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Chinese in the DR
True. The food in Hong Kong was good. The Chinese food I had in Manchuria was not. I ended up eating lamb kebabs from local Muslim herdsmen and McDonald's....
Too funny. That would be like me going to San Diego and having lunch in a Mexican neighborhood
then telling people here on DR1 that American food in America is no good. Perhaps you were
eating Uyghur food / Muslim dishes?? Not typical Chinese cuisine... which is really good in my opinion.
I really like Chinese food, but I like the American version.
I used to work with a Chinese Australian, and she told me that when her father made Chinese food at home, he made it differently from how he served his customers in Melbourne. She said traditional Chinese food is quite pungent and has a much stronger taste than Westerners are used to.
My brother-in-law is Taiwanese, and I've been told (I've never actually been to Taiwan) that the food in Taiwan is different from the mainland. I know Chinese food in Korea and Japan is more like Chinese food in America.
The Chinese food I had in Manchuria was made by the local Chinese, not the Muslim herdsman, who didn't operate any restaurants in the city I was in. The Muslims had stalls. The flat read was good too. Some of the Chinese food I had in northeast China at an inexpensive cafeteria wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good either.
McDonald's was pretty good.
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I'm no food critic but thanks for taking the time to explain :cheeky:
It's all good, such that the Gov. is looking at income from the Chinese on a large scale. It will be interesting to see what your street level guys, the ones walking around tourist areas ,who sell the cheap Chinese plastic watches and such think after the Chinese move in and sell the stuff themselves, putting them all out of jobs.
I haven't read much about the new Chinese influence quietly taking shape in this
county but the following article does indeed shed some light on it.
Today's News:
US ambassador expresses concern over Chinese concessions for strategic ports and cyberspace
Former Dominican ambassador in Washington, D.C., economist Bernardo Vega, points out that behind the alert by US Ambassador Robin Bernstein during a televised interview with Alicia Ortega, is the concern of the US government that the Manzanillo Port may be granted in concession to a Chinese company. The observations were made by Bernstein towards the end of the interview with Alicia Ortega on her perspective of the country after her first months in the country.
The Dominican government has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese government company to build a multimodal complex at the site of the Manzanillo Port in the northwest. The port is crucial for farm and manufacturing zone exports. Nevertheless, so far, in the 2019 budget, the Dominican government has only allotted funds to make small improvements to the port, not the expansion that the business community says is necessary.
In the interview, US Ambassador Robin Bernstein stressed the importance of the strategic assets of the country remaining in Dominican hands. She called for carefully analyzing contracts to not lose ownership of strategic assets. She observed the Dominican business sector wants to control the strategic assets. The Manzanillo Port MOU that revealed the possible concession of the port to Chinese interests was only known by the general public after the story broke when it had been covered by Chinese media and was picked up by a specialist journal.
Likewise, she alerted to the importance of not giving up cyberspace rights. Former OAS ambassador for the Dominican Republic, Roberto Alvarez has speculated that the government of China wants the Dominican Republic to sign rights for the installation of Chinese 5G network.
Exactly, the author of this article lost me right there. There isn't 500-700 Chinese restaurant in Chinatown NYC. I hope that was a type-o. It is a very small area in Santo Domingo and I really wouldn't call it a tourist attraction. It's more like an after thought after visiting the Colonial Zone.