An ethnography study was conducted at Silk Thai Cuisine located in the city of Huntington Beach. The study was conducted between 3.00 – 4.30 pm on Sunday (March 8,2014) The city of Huntington Beach has approximately 189,707 residents, estimate in year of 2012. The city is hub for busineses, the majority of which are primarily based on Beach Blvd. There are variety of busineses, many of which include medical offices, accouting firms, and small busineses. Silk Thai Cuisine is located in the mid-size strip mall. The mall itselfs is very clean and has a huge parking lot. Silk Thai surrounds by many other restaurants including Capone's, Round-table, Quiznos, Menchie's, Fuji Grill, and Supermex. The strip mall also contains non-food businesses that fulfilled with full service atmosphere. The additonal stores include a large Fedex, Wells Fargo, US Bank, Stationary store and a nail salon and spa.
Who?
The manager, Vandy Nuttased, whom I will be referring to as the owner and the mananger managing the restaurant. She grew up and raised by Thai culture in the capital city of Thailand, Bangkok...
What is Iu-Mein? Not many people have heard of the ethnicity Iu-Mein. It is a dialect from Laos. One of the traditions that Iu-Mein's have are ceremonies. Ceremonies are done with the sacrificing of a pig or chicken. Certain people may call it weird, and animal rights folks would call it animal cruelty, but in our culture, it is for healing and to pay our respects to our ancestors.
Food and cuisine is one of the most important and influential aspects of how a country's culture is shaped and by looking at how this has been accomplished, it is clear to see direct links between dishes and aspects of Japanese and Australian Culture. REFERENE By researching a meal from each country, Okonomiyaki and Damper, connections are made and analysed between identity, culture and the communication.
Ethnomusicology: a short introduction is about describing the growing discipline of how ethnomusicology researchers are going about studying different music from around the world, looking for perceptions in both humanity and music. Ethnomusicologists believe that all people are musical, not just people that label themselves as “musicians” and that there is music in all beings. This thinking causes a lot of debate in which ethnomusicologists argue that we must first study all forms of music such as its Geographic’s and history in order to answer any questions. Not only are traditional forms of music acknowledged but also more contemporary musical forms.
The first place I went to was called “Front Street Foods” located at the Union Station on Front Street. Front Street Foods is a wide-ranging culinary market that showcases Toronto’s best chefs, restaurants, bakers, food entrepreneurs, and the fresh edible items they create. The music I heard in the background was a remix of hit-music played by a DJ. I think this music was being played because it was a Friday night with Blue Jay’s home game. Therefore, people were very excited and welcoming the weekends with great foods on the street. The music definitely was an add-on from the atmosphere of the place. People were enjoying the beat and bass and some were even dancing on the street. The pedestrians, not only noticed the music, but the sounds and good vibes also attracted them to join the culinary market to enjoy the atmosphere. In my opinion, having a DJ that plays the excellent music in such “event/festival” is a great idea. The remix that were played certainly helped the vendors to be more profitable by attracting more consumers from the streets, and also accelerated the atmosphere to the next level.
This franchise of FreshCo is located on the border of Brampton, Vaughan and Bolton. It is located in a predominately South-Asian neighbourhood, but also many peoples of African and Middle Eastern descent. But because it is along the border the buyers ethnicities and vary, and so most of the store’s Caucasian customers are from outside of the neighbourhood. It is
To confirm their belief, the authors collected data by means of free listing, interviews, or simply practicing naturalistic observations in several Japanese cities including Mizusawa, Morioka, and Tokyo. The authors found that Japan had long had its own fast food culture as long ago as 1899, when a Japanese food chain, Yosh...
When a visitor or even a Peruvian tries any Peruvian dish, they might not know that what they are eating is the result of a fascinating evolution of foods and cultures. Certainly, Peruvian gastronomy goes beyond only cooking; it is a compendium of events, characters, and customs since food involves different nutritional elements: biological, historical, economic, cultural and social that reveal fundamental aspects of a country’s diet and lifestyles (More, Pablo). In Peru, this has been occurring since the beginning of the Andean culture, the encounter with the Spanish culture its important period of acculturation, the Republican era and up to its present.
This means that the members with the most power and position will be the general manager and the assistant manager. They will be in charge of the front and the back of the restaurant operations. From there, the associates such as the accountant, bookkeeper and landlord will wield power and advice as needed. The landlord in particular will be involved in any issues regarding our choice of location.
*These four old guys (definitely into their late sixties, early seventies) sell cars at one of the dealerships on the boulevard. I would bet fifty dollars that they all work for Cadillac. They come in once a week, on Friday afternoons. They love me. They like to give me a hard time, ask why I don’t love them anymore, when I’m going to run away with them, etc, etc. They are caricatures of car salesmen but are obviously unaware of this. They hold court in Eat Well like it’s 1965 at the Sands, talking in loud voices and telling stories about one another to each other. (“This guy here, one time he says to me, ‘Paulie’…”)
After coming back to America, she borrowed loan and moved to Los Angeles to open a small salon. In the period of time of five years, she paid back the entire loan and also expanded her business to a bigger salon and included day spa. She also imported machines from Japan and Korea to improve her spa’s service. As her business was on the rise, in 2030, Anh Tran opened a salon and day spa with the same name, Purple Bliss Salon & Spa, in Vietnam and let her sister, Hieu Tran, managed it.
There has been exponential rise in the number of eateries in most of the towns worldwide. This is partly brought about by the ballooning urban population, as well as the emergence of working middle class population who find themselves tied up by work in the cities they reside.
The United States of America, a country where anyone can become anything he or she wants to be. It is even given the phrase “Land of opportunity.” This is one of the reasons people from different parts of the world choose to immigrate to the United States. Immigrants do not immigrate alone, but bring their cultures with them. One of the representatives of culture is food, and with the vast amount of immigrants, the vast amount of ethnic restaurants are introduced. Beneficial things happened with the rise of ethnic restaurants, they serve as a doorway to introduce different cultures and they improve the country’s economy. Some people disagree and believe that ethnic restaurants are a problem. That they lead to cultural separation because it
...l, the city hosts a number of ethnic restaurants that range from luxurious to more accommodating pricing and atmosphere.
Hawker centres and food courts are Singapore’s pride and jewel. These dining areas make up our food culture which we have loads of pride in. What makes the food courts and hawker centres in Singapore so different from others in the world? Well, due to the presence of multiculturalism in Singapore, we have many foods originating from many different races, mainly Chinese, Indians and Malays are the three main races in Singapore. Due to this, our food courts and hawker centres sell a myriad of cuisines ranging from local cuisines to western cuisines. Thus, those do dine there are often spoilt for choices and do not know what to buy. However, one thing for sure is that they would most definitely feed their hunger with the delicious food available there. Moreover, on average the cost of food, there is inexpensive. The cost of food ranges from as low as one dollar to a maximum as seven dollars! Thus, what’s there not to love about
It is vital to recognize the value of a certain culture in the country through a common “tool” such as food. Located in Ohio, in Oberlin College’s newspaper, a number of students complained about the cultural appropriation on Asian food. Among many students, a Junior Japanese student, Tomoyo Joshi, criticizing the college’s serving of sushi, stated: “When you’re cooking a country’s dish for other people, including ones who have never tried the original dish before, you’re also representing the meaning of the dish as well as its culture” (Dunham & Friedersdorf). The unique taste and characteristic in a country’s dish reveals a meaning of its culture. Through common accessibilities like Japanese food, for instance, many people are able to understand and learn the Japanese culture. However, many misunderstand the Japanese culture due to the modification of Japanese food in the West. Without the same tasting, Westernization of Asian food corrupt originality in the culinary world. As a matter of fact, “the traditional cuisines of Japan is based on rice with miso soup and other dishes such as soba or udon or meat based products called tonkatsu… Japan has simmered many dishes such as fish products in broth called oden or beef in sukiyaki and nikujaga” (Wikipedia). In comparison to the original Japanese food sold in Japan, Japanese