[ SECRET POST #4384 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4384 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mystery Science Theater 3000/The Flintstones]


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[Celebrity chef and food critic Andrew Zimmern]


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04.
[Fantastic Beasts 2]


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05.
[Jake Lacy]


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[Romeo + Juliet]


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[Anna Faris and Chris Evans in "What's Your Number?"]


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['Into You' by Ariana Grande]








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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, really terrible Chinese-American restaurants are a small town problem rather than a regional problem, and there's no way he's opening his restaurants in small towns that only have that one really crappy Chinese buffet (if that). He's going to open them in major urban areas that already have a lot of good Asian dining options. He's not "saving" anyone who could actually use saving from bad food, because there's no money in opening this kind of restaurant in a small town.

Anyway, I think this other Washington Post article says it best:

As it happens, Zimmern is also making Chinese American food. Only, when he cooks it, it’s “a unique take on the bold flavors of honest Chinese cuisine.” He too is trying to make money in America, except he has the noble cause of “saving” white people from eating bad Chinese food. When Chinese people make Americanized Chinese food for white people, Zimmern calls it “horses---.” But when he does it, it’s “unique.”

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At the very least, don’t insult the restaurants, chefs and diners that laid the groundwork for your business plan. Own your role in the great American food story, and in true Chinese tradition, honor the past as you look forward.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/andrew-zimmern-missed-an-opportunity--to-honor-rather-than-insult-chinese-cooks/2018/11/23/8436d75e-eddc-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html

So yeah, the issue isn't really about authenticity (which is kind of a bullshit concept) or whether the Midwestern US has good Asian restaurants (it does), but rather the way he is claiming to be doing something so novel and noble while insulting other people who were already doing what he's doing in their own way.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to live in a small town in Canada, basically an end-of-the-highway small town. It had one of the best Chinese restuarants with the best Chinese food I've ever had, other than Chinese I've had in Tokyo.