附魔宝珠:全球最美味的50种食物（双语）

全球最美味的50种食物（双语）

CNNGo搜罗全球各地食品，经精挑细选后得出最后50强，让网民选出各自心目中至爱。排名50到30名的美食分别是：爆米花、印度玛莎拉烩饭、薯片、西班牙海鲜饭、泰国青木瓜沙拉、新加坡鸡饭、肉汁起司薯条、墨西哥炸玉米饼、英国酸味奶油吐司、东南亚的臭豆腐德、德国杏仁膏、美国番茄酱、香港西多士、澳洲番茄奶酪鸡排、美国德州烤猪肉、新加坡辣椒螃蟹、加拿大枫糖浆、英国炸鱼薯条、日本安康鱼肝。

CNNGo指出，排首位的泰国马沙文咖喱把辛辣、香甜等味道融为一体，“比泰国选举更有特色”，就算是从超市购买的马沙文咖喱，也能炮制出“米芝莲”餐厅美食的滋味。

北京烤鸭吸引食家的秘密，则是其甜美而光泽鲜明的脆皮，用薄饼皮夹着来吃，配以葱段和海鲜酱或甜酱，令人爱不释口。

对于香港人常吃的蛋挞，CNNGo指它把软滑蛋浆和松脆挞皮两种截然不同的质料，糅合得天衣无缝，并建议蛋挞最好趁热食，一啖咬落甜上心头，再三回味。同样榜上有名的港式西多士，是茶餐厅下午茶必然选择，但CNNGo认为西多士卡路里偏高，不宜多食。

日本寿司则排第4，被CNNGo形容为“最美丽食物”，指它虽然成分简单，只有鱼和米饭，但两者巧妙地结合在一起，成为情侣首次约会的最佳菜式。另一引人注目的是排第45位的新加坡海南鸡饭，新鲜嫩滑的鸡肉，加上香味十足的油饭，佐以豉油和姜蓉，食过耐人寻味。

韩国料理一个都没有入选。韩国的《国民日报》报道：“亚洲有19种食物入选，却没有泡菜，烤肉等韩国代表性食物”。 韩国人普遍感到屈辱，整体舆论都是“无法接受”。

接下来我们来看看前20美食详细的英文介绍吧。

20. Arepas, Venezuela 委内瑞拉夹肉饼

A corn-dough patty that provides a savory canvas onto which you can paint any number of delicious toppings: cheese, shredded chicken, crisped pork skin, perico, beef, tomato, avocado … it’s the most beautiful thing to come out of Venezuela since all those Miss Universe winners.

19. Nam tok moo, Thailand 委内瑞拉 夹肉饼

Grilled pork combined with lemon juice, green onions, chili, mint sprigs, fish sauce and toasted rice. Legend has it the blood from the meat along with the dressing inspired some happy carnivore to name this brilliant dish “waterfall (nam tok moo) meat.”

18. Kebab, Iran 伊朗 土耳其式烤肉

For keeping starvation at bay for the entire student population of the United Kingdom, the doner kebab should clearly be honored. But they are hardly the delicious prototype worthy of representing a region.

For that, summon the shish kebab. Pick your meat, shove a stick through it, grill. Then wonder why you don’t eat like this every day.

18. It's as if sunny Sunday afternoons were created just for shish sizzlers.

17. Lobster, global 龙虾

17. If you were on a million menus you'd have big claws too.

Forget all your fancy, contrived lobster dishes deployed by showoff chefs eager for Michelin endorsement. When you have something as naturally delicious as these little fellas, keep it simple. The best way to enjoy lobster is simply to boil it and serve with a side of melted butter and slice of lemon.

16. Egg tart, Hong Kong 香港 蛋挞

Like many classic dishes, the Hong Kong egg tart marries two contrasting textures: crusty, flaky pastry and jiggly, trembling custard. It’s sweet, it’s delicious and it’s best eaten hot from the oven on the street while queuing up to get just one more.

15. Kalua pig, United States 美国 卡鲁阿烤猪

Only commercially available in Hawaii, the kalua preparation turns a meal into an epic event, with a whole pig roasted in an underground sand pit for six or seven hours.

But it’s not just for show. Smashed banana tree trunks, sea salt and shredded (never sliced) meat means this smoky, aromatic piece of pig will linger long on your tongue and even longer in your memory.

14. Donuts, United States 美国甜甜圈

14. Yeh, you'll get fat, but you'll have a great time doing so.

These all-American fried wheels of dough need no introduction, but we will say one thing: the delicious guilt of snacking on these addictive calorie bombs makes them taste even better. If that’s possible.

13. Corn on the cob, global 煮玉米棒

God probably created corn just to have an excuse to invent melted butter. There’s something about biting down on a cob of corn -- it’s a delicate enough operation to require concentration but primal enough to make you feel like the caveman you always wanted to be. Great food is caveman food.

12. Shepherd’s pie, Britain 英国 肉馅薯饼

12. Good food day and night, shepherd's delight?

Some might say England’s greatest inventions were the steam engine and the Jaguar E-Type. We like to think shepherd’s pie -- minced lamb topped with mashed potato -- comes somewhere in that list.

Tastes best at the end of a gloomy, rainy day with an open fire licking at the chimney breast and Ricky Gervais insulting people on the telly. Which is lucky, as that’s what most days are like in England. 

11. Rendang, Indonesia 印尼 巴东牛肉

11. Don't judge an awesome food by its dour appearance.

Beef is slowly simmered with coconut milk and a mixture of lemongrass, galangal, garlic, turmeric, ginger and chilies, then left to stew for a few hours to create this dish of tender, flavorful bovine goodness.

Tasting it fresh out of the kitchen will send your stomach into overdrive, but many people think it gets even better when left overnight.

10. Chicken muamba, Gabon 加蓬 鸡肉曼巴

A bastardized Western version of this delectable Gabonese dish swamps everything in peanut butter. Oh, the insanity. The proper recipe calls for chicken, hot chili, garlic, tomato, pepper, salt, okra and palm butter, an artery-clogging African butter that will force you into a second helping and a promise to start using your gym membership.

9. Ice cream, United States 美国 冰淇淋

9. Who put that stinking fruit in there?

You may have just gorged yourself to eruption point, but somehow there’s always room for a tooth-rotting, U.S.-style pile of ice cream with nuts, marshmallows and chocolate sauce.

Thank God for extra long spoons that allow you get at the real weight-gain stuff all mixed up and melted at the bottom of the glass.  

8. Tom yum goong, Thailand 泰国 冬荫功汤

This Thai masterpiece teems with shrimp, mushrooms, tomatoes, lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime leaves. Usually loaded with coconut milk and cream, the hearty soup unifies a host of favorite Thai tastes: sour, salty, spicy and sweet. Best of all is the price: cheap.

7. Penang assam laksa, Malaysia 马来西亚 槟城亚三叻沙

Poached, flaked mackerel, tamarind, chili, mint, lemongrass, onion, pineapple … one of Malaysia’s most popular dishes is an addictive spicy-sour fish broth with noodles (especially great when fused with ginger), that’ll have your nose running before the spoon even hits your lips.

6. Hamburger, Germany 德国 汉堡包

6. The best cows come minced and in a bun.

When something tastes so good that people spend US$20 billion each year in a single restaurant chain devoted to it, you know it has to fit into this list. McDonald’s may not offer the best burgers, but that’s the point -- it doesn’t have to.

The bread-meat-salad combination is so good that entire countries have ravaged their eco-systems just to produce more cows.

5. Peking duck, China 北京烤鸭

The maltose-syrup glaze coating the skin is the secret. Slow roasted in an oven, the crispy, syrup-coated skin is so good that authentic eateries will serve more skin than meat, and bring it with pancakes, onions and hoisin or sweet bean sauce.

Other than flying or floating, this is the only way you want your duck.

4. Sushi, Japan 日本寿司

4. If this was a "most beautiful" foods list, this would be no. 1.

When Japan wants to build something right, it builds it really right. Brand giants such as Toyota, Nintendo, Sony, Nikon and Yamaha may have been created by people fueled by nothing more complicated than raw fish and rice, but it’s how the fish and rice is put together that makes this a global first-date favorite.

The Japanese don’t live practically forever for no reason -- they want to keep eating this stuff.

3. Chocolate, Mexico 墨西哥 巧克力

3. Chocolate -- a bad husband's best friend.

The Mayans drank it, Lasse Hallström made a film about it and the rest of us get over the guilt of eating too much of it by eating more of it. The story of the humble cacao bean is a bona fide out-of-the-jungle, into-civilization tale of culinary wonder.

Without this creamy, bitter-sweet confection, Valentine’s Day would be all cards and flowers, Easter would turn back into another dull religious event and those halcyon days of watching the dog throw up because you replaced the strawberry innards of the pink Quality Street with salt would be fanciful imaginings.

2. Neapolitan pizza, Italy 意大利拿破仑披萨

2. No place for pepperoni in this list. 

Spare us the lumpy chain monstrosities and “everything-on-it” wheels of greed.

The best pizza was and still is the simple Neapolitan, an invention now protected by its own trade association that insists on sea salt, high-grade wheat flour, the use of only three types of fresh tomatoes, hand-rolled dough and the strict use of a wood-fired oven, among other quality stipulations.

With just a few ingredients -- dough, tomatoes, olive oil, salt and basil (the marinara pizza does not even contain cheese) -- the Neapolitans created a food that few make properly, but everyone enjoys thoroughly.

1. Massaman curry, Thailand 泰国 玛莎文咖喱

1. One more reason to fall in love with Thailand.

Emphatically the king of curries, and perhaps the king of all foods. Spicy, coconutty, sweet and savory, its combination of flavors has more personality than a Thai election.

Even the packet sauce you buy from the supermarket can make the most delinquent of cooks look like a Michelin potential. Thankfully, someone invented rice, with which diners can mop up the last drizzles of curry sauce.

“The Land of Smiles” isn’t just a marketing catch-line. It’s a result of being born in a land where the world’s most delicious food is sold on nearly every street corner.