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One of the few disquieting things I found about living in Japan was going to a restaurant that specialized in foreign food. That spirit of sadism which was displayed in the Rape of Nanjing has been sublimated into torturing and mutilating foreign cuisine. One must consider this sublimation a good thing, of course, but oh! what they do to food I dearly love!

Japanese gyoza (small dumplings filled with meat and vegetables) are sad simulacra of their Chinese originals, [jìáuzi]. And what they do to Mexican food is enough to make a grown man cry!