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Whoever owns the adult content feature should dogfood it, as should some folks adjacent teams.

Apple is well-known as the whitest tech company in leadership roles, it’s entirely possible they did but never noticed.

The idea that Apple engineers, no matter how "white", never searched for Asian food in Cupertino, strains credibility to the breaking point.

Why would you search for 'asian' food? You'd search for japanese, chinese, korean, vietnamese...

Because there are many similarities and if you like 4 of the listed ones, searching for an Asian restaurant gives you more options to browse without searching for a specific thing.

> Because there are many similarities

This just isn't true.

What would you call all 4 featuring noodle dishes, curries over rice, ramen-like dishes, etc.? Sounds like a similarity to me.

I'd call that "you went to a restaurant offering Asian Fusion cuisine and confused it with a Korean restaurant". I've been in Korean restaurants where I would have leapt at the chance to order ramen; it's not something you can do. (I loathe and despise Korean food, but I was working for a Korean guy...)

We can also note that you seem to be including a lot of European food, like risotto, in the category of "Asian food".

You can a acknowledge the similarity of ristto dishes to curry over rice and at the same time say it's more different than Indian and Japanese curry is similar. Let's not kill all the nuance.

And sure, you won't find ramen in Korean cuisine, which is why I wrote ramen-like. You'll find noodle soups though, like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janchi-guksu

I was annoyed by the expression myself, wondering why one would group Japanese and Thai cuisines in the same group.

Then I noted that here in Singapore you often find "western" restaurants, which serves the stereotypical western style cuisine.

So I guess this happens a lot more than you might think initially.

There are similarities. Use of rice noodles, peanuts, soy sauce, fermented fish sauces, etc.

What ripdog said. There's another comment upthread suggesting that searching for "Asian restaurants near me" would be a logical thing for someone to do, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. "Asian restaurants" are a category no more useful than "restaurants".

This white boy from the Midwest has never searched for "Asian food" in Cupertino or anywhere else. I have, though, frequently searched for Thai, Indian, Japanese, Chinese...

(And I see that I've been...not exactly ninja'ed, I guess, if I switch back to answer email before finishing my HN reply.)

Ok, everyone saying the same thing: have you ever... been to Cupertino?

https://www.google.com/search?q=asian+fusion+cupertino

It more likely has to do with Apple's secrecy.

You assume that if there were more asians working at apple this wouldn't have happened. Do you think asians spend all day searching for "asian" on google? How many times did you search for your race on google last year?

I have no idea, but way more than 0 or even 10.

Statistically, they're more likely to be searching for "asian" in an adult context then.

I'd love to read the memo asking employees to report back their porn viewing habits.

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