Do you know these food terms?
Menus with complicated terms are incredibly exhausting. For example, do you know what okonomiyaki is? More than seventy percent of restaurant diners from this American study don’t. We’ve listed the top 10 most complicated terms for you.
One-third of the restaurant diners surveyed find menus far too complicated. They also feel that incomprehensible words negatively affect their dining experience. The researchers compiled a top 10 of the words people understand the least and immediately explained what they actually are:
1. Okonomiyaki: savory Japanese pancake
2. Gochujang: Korean chili paste
3. Piri piri: chili pepper commonly used in Portuguese and South African sauces
4. Yuzu: sour yellow citrus fruit widely used in Japanese and Korean cuisine
5. Bibimbap: Korean rice dish with vegetables, beef, and egg
6. Gougere: savory cheese puffs
7. Guanciale: pork jowl
8. Shiso: a Japanese, mint-like plant
9. In brodo: Italian for ‘with broth’, referring to the dish tortellini in brodo
10. Ballotine: stuffed poultry
For those who want to explore further, there’s an online food dictionary where you can find all the difficult terms. So the next time you’re in a restaurant and don’t understand the menu, you’ll know exactly where to go for an explanation.
Image: Saskia Lelieveld, gougere from The Bible of French Cuisine
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