到墨西哥，這裡的國民美食其實是一種叫mole的醬料。味道豐富、烤得焦黃的餅皮經常和雞肉一起搭配食用，一般裡面至少由20種原料組成—有時候還更多。顯然這道菜是由一群窮修女要作菜給大主教吃的時候所發明的。這群女士混合了辣椒、巧克力、堅果、麵包以及她們能找到的所有東西。大主教吃了之後就愛上了，墨西哥人從那時候就開始吃這種食物直到現在。

(Travel) The Worlds Must-Eat Foods

A culinary tour of England, China, and Mexico

They say you are what you eat, and certainly cultures are defined, at least in part, by their cuisines. To visit and experience a culture properly, you have to try the local dishes, and around the world, the must-eat foods are very different. In England, where traditional foods are known to be laden with carbohydrates and fat, a meat and potato pie with a portion of deep-fried chips (thick-cut fries) has to be consumed to be believed.

Crispy Peking Duck is now famous around the world, and incredibly, the very first restaurant to specialize in the dish is still running after almost 600 years. The restaurant spends several days working with each duck to make sure the skin is extremely crispy. Beijing has a lot of these restaurants now, though, and the largest is 7 stories high and can serve 5,000 dishes a day.

Finally in Mexico, the national dish is actually a sauce called mole. The rich, brown paste is usually served over chicken, and it will generally consist of at least 20 ingredients V sometimes, there are many more. Apparently the dish was created when a group of poor nuns had to cook for an archbishop. The ladies mixed together chilies, chocolate, nuts, bread, and whatever else they could find. The archbishop loved it, and Mexican have been eating it ever since.

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