Right now I live in an extremely multi-cultural city, and generally wildly multi-cultural country. The best Japanese restaurant I’ve been to was a Ramen restaurant stationed in another city that is ran by an actual Japanese chef that (presumably) does not speak any other languages.
In the town I am stationed right now all Japanese restaurants I’ve been to were okay. But nothing even close to that Ramen place. Day and night. Fact is, many Japanese, Thai and Korean Restaurants are ran by Chinese business people and mostly staff. Not all, but I’ve been to few.
To add, Kepab is common back in my homeland, but 99% of the time it was never made by Turkish cook cause we don’t get many foreigners back there. Kepab in the city I live right now is almost always made by Turkish or middle-east-descent person. AND IT IS DELICIOUS! I’ve tried many different joints at different prices and none of them was even remotely as bad as the ones I’ve used to eat back at home.
I’ve learned to prefer cultural food cooked by the person relating to that culture. Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Slavic (Polish, Ukraine, Czech, etc.) is always tastes better if it was made by someone who is from that country. It just how it is.
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Right now I live in an extremely multi-cultural city, and generally wildly multi-cultural country. The best Japanese restaurant I’ve been to was a Ramen restaurant stationed in another city that is ran by an actual Japanese chef that (presumably) does not speak any other languages.
In the town I am stationed right now all Japanese restaurants I’ve been to were okay. But nothing even close to that Ramen place. Day and night. Fact is, many Japanese, Thai and Korean Restaurants are ran by Chinese business people and mostly staff. Not all, but I’ve been to few.
To add, Kepab is common back in my homeland, but 99% of the time it was never made by Turkish cook cause we don’t get many foreigners back there. Kepab in the city I live right now is almost always made by Turkish or middle-east-descent person. AND IT IS DELICIOUS! I’ve tried many different joints at different prices and none of them was even remotely as bad as the ones I’ve used to eat back at home.
I’ve learned to prefer cultural food cooked by the person relating to that culture. Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Slavic (Polish, Ukraine, Czech, etc.) is always tastes better if it was made by someone who is from that country. It just how it is.