I think it is sometimes very inventive, but a lot of the time it's just a more pretentious version of "Beef and kai-lan made with broccoli instead". Repackaging other culture's stuff with a few minor changes and a giant mark-up is this big Thing people from a dominant culture do, and rubs me the wrong way, but I agree it's not 100% clear-cut here.
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I think it is sometimes very inventive, but a lot of the time it's just a more pretentious version of "Beef and kai-lan made with broccoli instead". Repackaging other culture's stuff with a few minor changes and a giant mark-up is this big Thing people from a dominant culture do, and rubs me the wrong way, but I agree it's not 100% clear-cut here.