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they interviewed the chef who invented california roll. He put the rice on the outside because his customers found seaweed too scary.
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I was reading about this earlier today, sushi in the States is assembled rice-side-out because back in the day, Americans would peel off the nori before eating because seaweed was too scary for them. Absurd.
The lack of spices in Japanese food suggests Japanese are the white people of Asia
Yeah, this. "Chinese" pizza usually has toppings like pea pods, water chestnuts, shrimp, ginger, bamboo shoots, etc. It's just kind of what human beings do. Most of the people on this site who get so angry about american "culture", if there even is such a thing, sound to me like Americans who've never left the states. I think it's a phase or something. I remember when I first traveled outside the US I would have this visceral anger whenever I'd see a McDonalds or other American chain concept in another country. Once you actually go in one, though, you see that most of the menu has been assimilated to the tastes of the culture in which it exists, not the other way around. Pizza Hut restaurants in China are a really good example of this. Pizza Hut in China is actually more of a sit down fast-casual concept there, you can order steak and wine and more traditional Chinese dishes in addition to pizza. This is likely because Pizza Hut was one of the first Western brands to operate in China. When it first opened it was probably viewed as a luxury commodity and therefore had to provide an "elevated" experience.