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Old 06-28-2007, 02:14 PM   #20
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Interesting. How so?
Pasta. There was no pasta in Europe until Europeans interacted with the Chinese. Legend has it Marco Polo brought it back with him. Also, most of what you love about Japanese food is similarly derivative of Chinese. Like I said, Chinese is the French food of Asia, except that to Asia China is like a conflation of Greece, Rome, and France to Europe/USA.
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