On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 11:20:06 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 5:18:34 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
>
> > There are few who can transition that. It;s not their fault no more
> > than you being not sure of mainland various cookery that you have not
> > really seen.
>
> No one is to blame for being ignorant about other cultures. My assumption was that oxtail soup is not that easy to find in restaurants on the mainland. Let's just say that it "depends" and leave it at that. I was shocked to find that that you can't get fruit punch at McDonald's nor can cake noodle be found at Chinese restaurants on the mainland.

Lots of things are not easy to find in restaurants. Either there's insufficient
demand for them or they are too expensive to make (or both). It's foolish to
judge a cuisine by what is available in restaurants.

Look at Chinese restaurants (on the mainland). Very few actual Chinese dishes
are on the menu--at least on the menu that's printed in English. Judging
by the typical Chinese restaurant menu, you'd never know that Chinese eat
any part of the chicken but the breast.

Cindy Hamilton