White New York restaurateur says sorry for touting 'clean' Chinese food

Arielle Haspel’s Lucky Lee’s restaurant at centre of controversy Critics claim cultural appropriation and unfair stereotyping Controvers... thumbnail 1 summary
  • Arielle Haspel’s Lucky Lee’s restaurant at centre of controversy
  • Critics claim cultural appropriation and unfair stereotyping

Controversy over a New York City restaurant owner who touted her “clean” American-Chinese cuisine and derided Chinese dishes as swimming in “globs of processed butter”, sodium and MSG is renewing a long-simmering debate about stereotyping and cultural appropriation in the restaurant world.

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