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The one that got split into the curry digression thread.

Curry digression

Regarding “bait and switch” of original crew from Japan to a local one, it wasn’t a downhill alert for me when I tried Marugame Monzo in Little Tokyo over a year after it first opened. I had a counter seat and instead of seeing a Japanese person making the udon noodles, it was an extremely muscular Latin American cook rolling out the dough. I was initially surprised, but decided to consciously check my bias at the door and reminded myself I’m here for a decent meal, not a Disneyland show. The …