On 1/10/2018 6:42 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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.
>
(snippage)
If you don't cook, restaurants are about the only thing you have to go
by. I get the distinct impression dsi1 doesn't cook.

If nothing else, you can learn a lot about different cultures just by
flipping through a few cook books.

Jill