On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:49:20 +0800, Miguel Cruz wrote:
>Martin wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 May 2007 04:20:55 +0800, Miguel Cruz wrote:
>> >I hadn't expected to find "a lot" of non-Spanish food. I admit I was
>> >surprised to find less than 10 non-Spanish, non-Italian restaurants in
>> >weeks of walking around a major city. I think that is hard to duplicate
>> >in most modern countries.
>>
>> You don't find a lot of non-Italian restaurants in Italy. If the local food is
>> good there is not a lot of incentive to start up foreign food restaurants.
>
>The local food here in Malaysia is excellent. And yet -
>
>Within a 5-minute walk of my home, there are (I am probably missing a
>lot) 8 Japanese, 5 Thai, 1 Vietnamese, 2 Korean, 2 Italian, 3 French, 3
>Lebanese, 2 Persian, and one English (!) restaurant. And that's leaving
>out about 30-40 Indian and Chinese places since those are significant
>minority groups here.
>
>The English one, by the way, is not bad at all.
>
>I think it's just that people in many parts of Europe (and elsewhere)
>are gastroxenophobic.
Expats in the Netherlands?
Dutch pate is 35% fat, mince meat 27.5%, salami 27.5% ...
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Martin
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