Pan-ethnic food combinations that would be really bad ideas

“Lutefisk sashimi”

CS? Game Room? Eh, let’s try CS for now.

There used to be a place in San Antonio that served both Mexican and Chinese food. No matter what you ordered you’d get chips and salsa to start and end with a forturne cookie.

The obvious one is German-Chinese food. An hour after you eat, you’re power hungry. :wink:

Kosher bacon

Hákarl ‘n’ Chips

“You will soon have diarrhea.”

I don’t personally see much of a market for the ultimate Madagascar/Hawaii experience - the fossa luau.

I read somewhere that Spam-sushi was a local dish on Hawaii, and something Obama loved as a kid

There used to be a restaurant in Pasadena called Thaitalian. I thought it could do some pretty amazing combo dishes, but instead they simply served mediocre thai and mediocre italian. They’re gone now, of course.

Spam musubi.

I’ve had Polish-Mexican once… It was an ‘interesting’ experience to say the least. I’ve seen a restaurant in London that billed itself as Polish-Indian fusion, but IIRC, was mediocre Polish, and didn’t have anything Indian on the menu. One I’ve seen work really badly was Indian-Scottish… Haggis pakora anyone?

I’ve been tempted to try to cook a Thanksgiving dinner using traditional North American ingredients (turkey, pumpkin, squash, potatoes, corn, cranberries etc) but Chinese cooking methods (stir fry, etc). You would be allowed to use Chinese seasonings like garlic, ginger, soy sauce etc.

I actually think it could be interesting.

Not exactly sushi, but close.

Durn, beaten by Aesiron.

Angua, you can’t just leave it at that. Can you describe this meal a little further, because my brain just can’t wrap itself around the concept.

Juan Epstein on Welcome Back, Kotter once brought to school a chopped liver burrito his mom had packed for lunch.

Which one? Polish-Mexican, Polish-Indian, or Indian-Scottish?

All of the above, actually.

Another one that I’ve experienced: Finnish pizza. <shudder>

A nitpick - kosher isn’t a ethnic food style, it’s a set of rules, like ‘do not mix meat and milk products,’ or ‘avoid shellfish’. I routinely turn out kosher food of various culinary traditions. Last night, we ate truffled risotto ala Milanese with a side of broccoli rabe, which I think is pretty non-fusion Italian (the truffle was my Chanuka present to my husband - we don’t normally eat quite that lux); other dinners within the last week or so have been Moroccan (spicy vegetable stew over couscous), Chinese (ma po tofu over rice, although you might see it as fusion because I replaced the ground pork with turkey), and vaguely pan-Mediterranean fusion (saffron-pimenton chicken with chestnut-tangerine bulgur and Roman-style broccoli). None of those was influenced by what you probably think of as ‘kosher’ as an ethnic food style, which I’d guess is the chicken soup-kugels-brisket variety, but they were all kosher. (Okay, there was chicken soup as a first course before the pimenton chicken.) ‘Kosher bacon’ is just a legal contradiction in terms, something along the lines of ‘consensual rape,’ not a food fusion.

Yes, yes, you can make kosher turkey bacon, beef bacon, etc., and I’ve eaten them myself, but I don’t think that was what OtakuLoki was going for.

You don’t even need the sashimi to make that disgusting.

OK. The Polish-Mexican was actually experienced in Krakow, it was billed as “Mexican” as opposed to any sort of fusion cuisine, but the easiest way to describe it would be Mexican influenced Polish food. We started with salsa and nacho chips, the nacho chips were actually quite decent, but the salsa seemed to be a slighty chunky tomato sauce with sour cream stirred into it, a la borscht. The main courses had a lot of cabbage and potatoes in them and were served with what my SO tells me is a rather traditional Polish salad, complete with potatoes… The phrase used by my SO (who’s currently working in CA) was “This is unlike any Mexican food I’ve ever had before…”

The Polish-Indian was a specifically billed place in North London (and now, unsurprisingly, no longer exists), and seemed to include, IIRC, amongst other things, curried kielbasa and was very heavy on the pork based dishes… I think there was a curry spiced borscht on the menu too but I can’t be sure, this was about 4 years ago and I tried to repress this memory!

The Scottish-Indian included haggis pakora, haggis samosas, curried neeps and tatties, and tandoori scallops… Interesting is probably the best word here.

Part of me is now curious to try the Jewish-Indian place in Krakow now, just to see what its like! :wink:

We went to a restaurant that was purportedly Mexican, but the sauce on the enchiladas was marinara. It was… not good.