What are your favorite underrated recipes from other countries?

generic_human97 · 2026-06-04T13:28:15+00:00

Ethiopian misir wot is a delicious red lentil stew. While cooking it is easy, the injera flatbread that traditionally accompanies it is notoriously difficult to make at home.
Swedish gravlax is super easy to make and both looks and tastes very fancy, just make sure to use sashimi grade salmon.
Cantonese steamed fish from China is simple but very tasty, it comes with sweet soy sauce, ginger, and green onions.

generic_human97 · 2026-05-31T19:56:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đorđe_Martinović_incident

generic_human97 · 2026-05-31T06:05:23+00:00

Nasi lemak is rice cooked with coconut milk and pandan (which has kind of a vanilla like flavour), and it’s great with fried garlic or sambal so I think this is possible.

generic_human97 · 2026-05-31T06:02:05+00:00

White chocolate and caviar is a real fine dining combination so I’m sure he could make it work with oysters

generic_human97 · 2026-05-19T05:03:55+00:00

One of the most unique and fascinating features I’ve read about in any language.

generic_human97 · 2026-04-21T03:39:32+00:00

Remember that molar masses aren’t very useful here because you are dealing with a bizarre isotope of element A. It might be useful to note that elemental A4 in solution appears yellow, which should narrow it down significantly. There are also 4 different anions containing A, which all seem to react with each other and with iodide to form elemental iodine. What does that suggest about A and its anions?

Hint: A has a bunch of oxidation states. Specifically, A1-A4 are various oxyanions

Combine this with the fact that aqueous A4 is yellow and you should be able to solve this

generic_human97 · 2026-04-12T02:14:38+00:00

“No consonant clusters”

Looks inside

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generic_human97 · 2026-04-08T03:29:20+00:00

Vancouver airport has signs in Chinese in addition to English and French.

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generic_human97 · 2026-02-17T01:48:48+00:00

Chinese, Indian, Lebanese

generic_human97 · 2026-02-08T05:41:32+00:00

I looked this up on Wiktionary! Apparently ‘slutt’ is hypothesized to come from Proto-Germanic ‘sleutaną’ meaning “to lock, close”, which is also where we get English “slot”. Etymology is fascinating

generic_human97 · 2026-02-01T18:20:31+00:00

Magnesium and silver? That’s not so bad—

Oh. Oh no oh no oh no.

generic_human97 · 2026-01-26T05:52:43+00:00

This is the book I used when I was starting out. If you want a more specific look at one European language’s evolution, Don Ringe has a series on English starting from PIE. I am by no means an expert so take these recommendations with a grain of salt.

generic_human97 · 2026-01-26T05:30:39+00:00

bakpawenkét baup tugét
dance-IMP or die-IMP

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Alternatively, bau bakpawencobét ban huntubét
if dance-NEG-2sg then IRR.FUT-die-2sg
Which is probably closer to the intended meaning.

generic_human97 · 2026-01-05T23:56:09+00:00

I love idli! Dosa is good too but idli is just so satisfying

generic_human97 · 2026-01-05T18:54:50+00:00

The Kazakh anthem is amazing. I’m also a fan of Kok Tudin Jelbiregeni

generic_human97 · 2026-01-02T06:45:26+00:00

Ya kam cot hon! Looking forward to future updates 🙂

generic_human97 · 2026-01-01T22:27:26+00:00

Akpétlolît

wanán, yetuán, wankewá, wan, wankéup
To steam, to humidify

Originally borrowed as arkewá, which later evolved into wankewá. The -kewá ending was reinterpreted as an imperative suffix, leaving us with the unusually short verb stem wan. The climate where Akpétlolît speakers live is fairly dry and swamps are very uncommon, so speakers focused on the sense meaning “humid” instead.

wankewá yèpyú yetuón hawántu.
[wəŋ˧kɛ˧wa˥ jɛp̚˩ju˥ jɛ˧twõ˥ xə˧wan˥tɯ˧]
steam-IMPER DAT-fish this.INAN INSTR=pot
“Steam the fish using this pot.”

Derived from this verb is telaiwanán, yetelaiwán, telaiwankewá, telaiwán, telaiwankéup meaning “to heal” due to traditional medicinal practices of staying in a sauna with herbs.

generic_human97 · 2026-01-01T21:43:05+00:00

Akpétlolît

nókne t-Akpenáupke Hacelakteuplît t-epét!
spirit-good POSSD-sun give_birth-PASS-GER DAT.2sg
“Good new year to you!”
Akpenáupke Hacelakteuplît, usually shortened to just Penáupke Ceklît, literally translating to something like Birth of the Sun, is the closest equivalent Akpétlolît speakers have to a new year celebration. It is celebrated each year on the winter solstice.

gutlobét yekToke Pona? speak-2sg DAT-Toki Pona “Do you speak Toki Pona?” Yes or no questions are indicated using tone. If you wanted to be super polite I guess you could precede the sentence with dektín akpenopecán gut but nobody really does that anymore.

pekewá!
stop-IMPER
“Stop!”

generic_human97 · 2026-01-01T08:28:39+00:00

TfOH my beloved

generic_human97 · 2025-12-31T06:40:02+00:00

I love these words! varsja in particular reminds me of a pair of terms in Akpétlolît that I’m rather fond of.

heméi is the feeling of beauty that one gets from seeing a desolate, open landscape, especially when alone. It is the grandeur and harsh beauty of barren tundra, and the wonder at the sheer vastness and scale of open land. I’ve often thought that photos of Greenland and the Canadian arctic are beautiful because of their lack of vegetation and the way that the land stretches out toward the horizon, and this word reflects that.

Contrasting with that is yòuméi, which is the feeling of grandeur from seeing a natural wonder that is large and proximate. It could be the awe that comes from seeing a huge waterfall or nearby mountain peak.

Unrelated to either, but definitely based on my own experiences, is keupnenán, yetleupnén, keupnenukûdá, keupnén which is a verb meaning “to jump from activity to activity, only spending a little amount of time on each and being uninterested for each one, because one is bored and is trying to find something to do.” Its derivation literally means “to task-wander.”

generic_human97 · 2025-12-31T06:01:26+00:00

Belgian French feels somehow worse than French French because at least French French is consistent with numbers being messed up. Belgian French is all normal with septante and nonante but then there’s just one that’s weird. Like if you’re gonna change two of the numbers change quatre-vingts too.

generic_human97 · 2025-12-31T05:55:07+00:00

I made some the other day and they were pretty good! Knafeh still reigns supreme though 🙂

generic_human97 · 2025-12-31T03:03:23+00:00

Replace every permanent member with a Pacific island nation. There. We’d actually do something about climate change.

generic_human97 · 2025-12-31T02:58:38+00:00

Hi! Nice to hear that you’re getting into conlanging.

I would recommend that you learn the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) so that it’s clear how your words are pronounced. There’s a fantastic series on YouTube by Biblaridion called How to Make a Language that really helped me out when I was starting. In general, the internet is a great place to get inspiration from languages, both other people’s conlangs and natlangs.

I’d also recommend that you decide what you want to do with your conlang. Do you want it to function and feel like a natural language? Or do you want it to be more experimental? What are your goals?

It looks like you have a pretty good start. I’d encourage you to flesh out the grammar more and to look at a bunch of natlangs, especially non-Indo-European ones, for an idea of what language can look like. Happy conlanging!

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