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Ah, soy. The realm of vegans and vegetarians everywhere.
Except, y’know, not, because the soy plant (glycene soja) is native to Central China, and has been a part of our diets and medicines for five thousand years (which is why I ask every person who takes personal issue with our choice of meats to stop eating tofu and soy-related products, lest you be associated with our barbarism).
Legend has it that Emperor Shennong (Emperor of the Five Grains), who is himself half-legend, declared soybeans, along with rice, wheat, barley, and millet, to be the five sacred plants. And before we used them to make tasty treats like soy sauce and soy milk and doufu, they were very important to the crop rotation process, which kept the soil nice and fertile.
And the things it makes are very tasty. And any person who tells you that tofu (which is made from the protein of soybeans) is “bland” and “tasteless” clearly does not know how to properly prepare doufu because
could not in any universe be called “bland” or “tasteless.”
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Why is it that people are willing to spend $20 on a bowl of pasta with sauce that they might actually be able to replicate pretty faithfully at home, yet they balk at the notion of a white-table cloth Thai restaurant, or a tacos that cost more than $3 each? Even in a city as “cosmopolitan” as New York, restaurant openings like Tamarind Tribeca (Indian) and Lotus of Siam (Thai) always seem to elicit this knee-jerk reaction from some diners who have decided that certain countries produce food that belongs in the “cheap eats” category—and it’s not allowed out. (Side note: How often do magazine lists of “cheap eats” double as rundowns of outer-borough ethnic foods?)
Yelp, Chowhound, and other restaurant sites are littered with comments like, “$5 for dumplings?? I’ll go to Flushing, thanks!” or “When I was backpacking in India this dish cost like five cents, only an idiot would pay that much!” Yet you never see complaints about the prices at Western restaurants framed in these terms, because it’s ingrained in people’s heads that these foods are somehow “worth” more. If we’re talking foie gras or chateaubriand, fair enough. But be real: You know damn well that rigatoni sorrentino is no more expensive to produce than a plate of duck laab, so to decry a pricey version as a ripoff is disingenuous. This question of perceived value is becoming increasingly troublesome as more non-native (read: white) chefs take on “ethnic” cuisines, and suddenly it’s okay to charge $14 for shu mai because hey, the chef is ELEVATING the cuisine.
"One of the entries from the list ‘20 Things Everyone Thinks About the Food World (But Nobody Will Say)’.
Real. As. Fuck.
And real talk, I wish there was a Clueless Whitebread Muhfuckas filter on Yelp, because they stay talking stupid shit about places around my way.
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Let’s also talk about how if there is a white face in front of these foods, that person can get more money because this is now a “sophisticated version made by whiteys”, but if people are doing their own shit it needs to be cheap like it is back in the country.
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Same thing about soul food being horrible and cheap and harmful to your health until some pasty trick decides to put it on the menu in their mediocre ass white table-cloth restaurant where they charge $20 for a plate of turnip greens and corn bread!!
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2746. Kimbap. A delicious Korean dish with rice, sushi and assorted veggies!
KIMBAP DOESN’T CONTAIN SUSHI.
SUSHI IS A JAPANESE RICE DISH, USUALLY TOPPED OFF WITH RAW FISH.
KIMBAP IS NOT A RICE DISH WITHIN A RICE DISH TYPE THING, THERE’S NOT FUCKING SUSHI IN KIMBAP. MOST KIMBAP DON’T EVEN HAVE FISH IN THEM, THE ONLY FISH USED BEING TUNA, WHICH ISN’T EVEN RAW.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT.
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