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Sushi should not to be in the word cloud.
by nthcolumn 11y ago
Sushi should not to be in the word cloud.
- tyingq 11y agoThai, Hibachi, and other bad matches are there too. They mention Yelp! as the data source. I suppose they are either businesses that feature multiple genres, or owners that wanted their listing under Chinese for some other reason.
- vollmond 11y agoEvery Chinese buffet I've ever eaten at had a sushi section, as well. I'd say there's a lot of overlap.
- YokoZar 11y agoAnd out here in the bay area, basically none of them have. In parts of the country where Asian restaurants are relatively scarce, I believe combination restaurants are a lot more common. There is much less room for market specialization, and there likely aren't enough consumers with specific tastes either.
- khedoros 11y agoI'm in Orange County. Within about 5 miles of my place, there are about 2 dozen Asian restaurants (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, Mongolian, etc). I'm excluding the big chain restaurants. There are two "Chinese" buffets, and there used to be a third. They've all had sushi sections. Maybe the businesses in this area have opted for variety rather than authenticity, or maybe one was a pioneer and the others followed behind. My point is that I see a lot of specialization in my area, but I also see combo buffets, and I'm not sure how to account for the difference between my area and yours (aside from a hand-wavy answer of "demographics").
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- jghn 11y agoThe article starts off by talking about how chinese food in the US is a cuisine of its own at this point. Given that, why are we worrying about how traditionally non-chinese items are featured? It's not uncommon for chinese buffets in the northeast to have things like french fries on it. Besides, many Americans aren't too bright and have trouble discerning their asians.
- shalmanese 11y agoI went to a Chinese restaurant in Beijing that had a dish of fried lamb with cumin that was served with a side of french fries. Something got lost in translation though because the french fries came with a dipping sauce which was a whole can of cold tomato paste.
- panglott 11y agoIt's been a decade since I backpacked through China, but potatoes were a thing that were always lost in translation. Did not know fried potatoes could be both greasy and undercooked.
- bane 11y agoLots of "upscale"-ish Chinese restaurants try to offer Sushi dishes. There's even a fair amount of Thai and other Asian cuisines shoved under one roof.
- partisan 11y agoThose are typically called "Asian Fusion" where I live. It's every popular dish in every Asian cuisine all in one place, though they usually exclude Indian food.
- bane 11y agoFor whatever reason, in the U.S. at least, "Asian" means "East Asian" (or for older folks, "Oriental Asia") and there's various other terms for different parts of Asia that don't fall under that umbrella. India is usually considered its own thing, all the "-stans" get grouped under "Central Asia" and the rest is either "Middle Eastern" or "Russian". I don't know of any Central Asian restaurants, but there's tons of Kabob places. Asia is a big place.
- innocentoldguy 11y agoWhile I agree with you 100%, in my area, most of the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Thai restaurants are owned by people from China. So, we end up with an amalgamation of perverted Asian cuisine on the menus.
- patio11 11y agoAsian fusion restaurants are a thing, particularly in places where Asian restaurants are scarce. This is why you end up with places like e.g. Mt. Fuji Thai. (Not an exaggeration.)