[ SECRET POST #4365 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4365 ⌋

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(Stargate SG-1)


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[Great British Bake Off]


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[Umbrella Academy]


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[cook and food writer Samin Nosrat, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat]


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(Kim Taehyung)


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[Avengers: Endgame]










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Comments

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[(Anonymous)]

A city large enough to have a PF Changs is generally large enough to have non-chain options for Asian food, so I don't buy your first argument at all, sorry. As for the rest, I'm only speaking for my own preference, like the thread asked. If there's a choice between chain and mom and pop, I'll almost always choose the latter. It'll likely be cheaper and I have a better shot at eating something that's not super Americanized. Especially if I establish a relationship with the people who work there, which I can't do at a chain since they're limited by corporate.

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[tabaqui]

*shrug*

Like I said - people from China, Korea, and Japan actually own the restaurants there - they're still Americanized. Some people still sit and eat chicken fingers in a Mexican restaurant - there are always jackasses who won't eat what they're not 'used to'.

But lumping in everyone who goes to a chain as xenophobic is silly.

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say that everyone who eats at those chains are xenophobic, though. I said that I felt like those chains target people who like the idea of eating "foreign" food but not if it's too foreign or you know, cooked and served by actual foreigners. I also say that Asian chains are far more Americanized than the mom and pop places, and that you have a better shot at getting less Americanized food at the indie place vs. the chain. Acting like those two experiences are interchangeable is... ahahahaha! Well, it makes me think you haven't eaten at both types of places, or you'd know it wasn't.

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[(Anonymous)]

If there's a choice between chain and mom and pop, I'll almost always choose the latter. It'll likely be cheaper and I have a better shot at eating something that's not super Americanized.

The thing is, there are places where legitimately all the non-chain restaurants really are super Americanized and bad, where PF Chang's may genuinely be the best option. It's a thing that can happen, even in cities large enough for PF Chang's.

I respect your desire not to go to PF Chang's, I just think it's interesting how much this stuff changes and how much American culture can still vary based on region and place.

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[(Anonymous)]

"The thing is, there are places where legitimately all the non-chain restaurants really are super Americanized and bad, where PF Chang's may genuinely be the best option. It's a thing that can happen, even in cities large enough for PF Chang's."

The scenario you describe is possible, but highly unlikely since like I said, a city large enough to have a PF Changs isn't likely to be some one-horse town with only two greasy take outs. You're generally going to have quite a few options, and the chances of all of them being sooooo bad that PF Changs is actually the best food is extremely slim.

But speaking hypothetically, if that was the case, I'd opt for not eating Chinese/Asian food at all. Other people might disagree, and that's fine.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

So you just want to feel morally outraged and don't accept any scenario besides the one in your head.


Got it.

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience (at least, outside of Hawaii), a community in the US actually has to be of a certain size before you even get a chain Asian restaurant, even on the order of Panda Express. I travel a lot to Midwestern small towns and rural areas for my job and I've been to a lot of tiny towns where there was exactly one Asian restaurant (and many more where there are none) and it was inevitably an independent, mostly-Chinese mom and pop place (usually a buffet) where "Mom" and "Pop" were Asian, and the the food was heavily Americanized and usually rather awful. Non-chain is not necessarily an indicator of quality (for any kind of cuisine, I have to say). These places tend to get a lot of business, though, so when the locals travel to places with better restaurants, they have no basis for comparison and aren't necessarily going to wind up somewhere good.

I'm always trying to hit upon one of those hidden gems, like they visit on the Food Network, where you go to some one-stoplight town and there's the best restaurant ever, but I rarely succeed.

Re: Why won't you EVER eat at a certain restaurant or franchise?

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. I moved to a small town in high school and there was only one Chinese restaurant. It was independently owned and the food was very Americanized. For being an American Chinese restaurant it was OK, but it was all we had aside from fast food burger places.