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Ethnic restaurants in Japan...
Italian restaurants should be called 'Pasta Shops.' Besides pizza, pasta is the only thing on the menu... and it's always spaghetti! Sure there are half a dozen different toppings; seafood, seaweed, seafood & seaweed, red stuff (possibly tomato based but I wouldn't swear to it,) red stuff with seafood, etc., etc. That same assortment is also available to top your pizza, along with corn niblets, sliced mini hot dogs, ham, peas...
Not saying that the tastes are bad, just that this is NOT what I think of when I want to go to an Italian restaurant. Where is lasagna? Where is the Veal Parmigiana, where are the risottos, where is the Osso buco? How about some Scampi? No! Just spaghetti or pizza!
Today we went to a new Thai restaurant in town. There were only three Thai dishes; Green curry, Pad Thai, and Tom Yum Kung! All the other dishes were basically Japanese!
I really was in the mood for Tom Ka Gai. My wife was envisioning a Som Tam and Larbgai. Not to be had at this 'Thai' restaurant...
Thank God I can cook!
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Stitchawl
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