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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
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Somehow I can't see a Mexican restaurant doing well in Japan.
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Oddly enough, there are TWO excellent Mexican restaurants in this area. One of them, my favorite, is only a few kilometers from our house! The other is in downtown Osaka, about an hour's train ride away. Both have very authentic dishes, great variety, and good prices. Both have chefs who are Japanese, but trained in Mexico.
The Chinese restaurants go the same way the Italian ones do... All the tastes are Japanese rather than Chinese. They even use Japanese soy sauce instead of Chinese soy, and the flavor of those is day and night! Most of the dishes are thickened with a HUGE amount of corn starch, giving the dishes the consistency of mucilage! YUCK! Fortunately, I can cook most Chinese dishes at home as the ingredients are easy to get here.
Stitchawl