Ethnic Dining & More

找到民族餐厅，更贴近您的位置。

An Ethnic Dining & More was designed to locate restaurants within 10 to 15 miles of your geographic location. This app uses the power of the smart devices location services to accomplish this. It is a good idea to check Ethnic Dining & More often for restaurant openings and closings in your area. Ethnic Dining & More will also point out restaurants in the US and other parts of the world.

The term “ethnic food” is ambiguous. We tend to have a good idea of the foods on either polar extremes of the line. Despite the cultural origins on many of our favorite foods, some of them are unabashedly American now—French fries, steak, and apple pie come to mind. On the other side, foods associated with exotic locales like Thai or Ethiopian are pretty clearly ethnic. Problems occur on the line as America assimilates more and more into its mainstream cuisine. Do people consider Italian food ethnic? Maybe if you were eating sweet corn agnolotti, but spaghetti with meat sauce is about as American as it gets.

More perplexing is whether soul food is considered “ethnic.” Some aspects of soul food are reflexively American like mac ‘n’ cheese or fried chicken, but what about chitterlings and pigs’ feet? But for many Americans, especially away from the Deep South, soul food is just as foreign as pad thai.