One very irritating thing about American foodies is when they say ‘but this place is run by Chinese people, how can it be Japanese / Korean / Chinese / Vietnamese / Thai’ (when all of these nationalities have significant and intersectional people of Chinese origins). Like, the great Thai restaurant and the good Vietnamese noodle shop on my block is run by Thai-Teochew people and Vietnamese-Teochew people.
It’s not great to have one’s cultural identity being guessed at by random foodies.
