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White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic Food:... - 5/24/2017 8:11:35 PM   
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More leftist stupidity. They think they can tell white people what they can and can't cook in restaurants. We don't see these idiots telling chinese people for example that they aren't allowed to cook non chinese food.
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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/24/2017 8:39:12 PM   
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More leftist stupidity.


I agree. Hey I know this pretty decent pizza lace owned by Greeks. Should they be worried ? Speaking of profits who owns Taco Bell ?

And while I don't see "leftist" or whatever in the article it really goes without saying. They have had years to prove how they are. Personally I think we should send them somewhere they will be happier. The straight ones can go to Singapore and the Gay ones to Britain. Deal ? Then they can be happy in their gun free politically correct zones. Where the letters and number arranged a certain way can land you in jail. Like D6MRD. And they'll have plenty of Muslims coming from countries where rape is legal so they won't feel "unloved". (I heard Britain is clamping down on immigration, tell me liberals who accuse others of cherry picking the news, why would they do this ?)

These fucking liberals, damn, even Jews don't have that kind of Chutzpah. WTF !

Let all the liberals go to California and then let them split off from the US. Seriously. I wouldn't be caught dead there.

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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/24/2017 8:48:14 PM   
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http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/23/someone-created-a-list-of-ethnic-restaur

More leftist stupidity. They think they can tell white people what they can and can't cook in restaurants. We don't see these idiots telling chinese people for example that they aren't allowed to cook non chinese food.


But honestly right? Over here. If I want to eat Chinese, I want a Chinese chef in the kitchen! If I want to eat Italian, I want an Italian Chef in the Kitchen. If I wanna eat French, I want a French Chef in the Kitchen. If I want to eat American, I want an American Chef in the Kitchen.

And so on and so on.

Chances are, if an Indian or a Caucasian tries to run a Chinese restaurant here, it will close down.

And also if a Chinese tries to run a European or American Cuisine restaurant without at least having at least the Chef of origin be the one in charge of the kitchen, it will probably also close down.

We do feel the food is more authentic when made by their respective nationalities.

And the Italians realise this trend and make sure Italian restaurants are fully manned by Italians only. From the chefs to the waiters, all Italian crew.

Chinese restaurants only because mandarin speaking is a criteria. It's hard to imagine a western chef getting Chinese flavours right.

We had such an exciting competition a few years ago. We challenged Gordon Ramsay to cook our local food. So Gordon had to learn to cook 3 local dishes. And in a blind tasting of 5000 public people. Will determine if he does local food better than our local chefs ha!

It was a fun thing. He managed to win Chilli Crab, because I think his last minute desperate attempt to win was to add more chillis in it to beat the competition, as Singaporeans love spicy!

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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 1:30:57 AM   
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But honestly right? Over here. If I want to eat Chinese, I want a Chinese chef in the kitchen! If I want to eat Italian, I want an Italian Chef in the Kitchen. If I wanna eat French, I want a French Chef in the Kitchen. If I want to eat American, I want an American Chef in the Kitchen.

And so on and so on.


That is totally your prerogative. But what the ultrasickening are trying to do is make it a crime somehow, or at least sound like one.

Years ago when I had some wherewithall I wanted to start a restaurant. I wanted a totally diverse menu. I used to eat out alot and came to the conclusion that you can't eat the same thing every day. That is why you see most patron once, maybe twice a week.

I planned on getting a real pro chef to run the kitchen, one who knows how to make all these things and to make them right. Granted the investment would be a bit staggering but if you could have the place full of loyal customers every night you would have something there.

The equipment itself would be an issue. I wanted to have pizza, chicken paprikash, Mexican and more than just burritos, burgers and steaks, seafood and damnear anything else anyone would want to ask for.

This is a tall order. To get someone who can do that, he would probably be making more than the owner(s) of the place, but I have already had two jobs where I made more than the owner(s) so it is not impossible. But if you want that kind of help it costs money. Like you said, even Gordon Ramsay had to learn a few things to cook your stuff.

There is a joke about that.

Guy sees a sign on a restaurant "If we don't have it you get fifty bucks". So the guy walks in and is seated, the waiter comes and the guy orders an elephant ear sandwich.

The waiter comes back with the fifty bucks and the guy says "Aha, so you don't have elephant ears eh ?". The waiter replies "We have the elephant ears, we are just out of those big buns".

Anyway, this all foods restaurant would be one hell of a project, all the equipment. Hell, the spice rack would probably cost more than some houses, or at least cars. And you have to have a liquor license and stock the bar with everything from cheap beer to the finest liquors, wines and champagne, not to mention saki, and I didn't even mention Oriental cooking yet. And gyros. Do they have gyros there ? they are like a Greek burrito with this cucumber sauce with sour cream and ALOT of garlic.

And Gordon Ramsay is kinda against frozen seafood, apparently it takes some of the flavor out, but I can't see any way to do it without freezing. you would need a truck coming in every day and then whatever is not used when you close you throw away ? Every meal would be $1,000.

There was a time when I could have put my hands on quite a bit of money. Luckily I was too lazy to do this because the chances of succeeding would be slim. With the local economy, even then not so good, even worse.

But to complain that foods are race specific, what's next, they don't want non-Mexicans going to Mexican restaurants ? that is the next logical step for the liberal assholes. and they are, nobody else would come up with some shit like this.

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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 5:02:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'd just prefer someone who could cook the food well [as in, if you were to go to "ten" different restaurants of the same style cuisine and ordered the same thing, they'd taste somewhat the same]. It's kind of racist but I do understand what you're saying. I've had Chinese food that was lousy and I'm fairly certain was prepared by American born "chefs". But that doesn't mean that you go out and hire the first Chinese person you see to cook Chinese food. There are plenty of American born people who go to France, live there for a while and pick up skills/study at Le Cordon Bleu [or whatever it's called], etc. If you, an American born person, chose to open a French restaurant, would you refuse to hire this person just because of the color of their skin.. This is the problem I have with hiring people, regardless of career. Unless the person was the worst person ever what previous employer really provides a negative review when used as a reference.. Then there's the issue of supply and demand. You have an "Italian" restaurant and need a chef. There aren't many people who were born in Italy in your area, so does that mean you close the restaurant, hire someone from overseas, move them here..

I do prefer restaurants where the cuisine seems authentic to the region [although remember that what we think is authentic may not be. For example from eater.com
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1) Crab Wontons: These deep-fried dumplings filled with crabmeat and cream cheese are popular...but nobody eats cheese in China. We're all lactose intolerant. But we do like to curdle other things, like fermented bean paste and duck blood.
2) General Tso's Chicken: Come on, this guy was too busy warding off rebellions to be cooking. This recipe is strictly American—chunks of chicken battered, fried and sweetened for Western tastes. No one in Hunan had even heard of this before 1970.
3) Chop Suey: Ah yes, the garbage disposal of the omelet world. Refrigerator scraps stir-fried and topped with an egg. It is said that some Chinese cook working during the Gold Rush served it as a personal "fuck you" to some drunk American miners.
4) Pu Pu Platter: Everything about this appetizer is an affront to poor people. It's nothing but fried, greasy egg rolls, spare ribs, chicken wings and beef teriyaki—which isn't even Chinese!
5) Sweet 'n' Sour Pork: Chunks of pork, battered, deep-fried and slimed in a thick orange sauce. There are obvious Southern barbecue influences here.
6) Sweet 'n' Sour Chicken: Chicken gets the same treatment, but it's all white meat because somehow that makes it better. With pieces of pineapple to assuage your guilt.
7) Salad: We cook our food. When dysentery is a concern, you would too.
8) Egg Rolls: Does anyone eat these? These thick-skinned, blistered rolls that look like Linda Blair's face in The Exorcist are nothing like the real Chinese spring rolls, which are smaller, thin and crispy—and edible.
9) Beef and broccoli: There's really nothing wrong with this dish, except that we don't have Western broccoli in the East.
10) Fortune cookies: Another ploy to amuse Westerners, these flag-bearers of fortune don't even tell you good news anymore, only your closely guarded shortcomings. Chinese people eat something more fortuitous for dessert: oranges. They're good luck.

Finding hot dogs and french fries on menues at Chinese and Indian restaurants doesn't make much sense, except to provide something for the children to eat, but that only teaches them that it's okay to be a picky eater.. It would be different if there was a little of everything from everywhere on the menu, it provides people a one stop shop to try cuisines from around the world, and it would be important that the restaurant didn't identify itself as any one thing otherwise they're right back in the "why are there spare ribs [just picking food out of thin air] on a French cuisine menu". It's called something fusion I just can't remember what.

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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 5:36:39 AM   
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But to complain that foods are race specific, what's next, they don't want non-Mexicans going to Mexican restaurants ? that is the next logical step for the liberal assholes. and they are, nobody else would come up with some shit like this.

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Well, it's about the palate. An American can never cook proper Chinese food authentically. Because first of all, even hearing stuffs like crab wanton on the below post is making me cringed!

I like authenticity in food. If I eat American, I want it to taste exactly the same as it taste in America.

If I eat Italian, I want it to taste exactly the same as in Italy. So when they import all these Italian chefs directly from Italy. I know I am getting the authentic taste buds of what they eat in their country. And not what is butchered by local chefs to suit their own localised palate.

So for example, the only GREAT authentic British Fish and Chips stall in Singapore, happen to be run by a English and a Scot. And I have brought British guys there who are based in Britain and they told me it's spot on and seriously like they eat it in UK. Even the potatoes, they make sure they import those special King Edward potatoes from England to get the chips right! Everything was to be made authentically. But so many other fish and chips stalls by local people and it all sucks.

And something so simple like the type of potato used can make gigantic differences in the taste and texture of the chips or fries. It's like night and day.

Like the best french fries I ever had in my life was some locally grown special south african potatoes that i had in south africa.

American fries mostly used russet potatoes. And with russet, to get the perfect texture of fluffy mash potato inside and crispy outside, it's a whole process of boiling, baking and frying to get that perfect texture.

But those south african magical potatoes, I just slice them up and deep fry them immediately and they immediately naturally turn mash and fluffy inside and crispy on the outside! And I realise all the fries at local fast food in South Africa taste amazing!



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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 5:48:18 AM   
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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 7:43:26 AM   
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ORIGINAL: respectmen

http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/23/someone-created-a-list-of-ethnic-restaur

More leftist stupidity. They think they can tell white people what they can and can't cook in restaurants. We don't see these idiots telling chinese people for example that they aren't allowed to cook non chinese food.



I’d like to see a civil suit for conspiracy to deprive them of civil rights by driving them out of business because of their race.

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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 5:36:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aylee


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ORIGINAL: respectmen

http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/23/someone-created-a-list-of-ethnic-restaur

More leftist stupidity. They think they can tell white people what they can and can't cook in restaurants. We don't see these idiots telling chinese people for example that they aren't allowed to cook non chinese food.



I’d like to see a civil suit for conspiracy to deprive them of civil rights by driving them out of business because of their race.



that would be nice but I'm not holding my breath. But if this is such a problem perhaps they will come up with a food police force to make sure no chef is cooking anything outside of their own respective nationality. Personally I would love to see them tell someone like Chef Ramsay that he can't make a certain dish. Could be very entertaining.

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RE: White Owned Restaurants Shamed for Serving Ethnic F... - 5/25/2017 6:51:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well, if the white chef has lived in China for many years and trained in a Chinese Kitchen and brought back authentic Chinese Cuisine. That will be great!

But on the other hand. Authentic Chinese cuisine may not sell well in western countries. As the taste is different.

So essentially, I just see it as business sense. If a white person managed to butcher Asian food and make loads of money out of it. Whatever! It's his business model.

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