I was raised in a household where we were taught to eat everything on our plates (it did not hold me well as a restaurant critic years later where portion control is everything). We were also taught to be adventurous eaters and try a little bit of everything. So, I grew up eating and drinking just about anything set before me or that sounded good. It could have been Indian or Moroccan or Peruvian.
As a result, there are few "exotics" for me, just one melting pot of comfort foods, and I dine out on ethnic foods a lot because they are not what I cook. That said, some Persian dishes, such as gormeh sabzi, as Elan mentioned, or fesenjen, chicken with a walnut-pomegranate sauce, still fill me with a kind of new-found wonder. They are not spicy (unless asked for) and some are borderline too sweet, but they are all silky and seductive.
