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Jason KingGFG: Categories and Favourite Asian
September 8th 2006 06:06
Hmmm...
Since when is all Asian food able to be grouped together?
I mean honestly, how do you compare Chinese to Japanese to Thai to Indian to *shudder* fusion? A couple of years ago The Good Food Guide (GFG) got rid of many of the categories such as Best Indian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, and created the Favourite Asian category. Similarly with the merging of Best Italian, French, Greek, into Favourite Mediterranean. And now no mention of Steak or Seafood picks. Even the selections of fish and chip places has gone.
Where's the advantage in condensing and bastardising all these categories? Are you trying to tell me that I don't need to know where the best Thai or Japanese place is because the best Asian place happens to be Chinese?
And as it so happens, how come last year's Favourite Asian, Spice I Am, got demoted? The new Favourite Asian restaurant is Kyle Kwong's 'Billy Kwong', a modern Chinese place. No, I haven't eaten there. But I have eaten regularly at Spice I Am, which has gotten better over the past year. All I'm saying is, where's the recognition?
Plus, at Billy Kwong's roughly $80 per person banquet, and mains between $19 and $42, Spice I Am is definitely more accessable.
Since when is all Asian food able to be grouped together?
I mean honestly, how do you compare Chinese to Japanese to Thai to Indian to *shudder* fusion? A couple of years ago The Good Food Guide (GFG) got rid of many of the categories such as Best Indian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, and created the Favourite Asian category. Similarly with the merging of Best Italian, French, Greek, into Favourite Mediterranean. And now no mention of Steak or Seafood picks. Even the selections of fish and chip places has gone.
Where's the advantage in condensing and bastardising all these categories? Are you trying to tell me that I don't need to know where the best Thai or Japanese place is because the best Asian place happens to be Chinese?
And as it so happens, how come last year's Favourite Asian, Spice I Am, got demoted? The new Favourite Asian restaurant is Kyle Kwong's 'Billy Kwong', a modern Chinese place. No, I haven't eaten there. But I have eaten regularly at Spice I Am, which has gotten better over the past year. All I'm saying is, where's the recognition?
Plus, at Billy Kwong's roughly $80 per person banquet, and mains between $19 and $42, Spice I Am is definitely more accessable.
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