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Linked in the post: Soon-Tzu’s tweet about what it would be like if Southeast Asians wrote about American food the way American food media write about us.

“Writing about US food the way the NYT covers Asian fruit: In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a
'burger', a sort of split bao, is crude and messy.
Yet it encapsulates a nation's violent past.”