Meanwhile NYC alone has more Asians than LA/SF combined in a much smaller area and even you admit on the flanks of NYC, e.g., Fort Lee has its own contribution here (of course, it's no 40 minute bart train ride -- maybe a 30 minute car trip though)
The rest of your story's anecdotes are about twenty years out of date. NYC for Italian subs? Really? There's like six Italians left east of the Husdon and three of them speak Spanish at home.
Top dog ethnicity btw is a hilarious (and dangerous) way of looking at things.
> Meanwhile NYC alone has more Asians than LA/SF combined
Numerically, not proportionally. The Bay Area has been a hub for Asian Americans for a long time.
> Fort Lee has its own contribution here
Fort Lee is mostly Korean.
I gave an examples of Pakhtun and Cantonese food - one a niche community in the US and the other a large diaspora in the US.
That's the thing - us Asians aren't a monolith. We're a fucking continent with hundreds of different ethnicities.
Just about every South Asian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian community is represented in the Bay, with a well represented Central Asian and East Asian community as well.
I can get Liti Chokha (Bhojpuri), Laghman (Hui-Uyghur fusion), Horse Kumis (Mongolian), Banh Mi Xiu Mai (Highland Vietnamese), etc within the core Bay Area via public transit alone. With driving it would be even faster
That almost isn't a thing in NYC. Hell, there's only one Laghman joint in NYC and they completely butchered their Samosa compared to Mrs Khan, Kusan, or Nursel. Farida is decent, but half their family and staffed moved to the Bay Area to open restaurants like Halal Dastarkhan.
Every small Asian ethnic group is well represented in the Bay irrespective of size.
If you're a numerically large ethnic group like Korean or Cantonese it might not matter as much, but it does to us who are from smaller ethnic groups. My ethnic group has only 3 million people at most, and most of them only reside in South and Central Asia with no diaspora.
I don't want to lose my cultural background. And this is the same for plenty of other smaller communities.
> NYC for Italian subs?
It's an example of cultural assimilation to highlight how ingrained Asian ethnic groups have become in California.
The rest of your story's anecdotes are about twenty years out of date. NYC for Italian subs? Really? There's like six Italians left east of the Husdon and three of them speak Spanish at home.
Top dog ethnicity btw is a hilarious (and dangerous) way of looking at things.