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Most Played Out Overhyped Ethnic Cuisine: Italian, Chinese or Japanese Food

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Go to any major city or any bougie and hipster area and you see these cuisine restaurants touted as some culture thing. In my opinion, I am the type that has to be in the mood for food like this buy people are so freaking crazy about this kind of food. Anytime you watch Food or Cooking shows there is always some cook or chef bragging about cooking a mean pasta.

What do you think is the most most played out overhyped Ethnic Cuisine: Italian, Chinese or Japanese Food
 

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Japanese is played out for me.

AUTHENTIC Chinese (especially some Dim Sum) & Italian is where its at!
 

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Chinese , I think it gained a cult following because they gave huge portions for the cost of food. But they be dirty AF and put all types of sh!t in their food
 

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None of them. When bad food becomes normalized and ubiquitous it hard to understand why anyone would find it tasty.

I think we get to this point because many people eat bad versions of all these foods.
Like the thread where people were adding grape jelly spaghetti sauce.

When you have good quality pasta ( Where you can eat it all by itself) and using tomatoes that aren't high in acid. The hype fits.
Having Kobe beef and tongue was some of the best beef I had in my life. It was flavorful, tender, moist and nothing eaten with the beef overpowered the flavor.

China is diverse in their foods and flavors but it isn't represented well in the U.S.A. I can't name a single GOOD Chinese food place without going to Chinatown in NYC and when I go it depends on what I'm getting the hotpot places don't do good dumplings and visa versa.
 

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You forgot Mexican, I love me some Mexican food but Im around ppl who eat it everyday like they got amnesia.
 

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Japanese is played out for me.

AUTHENTIC Chinese (especially some Dim Sum) & Italian is where its at!
ITA. I think Chinese food from China has so much complexity... and real Chinese hot pot can be a special food experience.

And u can pry my pasta, pizza etc from cold, dead hands...
 

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Chinese I’ll shall say but the others you listed ...now OP. You hating big time. I can’t live without Italian and Japanese food!
 

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Japanese, because some of these motherfuckers wanna eat sushi every damned day

Also Indian, people hype it up to me but most of it looks unappealing to me
 

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The problem with Japanese food is that it's not diverse. There are so many dishes that don't see the light of day around the world, but every street corner has a ramen shop or a sushi joint, some of which isn't even good or even run by Japanese people.
The Chinese food you get served isn't the same as the stuff at an authentic restaurant. Same goes for Italian foods, where all you see are pastas and pizza.
So I can't consider any of them "overhyped" until we see more variety in cuisine.
 

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None of them. When bad food becomes normalized and ubiquitous it hard to understand why anyone would find it tasty.

I think we get to this point because many people eat bad versions of all these foods.
Like the thread where people were adding grape jelly spaghetti sauce.

When you have good quality pasta ( Where you can eat it all by itself) and using tomatoes that aren't high in acid. The hype fits.
Having Kobe beef and tongue was some of the best beef I had in my life. It was flavorful, tender, moist and nothing eaten with the beef overpowered the flavor.

China is diverse in their foods and flavors but it isn't represented well in the U.S.A. I can't name a single GOOD Chinese food place without going to Chinatown in NYC and when I go it depends on what I'm getting the hotpot places don't do good dumplings and visa versa.
*in Soulja Boy voice* GRAPE JELLY?!
 

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Japanese. Folks think cause they eat raw fish, seaweed, and rice that they're a "foodie" or a connoisseur. Japanese food in the US is definitely overhyped
 

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Lol, I can tell some of y'all live in west bumblefuck because y'all think Olive Garden style Italian food and PF Chang's Chinese food constitutes "real" Italian or Chinese food, lol.

For me, I'd have to go with Japanese, mostly because it's never looked appealing to me and it's not something I've had a lot of experience with. But legit Chinese food, Korean food, REAL Italian food but especially REAL Indian food is the sh!t! I live in NYC so I've been exposed to different types of cuisine from different cultures since I was a small child.
 

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If you have traditional cuisine of all of them it isn’t played out.

I am not crazy about Chinese, but Japanese and particularly Italian cuisine are extremely good. And I don’t really eat sushi and no pasta.
 

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Is sushi Japanese? People love that stuff and it's not cheap. No thank you.
 

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I ran in here ready to say Chinese though. I used to hate Italian food or so I thought. I'm just not a fan of spaghetti or the red sauce. Pasta makes me bloated though. I don't like that.
 

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Chinese followed by Italian. If you are making your own food at home though, all of these cuisines hit. My great grandma was a second-Gen Italian and left my grandfather recipes when she passed. He never shared them with us since he lost them, but he makes sauce from scratch.
Chinese food is nasty and the establishments are usually dirty and rundown. Even in the suburbs and higher income areas, their facilities are still gross. Pass
 

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Japanese, coming from someone who worked at an Asian Fusion restaurant. Most places outside of Chicago are owned by Chinese people so not even real Japanese dishes. Outside of sushi, ramen, and a handful of other things (that you likely won't find easily in the US) there aren't many standout dishes. That being said real sushi and udon are my favorites and I love japanese snacks.
 

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Chinese for sure. Mainly because the ones in NYC are so americanized; since when do asians eat fried green plantain ? i dont think i ever had real authentic chinese food And lately it’s been bland af like no seasoning AT ALL
 

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Put some respect on Chinese cuisine. They literally created it out of thin air in America, not based on anything, to appease the palates of American whites when the only work they could find here was as cooks. They developed something that was so delicious and unique and created an empire and legacy that they still run and we all pay them for to this day.

They made something out of nothing
 

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