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My wife says her classmates think she brings very elaborate lunches, instead of like a raw carrot or a cold sandwich or a something.@skinnylatte All the kids thought I was weird because I'd come to school with cooked lettuce and carrots.
Joke's on them, I LOVE cooked iceberg the way my mom makes them.
My parents wouldn't eat raw veggies until after 8 years in Canada. They still boil their water for drinking, even though they know they don't have to.
Old habits die hard.
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People complain about Asian food being "expensive" at $16.50 for a large bowl of pho or $18 for a plate of high quality seafood fried rice that can feed 2 people, but they praise the burger place down the street that charges $20 for a burger.@crashglasshouses Agreed. I also didn't touch the class connotations of historical Asian exploitation in Canada. It's not even just proportions. It's historical classism.
One of my fav restaurants in Toronto is a super high end Chinese place (DaiLo). I've had people say to me: "I'm not paying $100 for Chinese food unless it's a seafood feast."
I mean, your loss, but really?!
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People complain about Asian food being "expensive" at $16.50 for a large bowl of pho or $18 for a plate of high quality seafood fried rice that can feed 2 people, but they praise the burger place down the street that charges $20 for a burger.They pay the same rent, hire the same number of staff, but one can raise prices so much more than the other, because Asian food is supposed to be cheap.
None of the great non-classy Chinese restaurants I know are profitable. They break even at best, and they stay running so that their community has jobs and can pay rent.
It's hard to keep this up in 2024 when so much of your revenue is going to rent.
Without commercial rent control, we'll lose our food scene.
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People complain about Asian food being "expensive" at $16.50 for a large bowl of pho or $18 for a plate of high quality seafood fried rice that can feed 2 people, but they praise the burger place down the street that charges $20 for a burger.People complain about Asian food being "expensive" at $16.50 for a large bowl of pho or $18 for a plate of high quality seafood fried rice that can feed 2 people, but they praise the burger place down the street that charges $20 for a burger.
Can we talk about why so many people see Asian food as needing to be cheap?
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Every year on my anniversary of ‘moving to America’ I like to tell everyone that when I was a kid, I thought I would live in America one day because ‘they also eat chilli, like me’@skinnylatte How deep was your disappointment?