San Francisco Bay Area Cuisine has Changed

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, April 24, 2002: People from more than 60 countries settling in California in the last ten years have brought with them their customs, beliefs and ethnic food. As a result, Bay area cuisine has changed accordingly. Ethnic cuisine once meant Italian and Chinese food. Now it could be Indian curries, Taiwanese hot pot restaurants, Filipinos and Latinos taquerias and take-out bakeries, Mexican tortillas, Vietnamese and Thai flavors or an Ethiopian menu. The article says, “The numbers of Asian Indians living in the nine-county Bay Area region jumped by a staggering 170% between 1990 and 2000.” In the south in the towns of Fremont and Sunnyvale, Indian high-tech workers have settled and the neighborhood is called “Little India.” As a result, Beyond Curry, a refined fusion of Chinese and Indian cuisine is part of the menu in South Bay restaurants such as Tumerik. Other establishments cater to Mexican, Japanese and Hawaiian food. Tsegai Berhe, owner of the former Mayes Oster House, now an Ethiopian restaurant, sums it up, “I think people want to try different food these days.”