Originally Posted by
rbAA
Thanks for the insight, though I don't have to worry about impressing the GF. She already has sampled my Italian cooking (and Mexican as well.) Not to brag, but my Italian and Mexican dishes are the best in Thailand and China. If I wasn't already retired, I'd open a food truck like Daniel Thiger's, who makes the best burgers in Bangkok.
It can't hurt to stop in and check. Plus, he worked there for at least 20 years, as I had been going there from 1985 thru 2006.
And, they only had an occasional group, as they are usually full of locals.
Leaving Thailand out, 20% of the world's population lives in China. If you make the best Italian and Mexican food in China, the math indicates that you claim to make better Mexican and Italian food than 99.9999999% of the people in China.
Taking it global, you believe that only one out of every 1.6 billion people make better pasta or tacos than you on the planet earth, which means you make food better than 89 times the entire populations of Italy and Mexico combined. This is TripAdvisor type of hyperbole about the "best gelato in all of Rome. It's a bit of a stretch, or hyperbole. If you were in the top one billionth italian or Mexican chefs in the world, they would beat a door to your house and paid you millions to start a restaurant. When you get to Florence try some of the restaurants recommended on this thread, instead of the chain restaurant you have memories of, and your perspective may change.