Great post, Orchid. Thanks for sharing the link with us. It is always interesting to see how cultures mix and mingle when they connect in major cities around the world. That's one reason I have loved my visits to Vancouver.

New York City, of course, is also a melting pot of many cultures, but I've not spent much time there.

More close to home for me, is the great city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which has long been known as a European melting pot, with people from Germany, most well-known, as they have made Milwaukee well-known for beer and schnitzle. But other European cultures are also well represented. During the summer months, they celebrate these cultures weekly, with big ethnic street festivals.

Among them, German, Polish, French, Greek, Scottish, Irish, Mexican - even Asian, African and Arab.

That's right, Milwaukee has also become home to immigrants from Asia, the Middle East, and Central and South America.

The Hmong, refugees from the political order established with the formation of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic in 1975, are a significant new group, for example.

So, I wonder whether the mix of Germanic and Asians foods you so lovingly describe in your post is happening there, too?