Biangbiang Noodles(en.wikipedia.org) |
Biangbiang Noodles(en.wikipedia.org) |
Business opportunity of the century though? A salad chain in China. Spend more than a few weeks there, you might find yourself craving a Caesar.
There is no salad culture in most of east Asia — folks there don’t really go for raw vegetables (pickled/fermented/steamed/stir fried yes, but not raw mixed greens). It could catch on among the urban cosmopolitan crowd though.
I’ve gone all my life without ever missing salad. As my hero John Pinette would put it, “Salad is a promissory note that real food would soon arrive”
I just think it’s something that hasn’t had its full chance to shine in the sun, but I’m probably wrong and ignorant. Some liang cai is probably the most I will ever see