https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/nyregion/lucky-lees-nyc-chinese-food.html
So basically a white lady decides to open a Chinese restaurant in NYC suited more to her particular tastes.
Some tidbits, since there's a paywall:
This Is the same type of ignorant attitude that fosters the "MSG sensitivity" bullshit to bash Asian food.
The whole thing is just a mess of white privilege and cultural appropriation.
So basically a white lady decides to open a Chinese restaurant in NYC suited more to her particular tastes.
Some tidbits, since there's a paywall:
Arielle Haspel, a Manhattan nutritionist with a sleek social media presence, wanted to open the kind of Chinese restaurant, she said, where she and her food-sensitive clients could eat. One where the lo mein wouldn't make people feel "bloated and icky" the next day, or one where the food wasn't "too oily" or salty, as she wrote in an Instagram post a few weeks ago.
This Is the same type of ignorant attitude that fosters the "MSG sensitivity" bullshit to bash Asian food.
She chose a name for her new restaurant, Lucky Lee's, that sounded stereotypically Chinese, even though she and her husband, Lee, are not Asian. She decorated the restaurant with bamboo and jade touches, and designed her logo with a chopstick-inspired font.
This week, Ms. Haspel, 36, deleted Instagram posts that could be seen as culturally insensitive, such as the one about feeling icky after eating lo mein. She decided against using a decal that said "Wok in, Take Out" that she planned to put on the window.
In the interview, Ms. Haspel defended her concept and menu, while acknowledging some errors in presenting them. She said her decision to brand her lo mein "Hi-Lo Mein," was just meant to be "cute," not to denote its superior quality. The décor, she said, was inspired by the 1930s textile designs of her grandmother, and was authentic to her own Jewish-American family traditions.
The whole thing is just a mess of white privilege and cultural appropriation.