Swiss woman says she feels cheated that a 'Swiss restaurant' in Singapore did not sell Swiss foods

Urzl

@skinnylatte It's so weird that people this sheltered still exist in the world.

It would require some weird circumstances for me to make a decision to seek out "American food" overseas as anything but an ironic lark. I know it'll be weird and off because it's been made by someone with a totally different perspective and I can't be anything but okay with that.

Adrianna Tan

@gooba42 well I have to say that American fast food is actually very good outside of America! Like I would encourage everyone to try any McDonald’s in Asia coz it’s good quality and has local flavors and ingredients (Malaysia has a ‘nasi lemak burger’)

Adrianna Tan

To be clear this place she went to is already far more authentically Swiss than some Chinese restaurants in Switzerland haha

samir, lost in the woods

@skinnylatte Every Chinese restaurant here also sells pad thai.

Farah

@skinnylatte I don’t understand why people do that! You went to Singapore, eat Singapore-y food.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my husband when he’s looking for Indian/Desi food in Iowa . I’m like “bruh, you’re in the American Midwest, why the hell the biriyani would be authentic? Just eat your steak and potato and be happy!!”

mtp

@samir @skinnylatte There are a few that do regional Chinese cuisine without resorting to Pan Asian (e.g., Lotus Garden). But, yes, Europeanized Chinese is inedible.

Adrianna Tan

@farah lol in some places sure. Like if I lived there long enough I might want my food (she lives there)

But there can’t be more than one Swiss restaurant per global city much less one that’s actually good anywhere haha

Adrianna Tan

@farah tho in the Bay Area we have good regional Chinese and desi dood (and also Indian Chinese food) and I would definitely be more picky

Adrianna Tan

@matt @samir just go to Düsseldorf

Cheaper and better

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Dan Ports

@skinnylatte I was deeply offended on China’s behalf when I learned what the Swiss had done to hot pot, aka “fondue Chinoise”

kf

@dan @skinnylatte this toot isn’t real, it can’t hurt me

Adrianna Tan

@kf @dan there is a Chinese hotpot in sf that calls itself that, I think as a joke

It’s very good

Also every lonely planet in history always said, hotpot, which is like a Chinese fondue

samir, lost in the woods

@skinnylatte @matt The word “just” is doing some heavy lifting there. But I would love that!

We’re in London a couple times per year. That’s when we get the good food.

And, funnily enough, you get good Asian food (of many varieties) in Interlaken. It’s the only place in the country I’ve found good Punjabi samosas. The huge influx of Asian tourists helps a lot with keeping the food decent.

Adrianna Tan

@samir @matt Paris has surprisingly good Chinese and Japanese food too. They also have the pan Asian food but I also found like homemade tofu

samir, lost in the woods

@skinnylatte @matt Yeah, Paris has the wonderful advantage of being a place where many chefs from all around the world train. And then some of them go back to making their home cuisine, with extra butter. (I approve of the extra butter.)

mtp

@samir @skinnylatte I’m generally surprised by how good of non-Swiss/European cuisine I can get in Switzerland. It usually about doing the research and not relying on ratings weighted upward from Europeans.

There are a lot of bad places to go here to be sure, but the gems are enough to keep me from losing my mind. TBH, this place punches way above its weight when compared to Berlin where I lived before in this regard.

Adrianna Tan

@samir @matt my favorite empanada place in sf is an Argentinian person who makes empanada with extra butter (because of her French pastry training). So good

samir, lost in the woods

@matt @skinnylatte Totally! There’s a few fucking great restaurants, and I appreciate them very much.

(Except Malaysian. I’m yet to find good Malaysian food. I would appreciate tips.)

Adrianna Tan

@samir @matt Malaysians don’t tend to open restaurants abroad but

Very often there will be a ‘Singapore / Malaysia’ fb group where sometimes people will sell dishes. I’ll see if my friends at the embassy know anything hehe

Peter Sommerlad

@skinnylatte
I don't understand people who travel to a country B, being from country A and then go to a restaurant claiming to serve food from A.

In 1988 when being in Singapore we only went to an "Italian restaurant " the first night after arriving there, because we never experienced Asian food then. Never after that day. Hawker centers are great, as well as being taken to fancy Chinese restaurants by locals.

We learned to admire spicy Asian food then!
Thank you Singapore.