Subpar Scrub
Banned
we don't have to deal with a bunch of laowei clogging up the restaurant, breaking the chairs, and driving prices up and quality down.
I'm guessing laowei is a negative term for non-chinese?
I think this is less of a racist bias of the list and more of a sign of established luxury chefs moving to Asia
I initially had this feeling too. Some of the white/European/whatever dudes are master chefs with 20+ years of intensive, difficult and high standard cooking to the biggest celebrities and politicians in the world. No matter where they open their restaurant, odds are they'd be in a top ten or top twenty list.
Also, I imagine it's easier for whoever compiles a list like this to simply go to the top tier or highest rated restaurants in a town or city and take those into consideration for a definitive list. I guess it'd be much easier and quicker than having to eat at every small restaurant in a city. Which is a shame, because some of the best meals I had in Japan and Thailand were from establishments that looked more like a furnished hole in a wall than a restaurant.