/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10493850
Chang can't seem to make up his mind what he hates. He ranges from hating pretentious food to hating low-brow food and at the end of the day it's a total mystery why he even comments on the topic because nothing he says is coherent. It's totally without substance most of the time. If anything it's more of David's inability and struggle to understand how foreigners have been able to accept an american identity . The episode about cajun/creole food totally amplifies this. There's that scene where he's sitting down with vietnamese people that cook traditional cajun food and it clearly pisses him off. Their convo some how devlolves into immigration and how they should be nicer to illegal immigrants because the vietnamese people were immigrants at one point. Chang clearly feels like these people are race traitors, but then in the same sentence is arguing about "people are people, man".

They choose to pair Chang with Peter Meehan. Meehan is probably contemptible to really anyone but urbanite bloggers. Where Chang represents foreign self loathing and confusion, Peter seems to emanate a kind of nativist self-hatred about most things american choosing to favor nearly everything exotic even if it's low quality because of "authenticity". Watching them wax poetic about dominoes and real Neapolitan pizza is and should be vomit-inducing for most people.

At the end of the day I think this whole show is about cultural authenticity and how whole certain groups of people (see, Chang, Meehan, Bourdain) cannot grasp it because they are living outside of any culture. They are empty shells of people attempting grasp something that lives implicitly within most. They're elitist and annoying.

Yea, this show was good, but i think it was because it didn't achieve what the producers were shooting for.

I hate when Asians try to pretend they are a minority or underpivileged, they are neither really.
That's what this guy is, a whiny panderer to white guilt who pretends authenticity trumps flavor when it comes to food.

>>7592217
so much this it hurts

ate at a chinese restaurant once
not one of the edible americanized places, one of those "authentic" shitholes where all the FOBs eat. Absolutely disgusting.

>>5084034
Chinese drink antifreeze and run over their own children, you don't get to look down on anyone.

>>3958517
>>3958517
While I agree about the respect for ingredients, all the iron chef shows have made a big deal about the personalities and reputations of the individual iron chefs.Especially Michiba.Also, the American judging panels have certainly been, for the most part, more qualified to judge food than the politicians and actresses that make up the original IC panels. Only Kishi and the old man scholar are of that aliber of palate.
Weeb or japanese supremacist, either way try to remove your nostalgia goggles.

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