Do you eat at immigrant restaurants?

[Reltih]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

There is nothing maniac in avoiding them, and much healthy in doing it.

Overwhelmingly, chinese food is in neither way unhealthy but it is very tasty.
F.e. soya souce is smth I could drink like coffee (without sugar, of course), and surpasses the ketchup all the time in virtually all criteria.

[Aptrgangr]

Sometimes I eat at immigrant restaurants, not very often though. Mostly when I am invited by a friend or family. Last time I ate at an immigrant restaurant it was a Portugese fish restaurant. Every then and now I order a pizza, meanwhile I am happy to get a pizza from a real Italian instead of a Turk or Indian...
well, everyone enjoys that Viking speciality, isn't it so? Vikings may have invented the pizza
When I was soldier I every then and now ate at an Arab kebap shop, BUT: this shop was run by a Christian family, they did not look "darker" than average Alpinid people I saw in southern Germany, especially their daughter had adorable blue eyes.

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Aptrgangr

When I was soldier I every then and now ate at an Arab kebap shop, BUT: this shop was run by a Christian family, they did not look "darker" than average Alpinid people I saw in southern Germany, especially their daughter had adorable blue eyes.

How lucky you were. The guy who owns the kebab shop in my street rather looks like that :



And her brown eyes are the only thing one can see of his daugher.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Bograchev Mahil

Overwhelmingly, chinese food is in neither way unhealthy but it is very tasty.
F.e. soya souce is smth I could drink like coffee (without sugar, of course), and surpasses the ketchup all the time in virtually all criteria.

The many rats that are found on Chinese restaurants are not urban legends.

Last I heard was from the owner of a local who had to hire a professional cleaning team after the Chinese who had a Chinese restaurant in his local had to close down. The cleaners had to stop cleaning to get out and vomit. I did not ask for more details.

Originally Posted by Aptrgangr

When I was soldier I every then and now ate at an Arab kebap shop, BUT: this shop was run by a Christian family, they did not look "darker" than average Alpinid people I saw in southern Germany, especially their daughter had adorable blue eyes.

They would be Lebanese or from some other ME country, not Arab?

[Vasconcelos]

I'm not a big fan of strange or foreign food. On the subject of 'immigrant' restaurants, I'm reluctant to try new things. I suppose one could say "I like what I like".

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Theobald

And her brown eyes are the only thing one can see of his daugher.

It think that burkahs are a nice thing. You don't get to see your wife until your wedding night.. surprise!

[Chauntecleer]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

It think that burkahs are a nice thing. You don't get to see your wife until your wedding night.. surprise!

Thankfully for us Westerners it means that we don't have to see Arabic women. At all.

[Vincent]

Maybe every 5 months I eat Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican or Kebab. But I visit often a bavarian restaurant. I like their food

[Sergius]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

They would be Lebanese or from some other ME country, not Arab?

They are not Arabs? Why not? As far as I know, they are what in Arabic is known as "musta ribah," id est, descendants of Abraham's nephew or son Adnan (I will look this up tomorrow). Who is Arab to you, then?

[Caesar Princeps]

Vikings invented Pizza. Uh, really? How much times ago? 1000 years?
Facts are that Romani (on Italian soil, main ancestor of Italian Peoples) already had pizza (called picea), more than 2000 years ago.

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

It think that burkahs are a nice thing. You don't get to see your wife until your wedding night.. surprise!

LOL

Originally Posted by Ljubomir

They are not Arabs? Why not? As far as I know, they are what in Arabic is known as "musta ribah," id est, descendants of Abraham's nephew or son Adnan (I will look this up tomorrow).

Indeed. I think that Mynydd meant "North African" with "Arab".
Actually most Lebanese here are darker than Algerians and as dark as Moroccans. And I have never seen any European-looking Lebanese exception for real, only on the Internet or at the TV.
But I think that Aprtangr' kebab shop owners were part of these exceptions since Christian Arabs are mostly to be found in Egypt and Lebanon.

[Cirrus]

Originally Posted by Theobald

Actually most Lebanese here are darker than Algerians and as dark as Moroccans. And I have never seen any European-looking Lebanese exception for real, only on the Internet or at the TV.

I disagree with you. Most of the Libanese people I've met were lighter than Maghrebians and looked rather like Armenians or Jews.
By comparison, many Moroccans have Black ancestors.

Originally Posted by Ljubomir

They are not Arabs? Why not?

Some of them prefer to say that they are Phoenicians rather than Arabs, even if they speak Arabic. A Meta-Ethnicity debate.

[Caesar Princeps]

Originally Posted by Bograchev Mahil

Would be interesting to know, that both of the symbols of italian national cuisine are borrowings of other countries. Pasta has its roots in China and thePizza is from ancient Greece. Scrutinize the links below: Pasta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of pizza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I know, but would you compare Chinese Rice (that is the problem ) Spaghetti or Greek Pizza (sometimes like Pita Bread?) with Italian food?

[Caesar Princeps]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

The many rats that are found on Chinese restaurants are not urban legends.

Last I heard was from the owner of a local who had to hire a professional cleaning team after the Chinese who had a Chinese restaurant in his local had to close down. The cleaners had to stop cleaning to get out and vomit. I did not ask for more details.

Have you ever asked to yourself why have you never, never, never seen a Chinese funeral? Where do you think dead Chinese end up? In Maoist Worker's Paradise? Why do you think meat is such cut in small pieces?

[Theobald]

Originally Posted by Salaün

Some of them prefer to say that they are Phoenicians rather than Arabs. Even if they speak Arabic.

Indeed. Mostly Christian Lebanese. They are very hostile to pan-Arabism, represented by Syria.

Originally Posted by Salaun

I disagree with you. Most of the Libanese people I've met were lighter than Maghrebians and looked rather like Armenians or Jews.

Hmm... Again a point for Breton nationalists. Brittany's Lebanese people are lighter than France's ones.
Seriously there are many Lebanese (coming from Lebanon, they are here just to study) in my faculty and they all look like Samir Geagea :



However it is true that many Lebanese famous people like Nancy Ajram or Massari are blue-eyed and more European-looking.