| Comment | Let me put it another way that avoids the issue of which specific country they're from
Teppanyaki is not an Asian cuisine, it's from the US. Anyone can cook it, just like e.g. Wagamama as a non-specific pan-asian restaurant chain has chefs of all ethnic backgrounds.
ST, as a chain, is not owned or run by Asian people. Most of its directors are white europeans from Manchester.
So why do they only recruit chefs of Asian background, and advertise themselves as having 'Asian Chefs' if not for the restaurants to basically be an Asian cuisine panto? Doesn't really matter if it's Thai or Chinese staff or whatever - basic fact is the restaurant has a 'Japanese' design brief and they include their staff in that, no matter how weird and othering that is |
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