Any particular points Galahdian cuisine? Or the cuisine of the Deep City?
Hhmmm. Ok Galahd first:
Overall Galahdian cuisine is very heavy on the fish and seafood since they’re an island nation and it’s very spicy and pretty light when compared to other countries.
Their most common and easy to get hot spice is bamohn. It’s made from a nut and tastes like a mix between curry and black pepper. Of course you have chili (sweet and hot both), too. Galahdians consider it a crime against food if you mix bamohn with hot chilli. The other nations don’t seem to get that. (See Libertus’ complaint: it tastes like chocobo turd.)
Of course they also eat meat. There are a few garula herds they domesticated. Funnily enough they’re the only kind of animal that’s smaller (and faster) than their counterpart on the mainland.
One of their national dishes, called kreitschi, is mostly skewered garula meat, but it can be any kind tbh. Different isles use different meats. (The one Nyx lived on used hare.) Its a very thin and long strip of meat folded up and put on a skewer to roast. It’s mainly seasoned with bamohn and sweet chili.
They also grow and harvest edible algae. It’s basically their spinach, if that makes sense. They can put them in everything. They can make some mean green curry with it. Noodles didn’t exist until they were imported from the continent.
Things they don’t eat are snakes and coeurls since they’re considered something like holy animals. There’s also the believe from mainlanders that they eat chocobos, which they don’t. (They don’t even exist on Galahd!)
So in short their diet mainly consisted of fish, seafood, meat (mostly roasted, if it’s not for curry), algae and any other green that’s halfway edible and fruits that are like papayas, mangos and pineapples (that sort of stuff).
And what would be a nation without a national drink? Galahd’s is callled fumir. It’s basically fermented garula milk (anyone notice that I made garulas the cow of Eos?) and of course it’s spicy. The colour depends on the spices used (that are different for each island) son it can have anything from a greenish to a brownish tint.
Deep City cuisine is everything that doesn’t need much sun to grow. Which is all kinds of lettuce, spinache, beans, peas, rhubarb, cabbage and mushrooms. They can actually also eat fish regularely, if they’re careful with how much they catch after Insomnia started a program to revitalize its waters since there is a river and it’s built by the sea.
For most people meat is pretty rare. (There is a group of people that lives by and in the old aqueducts that breed chocobos and, yes, also eat them). There’s also an animal that looks like a mix between a crab and an insect (the metalcrawlers) that is edible. And there’s the rats in the abandoned sewers if one wanted to.
Most of the time the stuff is cooked in stews or hot pots.
Hiemi actually has a kind of greenhouse with solar lambs in the clinic where she grows herbs and spices and the occasional vegetables. It’s where she gets most of the ingredients for her potions and medicines from.
There are also a few families that figured out how to grow grains. That’s where people like Gammer get their flour from. Stuff like that is grown in the old ruins since they lack the space for real fields.
Hope that’s what you wanted. :) My answers always seem to get pretty long…
