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Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by devishard »

yomly wrote: post #12

Really fantastic achievement and a really down to earth take on food - good to see Michelin not adopting a stuffy elitist stance on their awards. I shudder, however, when I think of the queues to try this tasty goodness. For reference, queues can easily top 90 mins if a hawker stall is locally well reviewed! And just over the sea, the queues for Tim Ho Wan (Michelin star dim sum in Hong Kong) are also already oppress…

> Really fantastic achievement and a really down to earth take on food - good to see Michelin not adopting a stuffy elitist stance on their awards.

This is kind of late to say this.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by reddit_clone »

overcast wrote: post #134
billskills wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a wry/sarcastic idiom, like calling the Atlantic Ocean "the pond". Nobody actually thinks the Atlantic Ocean is a pond.

Calling the Atlantic "the pond" is so cringe worthy. Why that ever caught on.

That probably comes from the 'English Understatement' school of thought.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by titanix2 »

kagamine wrote: post #83
phantom_oracle wrote: post #27

Not to discount the efforts of this chef, but is it not possible that the organization called Michelin has done this in an attempt to stay relevant with the growing East-Asia market? It kind of reads like a touch-your-heart story that will increase brand-presence of Michelin and the validity of their ratings of food. Who knows though...

the food is not just rated on taste and the decor (or lack of it in this case) is not a significant factor afaik. From my extensive research[1] the reviewer takes into account: 1. taste 2. presentation 3. use of local ingredients 4. use of fresh quality ingredients [1]every episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares UK.

When I was child my grand father sometimes took me to a restaurant he said didn't get a star because the parking lot wasn't big enough. So I believe they rate restaurant no just on the food, or at least they used to.

I'm right now eating at a takoyaki place in Osaka which is referenced in the guide (no star thought) so I guess criterions were somewhat adapted to deal with foreign food culture.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by exclusiv »

mattkevan wrote: post #137
beisner wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how tongue in cheek you're being, but for those for whom English isn't a first language, calling a large city like DC or NYC a 'town' is pretty common, and is a more colloquial way to describe a region rather than to indicate the size of the named region. Often it is used interchangeably with 'place', for instance: "I've lived in New York City all my life, I've got to get out of that town."

London is often called a town, e.g. London Town. If you said "I'm going into town" or "I got it in town" most people would know where you meant.

I'll take you to foggy London town 'cause you are my little gentleman.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by exclusiv »

I just recently read the back story about the Michelin ratings and I must say - I really think it's awesome that a 1 star is a huge achievement.

Most rating systems rate everyone and end up with a lot of mediocrity. Michelin's system makes their brand mean something at every level. Quite brilliant from a branding and social experiment.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by technofiend »

markcerqueira wrote: post #98
beisner wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure how tongue in cheek you're being, but for those for whom English isn't a first language, calling a large city like DC or NYC a 'town' is pretty common, and is a more colloquial way to describe a region rather than to indicate the size of the named region. Often it is used interchangeably with 'place', for instance: "I've lived in New York City all my life, I've got to get out of that town."

Must be a regional thing because I've never heard of cities like NYC or SF referred to as towns. I would also say "get out of town" is a saying that means "I need to get out of this specific place." Whether the place is a town, city, region is besides the point.

Frank Sinatra would like a word.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by oliwarner »

novembermike wrote: post #146
oliwarner wrote: post #95

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And China couldn't? Well beside them making everything, they own or underwrite a vast amount of global infrastructure too. They can buy a lot more influence than the US could.

When faced with economic warfare, a country can simply nationalize all of the enemy country's assets. Who cares if you own every oil well in California, if you try to exploit that we just move troops in and take control. How does China defend the infrastructure they own?

Infrastructure funding is political influence. Non-warry stuff.

But if you want to wage war on China be prepared to go back to the 50s. China and its immediate neighbours make everything. And have done for decades. No country has the standing manufacturing capability (facilities, machinery or trained/robotic workforce) to replace what China does for them. Some other Asian countries manufacturer electronics and India and Pakistan do textiles like nobody's business.

This is where that influence from earlier came in. They've traded cash for foreign government bonds to ensure great tariffs and to stop protectionist policies. They pegged their currency to ensure their exports undercut everybody else.

Automobiles are pretty much the last serious manufacturing done in market countries... And where do you think many of those source their parts and steel from?

So yeah, you piss off China and they have the physical wherewithal to embargo almost all material imports. Your economy dies overnight.

You take back a bridge and a nuclear power plant. Big whoop. What's your next move?

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