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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9854782" data-attributes="member: 18">That's a fascinating one because it's essentially been astroturfed into being a thing by (I suggest by initially paid) influencers. The UAE have been looking into and willing to put their huge amounts of money behind anything they could claim culturally for quite a while (as people may be aware)It's not even from Dubai or the UAE in any real sense, the concept was originated by a professional chocolatier who is British-Egyptian, and developed into a reality by a Filipino chef, and was sold in Dubai solely because it's one of the few places a professional chocolatier can still do good business with $30/serving chocolate. Then suddenly in 2023 after selling as "I can't get a knafeh of it!" (awful name to be fair) becomes "Dubai Chocolate" and loads of heavily-sponsored influencers are praising it.To be fair, Dubai had the sense to "back a winner" here in that they picked something which was pretty okay, but still pretty funny (in all senses of "funny").The rest though are all genuine AFAICT.One other British peculiarity that may surprise some Americans and maybe others is that a lot of Britain-based Indian/South Asian and Chinese restaurants serve very different specific things to the US (something which is far less true of Japanese and Korean places). Sure you'll be able to get a lot of similar general categories of food like "curry" or "chicken with noodles", but a lot of the actual specifics will be quite different, and some things which are major in one country will be "What are you talking about?" in the other.</blockquote>

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