Do you eat at immigrant restaurants?

[Lucas Corso]

Sometimes i eat kebab and i've to say that the kebab shop near my home managed by Kurds (i've seen a small kurdish flag on the wall) is surprisingly clean, also the cusine that i can easly see from the bar...

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Lucas Corso

Sometimes i eat kebab and i've to say that the kebab shop near my home managed by Kurds (i've seen a small kurdish flag on the wall) is surprisingly clean, also the cusine that i can easly see from the bar...

.. and a meat that you can certify its origin, date and quality?

[Lucas Corso]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

.. and a meat that you can certify its origin, date and quality?

Mmmmh good question: one time i was passing in front of the shop i've seen they were downloading frozen kebab-shape pieces of meat from a refrigerated van, i don't know more

[Susi]

I ate from a Chinese food van last night. I was a little concerned about the meat. But I was so hungry I had eaten half of it anyways.

[Blood Axis]

Originally Posted by Susi

I ate from a Chinese food van last night. I was a little concerned about the meat. But I was so hungry I had eaten half of it anyways.

[Ariets]

rarely

[Erik Puke]

I think there's a difference between eating at restaurants owned & managed by immigrants, and eating foreign food. For me personally though, none of these aspects really affect my habits.

Do you people not wanting to support immigrants economically think one should stay away from immigrant restaurants, choosing multinational corporations like McDonald's, or buying from your local supermarket owned by other foreign capitalists, instead..?

I mostly cook myself, and I use ecologically and/or locally produced vegetables & meat when available / affordable. However, when I'm going to eat out, I only consider the reputation of the restaurant and the food available.

Also, obviously, a restaurant serving Chinese, Italian or Lebanese food in no way has to be owned by those ethnicities. So just because we have foreign foods doesn't mean we need to have hords of immigrants. Most Sushi places here are run by Swedes, since there aren't many Japanese immigrants.

[Evrain]

It doesn't really matter to me. I will eat whatever I fancy, be it Chinese or English.

[Cirrus]

"Je mange du Musulman tout cru à mon petit déjeuner comme ne l'interdit pas le Prophète" JMLP

[Big Bwana]

I go to a Chinese resteraunt evry now and then.....on the Via Trionfale in Roma.

As much for the on-going caberet act as anything else....the place is full of the lowest form of scum you can imagine....pimps giving thier tarts a good feed before work.....drunken Rumanians.....south American immigrants arguing over the price of a glass of water.........and some really fat pigs who go in there more as a refuelling stop than a cullinary experience......the entertainment value is priceless.

My Italian wife likes Chinese food too which is rare....as Italians in my experience are loathe to try anything other than Italian Cuisine.....with good reason as Italian food IMO is the best in the world.

[Lutiferre]

Sometimes I do eat at "immigrant" restaurants. I am partially "immigrant" or immigrant descendant myself, all though part Danish, so it would be paradoxical for me to consider doing so a negative thing in general.

In specific, I try to avoid eating at kebab shops, Middle Eastern and Asian food. I dont want to support it, and finance their life in this country. Instead, I like to go to restaurants with various European cuisines, but my motivation is mainly due to liking a variety of predominantly European food, not political.

Its hard to be political when in social group situations. So it happens that I go for Chinese or kebab, unfortunately.

[bombadillo]

Originally Posted by Erik Puke

Also, obviously, a restaurant serving Chinese, Italian or Lebanese food in no way has to be owned by those ethnicities. So just because we have foreign foods doesn't mean we need to have hords of immigrants. Most Sushi places here are run by Swedes, since there aren't many Japanese immigrants.

Might work for sushi. Lebanese restaurant not run by a Lebanese? Italian place not run by an Italian? Food won't be authentic -- about as Italian as Pizza Hut.

[Menydh]

I can only understand eating in a Chinese, a Middle East Kebab or an American Burguer, as some form of gastronomic masochism.

Social compromises? They can't be any serious if they take you to one such place. At least not here. It wouldn't be the first time that I turn down a dinner gathering on a Chinese to go on my own to have some tapas, and then meet the people later somewhere else.

[Susi]

I really have no choice. Right now I can decide between greasy pizza (made by Middle Easterns) or not so greasy Japanese food (made by Koreans...). I'd rather the Japanese, to be totally honest.

[Salford]

I recently ate some seeminly innocuous vegetarian dish (was it falaffel?) from a kebab shop on Holy Thursday, which resulting in me becoming very ill. So ill and feverish, in fact, that on Good Friday I didn't turn down a meat-based dish offered to me during the one hour I could actually leave bed.

I don't think I'll ever be eating from a kebab shop again, truthfully.

[Savorgnan]

I ate once, maybe twenty years ago, in a romanian restaurant, the "Bistrot Roumain" (if you read this, Carnyx, I assure you that it's not a joke ) in Paris Western near suburb. It wasn't bad at all.

[Sergius]

I dined at a Romanian restaurant in Brussels a few times. Great food. Much like what I've had in Austrian and Hungarian places in Vienna. Very central European, lots of pork, large portions, plenty of potatos, heavy red wine. Somewhat rural feel compared to what I'm used to.

Anyway, since moving to Copenhagen, I have been having more options when it comes to dining, and I have been frequenting some different places. Italian of course (I live in an Italian neighbourhood, sort of), Greek, Polish, and so forth. One night when I was working late and had no energy for cooking, I even went to some Middle Eastern place. Very out of character, I know, and I felt bad doing it - I swear it was the only place that was open apart from McDonald's. I learned my lesson, though - that chicken gave me serious stomach aches for two days.