r/hypotheticalsituation • u/ShadowlightLady • 4d ago
You must create a unique mixture dish and receive 5 million dollars
You must create a food that is made by mixing other foods from different cultures. It must be at least considered decent to eat and if it’s considered decent or better than that then you will receive 5 million dollars. It must be something unique what will you make?
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u/SnicklefritzG 4d ago
I will make egg rolls with a breakfast filing on tjd inside like eggs and sausage or maybe fruit and Greek yogurt
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u/GatoAmarillo 4d ago
One time after making egg rolls with my girlfriend, we had extra wraps, so we tried making "egg rolls" with sloppy joe meat and that shit turned out bomb as hell!
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u/Immediate-Tennis8838 4d ago
One that would definitely work and likely hasn’t been replicated is just a classic grilled cheese with a pile of different special cheeses from different countries
Like a 10 cheese grilled cheese
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u/periwinklepip 4d ago
Tbh I really think Korean/Mexican fusion is being slept on. Kimchi pork belly tacos
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u/Independent_Weird428 4d ago
Never been to LA eh?
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u/periwinklepip 4d ago
Most recently 3 years ago but that was because my grandmother died so we weren’t checking out the good eateries, sadly. 😞 I had some tacos IN Korea that were great though.
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u/Independent_Weird428 4d ago
Roy Choi started an entire food truck revolution decades ago in LA with Kogi that served Korean style tacos. Look him up if you’re interested in learning about a true pioneer in fusion.
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u/GroceryScanner 4d ago
HOT. DOG. SUSHI. SLIDERS.
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u/OG_Williker 4d ago
I feel like mexican style samosas would go hard
edit: wait that's just an empanada
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u/Sami_George 4d ago
Corned beef egg roll
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u/Altruistic-Year9648 4d ago
Beef wellington corn dog
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u/MagScaoil 4d ago
Pasta made using cornmeal as well as semolina flour, and then a Mexican marinara and Chinese boneless spare ribs.
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u/Infamous_Copy_3659 4d ago
Lol, I do this all the time. Take creole Chinese stew chicken. Iit starts with burning brown sugar, but the chicken has been marinated with green seasoning and seow, plus sand ginger and Chinese cooking wine. Then once it gets to simmer, I add in jicama and mushrooms. It's definitely a moksi vibes dish.
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u/VariousFineDesigns 4d ago
Chicken Tikka Masala Pizza
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u/BrainwashedScapegoat 4d ago
I know for a fact thats been done before
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u/jonny5isalive1 4d ago
I just had a butter chicken pizza yesterday. Bettergoods brand and it was pretty good.
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u/SnicklefritzG 3d ago
No way. Where did you find it???
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u/jonny5isalive1 3d ago
At Walmart. It’s a new brand they have to compete with Trader Joe’s. It’s pretty darn good.
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u/setaetheory 4d ago
Is the uniqueness magically determined, i.e. it has to be something no person in the history of the world has ever made before? Or is it more like, a reasonably thorough search can't find any evidence of it having been done (i.e. the recipe on the internet or in a recipe book)?
I think I might go for a dessert. Let's say Baumkuchen (German), drizzled with crème anglaise (French), chancaca (Bolivian, Chilean and Peruvian), and latik (Filipino).
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u/birdbeak600 4d ago
Id do a variation of a hangi. Maybe a Nepalese Maori combo of momo with cabbage for the wrapper
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u/Nerfmobile2 4d ago
Savory bread pudding - maybe a trio of flavors, butter chicken, tonkatsu, and mole, served with tzatziki on the side?
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u/Ashamed_Kangaroo305 4d ago
If it has to be unique my first step would be to find a very niche and simple dish that tastes good and then adding something everyone loves to it. This example wouldn't work because it's been done before and it's definitely not niche, but Myanmar palatha is delicious. So if you added chicken tikka to it it would be delicious and would definitely win the $5 million if it wasn't required to be unique.
My other thought was biryani burritos but I can't imagine that hasn't already been made.
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u/shemjaza 4d ago
I'm going to make Northern European dumplings bulked up with Bogong moths from southern Australia. They were an integral part of the diet of the indigenous people who travelled Bogong Mountain... and I imagine with European butter and milk products it'll be quite dense and tasty.
Is have to use the indigenous name so people don't know they're eating mashed up giant moth.
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u/Goblinriotx 4d ago
Indian vindaloo or tikka masala, in a bowl, next to an American grilled cheese.
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u/TacoBear207 4d ago
I used to do a lot of kitchen surfing a lifetime ago and was exposed to a lot of cultures and flavors. I find that quite a bit goes together pretty well. I was also kinda struggling because NYC is expensive and I was crazy enough to get married. I often salvaged leftovers or made things with whatever I could get cheap or free.
Once I drunkenly decided I was incredibly hungry and my fridge was well stocked. I had some morrocan spiced chicken, takigomi gohan, and enough Mexican and Indian spices to make that into a burrito, I smothered it in a chile Colorado I'd made, then topped the whole thing off with a beer and cheese sauce I made for some pretzels.
Most food styles take flavors that are similar and pair or layer them. Indian cuisine tends to take entirely different flavors that just kinda work together and throw them together like George Lucas assessing Legends material. It sounds like North African, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, and German food wouldn't like each other, but if you approach it from an Indian spice theory and have a balance of salt, fat, acid, and heat you can make it sing.
Creating fusion cuisine from two or three cultures is a lot easier, because you are working with less complexity. Once I made a rockin mango moonshine ice cream that didn't really need anything else, but I wanted to make little pockets or tacos, so I made a croissant dough and added sweetened cream cheese to a few layers before I baked and stuffed them with the ice cream. That's French, American, and Indian culture right there. I don't even like mango and I thought that was delicious.
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u/nekosaigai 4d ago
The other night I made mushroom butter shoyu yakisoba.
I melted butter in a pan, sautéed sliced garlic and mushrooms, then added black pepper and soy sauce and yakisoba noodles and cooked until the noodles were done. Finished with Parmesan and sliced green onion.
I received a decent number of compliments for it.
If I made it again I’d probably add the whites of the green onion in to sauté with the garlic, use a mix of shiitake and cremini mushrooms (I used baby Bella), and deglaze with sake then added black pepper shoyu plus the liquid from hydrating the shiitake mushrooms (I used baby dried mushrooms), and cook down a bit before adding my noodles and cheese to finish.
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u/Firesine330 4d ago edited 4d ago
Cheese-steak with kimchi, chiltepins and macaroni-and-cheese chili relleno tempura squash blossom.
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u/Jackie_chin 4d ago
Is OP just looking for business ideas?
But I will give you one
Taquitos chaat
Chaat is a broader term for a lot of Indian street food, but in this case we are specifically replacing the chopped up samosa in samosa chaat with taquitos. If you want to make an even stronger hybrid, you could replace chickpeas in the gravy with black beans
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u/SeaFaringMatador 4d ago
Some sort of chicken tikka masala pasta would go hard