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onlywonderboy
United States23745 Posts
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Closest legit Mexican restaurant is probably in Berlin, if its even any good there. I miss Mexican food. There's two Mexican restaurant in Chiang Mai, one is horrible and the other is ehhh, it gets a pass but its not good strictly speaking. | ||
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crimethinking
Vietnam765 Posts
On October 19 2015 09:55 Ketara wrote: Dude Korean MMOs are the best. All grinding, all fanservice, no fucks given. Got tired of Korean/Chinese MMOs long ago. They are basically cookie cutter games, same grinding, same quests, same stuff, slightly modified lores/classes/whatevers. MMOs are pretty much ded genre anyway. | ||
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TheHumanSensation
Canada1210 Posts
Like, just because America has a good variety of hole-in-the-wall texmex places and a large number of popular fast food equivalents doesn't mean that the same things can spread elsewhere easily. I live in the city in Canada with the highest rate of immigration (approx 60% of current inhabitants are 1st gen immigrants, long history of immigration, etc), and we have an incredible diversity of food available. People travel from all over the lower mainland to come here for food. But we don't have any texmex stuff - that requires a 15 minute drive across the border. We have a few great hole-in-the-wall south american places (mostly salvadorean) but it's p.different stuff. edit: also I'm just here chillin with my once a year buddhist temple fall fair nisei hand crafted bento etc, lol @ Amercan sushi. | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On October 19 2015 10:45 TheHumanSensation wrote: I think people underestimate how hard it can be to find good [some group of people] food when you're not anywhere near that group of people. Oh I'm aware. That doesn't mean I can't be deeply sorry about it. | ||
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ketchup
14521 Posts
On October 19 2015 10:42 crimethinking wrote: Got tired of Korean/Chinese MMOs long ago. They are basically cookie cutter games, same grinding, same quests, same stuff, slightly modified lores/classes/whatevers. MMOs are pretty much ded genre anyway. I don't honestly think it's a dead genre. WoW still pulls in a lot despite it declining numbers. Every expansion people come back just to see if Blizzard wows them in new ways. The user base for EVE online, Guild Wars 2, and FFXIV is pretty good/ grows from word of mouth. The genre still appeals to quite a lot of people. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
In USA I've almost never been to a good Mexican restaurant outside California/Texas. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
Damn if my fajitas weren't good though. | ||
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killerdog
Denmark6522 Posts
On October 19 2015 10:55 ketchup wrote: I don't honestly think it's a dead genre. WoW still pulls in a lot despite it declining numbers. Every expansion people come back just to see if Blizzard wows them in new ways. The user base for EVE online, Guild Wars 2, and FFXIV is pretty good/ grows from word of mouth. The genre still appeals to quite a lot of people. It's also a genre that's a lot more accessible when you're in school/highschool/uni, a massive addictive time sink will always draw in people, just as surely as a lot of people will abandon the genre when they reach an age/place in life where they have more responsibilities/things they need/want to do. edit: haze picture for ketara + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tZv9K31.jpg) | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
ANet said that they have more people playing GW2 PvP than they ever had play GW1 PvP life is not worth living anymore what im saying is, GW2 at least is doing well On October 19 2015 11:05 Eppa! wrote: With all the chinese emigration it always surprises me that chinese food is so shitty outside of London when it comes to EU at least. hm, well there are actual chinese places in vienna, i suspect anywhere else that has chinese ppl also has them because they're quite elitist about their chinese food just gotta ignore all the "chinese" places, which are quite a bit more common and widespread basically you're only safe if you have to order in chinese to get served lel | ||
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
Also never had an amazing Pakistani curry outside of Pakistan. | ||
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killerdog
Denmark6522 Posts
On October 19 2015 11:05 Eppa! wrote: With all the chinese emigration it always surprises me that chinese food is so shitty outside of London when it comes to EU at least. London chinese food is meant to be especially good though. People I know who've been to china say the good chinese places in london make better food then most places in china, pretty much every style of food in the british empire competed with each other to become mainstay london dishes so the bad bit of foreign food never stood a chance, and they use MUCH better quality ingredients then most places in china do. Also england having completely terrible national cuisine outside of breakfast probably made it a lot easier for chinese and indian food to get established, compared to other euro countries which already had their own dishes for it to compete with :p | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Like, they grow a lot of avocados in Thailand, but they just don't taste as good as California avocados. I can make guacamole with the exact same recipe as I use at home, and its just not as good. London is a typical exception to these rules, London you can get amazing food from anywhere. NYC is like that too. Also when we're you in Pakistan Eppa that sounds cool I want to hear about that. When I lived in India I wanted to go to Pakistan but I was under contract to not go there. Or Sri Lanka. Or Kashmir. It was lame. | ||
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Skitter
United States899 Posts
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TheHumanSensation
Canada1210 Posts
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
On October 19 2015 11:09 Ketara wrote: I think a lot of it is ingredient quality. Like, they grow a lot of avocados in Thailand, but they just don't taste as good as California avocados. I can make guacamole with the exact same recipe as I use at home, and its just not as good. London is a typical exception to these rules, London you can get amazing food from anywhere. NYC is like that too. Also when we're you in Pakistan Eppa that sounds cool I want to hear about that. When I lived in India I wanted to go to Pakistan but I was under contract to not go there. Or Sri Lanka. Or Kashmir. It was lame. I think ingredient quality isn't very limiting. You can't cook Mexican food the Mexican way but there are plenty of work arounds that make it equally delicious but there is often a lack of will to pull it through, Cuisine that uses a lot of spices and stock based are easier but its fully possible to make even Italian and Mexican food pretty much anywhere as long as you skip some dishes. Might write about my trip to Pakistan tomorrow if I feel like it. On October 19 2015 11:08 killerdog wrote: London chinese food is meant to be especially good though. People I know who've been to china say the good chinese places in london make better food then most places in china, pretty much every style of food in the british empire competed with each other to become mainstay london dishes so the bad bit of foreign food never stood a chance, and they use MUCH better quality ingredients then most places in china do. Also England having completely terrible national cuisine outside of breakfast probably made it a lot easier for chinese and indian food to get established, compared to other euro countries which already had their own dishes for it to compete with :p I don't agree with ingredient quality, Chinese ingredients are amazing. London chinese food is westernized and it shows a lot in the food, the general level is more equal and some places are easily as good for certain types of chinese food (contemporary especially) When I was in China there was some sub par food but there was these incredibly amazing places and I always think it's a shame that people are squeamish to try true local cuisine. On October 19 2015 11:25 TheHumanSensation wrote: Um, what? I'm probably spoiled in terms of food diversity and quality, but London and NYC are supposedly joke-tier (I've only been to the latter personally)... unless only people from around Vancouver say this...? This is confusing for me. Food wise London is easily top 3 city in Europe when it comes to French, Chinese and Southern Asian. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
Eppa suddenly my favorite TLer IMO. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
It's so amazing. | ||
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