Ethnic Cuisine Quotes

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

My husband and I grew up in India, so saag and tikka sauces are very nostalgic for us.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

L.A. has such great restaurants, from fancy spots to hole-in-the-wall, there is something for everybody.

It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

I like my fried chicken, my pizza, my peaches and my gefilte fish.

I don't know exactly what a black Chinese restaurant would be, but I would sure love to see one.

I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema... I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.

Super polished signage is not always a good sign. I'm always looking for places that you have to know about to find. Also, just food-wise, if I'm eating ethnic cuisine - I hate that phrase, but still - If I'm eating Mexican food, I'm looking to see that there are Mexicans in the restaurant. They know if the food is being made right.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.

I'm a curry and rice girl.

I love all sorts of food, chocolate especially. I eat well, but I like the odd Chinese, like anyone!

I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

Really annoys me any time I see Asian fusion too. Asia is a big place; which Asian are you talking about? You notice it's never Uzbek or Tajik food. It's Thai, and it's generally insulting.