/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15418075]

Why isn’t African food getting any traction in the west?

[Anonymous No.15418096]

I've often wondered this myself. I see a fair amount of Ethiopian restaurants, but not much else. Had a few Ghanaian places but they are always really unconventional in how they are located or established (for example one operated out of a church basement next to a daycare). I'd love to see more west African food. Miss kele wele and fufu, bros.

[Anonymous No.15418106]

>>15418075
there aren't many Africans opening restaurants in America. compared to maybe chinese and indian.

[Anonymous No.15418108]

>>15418075
Ethiopian food kind of is, but it's kind of odd that other cuisines haven't. Especially Nigeria given its large population and increasingly large diaspora.

[Anonymous No.15418111]

>>15418075
Racism

[Anonymous No.15418116]

>>15418111
basedcism

[Anonymous No.15418127]

>>15418075
What exactly makes that African?

Indian food is shit because it's just different colored poop.

[Anonymous No.15418161]

>>15418075
Because modern Africa food is pretty much just your standard western food where we have the, corn rice yams chicken and beef and they cooked it in very simple ways I guess the spi is are unique

[Anonymous No.15418205]

>>15418075
The immigrant communities are small and heavily slanted towards highly educated people - not that they don't know how to cook regional dishes from home but they are more likely to work in white collar jobs in their discipline, they tend to be products of the brain drain of their home countries. On the other hand refugees don't usually have the money to start a restaurant, especially one in a nice neighborhood that seems inviting to people who have no idea what any of the dishes even are.

Chinese immigrants for reference have entire endemic support systems of community banking and people who will help you set up a restaurant - advising you how to navigate the legal hurdles to get going, what dishes americans like, help you get menus printed and getting you deals on furniture. My godfather grew up in China and worked tangentially to this little shadow industry in Boston and it was really interesting to see entire bus lines, financial systems, medical systems etc. all set up to help people get lives started in a new country.

[Anonymous No.15418228]

>>15418075
too many black people here

[Anonymous No.15418249]

>>15418127
I dont think you have indian food, you have american/euro slop passed of with a indian label.

[Anonymous No.15418266]

>>15418249
its a bunch of food with indian spices. how isn’t it indian? except made without any ganges shit river water

[Anonymous No.15418275]

>>15418161
>corn rice yams chicken beef
literally nothing about that is western tho

[Anonymous No.15418291]

UN/Red Cross food rations aren't exactly haute cuisine. :0

[Anonymous No.15418307]

>>15418075
Because it’s shit? Most of Africa the food is just like unseasoned yams or simple grains. Ethiopian and Moroccan food is based tho

[Anonymous No.15418326]

>>15418275
Based retard

[Anonymous No.15418344]

nobody wants to eat mosquito burgers.

[Anonymous No.15418350]

>>15418266
I had "curry" made by white people the other day and that shit was literally just beef stew.

[Anonymous No.15418356]

>>15418344
how about mud biscuits?

[Anonymous No.15418368]

>>15418075
I have an Ethiopian place that I order from regularly, and I had a Moroccan place I used to frequent very regularly before the rona. I loved both of them and my girlfriend's dad, who lived in Ethiopia for several years said that it's by far the most authentic Ethiopian food he's had in the states.

[Anonymous No.15418372]

>>15418205
Boston Chinatown used to be based.

[Anonymous No.15418374]

>>15418075
y'know given a couple of decades I wouldn't be surprised if it does. you see it in little bits and pieces but as current trends fade and the thirst for novelty continues, I could see it playing a role at least if current demographic trends continue. Indian food is only currently making its inroads throughout the country, "Mediterranean" has been around for so long and yet is only now properly "in vogue". One day. From my experience it's actually pretty tasty, most notably a friend of mine married into a Kenyan family. The food was delicious, honestly what might hold it back is that a lot of the foods (not all, but plenty) were quite similar to other stuff you already know and love, with minor differentiations. There was a dish that might as well have been literally pico de gallo, various samosas, some stewed meats.
>>15418205
lotta insight in this here post, though.

[Anonymous No.15418383]

>africans
>food
im not sending them 5 dollars a month because they are black anon...

[Anonymous No.15418391]

>>15418075
>American Corn
>African Food

[Anonymous No.15418399]

>>15418075
Because good African food is actually Indian and Durka in origin.

[Anonymous No.15418400]

>>15418391
based 15thcenturyposter

[Anonymous No.15418419]

>>15418075
Because they don't curate an inclusive atmosphere. The feel like when you go into shops, but they ain't just shops. I dont know why I am there for food I dont eat from people I can't talk to that dont look like me. How is that supposed to gain traction when it only accommodates the usual customers. And westerners worry that contamenent awareness and hygienic responsibility may not have been held to a western idea. Sorry anon

[Anonymous No.15418433]

And your local markets into are all in your language and are stale af. Otherwise, I'd clean out the Asian market and halal store as well as afrikaans and whatever my American body can glutton upon. Try hybridizing with local trends. If you are the community, be a fuckin member.

[Anonymous No.15418434]

>>15418419
friendlier than mexicans. at least if you're putting money in their hands, they'll actually look you in the face.

[Anonymous No.15418491]

>>15418434
Mexicans are the ones who taught me to cook when I was a kid. They kind of helped keep multiple generations of my family out of poverty.

[Anonymous No.15418492]

>>15418075
>African
>food

[Anonymous No.15418516]

>>15418491
y'know I do apologize for painting with so broad a brush. I just had very bad experiences living in a mexican neighborhood, most of what I took with me from those years was an attitude of tribal territorialism. less people asked me for money on the street there, but I could feel the seething contempt for white faces nearly everywhere I went. it's hard to forget.

[Anonymous No.15418525]

>>15418350
So fucking cringe when people say
>X or y food can’t be cooked by anyone ever except X or y people!
You’re not special and neither is your food. It’s literally just spice-stew. Get over yourself snowflake.

[Anonymous No.15418538]

>>15418356
No fucking way. Did they set up some kind of stall to sell shit out of using the bed of that broken down pick up truck? Fucking topkek

[Anonymous No.15418555]

>>15418356
Now now, that's Haitian food.

[Anonymous No.15418587]

>>15418525
>It’s literally just spice-stew.

Generally if you get half of the recipe wrong, its a failure.

[Anonymous No.15418602]

>>15418525
>X or y food can’t be cooked by anyone ever except X or y people!

Also this isn't what I'm saying at all. Japs are some tasteless mofos but their curry is sweet and flavorful. This was just an instance of very bad curry.

[Anonymous No.15418637]

>>15418356
She's got quite a bit of fat on her, I'm assuming those mud biscuits have quite a caloric profile

[Anonymous No.15418641]

>>15418538
That’s called a Haitian loft lol

[Anonymous No.15418648]

>>15418075

Because it's garbage

[Anonymous No.15418806]

>>15418075
Speaking of African cuisine, unironically is there a way to get say 100-200 kg of elephant meat (including liver if possible) shipped to the US? Legally of course, or you know w/e. Seems impractical but I need to give it a shot for reasons bros.

[Anonymous No.15418823]

>>15418075
>>15418096
They have in the past at some points but it's always a dice roll whether something will catch on and be a trend.

A lot of African food that's unique still falls within being overly similar to Indian or middle eastern foods, so when you open up a restaurant it doesn't really stand out as well.

There's one other factor I've noticed. Africans in my city who might open a restaurant seem to do so closer to more black neighborhoods, because like other immigrants they initially think of marketing their food to fellow immigrants.

Meanwhile others will open theirs where white hipsters are more likely to see them or pass by.

[Anonymous No.15418827]

>>15418075
It is though, there weren't any African restaurants in my town until a decade ago. Now there are a few and some African grocery stores.

[Anonymous No.15418833]

African food is just shitty middle eastern food.

[Anonymous No.15418834]

>>15418127
>Indian food is shit because it's just different colored poop.
t. tastelet

[Anonymous No.15418836]

Who would have thought that random stew and flatbreads present in many cultures in the word would fail to impress anyone but the most ardent fans of montezumas revenge

[Anonymous No.15418839]

>>15418806
No one eats elephant. The only people who ever would are dumb white sport poachers. But mostly that's too icky for them, they just want a trophy.

[Anonymous No.15418848]

>>15418075
It's slowly taking off because Africa itself is slowly taking off. Like others have said, Ethiopian is already fairly big, but other regional cuisines are starting to take root too. I give it about 20-30 years before you start to see it really become commonplace, kind of like how sushi was common on the West Coast in and some major cities the 50s but didn't fully take off in the US until the 80s.

[Anonymous No.15418853]

>>15418075
because we can only handle one epidemic at a time

[Anonymous No.15418866]

>>15418834
okay pooplet, tell me who different spiced up poop is better than a burger.

[Anonymous No.15418871]

>>15418641
The monkeys seem to have discovered the wheel. Quite intriguing indeed.

[Anonymous No.15418903]

>>15418839
Don't bullshit blackanon. Literally everyone and everything that eats meat will eat megafauna, including black africans, anon. It's official legislation in South Africa, included in their Animal Improvement Act. It's very popular in Central Africa and West Africa, but that shit is often illegal. This is especially so with rich black urbanites, probably LARPing in some autistic way or doing god knows what kind of voodoo tier shit with remains. Anyway I heard about this from a black African who said he had eaten elephant meat from an elephant that was hunted. It was legal, no problem, a rare occurrence but it happened. Now I can believe the hunter was white and the conservation people were white, but this isn't a white people thing (unfortunately). Rhinos are part of that legislation in South Africa too btw.

[Anonymous No.15418911]

It's not getting any traction in Africa either

[Anonymous No.15418913]

>>15418866
I like burgers a lot, but Indian food is great too. There are tons of different Indian cuisines and dishes, maybe try some different ones?

[Anonymous No.15418934]

>>15418911

[Anonymous No.15418998]

>>15418205
Fantastic post.
>>15418356
That's Haiti, not Africa.
>>15418419
Ethiopian, Ghanaian etc. restaurant-owners tend to be incredibly friendly; either you're autistic and self-conscious or the restaurant owners in your area are douchebags.

[Anonymous No.15419816]

because people in the west dont know africans eat food

[Anonymous No.15420375]

>>15418344
it's not up to you

[Anonymous No.15420379]

>>15418911
LOL

[Anonymous No.15420415]

>>15418075
I ate at an African restaurant once. It was very "rough", for lack of a better word.
It was basically a big pile of yellow rice like in your pic with two massive drum sticks on top of it. Might have been turkey, don't remember.
It wasn't bad honestly, just really basic and kinda primitive.

[Anonymous No.15420436]

>>15418350
>noooooooooooooo! My cuisine is very special and you have to use the right spices and it has to have the consistency of pig swill or you dont get the right taste! Urgh.

[Anonymous No.15421713]

>>15418356
based avenged sevenfold shirt

[Anonymous No.15421726]

>>15418075
Nobody likes diarrhea and Aids.

[Anonymous No.15421830]

>>15418127
Based and currypilled

[Anonymous No.15421845]

>>15419816
Pretty sure westerners think of lions eating whatever whenever they think of Africa and food. There's apparently people there.

[Anonymous No.15421849]

>>15418075
because we are stupid racists and have a lot to learn

[Anonymous No.15421943]

>>15418516
haha you're obviously not white because why would anyone give a shit about mexicans feeling inherently inferior

[Anonymous No.15421950]

>>15418848
the whole ethopian thing is completely forced "new trend"...you try it once because of the buzz and then you realize it's fucking dog shit...literally no one ever craves ethiopian food or goes out for it more than one time

[Anonymous No.15421952]

>>15418372
Now the entire metro area is a giant Chinatown. Not so based anymore.

[Anonymous No.15421958]

>>15421952
lol cambridge is chinatown

[Anonymous No.15422077]

>>15418205
>all set up to help people get lives started in a new country
Wouldn't they be forever indebted aka slaves tho

[Anonymous No.15422089]

>>15421950
>you try it once because of the buzz and then you realize it's fucking dog shit...literally no one ever craves ethiopian food or goes out for it more than one time
You must have gone to a shitty fucking Ethiopian restaurant then, I live in a town without it right now and miss it a lot.

[Anonymous No.15422096]

>>15422089
no. you don't. literally no one does. every fucking ethiopian restaurant is shitty.

[Anonymous No.15422106]

>>15418205
> highly educated people
That cant be true as were talking about Africans

[Anonymous No.15422105]

>>15422096
>Telling me what I think
Based autist that can't imagine people having different opinions.

[Anonymous No.15422109]

>>15422096
Nah fuck you cunt, I like it too.

[Anonymous No.15422114]

>>15422105
yeah, but you don't have a different opinion. you are just lying.

[Anonymous No.15422117]

>>15422114
>Everyone that disagrees with me is a liar
Not sure if autism or schizo.

[Anonymous No.15422120]

>>15422109
i like mcchickens too. sometimes. i also know it's shit.

[Anonymous No.15422126]

>>15422117
ok you're not lying you're just larping as a retard then whatever. still doesn't change the fact that ethiopian food is dog shit slop that no one thinks is actually good.

[Anonymous No.15422127]

>>15422106
Africans are not the same as African-Americans, and if America is going to open its doors to any African immigrants, they are going to have money and credentials as a prerequisite, and even then you got some 'splaining to do. We take absolutely only their best and brightest, to the detriment of their native population.

[Anonymous No.15422130]

>>15422127
africans hate niggers like you wouldn't believe.

[Anonymous No.15422131]

>>15422126
>Larping
>Online
Ok schizo.

[Anonymous No.15422132]

>>15422120
Your face is shit you fucking autistic faggot, suck my rusty knob.

[Anonymous No.15422138]

>>15422132
whip out you little shriveled shrimp dick loser and i just might

[Anonymous No.15422144]

>>15422138
BACK THE FUCK UP BITCH, HERE COMES DADDY'S COCK. CHOOCHOO FAGGOT COCKSUCKER

[Anonymous No.15422151]

>>15422131
why would anyone try to say they like ethiopian food unless they were lying or were jewish? you've been to an ethiopian restaurant exactly one single time in your life voluntarily and any subsequent trip was because there was a person who had never tried ethiopian food and wanted to eat there for their first experience

[Anonymous No.15422155]

>>15418075
Who would want to eat African mud cookies?

[Anonymous No.15422156]

>>15422144
i don't think so i'm pretty secure with my impressive dad cock

[Anonymous No.15422157]

>>15418075
Does your wife get kinky when she prepares African food?

[Anonymous No.15422160]

>>15422151
Been to 5 different ones and used to have a regular one that I'd order from all the time. It was like $15 for a metric fuckload of injera and 10 different toppings, would have leftovers for days. Also not a Jew, fuck Israel. Keep telling me how I lived my own life though schizo, whatever makes you feel better.

[Anonymous No.15422169]

>>15422160
>Also not a Jew, fuck Israel.
see you just gave it all away you fucking lying hebrew piece of shit fuck off with your metric fuckload of ethiopian dog shit

[Anonymous No.15422183]

>>15422169
>Fuck Jews
>"You're a Jew!"
Lmao actual schizo confirmed. Have fun imagining kikes everywhere retard.

[Anonymous No.15422187]

>>15418075
>Why isn’t African food getting any traction in the west?
I don't know, have you heard of African cuisine? Well, neither have they

[Anonymous No.15422188]

>>15422183
stop shitting up the thread moishe no one likes ethiopian food.

[Anonymous No.15422199]

even ethiopians don't like ethiopian food. if you ever go to an ethiopian restaurant there will be 0 ethiopians eating there and 100% white people trying ethiopian food for the first time.

[Anonymous No.15422206]

>>15418075
nando's is south african and I fucking love eating nando's, even though it's kinda portuguese. For a while I order their Nando's bowl at least once a week, mango and lime sauce or lemon and herb are good.

[Anonymous No.15422322]

>>15422199
haha. so much projection. I go to Ethiopian restaurants all the time and I've never seen more white folks than Ethiopian folks. My group is usually the token non-Ethiopian group a lot of times. It's in a neighborhood that's heavily Ethiopian but I don't know of any places outside that neighborhood that serves Ethiopian cuisine.

[Anonymous No.15422355]

>>15422322
That's not one of the countries slaves were exported from, wrong coast. Where is your city even getting all these Ethiopians?

[Anonymous No.15422366]

>>15422355
Not him but Ethiopia's diaspora is growing pretty rapidly in the US at least. Most major cities have small Ethiopian communities now, I can speak from experience that DC has a pretty big one.

[Anonymous No.15422533]

>>15421958
I know. I saw some of those fuckers chasing geese and scooping up the goslings so they can could take pictures. They also forage for river vegetables on the banks of the Charles. And they catch and eat fish from it too.

[Anonymous No.15422602]

>>15422533
So eventually you're gonna have a bunch of chinamen who's brains are loaded down with mercury? Jesus that sounds bad.

[Anonymous No.15422664]

>>15418075
nobody wants food that is crawling with flies

[Anonymous No.15422805]

>>15418075
idk, it the kebabs look good

[Anonymous No.15422864]

>>15418839
White sport “poachers” arent poachers. These countries sell off select hunting permits to rich af whiteys to fund the habitats and preserves. It’s totally legal and without that income they couldn’t pay the people neeeded to make sure these animals dont fall victim to actual poachers who want to take advantage of the massively expanding chink market for exotic animal parts cause they think it will make their pee pees grow.
So if 12 billionaires shoot 20 lions a year and that nets the sanctuary $3,000,000 to finance their operation so be it.

[Anonymous No.15422880]

>>15418637
She gets fat on American supply drops of pop tarts and nutrigrain bars. This is just something they do for fun

[Anonymous No.15422935]

this guy's post >>15418205 points out things that are true for the US, but in France the communities are far from small and far from highly educated. For some reason African immigrants here don't build solid communities like East and South Asians do, and for some other reason even though they're much more numerous and have been here for a longer time than Asians there hardly are any black-owned businesses in France. I can only think of two out of all the places I've been in this country, a Senegalese restaurant run by nice people that I went to once (now closed), and my very friendly but very shady neighbor whose near-empty corner store I suspect to have been a money laundering front (now closed). It's easier to find an Iranian or Argentinian restaurant in France than any African restaurant. I don't think it's overly racist to say they aren't as hard-working and community-oriented as Asians. It's a shame because peanut stews are pretty good and would find the same success as curries or vietnamese soups.

[Anonymous No.15422945]

>>15422935
Pointing out cultural differences between groups of people isn’t racist.

[Anonymous No.15422946]

>>15418075
Not that many african immigrants, at least in the part of america I live.

[Anonymous No.15422965]

>>15418075
racism

[Anonymous No.15423006]

>>15422151
This is the most autistic conspiracy theory I've ever seen. I go to Ethiopian restaurants because dereq tibs is a god-tier lamb dish.

[Anonymous No.15423016]

>>15422965
True. Africans hate everyone who isn’t from their own tribal region of Africa

[Anonymous No.15423133]

>>15422935
There's plenty of african-owned grocery stores in France specialized in importing traditional goods used for their cuisine. There's also a fair share of restaurants although not as much as other nationalities that's right. Depends on your area I assume. The subsaharian african national communities also organize like the chinese, indians etc. with community banking (tontines). If historically the african, either north or subsaharian weren't as business savvy it's because a main share of the ones in France were poached from an agro-pastoral background to become cheap labor, whereas the flow of chinese/indian/odd nationalities were often from mercantile class who did an horizontal change in terms of line of work, unlike people who went from cattle herders to garbagemen or whatever else

[Anonymous No.15423489]

I'm currently fasting so you could say I'm eating like an African

[Anonymous No.15423512]

>>15418356
That crazy chick streamer with big knockers made a video on it and got banned or some shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPFSxGZj4yY

[Anonymous No.15423546]

>>15418356

It makes sense when you think about the pica problem that black women have where they eat laundry starch (which I think is a substitute for clay)

[Anonymous No.15423623]

>>15423133
Not him but I think Anon was talking about France, not Paris...

[Anonymous No.15423634]

>>15418075
>Why isn’t African food getting any traction in the west?
I have never seen one, ever.

[Anonymous No.15423635]

>>15423546
Holy shit is that really a real thing? Jebus...

[Anonymous No.15423639]

>>15418075
Went to an Ethiopian restaurant and it was okay at best
Could probably do just as well if I made it myself
Never seen another African restaurant of any cultural group

The thought of fufu makes me want to puke

[Anonymous No.15423642]

>>15418127
yea it always looks like someone drank from the Ganges then shat on a metal plate

[Anonymous No.15423657]

>>15422322
>I go to Ethiopian restaurants all the time
no. you don't. stop lying you pink shrimp dick loser.

[Anonymous No.15423672]

>>15423006
>I go to Ethiopian restaurants because dereq tibs is a god-tier lamb dish.
You don't. And it's not.

[Anonymous No.15423677]

>>15422077
The CCCP fell over 30 years ago, ivan.

[Anonymous No.15423723]

>>15418075
the west only cares about rap music and blacked.com, any other aspect of african culture is uninteresting to us

[Anonymous No.15423749]

Because why would I want "food" made by literal animals lmao. I don't want to eat the dead bird that the cat dragged in either.

[Anonymous No.15423757]

>>15423723
Basketball. Clothes. Jewelry. Shoes. Gang culture. Graffiti art. Dancing.

[Anonymous No.15423775]

>>15418075
When I lived in DC, some random coworker or out of town visitor wanted to dine Ethiopian.
Utter crap, each and every time. Crap. It was apparently Chelsea Clinton's favorite, blah blah blah, it's horrible. It is poverty food with hard boiled eggs simmered in casseroles that have a sugary taste. It feels like a cook screwed up the spices in every single recipe. All of them. Your eyes say mmm indian food, and then you have sugary spinach that is overcooked til slimy.
And, to eat it? The worst bread in the entire world, teff. Its not a crepe, nope. It's not a pancake, nope. It's a sticky gummy poi flavored stupid utensil you want to spit out. Literally the whole world cooks a cuisine better than Ethiopia.

[Anonymous No.15423783]

>>15423757
I'm not sure if you're being facetious or genuinely stupid.

[Anonymous No.15423790]

>>15418350
Bit racist mate

[Anonymous No.15424085]

>>15423790
Bit tasteless mate

[Anonymous No.15424121]

>>15423775
I for one enjoy the tripophobia bread. not sure why it's so polarizing.

[Anonymous No.15425124]

>>15422106
Nigerians are among the best-educated and highest earning diaspora groups in the USA on par with Asians, this is coming from someone who absolutely loathes niggers.

[Anonymous No.15425212]

>>15424085
My anus is full of flavor, now give it a lick

[Anonymous No.15425215]

>>15425124
Depends on the tribe in Nigeria, I know the Igbos are said to be highly intelligent

[Anonymous No.15425241]

>>15418383
I wouldn't expect a fat hamplanet on the brink of heart disease and death to help anyways now get the fuck out of here with your dumb sonic cartoons

[Anonymous No.15425297]

>>15425241
Mad nigger

[Anonymous No.15425302]

>>15424121
It's a sourdough so a lot of people dislike it from that alone, doesn't really have much to do with the teff.

[Anonymous No.15425309]

>>15418108
It has to be cheap running an Ethiopian restaurant.
You would think more people would try.

[Anonymous No.15425313]

It hasn't made any traction in Africa either

[Anonymous No.15425316]

>>15425212
Tastes like cum

[Anonymous No.15425317]

>>15422127
You've never seen the Somalis that got imported to Minnesota. Dumbest ethnicity I've ever met in my life. Almost all of them seem like they would meet the medical definition of retarded. Africans from other countries are generally fine though.

[Anonymous No.15425341]

>>15418075
Ethipian food is unironically disgusting, I don't know why that shit is as popular as it is in America. West African foods from Ghana and places like that are the shit, though.

[Anonymous No.15425369]

>>15425317
Those are all the dregs of the refugee camps from Clintons wars.

[Anonymous No.15425388]

>>15423635
Yes look it up on jewtube

[Anonymous No.15425401]

Why the fuck would I want to eat spaghetti and raw bananas together

[Anonymous No.15425741]

>>15418075
>african food culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJz2Tgt3jvs

[Anonymous No.15425864]

>>15418228
>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.15425927]

>>15418096

Ethiopian from what I've seen just doesn't look attractive. The bread looks spongy and it kind of comes across as Indian food but not. That's assholish of me to describe it as such but that's what I see, and I like Indian food/foreign food. Spongy Trypophobia bread instead of Naan or Dhosa and a whole bunch of curry-looking food. Imagine then what the average American whose idea of foreign (non European) food is Mexican (Texmex) or Chinese(American) food.

I'm not familiar with other sub-saharan cusiine but I'd be happy to try it.

[Anonymous No.15426059]

> It's easier to find an Iranian or Argentinian restaurant in France than any African restaurant. I don't think it's overly racist to say they aren't as hard-working and community-oriented as Asians.

as a second generation immigrant in France (Moroccan) i get where you're coming from, we may seem like we're not as organized, but there are also a few elements to consider :
1) France's restaurant market, at least in the larger cities (which are where immigrants are majoritarily at) is litterally saturated with fast foods : sushis, turkish, french tacos, and american fast food joints. Even white french restaurants seriously struggle when it comes to developing actual businesses that are not large chains (hippopotamus, flunch, léon de bxl etc.)

2) Having lived for a good part of my life in Asia (China, Taiwan, Singapore, and I often visited friends from Vietnam and Thailand), I noticed that Asians are very street food oriented. from hawker centres to night markets, their street food is so cheap you're better off eating outside rather than inside and that's what most people do there. In EA and NA, we don't have that as much. On the other hand, our dishes, and the dishes that you'll see on most nafri and east african menus are actual, full on communal dishes (couscous, tajins where everybody eats from one single huge plate), or just quite technical dishes that you can't prepare quickly nor eat on the go. On the other hand, asian fusion stuff can just be stuffed in a box and eaten with chopsticks (and let's not talk about banh mi or bao buns and other shit that you can just eat with your hands as they're basically variants of sandwiches), and turkish foods are basically grilled meat on sandwiches.

3) see cont

[Anonymous No.15426074]

>>15426059
3) while I said that we weren't as organized as asians, it's also due to the fact that said communities are just so immense there is nothing to organize on. Networking is about having a few people meet and say they had each other. When several millions of immigrants (for economic reasons, so you basically get the shittiest of the bunch, whereas vietnamese and chinese came for political reasons mostly) come at the same time you don't have much cohesion. Also, accountability is something that you can actually keep track of since rumors travel pretty fast in smaller groups. If a Vietnamese dude tried to screw another one in Chinatown back in the 80s, the whole neighborhood would know of it. Paris is full of fucking nafris, if the same happened he'd just drown in the anonimity.

We used to have tightly knit groups of nafris in Taiwan and S'pore. they helped me out of a pickle more than once and I returned the favor too. I'd never do that to a fellow nafri in france just because he's a nafri.

[Anonymous No.15426090]

>>15425215
nigerians are hella based i actually bough a n-word pass from one for only $359

[Anonymous No.15426103]

>>15426074
yeah all of that sound fucking horrible i hope you move back to your country before you get snuffed out

[Anonymous No.15426121]

Probably because of a combination of factors.

1) most people in the west don’t care about “ethnic” food unless they can verifiably brag about how authentic it is.
2) let’s be realistic; most of the African cuisine that would be considered “good” by people who don’t live there comes from Egypt, Morocco, and Ethiopia (fuck off, starving-infomercialfags, Ethiopia is the only sub-Saharan place in Africa with legitimate traditional foods). In these cases, they NEVER bill themselves as an “African restaurant” because they don’t want to sound like a restaurant that serves Red Cross rice from a sack stolen by a warlord. My city has multiple “Egyptian restaurants“, “Moroccan restaurants”, and even “Ethiopian restaurants”, but not one single place that sells itself as an “African restaurant”.

[Anonymous No.15426140]

>>15418525
and yet all you /pol/tards would absolutely throw a shitfit if you saw a Nigerian making lox while calling it "Nigerian cured salmon"

[Anonymous No.15426175]

>>15426103
seethe my brother

[Anonymous No.15426185]

>>15426175
why would i be seething? you just made a shitskin coping blog post on an anonymous image board....you should try to build a bomb and accidentally kill yourself and your whole family

[Anonymous No.15426360]

Ate some goat at a little jamaican food truck, it was really good, very spicy too. However, before I ordered, the Mormon looking guy in front of me kept trying to talk to the chef in a really bad jamaican accent and it was pissing the chef off.

[Anonymous No.15426436]

>>15426175
Where can I subscribe to your blog?

[Anonymous No.15426498]

Why would we want to eat plastic bottles and tree bark

[Anonymous No.15427055]

>>15418075
I fucking love boerewors. European sausages can't compete.

[Anonymous No.15427061]

>>15426360
Where do you think Jamaica is?

[Anonymous No.15427181]

>>15418075
we don't know shit about foreign cultures.
In order for a cuisine to take off, there has to be one flagship dish for every average joe to latch on to
>bibimbap
>broccoli beef/sesame chicken
>sushi/ramen
>tikka masala
>kebab
and fwiw, carribbean food is basically african food and it kicks ass.

[Anonymous No.15427201]

>>15418075
but fasting is all the rage now anon

[Anonymous No.15427281]

>>15426059
>>15426074
Based Moroccan dunking on white supremacists with his insight.