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Norway has some surprising stats (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised you have so much trouble with Thai restaurants. The Thai government trains chefs and sends them around the world to operate restaurants and it has a government owned restaurant supply company to support them. They do it as a form of "cultural diplomacy". Because of that Thai tends to be one of the most consistent and authentic types of restaurants.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 6 months ago

Ikr? Where I grew up (near Seattle), there were tons of great Thai places, and it really didn't matter which one I went to, it would be pretty good.

Where I'm at now (near SLC, Utah), it's all sweetened, bland crap. It's decently good, but it's nothing like what I grew up with. The most popular places here are essentially franchised, and they all taste bland and sweet instead of properly spiced.

The good places are the small restaurants closer to downtown. The interior decoration is less fancy, but the food is way better.