An online row has erupted over an Australian making sushi in New York.
Australian Alex Marks left her corporate job to sell ‘Aussie’ sushi including food hall favourites, teriyaki chicken, spicy tuna, and avocado and cucumber.
Sounds harmless right? Well apparently this makes her a ‘coloniser’. Online comments have labelled it ‘quite scary’, and said they were ‘sick of the disrespect’.
Did I miss something? The Italian down the road from me is full of Indian and Asian cooks, yet we manage not to be offended.
In fact the very idea that the people cooking should match the restaurant’s ethnicity is just weird.
While we are on the topic, we have several Japanese restaurants near me, but only one is actually owned by Japanese people, all the rest are Chinese.
And no one cares. Would you care?