While white people enjoy venturing to ethnic parts of town to satisfy their pallette, most would prefer to take their first dates and parents to a place with dimmer lights, less water tanks with crabs and lobsters wishing that they would die, less ducks hanging from the window and table cloths that aren’t plastic sheets. Some people caught on to this and decided to open Fusion Asian restaurants. These people are now very rich
Fusion restaurants offer a mix of all Asian foods (except Indian, but most don’t know that India is part of Asia) in an atmosphere that resembles a cocktail lounge in the West Village as opposed to Hong Kong. Basically you can eat exotic, in comfortable surroundings. Many are not shy to admit that the food is subpar and overpriced, but they still line up for hours to get in because they love the decor and the mix drinks. These places often have names with no Asian words or characters in them and are limited to two syllables. ie) Ginger, Spring Rolls, Wild Rice, Sumile. Sometimes the names are really clever like “Asiate”, get it?
Stuff White People Like 
taken from dinehere.ca
Norvanne from North Van
Ironically, we ended up with too much time to kill. So we stretched out our meal as long as we could. In retrospect, I’m amazed how well we were treated in the circumstances. People were starting to line up and we were still occupying a primo table. Our server was exceptionally prompt, yet never implied that we should hurry. We were encouraged to take our time and enjoy ourselves.
Vanchef from Vancouver
The atmosphere was supported by the overpriced average food.Meaning you pay to sit in this place at the edge of Chinatown.
chowman of Main Street, Vancouver (please note that everyone from east vancouver must describe which neighbourhood they live in as opposed to saying just “Vancouver”)
I had a glass of Noble Blend before the soup, a glass of pinot noir with the soup, and a glass of shiraz with the bison. Mrs. C had a pink famingo and two glasses of Noble Blend. After dinner drinks were Scapa scotch and Rip van Winkle bourbon (very reasonably priced). The service was attentive save for a gap between being seated and our drink order being taken. I think that Vancouver servers generally allow too much time to pass after seating. The decor at the front is minimalist. I think the tables look a little tired. I am not a big fan of lucite and metal. The bar set up is colourful.
Buck from Vancouver
I will give credit – the food was decent, enjoyed the ambiance and the front staff was very pleasant. However, our server was absolutely terrible. First, it took him forever to come and greet us. Then it took forever for him to bring our water and to take our drink order.
Sage from Downtown Van
I’ve only been twice, but while the atmosphere is comfortable and reasonably stylish, every dish I’ve sampled has been very weak considering the prices they charge.
bart weisser from Vancouver
What a great looking room, right out of Wallpaper, nice tunes, and sexy staff. Cocktails are all too sweet and focus on pretty colours rather than showing off the booze. Wine list is the best in the Gastown/Chinatown hood although chill Winston and Salt have more by the glass. Food is mediocre at best and dessert shameful.
I’ll close with this one
EandE from Richmond (they are obviously Asian)
Downside is the menu has too many phonetic chinese words (we have no idea what it means even though my GF and I are fluent chinese). Dessert menu was unappealing.
Do you think we go into these neighborhoods for the conversation? Of course we only go into non-white areas for the food. Food and music are how cultures interact. If that seems lame, just start mugging whites and they can speand their money at Whole Foods instead.
By the way, love the last comment, those guys are douchebags.
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Tsk, tsk: “palate” and less vs. fewer. 20 cc’s of editing, stat!
O shut up.
“Saucebox” in Portland, Oregon fits all your criteria.
That would be “fewer fish tanks,” not less.
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“Lemon Grass” in Columbus, O fits the bill…
Toledo, O. was late to catch on and only recently “Bistro Wasabi” (“an oasis of local sophistication in the midst of a synthetic culture shopping area. Tucked on a side street of “Levis Commons”, Bistro Wasabi offers an eclectic mix of Japanese sushi house favorites, Asian fusion creations, and the Toledo staple of steaks and chicken!”) has caught on.
This doesn’t apply if you have an Asian girlfriend, as you’ll lose major style points for eating at such a place.
I’m white and I have no idea what the hell Asian Fusion Food is. Only white people know, like the author of this blog.
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fusion place down the street shared a kitchen with the irish place.
Soooo right about the names.
Liquid Ginger (multiple health code violations)
Dragonfly
Rolls&Bolls
Plus there’s the delivery places Bento Box (not as bad as the others) and Wok&Roll, but they aren’t trendy like the above places.
The sorostitutes swear that Dragonfly is the “best sushi in Gainesville.” I guess they mean it’s the only sushi place they’d be caught dead at.
This is so true. I was on the bus one day sitting behind two white people and they had this exact discussion. They were discussing asian restaurants/decor/ and what was an acceptable place to take their parents and what wasn’t. KUDOS.
‘Palate’, not ‘pallette’ (even then it would be ‘palette’ – one ‘L’ in each word). This blog is funny, but there are a number of spelling and grammar mistakes scattered through the posts, and they can be distracting.
So many of these posts are true!
There ARE indeed Indian fusion restaurants…I used to work at one in Chicago! They also have them in DC and NY I think.
I think you need to check your facts…if India was part of Asia people from there would be Asian.
India is part of asia but becuase there is such an evolutionary difference (skin color, height, slanty eyes, anime fetish, driving skills) they don’t lump them in with “traditionally” asian people ie japanese, chinese, korean. also there are like 3 billion indians so i think they deserve their own title. japan has like 100 million so they can just share.
They need to learn the best Asian food is found in little dank shacks. Only thing, you have to fight with some guy with limited English skills to order a glass a water, but then again some white folk like that stuff because it makes it more authentic.
I give props to this site for acknowledging the fact that Indians Are Asian!
http://www.indiansareasian.com
When white people go to Indian restaurants they always order Chicken Tikka Masala and Saag Paneer (or some Saag chiken dish). Why do white people love spinach so much? No Indian would ever order Saag. If they do, it’s because they are with white people and trying to be polite.
Fusion is really gross. I just can’t agree with my brethren on that one.
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You should go to Indian-Chinese fusion restaurants. They basically serve what goes by the name “chinese food” in India. It has a lot more soy sauce, garlic and red chilli. And when I went to such places in New York, I observed again that most people there were white.
As for Indians being “Asians”, reminds of a a funny mix-up of Fox News during the failed/botched London and Glasgow car bombings in Fall 07. The British news channels were saying the suspects were “Asian”. The panel on Fox started discussing how it is a first that Asians are involved in Al Qaida. They waxed on it for an hour, even managing to weave the VTech shooter into the discussion.
Then an hour later they sheepishly clarified that “Asian” in Britain usually means men from South Asia or the Middle East and even carried it as a blurb for a while.
i’m white and didn’t even know what asian fusion food was until i read this post.
Hang on, I don’t get it. Asiate? Over my head. What?
OHHH MY U HIT IT RIGHT ON THE NAIL HOMIE!!!
Me and Wifey went to this asian fusion spot called “SKY”
its a lil restaurant out here on the top of the new holiday inn(the whole hotel is pretty much asian themed).
the atmosphere was great,the hotel and restaurant was real nice.but the food was mediocre at best.
prices were not that bad althought i did order the duck which was damn near 30 dollars and i might add had no taste(come to think of it neither did the spring rolls we ordered)
plus the sake was nasty.
The one thing I’ve noticed is you are more likely to be given chopsticks in places like these than you are in traditional Thai restaurants.
You’re not truly white unless you eat with the chopsticks (sorry, Bill Maher).
seriously #17 are you kidding me? India IS part of Asia. It is a part of south asia along with pakistan, bagladesh, nepal, and sri lanka. my family is from pakistan and i am a south asian person. i’m asian. i repeat: i’m asian.
i know when i check that little box that says “asian/pacific islander” to identify my race that most people imagine me being a little east asian girl. asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent with many different and distinct regions: middle east (southwest asia), central asia (lots of the former ussr, afghanistan etc), south asia, south-east asia (vietnam, cambodia, burma etc) and finally (everyone’s favorite) east asia.
all asians are not chinese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
btw LOVE this site! hilarious!! too bad there are some ignorant people with no sense of humor who make lame comments
OOPS! I meant that for #18 not 17, sorry, my bad. I totally agree with 17, there are lots of lame Indian fusion places in dc
My town has a Wasabi 88 and a Lemongrass. Let me tell you though, I’m just happy that there’s something besides Chop Chop chinese takeout.
If you really want good Asian food, go where all the Asian people go. In fact, apply this to every other culture except white culture.
Thai food rocks!
sumile is three syllables and means gift in japanese…
and was actually a very good restaurant when josh dechellis was the chef…
“sumile is three syllables and means gift in japanese…”
Not if you’re a white person.
Someone (I believe it was Michelle Malkin, who is not white but desperately wishes she was) actually realized that the Middle East was in Asia, but only as an excuse to beat up anyone with a turban.
PFChang would probably be on the top of the list. Not one asian server and all the cooks I think were mexicans. And yes, white people loved it. Do they really think they are eating authentic asian food? The asians who are sitting with their caucasian partners, friends, associates are probably thinking, “The general tso spicy chicken with bamboo shoots and rice for $16.95? I could have a 5 course meal at a hole in the wall in Chinatown for less than that!”
Asian Fusion appeals to a select crowd who don’t want to venture into other neighborhoods and mingle with the locals. Plus no self respecting Asian place takes credit cards. Do white people love credit cards?
White people love taking ordinary things like Chinese food and making them so expensive that only other white people can afford them. It’s like having a private club with a high membership fee, except in the modern style the door is always standing open. Everyone can walk into the lobby and have a look around, but only the ones who can afford it will feel comfortable and stay. Your membership card is your wallet, and if the place gets boring you can just head to the next one.
***(except Indian, but most don’t know that India is part of Asia)
That’s the whitest thing I’ve read on this blog.
“Oh, you didn’t know India is an Asian country? Hmm, too bad.”
Agree with mg – there are Indian fusion restaurants in London as well.
That should be “palate,” not “palette.” A palette is the tray upon which an artist mixes paint. Look it up, plzkthx.
Several things about this post, well, about the picture, make me ultra-white:
1) I’ve been to the place that is in the picture.
2) I’ve eaten “share-plates” – white people love share-plates – at the frosted glass bar.
3) I can picture the exact stair that the picture was taken from.
4) I know that the guy in the picture is the owner – he’s quite friendly to white people.
5) My new office is two floors up in the same building.
I will now have to have a unique experience by going there again soon.
God this describes P.F. Chang’s to a tee. Hilarious
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my god is asian fusion food delicious.
it tastes so good. in my mouth. all the time. when i eat it.
if they could just find a way to merge this concept with flavored condoms…that would be ULTRA A+ FUSION TASTIC
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no, we don’t serve Kung Pao…
I don’t think my parents would even know what that means, nor would the majority of White Americans.
To this day I poke holes in the plastic table cloths at sketchy Asian restaurants.
It’s not really asian fusion, is it? It’s more like mutated crappola without any discernable flavors. You must be REALLY, REALLY WHITE to even consider eating asian fusion.
A single tempura tiger prawn –
on a bed of mango/red cabbage kim-chee –
infused with the smoked anal polyps
of deep-sea bass fingerlings.
the first cold shower
even the monkey seems to want
a little coat of straw
(childs portion not available)
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Hmmm….forget about Asian Fusion…
This blog causes me con-fusion.
(o:
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There is one in the East Village just like this with a perfect two-syllable non-Asian name: “Friend House”.
Based on certain discerning comments, and assuming that they’re written by white people, the next blog entry should be on “Grammatical and Spelling Errors”.
Anyhooooo, Spring Rolls fits this profile perfectly. The one in Toronto’s financial district is overflowing with white people in suits, believing that they are being culturally sensitive by eating there. I’d sure like to see them eating in the dark, dank, cockroach-infested, smokey Chinese restaurant in Chinatown because that’s where the flavour’s at!
Well, you can find really good Asian Fusion food and some that are just pretenders. It depends on the execution and what it’s advertised as and what you’re seeking.
You’ll pretty much only find Fusion cuisine in cities that already has a pretty good base of Asian restaurants and sophisticated palates, such as NYC, LA, SF, Toronto, Vancouver, and Honolulu. In fact, I think the best of this genre is found in Hawaii where folks like Roy Yamaguchi and Alan Wong really do their job and the environment TRULY is a fusion of Asian and Western cultures.
Yes, it’s NOT authentic, and isn’t designed to be, but an experiment with foods and ingridients. I’d lay off of the cultural implications, as believe it or not, there are fusion places that are doing quite well in a city where you can get the real deal (Hong Kong).
I’ll admit that these places aren’t for my very traditional Chinese mother-in-law – PF Chang’s is not for her.
I’d just like to point out that I have noticed every one of your spelling mistakes and grammatical errors and I probably know more about eastern european history and pop culture than you.
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As a Chinese American born in Hong Kong, yes, it is frustrating to see mainstream America continually take bits and pieces from other cultures (like yoga, Chinese food, etc.), sensationalize it, gloss it up, and sell it back for triple the price. As an example, there’s a chain of restaurants here in the San Francisco Bay Area called Zhao Noodle Bar where you can get “jook” (rice porridge or congee) and various soups with noodles and dumplings. For one, you can get these exact same dishes in Chinatown for a third of the price. In fact, what you get in Chinatown will probably taste better because it’s the real thing and not an American interpretation of it. Also, people in this country LOVE hearing words like “Bar, Bistro, Lounge, etc.” in the names of restaurants. Somehow it makes it trendy and fashionable. There is no such thing as a noodle “bar” in Chinatown or anywhere in southeast Asia. And with regards to my other example, yoga, I wonder if people in India find it necessary to spend $$$ on yoga pants and other clothing, fancy yoga mats, matching water bottles and towels, to participate in this ancient art?
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the Middle East and Russia are also part of Asia,
bombay chopsticks Mississauga Ontario!!!! It rocks
I get it. Satiate/asiate.
You must live in Toronto…
Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
Manderin, now theres some authentic chinese/japanese cuisine.
As an asian girl, I’m not super down with asian fusion– some of it turns out too weird and the tastes get all messed up. However, for a date or (non-asian) parents, it’ll do.
And, Indian people are generally not regarded as asians by the actual yellow asian people. Indian people like to say they are asian, but we laugh at them and discount their claims. Sorry guys.
ya we realy just ought to call it American food
I’m one of those obnoxious white people that gets mad when different Asian foods are mixed together. I don’t think pho and sushi or kimchi and lo mein should be on the same menu together.
+15 whiteness points, I think.
LOL…
Check out Tex Wasabis in Santa Rosa, California.
TexMex + Japanese??? The ultimate white person pleaser.
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You just wrote thee stupidest comment of this entire blog. Please check a map of Asia.
As an Asian, I can tell you that the so called Asian fusion food designed for white people SUCKS big time !!!
Think about Curry chicken which is not spicy at all… yikes..!
I pooped my pants
Asians like to shoot heroin?
There’s nothing authentic about irritable bowel syndrome.
The fact that whites are able to do this so successfully is pretty much reason they’re still running the world. Once the gazillion or so Chinese figure it out, they’ll take over.
Your site sucks. =/
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I’m white and I love asian fusion food.
I love eating popcorn and watching asian porn.
yeap. if words like steam rice, ginger, soy cause, soy, terriyaki, spring roll, egg roll, thai…are included in the dish description then it can be claimed as an Asian dish. Of course chopsticks are usually brought with your order. And yes you pay $8 for a bowl of noodles at these places vs. 4.50 at real asian place. oh did i mention they taste like crap. a crap load of soy sauce over my rice and chicken and it’s asian dish!
a clue to good asian place….if there are old asians customer and the cooks and waiter/tress barely speaks english….you will get authentic food. And you’re getting a large noodle bowl for $4.50. yum yum.
maybe they were trying to be ironic
What’s an Asian?
I wouldn’t dare call you racist. Boring? Sure. Predictable? Definitely. Usable as hamburger meat? Absolutely.
don’t worry about not knowing. you’re better off.
OMG! Are you from stone age or something?
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
This site is so funny and so is this topic. No asian words and only two syllables long. The only place like this i know is called Nectar, hahaha.
India — Population: 1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)
China — Population: 1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)
these numbers make you retarded.
Indias a subcontinent… and Indians are Asian the same way Russians and Arabs are.. (Russia and the Middle East being part of Asia along with India… so is Australia… and Australasia (Pacific Islands and whatnot, like Samoa etc….) So Asian Fusion places don’t actually offer much in the way of all Asian foods…. sweetsweet
White people definitely love credit cards. I’ve been to more than one massage place and had to walk out because they don’t take plastic. I started being prepared from then on because a good Thai massage is half the price of Burke Williams and twice as good!
I hope the book has a page on plastic and our disgust/boycott when a vendor/store/restaurant doesn’t accept it 🙂
This blog cracks me up and I am so glad to have found it!
I think most of White people love Asian food, especially Japanese and Chinese food. I saw many of white people eat at Asian restaurants.
Not only White people love Asian food, but all people around the world loves Asian food as well. Asian food is so popular these days so we all enjoy eating Asian Food.
Thanks for sharing this article.
That’s the point Dummy!
and noodle bars!
Again, my only criticism on this one is that I wish it was longer. Lots of funny comic possibilities. Maybe when the book comes out… Can’t wait.
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com/
You just totally haiku’d. Excellent.
Uggghh, that place is foul. Just who does Guy Fieri think he is, anyway? On the other hand, I just ate at Jo Jo sushi the other day and it was pretty tasty. Boo to fusion!
It’s obvious that you haven’t lived in India…
Palak panner, Palak Mutton, makke Ki roti & sarson ka saag.
Stfu.
damned coconut…
🙂
This is the funniest comment ever!! Dissed by the facts Oooo!!!
Um… what!?!
You’re it isn’t behind that preposition you just ended your sentence with?
(Not white btw)
You’re sure* it isn’t behind that preposition…my non whiteness got a hold of me there.
Hmm. Spanish perhaps? Asiate… Asia yourself?
Is that really it? That’s none too clever.
i’m southeast asian. the asian (chinese, japanese, thai, or even indian) food that white people have in their countries have been adapted to their taste (and local ingredients). the textures and seasonings are all wrong. i am really wondering if the same people will appreciate the same dishes if they taste the real thing here in asia. when they do, i bet they will say, “the seasoning is off,” or “this is missing something.” so now the real thing has become the lousy impostor.
I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily lousy–it’s just different.
Would you say American English is a lousy imposter of British English? (If so, shoot yourself and rid the genetic pool of your gonads.)
“Would you say American English is a lousy imposter of British English? (If so, shoot yourself and rid the genetic pool of your gonads.)”
A “lousy impostor”? Surely this is a prime example. I’d prefer the phrase “travesty of”.
Well American English IS not just a lousy impostor of British English..it’s also its bastard offspring. Don’t worry about shooting myself; the world needs more people like me.
From yet another white person – if you’re speaking of flavor, as in food – it’s palate.
The word palette, which you also misspelled (pallette) is associated with color.
Oh. My. God. Shut up, please.
Proofread your own work.
i hate this stuff.
ginger-stuffed crabrolls and lupine noodles.
yuck!
Thai Chicke Burritos? Yuck!!!! I’m with you, Frosty.
whiteys also like eating asian food with chopsticks, because it makes their meal taste more authentic
nevermind that they can barely operate the chopsticks in an efficient manner
actually, white people love ethnic food. and whenever they find out my ethnicity (which is NOT my nationality… i was born here), they have to be like, “oh my god, i LOVE indian food!!!!” oh. really? woo hoo for you. actually, i DON’T!! and then they have to be like, “i really love (resto X). isn’t it great?” because they need me to validate their supposed knowledge of what they think is my culture, through their casual acquaintance with what is really the equivalent of indian truck stop food, usually (which i only know because someone actually FROM india told me this). which ignores the fact that actually, i don’t even LIKE indian restaurant food in the first place! and then they have to be like, we should go out for indian food! and i’m like, why? arghh…… and this is in the supposedly enlightened “bay area”… ridiculous.
Fran, please note that White People also love proofreading.
Too true.
ahhaaha *high five*!
stupid white girl greta
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Many white people love “asian” food, but don’t even know what it is. I am not saying that I have eaten 100% authentic asian food, I just know that my local China Buffet is not it…but tons of people think they love asian food because Happy Family is SOOO good. Yikes.
Australia? Part of Asia? On what map?
yea its always funny to see people who have no clue how to use chopsticks, use them anyways.
As a slanty-eyed ‘traditionally Asian’-looking (Asian according to Americans, that is- apparently no one knows that not only are India and China both part of Asia, they’re neighbouring countries!) Indian girl, I’m laughing my ass off at such outright stupidity.
LOL… asian fusion.. pan asian food..HAHHA…. LOL white people love PF Changs… but what people dont know is that PF stands for Paul Flemings… so a whitie is banking on the ignorance of white people!!
Man, if a girl says something ignorant like that, you should just (and I feel this is my duty as a “banana”) shut the fuck up and get laid. Honestly, I can’t sympathize for people like you because I accept all types of foods.
I personally dig Mexican food. I grew up in the West, though, near Mexico. Asian food is last on my list. And yes, people can be ignorant about people who look differently but then are like ooh, how is Indian? Do you speak Chinese? But the other person is American, has never been to India and doesn’t even know how to count to five in Chinese. And this really confuses white people…
Your comment is a racist one. What makes you think that the only acceptable Chinese food is to be had in a restaurant run by/owned by Chinese or Chinese/American people?
Because you fucking barbarians have never eaten good food in your life and would not know how to cook it, dumbass!
”Because you fucking barbarians have never eaten good food in your life and would not know how to cook it, dumbass!“
please! you must have never heard of france or been to a french restaurant. and stop with the barbarian-calling. this is a site created by a white person making fun of their own culture right? and you are posting on it. if you think we are so below you, make your own site.
i love sushi, thai, fusion, and french cuisine. chinese food is alright, and actually i can cook it (and french food) just fine. However so much of chinese food in restaurants relies on deep frying, or baking soda to marinate the meat, or sauces which contain msg, if not msg itself, or LOTS of sugar (in cantonese food like ginger- , sweet and sour-, plumsauce- , or honey garlic- anything). So there may be tasty dishes but many of them come at a substantial nutritional cost. And Chinatown-type dives are just NASTY even when they are not actually in Chinatown. There is so much msg in the broth of your 4 dollar noodle soup which you think is better than that of a noodle bar, which probably uses fresher ingredients. Not to say that I go to fusion restaurants often, (the last time i went, it was my parents who brought me) but i can think of several reasons why they are an attractive alternative, even if they may cost more:
better service
owners are not necessarily chinese (more accountable for cleanliness)
cleaner and exponentially more aesthetically pleasing
often located in shopping areas and downtown where Chinese restaurants are not a bargain anyways.
so to all the chinese or other asian people who are saying this food tastes awful, STOP hating. we do not have to give money to you asians everytime we want to eat asian food. just as there is ìndian chinese food`(which i do not care for) there is fusion. you go ahead and eat at your traditional chinatown dive and i will enjoy my rare tuna with sprouts, avocados, crispy wonton skins and delicious sauce.
“…and i will enjoy my rare tuna with sprouts, avocados, crispy wonton skins and delicious sauce.”
hahaha fag
hahaha if you think chinese food is better than italian food then youre an idiot.
you should flex your knowledge about hamburgers to them
well. to each his own. chinese food does span over many regions and has some of the most varieties of food in the world. as well with indian food.
i personally love donkey, fried worms, and frog guts 🙂 yummm
the only reason why white people LOVE ethnic and asian foods is because, honestly, the white man’s food is so boring. Casseroles, hamburgers, etc. I eat it sometimes too, but I can understand why they like to be “adventurous” when they eat out.
White people like Fusion Asian food because it allows them to feel ethnic or as you phrased “authentic”; a kind of self defense mechanism to compensate for self prescribed white guilt for past crimes and cultural ignorance.
However, hanging ducks, the smell of sewer water and imagining the grade rating for the restaurant is culturally uncomfortable so they invented a white substitute.
Also look out for white people with the same cultural sensitivity insecurities when they brag about how they are capable of using and actually prefer chopsticks as if they legitimizes their cultural intelligence and acceptance.
If more than one white person is “culturally aware” it well then devolve into a test of chopstick ability to determine who among the group is the most enlightened – again despite the fact that it’s a California Roll.
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dude i fucking love china buffeeeeee. it’s the shit. all you can eat fing crabs that rag on the moon
dude this one time i wanted to go to china town becuase i love crabs that rag on the moom but every one else was like fuck china so they didn’t let me
dude is there a stuffthattanpeoplelike.com
yes, lets all take shots at whitey from the few experiences you may have seen in your immediate area
1) So you’re complaining about American’s adopting elements of your culture? Isn’t that what globalization is about? A blurring of lines? You should be flattered.
2) As for hiking up the prices, yes that’s unfortunate. But have you ever ordered a cheeseburger at one of the thousands (or millions?) of McDonalds abroad? VERY expensive. Don’t be a hypocrite.
2) Also, Hong Kong is not considered as part of Mainland China and remains largely self-governing. And was a British territory until 1997. REALCHINESE
here’s a name for an asian fusion restaurant that existed for about a year: Aqua Shi, get it? a play on water and suSHI, aqua because there’s lots of water incorporated to the decor, and SHI because they serve suSHI. this place existed for a year or so in a little town called Molesto…, err, Modesto, California
In Sydney a few years ago, a Thai restaurant manager reluctantly supplied chopsticks with all his dishes – including curries – because his mostly white clientele demanded it. Slight pity that the Thais have mainly used brass forks and spoons for the last 150 years (the king from the King and I, an admirer of the west, made them popular), and only use chopsticks for their ethnic Chinese dishes. But I guess Jeremy and Brooke knew better than some Thai expat….
Hey, that’s what I always say: “if it ain’t fortified, it ain’t worth injecting in your vein.”
And yet, why not chopsticks? Sure, superficially, they seem, well, superficial. But they’re a totally reasonable utensil. Some people even use them, gasp, for non-Chinese dishes at home. Yes, part of this blog is about what is “cool” to upper-middle-class white people, so I suppose chopsticks being “cool” is part of that. But their supposed authenticity isn’t necessarily a part of their coolness. Sure, eating a curry with chopsticks is silly. Do you think some rag in 1870s Thailand was railing against this hipster trend for loving forks and spoons?
white people like indian food
Did I ever write that review … for where?
I merely want to raise awareness about the first paragraph of this article:
When referring to quantities, please use “fewer” instead of “less.”
Unless of course you intended to communicate, for example, that the fish tanks and such (in the first paragraph) were of lesser degree in quality, as opposed to fewer in quantity. Just a little FYI. : )
Thank you, All my best,
Namas te,
Zach
To follow on from what joanne said about Sydney thai restaurants, in Balmain there’s even a thai restaurant called Chopsticks. Quite the irnoy when thai food isn’t usually eaten with them
Only pommies love and call Indian food theirs..I personally love RICE…
Isn’t pallette spelled palate? I know I may be hitting on the white people love grammar thing, but I’m honestly curious about this. Not sure which spelling is correct. I was hoping some whitie could help me out.
White people also get excited just eating plain rice with soy sauce using chopsticks. They think that they’re having a cultural experiance.
depends.. collor pallette? or palate as in what rules your taste? =)
I loved looking at those fish tanks when I was a kid. I still think those hanging ducks look delicious; I get hungry just looking at them.
I’d rather go to my neighborhood pho place with plastic tablecloths, chopstick holders, and tendon and tripe on the menu than a pretentious “Asian Fusion” place.
I make it my business to eat at every restaurant in the greater California area, and I must say one Asian restaurant trumps all others: Fat’s Asia Bistro. Located in Roseville and Folsom, CA, Fat’s is the most authentic and quality restaurant in the state. If you love your body; if you love your food: eat at Fat’s.
can someone explain to me the joke?
actually now its in fresno.
i agree. good restaurant.
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People keep in mind that none of this ethnic food you eat in the states is truly ethnic or traditional. It is totally Americanized and designed to appeal to our traditional American taste (and therefore our wallets). I’ve traveled a few places outside of the states and was blown away by how different the dishes actually tasted from its American counterpart/same dish. Oh, and they use a lot less fat, preservatives, and salt.
Cheers
i can’t tell if you’re white or stupid
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Ha this is hilarious. Being Vietnamese and living in Miami, Fl. I see this all the time. At the Hotel/Restaurant I work at on South Beach, our concierge one day sent out fried pre-frozen mini-egg rolls on bean thread noodles and called it a Vietnamese egg roll. They loved it. “Let it be known that the bean noodles go INSIDE the SPRINGROLL wrap” White people love anything that resembles an egg roll. We keep making them and they keep eating them. We thank Americans for thier patronage. Enjoy!
Haha, being white and from the midwest, I’m pretty much a complete narrow minded idiot. If you put dump on a plate with wontons I would probably gush about it to my friends then drive away in my toyota hybrid. I would love to make a site “Things Black People Like” or “Things Middle Eastern People Like,” it seems as if it would be a hit and probably just as accepted. But since you guys are sooo open minded, it probably wouldn’t be as successful. So I leave you all with this, if your food is good I’ll eat it, whether it be Asian Fusion Cuisine or a $1 double CB from McDonalds. what of it?
I was reading through a few of these, Stuff White People Like and well I guess I should have thought about the location of who was writing this blog and now book. I’m sure this is funny to someone in a big city say New York or LA, but well I live in Iowa in a college city. And apparently to my friend from Boston says even our cities are just towns compared to a “real” city…. so I guess my perception of Stuff White People like would mostly include Waffle Stops, Wal Mart, not touching their kids while shopping (to seem upper class) Oh yes Hy Vee Chinese. And Starbucks is very white, to the point that finding a non white person working a Starbucks in the Midwest.
I live in Orlando, which is made fun of the world over for our lack of culture. We have people here from every-damn-where, including the midwest. And guess what? I think this is absolutely accurate and too funny! It’s true, it’s true, it’s me, it’s you. Okay, so it’s not you. You’re more of a tractor pull kinda gal; and you are not the white people this blog is talking about. So feel good that you don’t identify.
But seriously, if you want to mainline what is hip and cool, you’ll read all these blogs and I guarantee you’ll be much cooler and hipper than all your potatohead friends! If you’re not completely satisfied, I’ll refund your money.
Shannon, you’re not “white”, you’re a “redneck”. This website does not apply to you.
Can you say…. 5.99 all you can eat! I can!
I’m fairly certain that white people hate chain coffee shops, especially Starbucks.
i went to one of these places and ordered this jambalaya type thing, it was basically pasta and shrimp covered in a tomato based sauce, and the shrimp were in their shells – how the hell am i supposed to eat this 20 dollar bowl of BS?! De-shell the shrimp with my hands, get sauce all over myself and look like a hick? F**k you asiain fusion food, you can goto hell!
just being from iowa or a midwestern state doesnt make you a redneck you bitchass
Suck it up and eat the shells, white man.
yes it does
you’re supposed to eat the shrimp shells. that’s actually more “asian” than of them to leave the shells on. Not jambalaya though, that’s lame.
Suck it up and peel the shells off with your hands, white man. It won’t kill you.
Does P.F. Chang’s or Big Bowl count?
You spent 20 bucks on a bowl of jambalaya?
WHITE
HAHA!
I do like SanSai, which is very white people friendly, but I did learn about it from a Japanese family member.
There was also a Vietnamese restaurant across from my school called Asiaican, that, although run by Vietnamese people, was meant for white people.
I have to admit, I do prefer going to Little Saigon to get my Vietnamese food. Nevermind that I am the tallest of the men and women and the only blue eyed person there. I love it. Mr. Pho in Oceanside was also amazing. Now that I live in Colorado Springs, the white city, where our largest Asian group is Korean (0.8%), it’s hard to find what (please don’t be offended) my Vietnamese friend calls “chinky.” Our Vietnamese restaurants do have some Vietnamese employees but for the most part, they’re white. What’s with cloth napkins and disposable chopsticks??? It’s supposed to be the other way around!
I miss the real asianness in SoCal!
It is such a relief to read this site after venturing to “bossip.” and reading their blogs.
The white people are indeed superior if that site is any indication.
Well, i’m from new york city. I’d like to say your an idiot for calling her a redneck for stating her opinion “jewy jewson” oh wait….. your not white your a jew….this website doesn’t apply to you.. does it?
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Your English is pretty good for being Vietnamese.
If you are an American its funny how designated being an American is being white. I guess the rest 40% of so of us minorities, are anything else but Americans.
Fat, preservatives, and salt are used in winter countries where white people come from for keeping them warm and storing foods through the season.
Asia is a tropical warm country, i’m suprised they use fats and salts at all.
Then how do you explain in addition and subtracting items. 1+4 widgets less 2. Are they not quantities, and sound off saying 1+4 widgets fewer 2?
You’re an idiot. i use less and lesser as i want, its a free country and don’t need another word to remember.
Should have known better than to open a sushi resto in MADesto, its a godamn. Even the name suggest it being Hispanic, Texmex such as Taco Bell is the way to go!
No more sushi resto for Fresno please, we just can’t afford it. Why don’t these japanese places bring them other cheap japanese food such as bbq this and teriyaki without the seafood/sashimi for once.
Hate comes from not having control and being on top of things. I can see why that dude would have hated the Chinaman. Alot of secretly kept envy.
Personally, i hate them Chinaman too, we got into a fight of a group of sissy guys against my family which included my sister, and my and parents were on the side.
They talk alot of shit in front of you, and pretty racist bastards, you just have to give them a good beating.
They invented white substitues because they can’t stand seeing their waitor asian, the manager asian, the cook asian. Time to get back to Idaho and open us up a white establismen!! hehe
I have a hunch that how chinese food got screwed up and greasy is because they served it long ago to some gringo and he in turn wanted it made to his taste. Since then he would bring his friends to try the plates.. that’s how Kung Pao chicken came to be.
Chinese food in Taiwan, singapore, malaysia, hongkong is nothing like it is here.
You really have no one else but yourself and probably ancestors for creating this mess.
as for how fusion resto came to be, just admit it, you can’t stand being around asians, but you see a good thing when it came in front of you and punches your face. How to get them asian food and at the same time not have any Chinaman in our restos.
Lets just consider you mexican then since you grew up near the border, might as well, you’re endoctrinized.
Mexican and Chinese have this hate relationship, Chinese hate them cause they think they’re low class, eventhough there are so many damn poor chinaman in China. Ignorant, thick headed bastards.
And Mexicans they hate Chinese or Asians in general because well they’re Asians. Its a kind of envy thing secretly kept inside. Eventhough Mexicans like to show off their thugness and think they can push Asians around cause they think they’re all Chinaman, little do they realize the shorter dude with the coned hat will AK their asses to the ground, but as Asians think Mexicans are bendeho (stupid), they’ll never realize that Asians can be even more ruthless. And Mexicans continue to hate and think they can push the Chinaman around.
Concerning low class, let me just point out for the past 2 years the richest man in the world went to a Mexican in Mexico. And there are lots of mexican owned businesses popping up in California.
Fusion Food came to be from white people attempt at making authentic Asian cuisines. Hey, this isn’t chinese food, no kidding, i wouldn’t expect you to know how to cook this over night. So, mix a few asian foods and out comes your own cusin that no one will every say you can’t cook it right. That’s what Fusion food is.
Actually Fusion Food is a lousy imposter, since the whiteman can’t cook chinese, he then mixes in other asian dishes to create his own cuisine. Now i dare you to say this isn’t chinese, well because it isn’t, its Chinese Fusion aka Chinese cuisine not cooked authentically, cooked by the whiteman.
He’s basically saying Asia is a geographical term like America is for Southern and Northern Americas.
It’s just that in the west we got to know Orientals as Asians, and the other Asians (India, Somoa) were left out. Orientals is more correct for Asians of that particular region. I’ll like to see an Indian claim to be Oriental.
Indians are Asians, so is Australians, and Polynesians to name a few. Asia is a geographical area.
I think your mistaken your Asians for Orientals. Maybe should just call yourself Orientals, and have all this confusion taken cared of.
You’ve missed REALCHINESE point in her complaints. She’s basically saying that she hates how white people can take asian cuisine and charge a wallop and make it very popular for white people when asians didn’t themselves do that. And before you feel self indulge in pride, what she is also saying is white people alienating other minorities. That whites wont accept Asians, but would only their own. As for in the US, Asians are comfortable at accepting whites, voting for white politicians, watching only whites on TV, eating at Dennys, etc etc.
And this is for REALCHINESE, you’ve also missed white people’s wants when eating out, they dont want authenticity or just that, as Asians are so much and only into the quality of the food. White people just want good food, an ambiance they can relate to, and service that is more what they are familiar with. In otherwords, they will let you change the food somewhat, but keep everything else similar to what they’re accustom to.
The reason why white people aren’t so much into authenticy and having the best tasting foods is that spices and foods from overseas that can make it into the US, as well as goods from this country are odorless and fragrantless. If whites had something to compare their shitty fusion food to, they wouldn’t be eating that Kung Pao Chicken trash. So its very political and economically driven. U can’t let fragrant fruits in cause they’ll put all our domestic fruits out of business. etc etc. That’s why white people want just good food, good ambiance and good service while Asians want excellent food and screw the rest if there is excellent food.
Seem like that time is now with the fall of American big companies and still rise of China and Asia’s Economies.
To stay at the top, US needed to keep tightcontrol media and hollywood, two of which ended with the event of the internet. Hollywood is just pirated out at pennies now, and made into a cheap hooker. and the media are copycats in other countries. Reuters, Chinadaily.
Dont’ lecture a white man on his own language, comon leave the dude with some pride for crying sakes.
holy crap i just realize there are more Indians on this planet than Chinese. Since Pakistinies are Indians who annex from India, I consider them into the Indian race mix too. damn, tha tmany Indians unbelievable
not all Asians (Pacific) have slanted eyes (almond eyes) you dumb hill billy.
Hey , white ppl dont just live in USA.. heaps of indian restaurants in london, the whitefolks there luv indian food and chicken tikka was even called the national english dish. Even in perth ,australia (where i live)..smallish city of 1 m mainly whitefolks, there are 100 indian restaurants !
ok everybody
all this kindergarten geography chatter is embarrassing all round.
australia, in most altases, gets classified as part of oceania. its on a different tectonic plate to asia and its terrain is not contiguous with the asian landmass.
hong kong is not part of the chinese mainland in the same way that manhatten island is not part of the US mainland and ile de la cite is not part of france. d’oh
those of you in the US have your own national nomenclatural issues: “american” ought to denote adjectivally those originating anywhere from canada to tierra del fuego. the original “amerigo vespucci” explored south america, after all.
so if you are from the USA why not be called USAsian
You’re an ignorant ass. I’m from wisconsin and the population of “hicks” was far a minority to our Asian and preppy yuppie population. Don’t assume because the Midwest has all the farms that feed the rest of the country that we’re all a bunch of backwoods idiots. We have more than our fair share of large cities and the only reason those on either the east or west coast are larger is because of their sprawling suburan areas full of their Walmarts, cheap chain restaurants and other “hick-related” hotspots. Congratulations – you can keep that bullshit.
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This is only partially correct, hardcore white people instead would label fusion food “confusion” food and scoff at its lack or authenticity. They would instead wax on about a local authentic local place that has the real deal or better yet go and find a “insert ethnicty here” food warehouse to buy lots of interesting ingredients to take home and try to identify a use for. This is of course best visited on the way home from a farmers market or your local sour dough bakery.
Thank you, Sean. People get so offended, Jeez!
Havent seen a Russian fusion spot yet…
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
What about mexican fusion food, Julio or Juan can maybe explain after they are done trimming my hedges.
Indians are asians too. Why isn’t indian food with that horrible stink (some herb, clover leaf stuff) why isn’;t that served at those fusion places.
all those dumb white grad students love going out with the professor to indian restraurants probably because it’s cheap.–since both student and professors make nothing. idealistic crap, you dig.
Russian cuisine is fusion with French influence mostly, but also German, Dutch, Tatar, Kazack, etc. If you knoe French cuisine well and try some Russian, you would understand…
Palate, not pallette
“Fewer” water tanks and ducks, not “less.”
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money on asian fusion food.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
Thanks for the knowledge
You’re a waste
Chinese now comes in regional culinary differences from the original, Beijing, Sichuan, Guandong, Manchurian, Shanghai and Hubei. However, Asian fusion is a cross of other Asian ethnic cuisines: to throw in Korean, Japanese, Thai, Malay, Filipino and Vietnamese together. Other Asian fusion is part French-European, with Americanized “fast food” familiarity and in some cases, Latin flavor is added like it’s not hot or spicy enough. No crabs or lobsters? This is a Kosher-Asian fusion place, but they dare not to do Asian-African American fusion: now that’s an idea! Chinese love Fried chicken as much Jews love Chow Mein (a la Asiapedophile Woody Allen). +
How about the largest Japanese community in America by percentage: Torrance/Redondo Beach (not the pier area), where my Mom grew up as a child to have half the block of Asian-American and Hawaiian descent. The local food has a maritime-Mediteranean-So. Cal.-Americana-Luau flavor, an Asiamerimedixicano fusion if you ask me (well, I made this word up). Vegetarian meals are commonplace in Chinese and other Asian eateries, esp. when buddhist monks are regulars, and they attract mostly white mid-life crisis men (the servers are Asian women, huh? see #11 Asian girls). +
You’re the 50th Mike I came across here, names white people have. P.F. Chang is OK, it’s Panda Express is goin’ down hill and most of Pick-up Stix closed its’ franchises. Yoshinoya, the nearest all the way in Moreno Valley, Cal. 60 miles down the freeway was nice but hardly anyone came in the place. My parents went to a Benihana for a 1970’s trendy honeymoon, but is that in like “funky” Koreatown? +
Misspelling: 2 bucks for a whole meal: 20 cents a pound of shrimp come “frozen” in “plastic” indicates you’re:
A. Louisianan Creole (the Franco-American haute cuisine).
B. Mexican-American (esp. on the Texas Gulf coast).
C. African-American (they love shrimp…stew…said Bubba).
or D. Actually an aging Chinese/Vietnamese immigrant.
Note I can’t add “Jewish”, because shrimp is not kosher.
White people find a 2 dollar homemade meal not edible. +
Well, anyone of Mediteranean descent Caucasian from the likes of Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Louisiana or Quebec will cook up a pot of steamy hot spicy or tomato-saucy meal of shrimp, sometimes with rice or in liquid (stews). The big Mexican food trend now in southern Cal. is “camarones” or cold shrimp salsa soup in a glass with a slice of lemon/lime. Very common among Sinaloense who made Indio, cal. the Sinaloan capital of the USA, also the Oaxacans, Jaliscanos, Guerreranos, Durangenses and Michoacanos eat inland lake fish in their meals. White people who never came in contact with Mexican immigrants don’t know what I’m talking about. XD
Iowa City, Iowa is the next hip spot for white people fleeing from overpriced cities of the Northeast, while the Californian escapees won’t leave Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Tulsa or Wichita alone. I’m surprised they had not grown tired of Denver and Chicago (yet), but I have family friends near Iowa City after 5 years in Vegas & 50 years of their lives in the L.A. area/So. Cal., they LOVE Iowa. The population there is 90,000; sounds more like an ex-urb while a “city” has 900,000 and a “small town” has 9,000. Indio Cal. now has 90,000, 10 times than of 1972 when my parents moved there and met each other later. +
Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think: a 90s catchphrase, a time when Starbucks was big and spread to every community, shopping center or store corner in America or the world. McD’s did the same 50-60 years ago, it all started in the now-infamous “ghetto” of San Bernardino, Cal. when Ray Kroc bought the McDonald Bros. diner along US routes 66/ 99 (now a state historic site). Beat that, Seattle. +
Being a Central Californian in the eyes of So.Cal. valley folks and No.Cal. snobs by the bay, has a similar effect on people. The Inland Empire, High Desert and Mountains north or east of L.A. is where the wealthy white people bought all the land, overbuild new homes & jumped the price tag of living in them. Yuppies claim rednecks are the ones who adapt trends 10 to 20 years later. +
Orlando, Florida has Epcot Center-Walt Disney World and other attractions to get tens of millions of travelers. I knew Las Vegas used to be a seedy, whory, violent, drunken, drug-addicted, wild western city in the middle of a desert. Then the yuppies moved in the 1980’s real estate boom to buy houses off the dead retirees (the Mafia) and today in 2009, they @#$%^&* complain about the Chinese and other Asians move to Vegas, now known as Veg-Cou-ver. +
Well, she had a good education or was born in America. The problem is since the 1970’s, nobody wanted to be only an American anymore, it smacks of nationalism and tanged with racism. Waving the US flag proudly in 2009 like a “true-blue-white trash-and red-state patriot” is to white liberals, like doing the “Hitler Nazi salute”. It’s not immoral to be an African-American, but the problem is we forget how we are all Americans to shared common values, history, customs and traditions. The country’s motto is “E Pluribus Unum” … means “united we stand” … and this isn’t a neocon rant. +
Or McDonald’s in other countries adapt local cuisine to sell: In France, you can order a glass of beer or wine with a McRoyale or Le Croissant avec Jamon. In Norway, you can order a smoked McCod sandwich, a Norwegian favorite. In India, mutton is substituted for big mac beef patties not part of the Hindu diet. And in some McD’s franchises across America: one has tacos, the other pizzas, hot dogs, cheese steaks and whatever the local manager thinks it sales.+
To tried French food: escargot (snails!), horse meat, strong cheese and when I was old enough (16 isn’t for American teens, LOL) had 3 glasses of some kind of alcohol per day. French fries or “pommetes frites” are eaten different: not with salt, never put in sauce first and with a fork (a must). The Americanization of French cuisine is said to annoyed or bothered the pride of world famous culinary arts in France, but not since the Romans have a country highly influenced a proud ancient culture. French Pride (and American pride), the two countries had revolutions 12 years apart in the late 18th century, but France beheaded a king and appointed an “emperor” to caused wars…and we Americans didn’t. +
Fat’s? This is not Fatburger isn’t it? Chinese and Japanese foods, to name a few Asian national cuisines, are leaner than the American or other countries’ not-so-stuffy cuisines. Remember, eat with a chopstick, be sophisicated and over a century ago, white miners in the Northern Sierras not far from you thought a “human being” only eats with a fork. Also we learned Chinese people are “clean” and don’t use cats or dogs as meat. My oh my, times have changed. +
Fresno has several good Armenian restaurants, Basque BBQ joints, Laotian is the new Asian ingredient on the rise and Portuguese seafood. Fresno was once the “Iowa under palm trees” or the sunny version of “Kansas”, but who will or gonna eat the same thing over and over AND OVER? +
Really stupid restaurant gimmick to name: China Man. The owner may claim “every possible pick was taken, I thought the man would be cool”. Are you sure everyone in Chinese restaurants are Chinese descent? The chefs may come from China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand or Malaysia speaking a Chinese-derived language, but the servers don’t seem to be foreign. Nice makeup you got there, “yellowface”. +
Chop Suey was invented by hurried Chinese chefs in San Francisco circa 1900. Adventurous? I bet Chinese recipes vary greatly in L.A., New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Toronto. In Chinese, “chop-suey” means “chopped scraps” out of slang English words. When (white?) people are hungry like hell, make something quick and tasty. +
Gringo? LoL, because whitey or honky are bad words. The new term of choice is Goyim. I’m a goyim in St. Patricks day, Cinco de Mayo and Thanksgiving day…in part I am part-Cherokee/Osage Indian. I wish to celebrate Canada Day, 3 more days for fireworks, BBQ, Poutine and Molson beer. +
Me too, about 80 miles from the US-Mexican border. The Palm Springs are has 100-some Mexican eateries, more of them created by the Gringos’ appetite and the rest going back to the 1920’s for the first wave of Mexican immigrants or Chicano railroad workers in Indio (the Texan “Tex-mex” appearance). Texan and Californian Mexican food aren’t the same, nor are high-end Anglo-Latino fusion or immigrante/ paisano cafes in sections of town where no Anglos live. +
Kev, you are 1000% (extra zero) right. Blacks and Mexicans are more violent toward each other, Salvadoran gangs are killing both Black and Mexican gangs, and the Cuban-vs. Dominican-vs. Puerto Rican-vs. Haitian-vs. Jamaican gang wars in the east coast. The Chinese, Korean, Japanese and other Asian ethnicities never always gotten along, and the L.A. riots of 92 the mostly Black South-Central section had burned, looted or rampaged several Asian-owned shops. Racism among minorities go not well reported on the news media, maybe an occassional “Black anti-Semitic Islamic movement” story. +
Where you go to: TGIFriday’s or the Hometown buffet? Nevermind, Denny’s is where the black people, Asians or Latinos go to eat, not get served, wait longer than the lighter-skinned people in line, stereotypical food choices and redneck families shout “I’m going to McDonald’s” .+
Amen, sista
Oriental: Rugs or People?
Even the dictionary says that when used to describe a person, “Oriental” is “now often regarded as a term of disparagement.” When did the word become so loaded?
By Leaya Lee (~1051 Words)
ljl260@nyu.edu
The first time I felt the full force behind the word “Oriental,” I was 13. My music teacher was explaining the phrasing of a difficult passage to my string quartet, and we all nodded. Suddenly he turned to me, the only Asian in the group, and said, “Oh, stop being so Oriental and nodding.” I felt like I’d been slapped in the face.
Looking back a decade later, I wish I had either said something to him or walked out of the room, but I was too young to know what to do. I’ve been harassed and called names many times because of my ethnicity, but that incident, particularly the word “Oriental,” stuck with me. Before then, I never thought of “Oriental” as a derogatory term, or thought much about it at all. I always wondered what other Asian Americans thought. Did they feel the word was offensive or simply outdated? Even Merriam-Webster’s New World College Dictionary says that when used to describe a person, “Oriental” is “now often regarded as a term of disparagement.” When did the word become so loaded?
John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic critique of the term developed in the 1970s. “With the anti-war movement in the ’60s and early ’70s, many Asian Americans identified the term ‘Oriental’ with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite ‘others,’” said Tchen.
According to Edward Said’s book “Orientalism,” the word was used to indicate Asia at least as far back as the 1300s, but it wasn’t until relatively recently that the word sparked controversy in the United States.
In 1991, the University of Pennsylvania still had an Oriental Studies Department that included everything from East Asian Studies to North African Languages. The school’s Asian students asserted that the term “Oriental” was racist, and after a yearlong debate about what name would encompass all the fields of study in the department, it was renamed the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Six years later, University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer apologized for using the term in the following comment about the school’s cafeteria food: “We have rice now because we have a significant group of Oriental students.” According to a May 9, 1997, Seattle Times article, Frohnmayer wrote an e-mail apology to the university’s Asian Pacific American Student Union saying he did not mean to insult in his “inadvertent use of an antiquated and, to many, demeaning term.”
Washington State Senator Paull Shin sponsored a bill in 2001 that would remove and prohibit the use of the word “Oriental” in all state and local legislation. The bill, passed in 2002, stated that the word Asian must be used to describe those of Asian descent. In a July 1, 2002, Seattle Times article, Shin, a Korean War orphan, explained that the word “Oriental” was offensive because it was first used to signify everything east of London and later to characterize people with flat noses, small eyes, black hair and mysterious ways.
“I do feel the word Oriental is offensive because it should be used towards objects and things, not people,” said Joseph Kang, 25, a Korean American legal assistant in Manhattan. “The term is now definitely outdated. I still hear it from time to time, and I make sure I clarify to the person who said it that ‘Asian’ is the right term.”
Others are not so sure that “Asian” is an easy replacement for “Oriental.”
“The problem is that when ‘Asian’ is used as a substitute for ‘Oriental,’ it leaves out the entire Indian subcontinent, which is a lot of very important people,” said Don Monroe, 46, a recent graduate of the Science and Environmental Reporting Program at NYU. Monroe, who is not Asian, also said that though “Oriental” might be an offensive term, he wasn’t sure if there was a better alternative.
Some feel indifferent. Ulysses De La Torre, 31, a NYU graduate student in the joint journalism and Latin American studies program, who is half Chinese, said he thought the word was outdated, but did not take issue with those who used it. “I think we can fairly say that non-Asians who use the term are probably unfamiliar with the nuances of its origins and aren’t intending to offend,” he said.
“I’m not offended at all. I didn’t grow up knowing that it’s actually a derogatory word,” said Julie Huang, 24, a Chinese American, who recently left her job with Trend Micro in Beijing. “It’s about the motivation behind why they use the word ‘Oriental’ or any other word. Some people simply don’t know it could be derogatory, and I’m not going to bite their heads off for it.”
Hally Chu, 24, a Chinese American graduate student in NYU’s joint journalism and Near Eastern studies program, observed that when she was called “Oriental,” it was either by someone in her grandparents’ generation or by someone in the lower end of the socio-economic system. She also pointed out that just because most people stopped using the word did not mean that any prejudices against non-Westerners had gone away. Chu said that frequently used terms such as F.O.B., also known as “fresh off the boat,” and “Twinkie” were simply new derogatory labels. “So while ‘Oriental’ begins to fade away … many new words are coming in to settle into the same niche that ‘Oriental’ left behind unattended,” she said.
I’ll never forget how badly that music teacher made me feel, but I can’t say I became militant about the word “Oriental.” I still order Oriental chicken salad at restaurants without a second thought, and I haven’t started any protests about both Oxford and Cambridge Universities still having Oriental studies departments. But last year, my boss at my old job asked me to translate some “Oriental writing” for an “Oriental client,” and it bothered me that she, a highly educated young lawyer, would use the term. So I corrected her and told her that Asian was probably a better word to use. It might not have been a huge gesture, but it felt good. It felt like progress.
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Thanks now I finally know what asian fusion is. theres one by my house that looks like the movie flash gordan inside.
is that chinese food except prices are much higher to trick the stupid white people?!
Sumile is Japanese for “viola”. As in the flower.
Wow, the only Asian Fusion place I remember going to was called Spring Rolls.
That’s amazing.
I had the VERY same thought, Stephanie (and the same cringe when I came across that poor grammar).
How original. BTW I am hispanic (Venezuelan) and I am not poor.
Actually I’d say Russian food is much closer to German food than French…
“Fusion restaurants offer a mix of all Asian foods (except Indian, but most don’t know that India is part of Asia)”
It’s not ’cause they don’t know, numbnuts, its ’cause they don’t include dark people into the definition of “Asians.” You see they in the category called “Neggers.” And who wants to eat cuisine that make your Asshole burn for a month???
The lesson continues: it should be “fewer ducks” and “fewer water tanks”, etc., not “less ducks” and “less water tanks”. When the noun is measurable in quantity, it is modified by the word ‘fewer’. When it cannot be quantified in exact number, one uses the word ‘less’. For example: I feel LESS annoyance reading this entry than I did upon reading entry #40. The douchebag writer at this blog thinks that FEWER ducks will attract more white people.
Another thing white people really like – ordering overly hot Indian food like vindaloo which was created to mask the taste of 3 week old goat meat instead of the multitude of pleasant mild dishes they have to offer.
Why don’t you check out #99, guy?
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He must have an arts degree.
Do you mean, “the douchebag writer OF this blog”? Your last sentence did not seem quite grammatically correct, since a blog is in fact a noun, not a place where one can be.
A true standard in comedy blogging.
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Bean- Your website sucks and it is not funny and you really need to stop spamming this site with your URL…
I don’t know man – Thailanders get pretty dark.
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I loled, there’s a Wild Rice in my very white suburban PA town.
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I started to read this blog and at first, I thought it was funny, but when it actually sank in I found myself dwelling on all the inacuracies because what this guy is describing as “white” is more accurately “American.” Many of the then implied stereotypes about non-white people disappear when they become second-, third-, or fourth- generation American. White doesn’t even really have a true definition.. people who have ancestry from Germany, Poland, Great Britian, Russia, South Africa, Brazil are ALL or at least ‘look like’ they are “white.” Yet people from all over the rest of the world with brown, yellow, or black skin are just brown, yellow or black regardless of what country they come from. It’s so highly inacurate it comes off as juvenile and short-sited.
That said, he has quite a clever writing style. I just wish the blogger would use it for more worthy causes or at least more interesting subjects.
Actually, he is copy and pasting this from a book entitled
“Stuff White People Like”.
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Point well taken but why was it necessary to repeat so many times?
I’m white, and I hate everything that white people like on your blog.
That means you are The Wrong Kind of white Person. I fall into the same category.
The white people satirized in this blog probably only make up like 10% of the actual Caucasion population. But those of us in the other 90% don’t count.
seriously? dude, most of the white people that i run into, either when i am at work (i work in a Korean restuarnt) or know from community college fit a good 70-80% of this blog. I don’t mean to be rude but this blog is as accurate as saying “most asian immigrants like to eat rice”. Or “most korean people like to eat Kimchi”. etc. My best friend who is white says this describes his whole family to a “T”.
White people, well all people, also enjoy http://www.NakedHipster.com. Mainly because the girls are hot and don’t have clothes on. Usually those two things go well together. You know, the hotness and the nakedness.
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I guess I fail at being white. In my opinion there is nothing lamer then a fusion bistro. My only exception to this would be a Chinese/Jewish fusion diner, but I have yet to find this to exist so so I can still hate Asian fusion food.
I wish to open the first Indian/Indian fusion restaurant, serving such delicacies such as “Fry Bread Curry” and ” Bison Samosas.”
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We have these in Australia too! And they have trickled down to ghetto version so even people that would never deign to ever set foot in actual Asia eat sushi, albeit sushi drowned in mayonaise in such authentic varieties as crumbed fried prawn with avocado!
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connie alpi sumile is the ultimate twofaced hypocrite.
connie alpi-sumile is most hypocrite! she does evil things and call her self good christian… new hope leeward church should avoid this demon lady. don’t let her fool you with “how are you?”, stay far far away from her family save your soul!
Isreal in in Asia, so is Saudi Arabia and most of Russia.
It’s “palate,” not “pallette.”
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Çünki arzu evden eve nakliyat mutlu müşterilerini referans alan bir yapıya sahip müşteri istekleri doğrultusunda geliştirdiği yeni çözümler ile her zaman sektörde öncü olmanın gururunu sizlerle paylaşmaktadır ve her geçen gün yeni bir hizmet kalitesini bir üst seviyeye taşımaktadır. Çünki arzu evden eve nakliyat mutlu müşterilerini referans alan bir yapıya sahip müşteri istekleri doğrultusunda geliştirdiği yeni çözümler ile her zaman sektörde öncü olmanın gururunu sizlerle paylaşmaktadır ve her geçen gün yeni bir hizmet kalitesini bir üst seviyeye taşımaktadır.
I’m not offended by what’s on the list: I’m offended by what’s NOT on the list. I’m white, and I love fried chicken and watermelon. Every white person I know LOVES fried chicken and watermelon. I don’t see either of those on the list. By the way, what is an Assist (#4)? Someone has called me anal. That doesn’t make sense though. Who likes anal people?
Get over yourself you racist fucks
LOL…I’m black and read this blog is interesting. The funny thing and sad thing is human in general have more in common than we’ll ever give each other credit for, we ALL like trying new things food included. Its like saying only black people like BBQ and chicken, and not knowing that depending on where you go like Kansas City, Texas and some other states hold huge festivals for chicken and bbq where the crowds are likely 60-70% white.
Food is universal to an extent, and everyone’s palate is different. Some stable food are just common in some cultures, any racial undertones are just for the ignorant.
And the Asian best foods usually will be food in the named part of town like in NY or DC “ChinaTown”. Authentic Mexican food will likely be in the Hispanic part of town.
Our food is no different than our country. It’s a melting pot, some love it, some don’t and never will…
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