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Haha. Hot dish is common in outstate MN dish. The following is just some of the cuisine one will find in MPLS-STPL.
Lol. It'd be more impressive if those links took us to something Minneapolis related. I missed in the articles where Minneapolis-St. Paul was a hotbed for those cuisines.
Besides, I'm from Portland. We're familiar with all those ... don't need Wikipedia to explain it.
Minneapolis has many old established institutions that are still some of the best in the US. They've got multiple art museums, multiple symphonies, an opera, and a ballet company that are all considered to be some of the best in the US. I would guess it has something to do with Minneapolis being older and developing faster when those sorts of attractions were a higher priority. Cleveland is another city that has a surprisingly strong arts scene compared to the size that it is today.
Minneapolis also has probably the best choral music scene in the Americas, and probably one of the top five or ten in the world, which is something many people don't consider or realize (I'm talking serious primarily a cappella choral music, not like glee clubs or even barbershop). The only competition in North America would be New York, or maybe Dallas/Houston if you lumped them together, but per capita, Minneapolis would come out on top. There are a ton of incredibly high-quality collegiate, amateur, and professional choirs that have come out of the Twin Cities/southeast Minnesota region.
Lol. It'd be more impressive if those links took us to something Minneapolis related. I missed in the articles where Minneapolis-St. Paul was a hotbed for those cuisines.
Besides, I'm from Portland. We're familiar with all those ... don't need Wikipedia to explain it.
Minneapolis (and St. Paul) have some of the highest concentrations of most of those ethnic groups in the developed world. You may be from Portland, and you may have heard of all of those nationalities/ethnic groups, but you haven't experienced the culture and cuisine like we have
For me the food scene boils down ( no pun intended ) to the PNW's locally sourced fruits, vegetables, wines, coffees, microbrews, and seafood.
Just because Portland's microbrew or farmers' markets have been commercialized and mass-marketed more effectively than Minneapolis's, doesn't mean that they are better quality. The Twin Cities has a slew of great local breweries and microbreweries, several major farmers' markets. Local food is huge there, as is Halal.
Portland to me is just a place where people go to live in the '90's and pretend that they're trendy. It's so....cliche. No, thanks...
Lol. It'd be more impressive if those links took us to something Minneapolis related. I missed in the articles where Minneapolis-St. Paul was a hotbed for those cuisines.
Besides, I'm from Portland. We're familiar with all those ... don't need Wikipedia to explain it.
MPLS - STPL has the largest Hmong and Somali populations in the US; one of the largest Eritrean, Tibetan, and Ethiopian populations; and sizable Vietnamese, Lao, and Burmese populations. Add in the remaining ethnicities within the central core and there is plenty of variety when it comes to food. BTW, there is plenty of locally sourced food, food trucks, and microbreweries here as well so, yeah. Plus I've experienced Portland, including its food scene. I wouldn't say it's better than what I have found in MPLS-STPL.
Minneapolis (and St. Paul) have some of the highest concentrations of most of those ethnic groups in the developed world. You may be from Portland, and you may have heard of all of those nationalities/ethnic groups, but you haven't experienced the culture and cuisine like we have
Portland(and Seattle as well) have significant concentrations of Ethiopians and other East African groups. In the N/NE Portland neighborhood where I used to live there's an area where every just about every other block has a East African market or Ethiopian restaurant. There's a lot of Vietnamese here since the 1970s/80s, good numbers of Chinese, and other SE Asian groups, in addition to a lot of Russians on the eastside. Within a mile or two radius from my house where I live on the eastside of Portland today, there's too many Vietnamese restaurants to count, two Cambodian restaurants, a lot of Dim Sum restaurants run by Hong Kong Chinese, several good Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurants, the biggest Asian shopping center in Oregon, Korean BBQs, Fillipino restaurants, a Lebanese grocery and restaurant, and several halal markets run by Somalis. You can find Laotian or Nepalese food in the metro as well, though our two Tibetan restaurants closed a while back and we don't have any Burmese restaurants though there is a Burmese market on 122nd. Add in the food carts downtown and you can find cheap ethnic food from just about every continent and region of the world.
Portland actually has a higher percentage of Asians than Minneapolis. Though St. Paul of course has a higher number--though it's about the same percentage as Beaverton just to the west of Portland and there's a good number of Asians in Hillsboro as well including a lot of East Indians. So don't believe the Portlandia hype that Portland is simply all white people, if you don't actually live here and have only experienced the gentrified tourist neighborhoods of inner Portland.
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Portland to me is just a place where people go to live in the '90's and pretend that they're trendy. It's so....cliche. No, thanks...
Yeah, whatever--you most likely don't know anything more about Portland then what you see on Portlandia...
Portland(and Seattle as well) have significant concentrations of Ethiopians and other East African groups. In the N/NE Portland neighborhood where I used to live there's an area where every just about every other block has a East African market or Ethiopian restaurant. There's a lot of Vietnamese here since the 1970s/80s, good numbers of Chinese, and other SE Asian groups, in addition to a lot of Russians on the eastside. Within a mile or two radius from my house where I live on the eastside of Portland today, there's too many Vietnamese restaurants to count, two Cambodian restaurants, a lot of Dim Sum restaurants run by Hong Kong Chinese, several good Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurants, the biggest Asian shopping center in Oregon, Korean BBQs, Fillipino restaurants, a Lebanese grocery and restaurant, and several halal markets run by Somalis. You can find Laotian or Nepalese food in the metro as well, though our two Tibetan restaurants closed a while back and we don't have any Burmese restaurants though there is a Burmese market on 122nd. Add in the food carts downtown and you can find cheap ethnic food from just about every continent and region of the world.
I love dim sum. There are a few places in the TC area that serve it, but IMO, the best one, Jun Bo, was forced to close down about a year ago due to "public safety" concerns. I'm also a huge fan of pho - if you are ever in the MPLS-STPL and want pho, go to Pho Ca Dao off University Ave. in St. Paul.
I love dim sum. There are a few places in the TC area that serve it, but IMO, the best one, Jun Bo, was forced to close down about a year ago due to "public safety" concerns. I'm also a huge fan of pho - if you are ever in the MPLS-STPL and want pho, go to Pho Ca Dao off University Ave. in St. Paul.
Yeah, pho is delicious, I eat it a lot for lunch, though the best places in Portland are out on SE 82nd which is basically the new Chinatown or Asian shopping/food mecca for the region.
Are there a lot of Hmong restaurants in the Twin Cities? I ask because, I have a lot of family in the Central Valley of California and there's also one of the biggest population of Hmongs in the US in that region, though I don't remember ever seeing many specifically Hmong restaurants. I know they ran some of the Vietnamese and Thai restaurants in the area, which is of course two of the countries they came from originally, but I don't think I've ever specifically tried Hmong cuisine.
Pho places are every where in Seattle Metro. But Pho Than Brother chain is the largest . I usualy end up eatin at Pho Tai chain because there open 24hrs and on the main Interstates.
Minneapolis (and St. Paul) have some of the highest concentrations of most of those ethnic groups in the developed world. You may be from Portland, and you may have heard of all of those nationalities/ethnic groups, but you haven't experienced the culture and cuisine like we have
Minneapolis definitely has great Somalian, Hmong, and Ethiopian cuisine because it has large refugee populations from all three groups. However, some of the others are more suspect. I have no idea how the twin cities could be immersed in the culture of immigrant groups that likely number less than 1000 people. The Twin Cities does have high numbers of some of those groups compared to other places, but when the groups are so small they still have relatively little impact on the culture of the area as a whole. For example, Seattle has over 10,000 Ethiopian immigrants living in the area, yet I would hardly call the area "experienced" in Ethiopian culture or cuisine (which Seattle is also known to be strong in).
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