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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not liking Korean food I don’t think is racist. 
I would consider calling out the tiger mom comment, but my kid would probably just get embarrassed.

- Asian mom (but not a “tiger mom”)[/quote]

I feel like lumping all Asian food together is sort of ignorant, if not racist. Chicken tikka masala is very different from seaweed salad.[/quote]

Stop getting riled up about sh!t that doesn’t matter.

Nobody calls Indian food Asian food.  Asian food (as used by Americans, and FYI we are in America) means Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc.  And obviously it’s not all the same food.  No cuisine in the entire world is comprised of all the same food.  Wouldn’t you agree that Haggis is very different from Yorkshire pudding?[/quote]

I don't like any of the foods you mentioned above. I agree they are different, but I happen to not like any of them. So for shorthand if I'm with friends and we're deciding what to order, I'll say please not Asian food. Is this wrong? Otherwise I'd have to list them all out.[/quote]

It’s wrong because they’re all so different that it makes you sound racist. Do you not like vegetables? Rice? Noodles? Specific sauces or flavors? We are a mixed Japanese family and we don’t like all Japanese food because some of it isn’t from the regions our family is from and it tastes much richer than what we grew up with. But we would never say we dislike all Japanese food or all Asian food because of thise specific dishes.

It doesn’t seem possible that there isn’t at least one aspect of Asian cuisine that you find tolerable. Therefore making a blanket statement that you dislike all Asian food makes you sound narrow minded, ignorant, inexperienced with food, or racist.[/quote]

I’m not that PP but you more or less know what there is on the menu of a Japanese, Chinese or Korean restaurant in the US. So if you’ve been you’ll know if you like it or not. I can always find something I like but I don’t love this for group dining b/c then it’s a “let’s order for the table and share!” And as a vegetarian there is a bunch of food ordered that I won’t eat and everyone takes all of the one or two dishes I will eat. I prefer a restaurant that isn’t as much about sharing where I can just order my own thing so I don’t leave hungry.[/quote]

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