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It has influences from Middle Eastern cuisine, Southeast Asian cuisine, East Asian cuisine and Central Asian cuisine, as well as the Mediterranean cuisines due to the historical and contemporary cross-cultural interactions with these neighboring regions. Regional cuisine includes: East Indian cuisines: Bengali cuisine; Cuisine of Chhattisgarh ...
In 1986, a Chinese restaurant, Bo Loong, opened in a newly constructed building at 3922 St. Clair Avenue. Attracting both Asian and non-Asian customers, [18] it proved to be a groundbreaking establishment which anchored the emerging Asiatown. [19] In 1991, [14] Asia Plaza opened on the northwest corner of E. 30th Street and Payne Avenue. This ...
The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, [1] is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia, but who live outside the region. [2] There are over 44 million people in this diaspora.
Operates as BJ's Restaurant & Brewery, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, BJ's Grill, and BJ's Pizza & Grill. Black Bear Diner: Mount Shasta, California: 1995 Redding, California: 144 West Bob Evans Restaurant: Gallipolis, Ohio: 1948 New Albany, Ohio: 440 Mid-Atlantic, Midwest Boomarang Diner: Muskogee, Oklahoma: 1998 Shawnee, Oklahoma: 55 Oklahoma ...
The word Desi is widely used by South Asians, as well those of the South Asian diaspora, to describe themselves; those of South Asian origin, especially Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, use the term "as a means of asserting or reclaiming a sense of pride" in being South Asian, "particularly in the face of racism, discrimination, and stigmatization" of minorities in various parts of the ...
South Asians are in the highest concentration in the New York City metropolitan area, with other significant concentrations in California, Texas, and Illinois. As of 2012 the metropolitan areas with the largest South Asian populations are New York, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston.
The culture of South Asia, also known as Desi culture, is a mixture of several cultures in and around the Indian subcontinent. Ancient South Asian culture was primarily based in Hinduism, which itself formed as a mixture of Vedic religion and indigenous traditions (like Dravidian folk religion), and later Buddhist influences. [1]
A chaikhana is a Central Asian teahouse where people gather to socialize over tea. Traditional dishes are served like shorpo (soup), shashlik (grilled meats), mastoba, manty, pilov and samsa. (Vodka is sometimes called ak cha or "white tea"). [2] Kumis is a traditional drink of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia.