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I really don't agree with this > Eating out is a big part of your life; there are restaurants, but they're expensive and for the most part unimpressive. If someone who worked at Noma owns it, then it's probably great, but otherwise often meh.

You must have extremely high standards or have different expecations. I guess it depends where you moved from, but if you live in Copenhagen there are a lot of great restaurants.

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I spent more than a decade trying to find some place with Kung Pao chicken, impossible - it showed up in one of the street food places a couple years ago. It wasn't especially impressive.

Try to find a decent burrito, or anything to compare with any of the Mexican restaurants you can get in even the worst parts of the U.S. It's depressing!

And if you get some Mexican food in Denmark, or anything spicy really, it is an uphill fight to get it to be really spicy.

Barbecue sucks here.

This is just from U.S perspective, from the Italian perspectives I'm familiar with, almost all Italian restaurants here should be closed down.

I mean it is a lot better than it was 20 years ago, but on the other hand comparing with SF of 20 years ago - it still has a way to go.

And then as was remarked, it is super expensive even to eat something lousy.

Right ok, I see if you're looking for something non-European you'll likely not find anything as good as the good stuff in the US. But that seems like you're looking for the wrong thing. I understand the point in the article now though, it just seemed far more general than what you're saying here.

People just make their own food here.

Also, there are barely any Chinese people here or Mexican people, why do you expect there to be mexican food? Look for Vietnamese, Syrian, Turkish etc. and you'll find plenty of good stuff.

Evidently the article was written by somebody that had an American viewpoint about moving to Denmark, I deduced this by reading the article where they talked about being American and what the pros and cons were about moving to Denmark.

They then commented on how the food sucks in Denmark.

You didn't agree with that.

I then presented reasons why an American might think the food sucks in Denmark.

But it seems I am wrong too because Americans shouldn't expect the food in Denmark to be the kind of food they like.

I don't know how you intend to square the circle of "Americans can't get the food here they like but they are wrong to think that they can't get the food they like", but I can definitely see you trying your darndest to square it.

In short, for lots of Americans moving to Denmark the food selection and the high cost of dining out will be a drawback.

Bit late to reply to this, but my point was that it's strange to complain that specific types of food is unavailable, when the people that would make that food aren't here.

I can still appreciate that someone coming from the US might not find the food as good and affordable as back home.

If you compare it to Asia or NA people usually eat out because it's a lot of fun and you can try variety of foods. DK forces you to stay at home and cook because it's just too expensive to do it every day.

Even in Singapore I can eat out every day and dont really feel it.

Indeed, I live in Paris and my elder daughter studies in Taiwan... She discovers the possibility of street food affordable enough to her to be a normal meal. In Paris, eating out is luxury entertainment - cooking at home is the normal way.

It still depends where you are in Paris, there is areas where you can eat really cheap street food (the stands are illegal and aren't certified by health authorities, so it's at your own risks, and it's in areas some would consider 'unsafe').

Ten years ago you had more opportunities to eat different street food in Paris. Now it's kebab, and that's it. According to my father, 35 years ago it was great however. You had hot dogs, galettes, street pizza, barbecue, Chinese food and a lot of other stuff really cheap.

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