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SharpBits said:
The green stuff sold at 99% of Sushi places is just colored horseradish. Real wasabi is too expensive. Along those lines, most Thai and Sushi places are actually Chinese restaurants.
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In CT, Thai restaurants are almost always Thai. But Japanese restaurants are almost always Chinese. One of the best Italian restaurants in our area is by a Vietnamese guy.
 
toker said:
In CT, Thai restaurants are almost always Thai. But Japanese restaurants are almost always Chinese. One of the best Italian restaurants in our area is by a Vietnamese guy.
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Yeah, it’s definitely location dependent. Most of the Thai restaurants I’ve frequented in MI and OH were Thai (and having traveled to Thailand and picked up a tiny bit of Thai, it’s easy to hear the accent in their speech, then a simple “Sawasdee Kaap” and “Kop Kuun Kaap” usually gets better service).

There used to be a Thai restaurant in a mall that I went to regularly in college with my roommate. After the 2nd time, the owner (who was also the chef) would always add a free dish to our order.

As for Japanese; yeah, the majority of them are Chinese run. The exception in the Midwest, is Chicago. There’s a large Japanese community north of Chicago, with a fair number of Japanese run restaurants and Japanese grocery stores (where more than a few of the items have NO English on them whatsoever).

*** funny story; being PC isn’t really a thing in some countries/cultures.

In college, a group of us went on a trip to Chicago for the weekend. Of course, one of the things we went for, was the food. One of the guys in the group was an exchange student from Japan, who directed us to the various Japanese restaurants he’d learned about from other Japanese students.

One of the restaurants we went to was highly recommended for their Okonomiyaki. This Japanese guy said, “Ya, it’s good, right? I call it Chicanomiyaki. You look through kitchen door when waiter go, everyone in kitchen is Chicano…” 😮

That guy was a riot. 😂
 
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SharpBits said:
The green stuff sold at 99% of Sushi places is just colored horseradish. Real wasabi is too expensive. Along those lines, most Thai and Sushi places are actually Chinese restaurants.
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Not ours!

I think they're Cambodian

No wait. Colombian.

Idunno
 
Gusbuster said:

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toker said:
Probably tastes similar to gator?
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I have eaten iguana several times and did not find it displeasing. The texture was similar to hot smoked salmon: flaky in nature but a bit tougher and less likely to fall apart. It wasn't "tough" per se, but it didn't just fall apart like cooked fish usually does; if anything it was more "meaty". Unsurprisingly, it was similar to rattlesnakes I have eaten in the past.

Granted, I mostly ate them prepared in empanadas or baked, so grilling will probably change the texture and flavor.

bluemax_1 said:
I’ve had barbecued iguana before. It was like really stringy chicken.
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This makes sense. I grilled a rattlesnake once and accidentally overcooked it, making it stringy.
 
oldmanwilly said:
I have eaten iguana several times and did not find it displeasing. The texture was similar to hot smoked salmon: flaky in nature but a bit tougher and less likely to fall apart. It wasn't "tough" per se, but it didn't just fall apart like cooked fish usually does; if anything it was more "meaty". Unsurprisingly, it was similar to rattlesnakes I have eaten in the past.

Granted, I mostly ate them prepared in empanadas or baked, so grilling will probably change the texture and flavor.



This makes sense. I grilled a rattlesnake once and accidentally overcooked it, making it stringy.
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Yeah, they probably deliberately overcooked it to ensure any potential parasites were killed (no idea how much of an issue that is, but I recall reading something about gator tails generally being parasite ridden, and the dangers of not cooking them enough to kill the parasites).
 
At one point I decided to try out the Chinese AI DeepSeek.
Just for the sake of experiment and curiosity.
So yeah, I ended up with a permanent ban there.
I only asked about a 10 questions…
 
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