Its all fresh ingredients and wonderful spices. Its not greasy at all!
and btw...
Don't forget that most of the food you eat is 90% of the time are Westernized versions of real ethnic food unless you walk into a restaurant and the menu is not in English and the other patrons actually look like they can cook the food at home.
westernized isn't all bad, I mean have you seen some of the things on a chinese and vietnamese menu. Oh yeah beef organ stew, mnnn, oh let us not forget the tripe. I still generally prefer going to authentic food for vietnamese but chinese please some dishes are good, but I'd rather have the general chicken.
And geez even the authentic places wont be trully authentic because they lose access to native produce and gain access to meats and produce they didn't have access to before.
