I wanna know if my Western friends on the community love or hate Asian food in general. As a native mixed Tibetan, Mongolian. Han Chinese, Japanese and Korean, I regularly eat and make my own Asian food at home so yeah. I love cooking for myself personally. But my most favourite I think is Japanese sushi with tempura, soy sauce, raw marinated ginger and anything sweet and sour, stir-fry or Teriyaki. I love also Korean hotpot, Korean BBQ and Chinese dumplings with vinegar and Asian sweets and desserts like a red bean mochi or red bean popsicle or tart as a dessert after dinner or lunch with a nice fruity iced tea or coffee. I make my own drinks and food at home since the lockdown so yeah.
I like quite a lot of Asian/Oriental cuisine. Where I live it's hard to find decent quality Oriental food simply because we don't have a whole lot of ethnic diversity here so things are little more than a local's attempt to make it.
I like sushi and the marinated ginger. I never cared much for teriyaki flavor though. I once worked with a Japanese lady who subsequently quit to work at her husband's restaurant. She invited my team to have dinner at the restaurant, so one evening we took her up on the offer. My boss picked up the bill so I don't know if she had offered a special rate (I suspect she did). That was amazing - dish after dish after dish of authentic Japanese food, cooked by a Japanese chef.
Years ago I lived about 5 minutes walk from a Thai restaurant and grew very fond of tom yum and green curries. That was in a big city so it was easy enough for restaurants to find people who knew the cuisine well.
I enjoyed some Korean food - beef bulgogi and onigiri rolls in particular.
I'm not sure whether what I'd call Chinese food is anything that native Chinese people would recognise. We had Chinatown in my former home city but it wasn't a place I particularly frequented, largely because the location wasn't on my way to or from anywhere and I didn't know it well enough to have any idea of what was good and what was not.
To me the concept of Asian food would also include Indian and Sri Lankan dishes. I am something of a lover of curries but know many things sold as Indian food in the west are westernised versions and that you'd struggle to find anything like them in India. Back in the late 1990s I worked with a guy who was originally from Sri Lanka and I remember him bringing in something his wife had made for the team. I remember it was delicious, Ijust can't remember what it was.
