scott
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Post by scott on Sept 27, 2009 6:40:23 GMT -5
This is kind of random but I've noticed that East Asian and Southeast Asian cuisines have been mixing with each other in recent times. Maybe it's mostly in America?
Some weird things I notice:
1. Chinese restaurants that serve sushi and kim chi (those aren't Chinese) 2. Thai restaurants with chopsticks (those aren't really Thai) 3. Filipino and Japanese restaurants offering fortune cookies (I thought those were only Chinese?) 4. Japanese restaurants owned by Koreans (this is the strangest one!)
I think all of this mixing is a bad thing, because people who aren't familiar with Asian cultures will think these ethnicities are all just the same generic "Asian". It's almost as if there's no difference between Chinese and Japanese, because something Japanese like sushi can also be found in a so-called "Chinese restaurant".
I've also seen places that call themselves "Asian" restaurants instead of a specific ethnicity, but that's another story.
What do you guys think? If you don't live in the US, what have you noticed about Asian restaurants in your country?
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Post by Ganbare! on Sept 27, 2009 9:31:56 GMT -5
There have been Asian fusion restaurants for years now, in most cases the food is mediocre, a friend of mine told me he tried an Asian-Italian all-you-can eat restaurant, needless to say he almost died in the restrooms. On the topic of other Asians owning Japanese restaurants, I know an Arab who owns one, talk about authenticity. So many of them have minimum skills and are in the business just to make some sure cash, it's probably the safest investment ever, people will always need food.
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Post by toyomansi on Sept 27, 2009 15:47:06 GMT -5
what I've recently noticed here in oslo is that most of the many sushi restaurants here are run by vietnamese... (and these restaurants offer only japanese and not vietnamese food).
I also once ate at an (east) asian fast food restaurant in a mall, and the guy behind the counter who was taking orders and serving the food was turkish ^^' and most of the people eating in the restaurant were also turkish...
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