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0 pointssocalgal23mo ago0 comments

Wow, my experience is so different. The two most disappointing places I’ve ever been food wise were London and Paris. Spent 2 months in Paris, nothing stuck out except for one home cooked meal at a friend’s

as Tyler Cowen says, Tokyo has the best food in the world, and the best French food in the world.

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/david-brooks-2/

Tokyo has even won best pizza as judged by the Italian pizza competition in Italy several years

Paris has almost no East Asian food and what I did see when trying to find some was all in porcelain trays like slightly fancier Panda Express.

London I found a few good places in Soho but just slightly out of the center it was a food desert

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sofixa3mo ago

> Paris has almost no East Asian food and what I did see when trying to find some was all in porcelain trays like slightly fancier Panda Express.

This is simply not true. Are you sure you were in Paris, France? French people absolutely adore East Asian, and especially Japanese cuisine. There are the meh fast food options, yes, but the majority are definitely sushi places. And you have tons of others like Korean, Korean barbecue, more traditional japanese, etc.

The Japanese restaurants are concentrated around rue St Anne; the Chinese ones around rue Volta. But not exclusively.

As a fun exercise, Japanese is the highest represented origin (country) category in the Michelin guide. After that is Italian with slightly less. (The first category is "modern" which can mean anything).

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sofixa3mo ago

> Paris has almost no East Asian food and what I did see when trying to find some was all in porcelain trays like slightly fancier Panda Express.

The Japanese restaurants are concentrated around rue St Anne; the Chinese ones around rue Volta. But not exclusively.

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