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New York has what they call "pizza."

Chicago has REAL "pizza" and ribs, too. I mean, the best on the planet! Italian beef and meatball sandwiches, too.

California has the best burritos I've ever had, and the Chinese food is the best, too.

Here in Vegas, it's all about cheap prime rib and all you can eat buffets.

In Hawaii, they have this stuff called Poke that's one of my favorite foods, period. I'm not a big fan of Poi tho.

Philadelphia has its cheesesteaks. With cheeze whiz and everything!

What is the food that Portland or the Pacific Northwest is best known for? I've never been there.
 
JFizzleRaider said:
Oregon is a state with AMAZING breweries
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Do they serve food at those places? In California, they have microbreweries where they make dozens of flavors of beer (raspberry even) and serve exotic food like buffalo steaks.
 
Minstrel said:
New York pizza rocks.
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This is pizza:
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New York has great cheese cake, and chinese food.

-Petey
 
I forgot to add that NY probably has some of the best delis around.

LA's Fairfax Ave. has awesome delis, too. And the Farmer's Market.
 
Chicago pizza kills NYC pizza!
 
Wild Steelhead and Venison, with Marionberry pie.
 
Are there, like, fast food venison places? Some famous restaurant that serves it?

I bet the steelhead is great.
 
Denny Crane said:
This is pizza:
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I love Chicago deep dish. I also love the huge slices of thin crust New York pizza.

California (and Oregon and Washington) tends to have top-quality cold water seafood...crab, lobster and various fish.
 
I guess good seafood is what I think of most as being Oregon food, but I don't know of any special way we have of making it like the NY and Chicago pizzas. As somebody else said, microbreweries is probably what we are best known for around here, but as far as food in them goes, they usually just have the standard bar food fare.
 
Minstrel said:
I love Chicago deep dish. I also love the huge slices of thin crust New York pizza.

California (and Oregon and Washington) tends to have top-quality cold water seafood...crab, lobster and various fish.
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Even when it comes to thin crust, chicago pizza wins. Here's one of the tastiest pizzas you'll ever try:
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I mentioned Poke earlier. In case you're wondering, it looks like this:

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That would be raw tuna in soy sauce with chopped onion and a little hot pepper. A twist on sushimi.

There's many different varieties of poke, including taco (octopus), lomi lomi salmon (which is like a salsa with diced smoked salmon), and kim chi shrimp. Many Hawaiians will buy a quart of it and chow for dinner. Others will buy a pint of a couple/three different kinds and have some of each (like sushi).
 
Denny Crane said:
New York has what they call "pizza."

Chicago has REAL "pizza" and ribs, too. I mean, the best on the planet! Italian beef and meatball sandwiches, too.

California has the best burritos I've ever had, and the Chinese food is the best, too.

Here in Vegas, it's all about cheap prime rib and all you can eat buffets.

In Hawaii, they have this stuff called Poke that's one of my favorite foods, period. I'm not a big fan of Poi tho.

Philadelphia has its cheesesteaks. With cheeze whiz and everything!

What is the food that Portland or the Pacific Northwest is best known for? I've never been there.
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Chinook Salmon
Dungeness Crab
Lots of fresh, locally produced ingredients
There is a lot of asian influence on many of portland's dishes

The stress is the quality of the ingredients, sourced locally.
 
MARIS61 said:
Fast, and food, are 2 words that should never share the same sentence.
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There was a place on Maui that had the most amazing fast food fish sandwiches. It was in a hole in the wall built onto a hardware store of all things. Hugely popular. They had a handful of tables outside to eat, but most people took it elsewhere. It was basically 100% carry out.
 
Xericx said:
Burgerville Cheeseburger w/ Extra Spread and a Fresh Strawberry Shake with Walla Walla Onion rings FTW!
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There ya go! That's the kind of thing I was asking about.
 
Xericx said:
Burgerville Cheeseburger w/ Extra Spread and a Fresh Strawberry Shake with Walla Walla Onion rings FTW!
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In-N-Out cheeseburger, animal style, and fries, animal style FTW.
 
Texas is known for its chilli.

(one obvious example I missed)
 
With Portland there is a lot of fusion food. A lot of restaurants popping up around town. Smoked salmon for me though. That and filberts (hazelnuts) those are very Portland. Anything in the rose family grows well here, blackberries we actually have two different kinds Himalayan (the ones you find everywhere) and Oregon (grow like wild roses, hard to find) , raspberries, salmon berries, black caps, the list is lost in the horizon. We also have a lot of wild huckleberries.

In the beverage department we are becoming internationally known for our wines. Portland also has the most microbreweries out of any city in the world. Cheers.
 
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