Now, that said...
If you are going to open a restaurant, or any type of establishment which dedicates itself to an ethnic food, I believe you and your customers are better off if you are of that ethnicity, have someone cooking for you who is of that ethnicity, or maybe perhaps have even met a member of the ethnicity who's food you are trying to reproduce.
Case in point, we went to a Taco restaurant yesterday for lunch, they offer tacos, enchiladas, burritos, Mexican rice and beans, etc and of course etc.
One of my employees called the order in while I was out. When the food arrived, I was given a grilled steak enchilada with rice and beans. I took one bite and said "Whoever cooked this meal, is white".
The person who called the order in started laughing, he said that when he called the place that the person didn't sound as if he was of any Spanish descent.
The grilled steak itself tasted like grilled steak, the sauce in the enchilada was tomato paste with nothing added, the beans had no sauce but tasted like dry beans soaked in water with a little chili powder. The meal was outrageously pathetic and inedible.
So the next time you call a Spanish, Indian, Thai, or Chinese food establishment and the person taking the order sounds like Thurston Howell the Third, (Hauvod accent), chances are, the food won't be what you were expecting. The guy who placed the order for us by the way Is of Hispanic descent and he suggested that the guy perhaps let the dishwasher do the cooking.
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