Yes Jingjai, some mouth-watering stuff there. It all looks good to me, and I believe that I have eaten (at least a few times) just about everything listed. However, now that I'm a little older and a bit more health conscious, I do not indulge as I once did.
One interesting aspect of the list was the number of dishes that had a foreign influence "of sorts". If you count the two Chili's dishes as mexican (?) eleven, or more than 50%, of the twenty dishes were either Italian (3), Chinese(1), Mexican(6), or Australian(1). Seems like American food is having a hard time staying strictly American. Our melting pot has become a fondue. So much for the better, I say. Even if it's not pure ethnic food, it helps to make our American food all the more interesting.
Now if we could just figure out a way export our true American food (you know; fried chicken, hamburgers, pizza, tex-mex and 69 flavors of ice cream to the rest of the world, wouldn't that be great! It's a shame to deprive so many people of such wonderful stuff. Who knows, it could happen.
