Given America's large immigrant population and tradition, you'd expect it would in many cases do rather well at foreign cuisines. Despite this, however, in my

Given America's large immigrant population and tradition, you'd expect it would in many cases do rather well at foreign cuisines. Despite this, however, in my experience the average Japanese "Italian" restaurant is a much better bet for getting good food (even if not necessarily all that close to what they might serve in Italy) than the average American "Italian" restaurant, because unfortunately, the latter often really, really, suck at the basic "edible product" level...