How is Asian cuisine in your country?

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1. Here in Sicily, and in my city Palermo, things are not good in terms of Asian restaurants.

   There are some generic ‘Chinese’ and a few Japanese places, and that’s about it for East Asian.Most of those are owned by Chinese people and serve all you can eat sushi buffets (low quality but cheapish).

   Apart from those, there are some Bangladeshi and Sri Lanka.places, that tend to be mostly snacks and kind of fast food.. they are aimed at people from those communities, so at least they are more authentic and the food can be pretty good.

   That’s about it for here.

   I make a lot of Asian food at home,as the choice of restaurants is so limited here!

2. Here a kind of American-Chinese food with Hungarian spices in the most popular and the cheapest, but there are some more authentic Chinese restaurants in Budapest’s Chinatown.

   There are also some Japanese, Korean, and Thai restaurants around the country.

   There is a very expensive, but very authentic Japanese restaurant in Budapest called Fuji, built for Japanese businessmen around 1988, and a Korean one called Seoul House built for the same purpose around the same time.

   Basic Asian ingredients like soy sauce, fish sauce, Nori, and sushi rice is available in most supermarkets, and Budapest’s Chinatown has Asian supermarkets full of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean products.

3. Living in Paris area. There are plenty of Asian restaurants in Paris and even in the suburbs (mine has like 1 Chinese/Japanese mix, two full Japanese, a Thai and an Indian restaurant in a radius of 250-500m from my home). They also all seem to be owned and staffed by Asians. But the taste is really lacking. They feel a bit generic as the dishes are europenized and lack the special spices one would find in a typical Asian food. They, however, are still better tasting than generic ‘asian’ food you can find at stalls or, worse, in supermarkets.

   Back in Romania, it wasn’t such a big thing, although it started spreading. There were a few places in Bucharest and small shops started appearing in other cities, but they are mostly imitations and not owned or staffed by Asians. And it kinda shows in the quality and taste of the food.

   I had the privilege of eating food cooked by Indians, for Indians. MY GOD THAT THING WAS GOOD

4. Bad. Chinese stuff is completely westernized. Japanese restaurants are ran by Chinese people and mostly serve mediocre sushi in all-you-can-eat format. Indian / Thai / Vietnamese restaurants can be decent but there are way fewer than the previous two.

5. Pretty good, I’d say. For reasons, Indonesia has influenced our country quite a bit, and aside from the fact that most towns have at least one such restaurant, supermarkets are also stacked with stuff that traces their origin from there. There is also quite a bit of fusion with other popular food. Fries with peanut sauce is very popular here, for example.

6. In big cities, you can find some good, authentic Asian restaurants, especially in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Köln and Frankfurt.

   The smaller the city, the less likely you will find it. Same goes for Asian supermarkets. In rural regions, the only option often are inauthentic takeaway eateries that serve Westernized Chinese food. Sometimes you will also find big “Chinese” buffet style restaurants that are completely inauthentic.

   Most popular Asian food here is the inauthentic Chinese food. I think second place is Thai and Vietnamese food, Japanese food has also become more popular in recent years, many supermarkets offer Sushi nowadays. Indian food is often available through delivery restaurants that also offer Pizza and Schnitzel.

7. For a long time there used to only be the “chinese” restaurants run by Vietnamese people making vougly “asian” good.

   In past decades it very much changed. First of all sushi came. Some of the best sushi places in Warsaw are run by real Japanese people. Than ramen. Also thai food is huge Korean ones are also becoming more and more popular. In last several years there is more and more Indian restaurants run by Indian people. I love it! Chinese dumpling spots are poping up like mushrooms. Vietnamese restaurants started making real vietnamese food instead of that “vougly asian” as before. There are some good places that specialize in pho. There are also real chinese restaurants. I have seen more central Asian places appearing. There is a kazakh one I want o visit soon. I know there is a mongolian one as well but I haven’t been there yet. There is also thai-laotan one. Plus plenty of Middle-Eastern ones.

   I am not counting Turkish or Georgian restaurants as Asian but there is plenty. Aspecially Georgian seems to get open a lot in last 5 or so years.

   Generally Warsaw food scene is getting more and more interesting every year. I cannot speak for the whole Poland, but at least here a lot is going on. About 10 years ago we even started getting African restaurants here. Not just Moroccan and other North Arfrican but we have several Ethiopian places for example.

   I guess, despite PiS people from other countries do move here and plenty of them bring their cuisines with them 🙂

8. Befriended some asian folks during college and went to Japan twice.
   Still to find a good asian restaurant in Spain. Don’t know if It’s due to the difficulty to get the right ingredients, the need to adapt the dishes to the likings of spanish people, or the lack of a real asian community in my country.

   But I keep searching 🙂

9. Vietnamese by far, though sushi and in the recent years, ramen, is very popular here. Authentic Chinese cuisine is quite rare though

10. There are plenty of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese restaurants in big cities, and places serving Central Asian cuisine are pretty much ubiquitous.

11. Quite good.

    I think Thai restaurants are the best, and Chinese are of the lower tier.

    Chinese restaurants are usually just slapping mediocre food from multiple asian countries.

12. My sister in law is Thai & thinks every Thai restaurant here is atrocious even when it’s cooked by Thai people. She only likes her own food or her mother’s lol.

    There are some good Chinese, Indian, Thai places around but there’s also tonnes that are just mediocore and some that are just bad.

    There’s a Japanese restaurant in Cork that was awarded a Michelin star last year

13. Pretty good. We got lots of inhabitants that are japanese or have japanese roots in my city. Hence we got a good amount of authentic japanese retaurants, even korean ones. There is a good mix between simpler takeaway diners and better, more expensive authentic stuff.

14. Prague is filled to the brim with “asian” places, but their cuisine is lacking, as they tend to combine the entire south-eastern asia in one menu: sushi, chinese food, vietnamese food, thai food.

    Fortunately there’s [Sapa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapa_(Prague%27s_Little_Hanoi)) where one can get authentic vietnamese food.

    Also, there are establishments that don’t play “general asia” and offer vietnamese food, but the quality is hit-and-miss: there are good ones and bad ones.

15. Slovakia (and Czechia) has a large Vietnamese community so cheap and tasty Pho restaurants are extremely common.

    The hygiene is questionable, and I have no idea why absolutely none of them specialize in Bahn Mi baguettes.

16. Thai is absolutely dreadful. Like airline food level bad. Avoid at all cost.

    Chinese is generally bad (like in most other posts here) but you can find gems if you look hard enough. At least it tastes *something*.

    Indian is much rarer to find but can be better than you expect. Probably because those few who start it are people who actually care.

    Japanese is basically just highly mediocre sushi/sashimi. People are not prepared to pay for the high quality ingredients needed for that. And of course you need to go to some really fine dining place to actually find a Japanese person doing it.

    Korean has been trendy a few years back but is not made by anyone Korean and generally very authentic. But honestly after living in Korea for a couple of years I have had worse trendy international inspired food there.