How to Improve Bad Asian Food
Mar 28, 2011, 1:04 pm
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How to Improve Bad Asian Food
Went out for dinner with my bf and mother in law to a pan-Asian place here in Chicago (Joy Yee) that we love. She didn't like her chicken with mango and lychee, so I took it home and sauteed it with soy sauce and sriracha. What a difference!
I think it's really the Sriracha that turns any mediocre-or-worse Asian food into something pretty good.
I think it's really the Sriracha that turns any mediocre-or-worse Asian food into something pretty good.
Mar 29, 2011, 4:47 am
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Mar 29, 2011, 5:50 am
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Mar 29, 2011, 7:28 am
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My favourite eating place in the whole wide world? Singapore? How much of it is "fusion"? I guess fairly close to 100%.
I guess I should avoid it in the future .............
Mar 29, 2011, 8:02 am
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The problem with any food is that the greater the distance from people from its origin, the worse it tends to get. Hence 'Mexican' food in the UK is almost always a texmex abomination, most Pad Thai in the UK is oversweet and inauthentic, and most 'Asian' restaurants in the US are nothing of the kind. No Panda Express in Singapore.....
Mar 29, 2011, 8:25 am
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No none of it is 'fusion'. It's just 'food' prepared by and for people who care about the stuff.
The problem with any food is that the greater the distance from people from its origin, the worse it tends to get. Hence 'Mexican' food in the UK is almost always a texmex abomination, most Pad Thai in the UK is oversweet and inauthentic, and most 'Asian' restaurants in the US are nothing of the kind. No Panda Express in Singapore.....
The problem with any food is that the greater the distance from people from its origin, the worse it tends to get. Hence 'Mexican' food in the UK is almost always a texmex abomination, most Pad Thai in the UK is oversweet and inauthentic, and most 'Asian' restaurants in the US are nothing of the kind. No Panda Express in Singapore.....
That's not to say the food shouldn't be appreciated for what it is. Just know it's not truly authentic in most cases.
I said 'generally', because there really is no US-style cuisine, except for BBQ (please don't say fast food counts as American
). I rarely go out to eat anyway.
Mar 29, 2011, 9:19 am
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No none of it is 'fusion'. It's just 'food' prepared by and for people who care about the stuff.
The problem with any food is that the greater the distance from people from its origin, the worse it tends to get. Hence 'Mexican' food in the UK is almost always a texmex abomination, most Pad Thai in the UK is oversweet and inauthentic, and most 'Asian' restaurants in the US are nothing of the kind. No Panda Express in Singapore.....
The problem with any food is that the greater the distance from people from its origin, the worse it tends to get. Hence 'Mexican' food in the UK is almost always a texmex abomination, most Pad Thai in the UK is oversweet and inauthentic, and most 'Asian' restaurants in the US are nothing of the kind. No Panda Express in Singapore.....
Mar 29, 2011, 12:12 pm
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Mar 29, 2011, 12:27 pm
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Well not exactly. The thing I picked up from the OP's post is 'how on earth can you have pan-Asian?', Asia is vast and diverse, you might as well have Mexican-French fusion - the problem for me is basically so long as there are people who think 'Asian' is a meaningful label for a restaurant's food, these restaurants serving icky over-sweetened food will stay in business.
Mar 29, 2011, 12:39 pm
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