In Cuisines
Tongue is widely used in Mexican cuisine, and often seen in tacos and burritos (lengua). Also, beef tongue is a part of Bulgarian cuisine (tongue with butter), Romanian cuisine, German cuisine, Portuguese cuisine, Persian cuisine, Indonesian cuisine (semur lidah or beef tongue stew), Nicaraguan cuisine, Philippine cuisine, Albanian cuisine, English cuisine, Russian cuisine, Korean cuisine (hyeomit gui), Japanese cuisine (the dish gyutan originating in the city of Sendai) and Italian cuisine (typical dish in Piemonte and Genoa).
Beef tongue is also used in North America as a major ingredient of tongue toast, an open face sandwich prepared for breakfast, lunch, or dinner and sometimes offered as an hors-d'oeuvre.
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