What's a signature food only found in your area?

In the Tucson/AZ area, we have Sonoran hot dogs - Mexican style hot dogs wrapped in bacon, fried, topped in awesome stuff, and thrown in a light toasted bread.



I guess the influence is spreading to other areas, but it originated in Tucson and we have the best ones

 

I live in Columbus, Ohio so whatever is popular on the interwebs and food mags... :/ Need to get up to Cleveland for more Perogies!

 

Really lousy food is the hallmark where I live.

 

I hear that!

I can't think of anything that is only found here in middle Tennessee.

 

I went to school in Tucson a long time ago and, sadly, I never saw those,

 

the california burrito of course.

 

Grits a YaYa by chef Jim Shirley of The Fish House:

 

Rick I am not sure what I am looking at- but I know I must have one.

 

+1!

 

Had to do a quick search on that--described as A delectable Southern specialty of our smoked Gouda cheese grits smothered with a sauce of fresh cream, sauteed Gulf shrimp, spinach, portobello mushrooms, applewood-smoked bacon, garlic, and shallots."

Must. Have.

 

Chicken Fried Steak?

 

hmm maybe, but I think that's just a Southern thing - all of the South.

 

Rick I gotta have some of that too.

Food passaround?

 

Mountain oysters?

 

That's East Tennessee
Good one!

 

I miss a good mangrove snapper sandwich from Central Florida, but here in Washington I console myself with Nanaimo bars.

 

PA dutch food is not all that interestig but im sure given time i could find somethig interesting

 

Pizza Hawaii?

But seriously, we do have quite a bit out here, for example

Poke - raw, cubed fish (most often ahi = tuna) with different spices
Poi - taro root 'puree'
Lomi salmon - finely cubed salted salmon with tomatoes and onions
Kalua pig - originally cooked in the imu (=earth oven)
Pipikaula - like a local jerky variety

And, of course,

Spam musubi - spam between 2 layers of rice, wrapped in nori

Stefan

 

Yep, big fat +1 here. All wrapped up in douche and pretense thanks to the overabundance of culinary school students/interns/grads...............
......might as well be a food desert.

 

Um... Ba-wan maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba-wan

I'm a big fan of Gua-bao...
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/割包