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I've been to plenty of hole-in-the-wall Thai and Vietnamese restaurants with pictures on the menu. They are not chains. It's helpful if you don't know much ab
by bpodgursky 11y ago
I've been to plenty of hole-in-the-wall Thai and Vietnamese restaurants with pictures on the menu. They are not chains.
It's helpful if you don't know much about what you're ordering (is it a curry? soup? stir-fry? etc).
- orf 11y agoPerhaps I can see value in it with those kind of restaurants (despite not seeing it myself, ever), but in the article the example given is a generic bowl of pasta. The caption given is "What was that great pasta dish called again? Oh yeah, this one in the picture!". No. There is so much wrong with that. Also surely the menu would be ordered logically, with noodle dishes placed under a 'noodle' section, same for soups and curry.
- joshschreuder 11y agoI think it's fairly common in Japan too to have the elaborate plastic versions of the various dishes on display in the windows. I'm not sure if this is a thing aimed at tourists or not, who might have trouble reading the menu but can visualise the dish easily.
- oftenwrong 11y ago>I'm not sure if this is a thing aimed at tourists or not It's not. Even out where tourists don't go, beyond the reach of English menus, you will see the same plastic food samples. It is just nice to have an idea of what the dish is like.