Except the sort of Cantonese that focuses on texture and is, in fact, as bland as anything, almost as if the phrase "Asian cuisine" were fatuously reductive.
Agree with that one. This actually reminds me that the worst food I probably had traveling
was in Sichuan, I couldn't read any of the menus so I pointed at things other people were
eating and mostly ended up with some kind of fermented brown things, wasn't bland though.
Except the sort of Cantonese that focuses on texture and is, in fact, as bland as anything, almost as if the phrase "Asian cuisine" were fatuously reductive.