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    Cheese & Chinese Cuisine?

    in China: Cooking & Baking

    Posted · Edited by stephenc (log)

    Lactose intolerance usually is genetic (inherited). In many people of African or Asian descent, the body begins making less lactase around age 5. As many as 90% of Asian-Americans, 80 percent of American Indians, 65% of African-Americans and 50% of Hispanics have some degree of lactose intolerance. In contrast, most Caucasians (80%) have a gene that preserves the ability to produce lactase into adulthood.

    As an Asian-American, I have seen WAY too many of my friends and relatives eating ice-cream, putting cream in their coffee, eating cheeseburgers and pizza, putting milk in their cereal, or just straight up drinking milk for that figure to be correct. 50% seems like a more reasonable figure to me.

    Morimoto's in Manhattan

    in New York: Dining

    Posted · Edited by stephenc (log)

    Where are people getting the money to shovel into these places? And how exactly do they plan on making it back?

    SS is a notorious tightwad. I'm sure he already had the $12 mil upfront. His two Continentals are absolute cash-cows.

    Morimoto's in Manhattan

    in New York: Dining

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    Blogger Augieland has already had the Morimoto omakese five times. Obviously the guy has a lot of disposable income. Amazingly, there have been no repeated dishes.

    See here, here, here, here, and here.

    Bah, theres a woman in Philly who's been to Morimoto once a week, every week, religiously, since it's been open.

    And she says she hasn't had a dish twice yet.

    Only a Chinese would eat it

    in China: Cooking & Baking

    Posted · Edited by stephenc (log)

    And Chinese people these days generally like cheese.

    May I inquire how this statement is derived? I would like to know what one can base on to characterize Chinese these days generally like cheese. No doubt that some do, but I don't think it's the majority.

    From my perspective, there are 1.3 billion people in China (per US CIA website). Most of the population live in rural areas and may not have heard of the western cheese, let alone have tasted it.

    If this observation is based on Chinese living oversea or those living in more modern cities such as Shanghai (9 million, <1%), Beijing (10 million, again <1%) and Hong Kong (7 million, <1%), still it is a small percentage even if every resident in Shanghai and Beijing and Hong Kong likes Cheese (which I doubt).

    How can you prove that all these chinese people don't like cheese?

    From the all the people I see eating pizza and cheeseburgers these days in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, I'm generally going to assume that most people probably like cheese.

    Even my 85 year old grandfather loves his Pizza Hut and Dominos.

    This is a stupid argument, but you can't argue me out my own inferences and observations.

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