@ncoca I have a theory I developed as a vegetarian. There are vegan restaurants and restaurants that happen to be vegan. Vegan restaurants are very "crunchy" and tend to have overpriced food that is not tasty. They tend to serve Western white people. They are like McDonald's for vegan tourists. But the second category are good places (often local foods) cooked vegetarian or vegan in creative ways. I wish I could filter out the former and look for the later.

@ncoca A group of people being ignorant about how good food can taste is probably less correlated to race or origin, and more correlated to experience. Lots of restaurants here cater to the Japanese palate, too, which (in general) differs significantly from a lot of the rest of Asia.