cross-cultural lunch-time reading

...from our former home (Seattle),

from today's NY Times,

this article (click to read).

United Tastes

A City’s Specialty, Japanese in Name Only


Tucson has its Sonoran hot-dogs (click for another NY Times article) and cheese-crisps...
L.A. now has its famous Korean-taco-trucks. (click here!)
(We hope to go there this Friday!)
and Seattle: "teriyaki."
To that, I would add pho--so common in Puget Sound...
and, fortunately, present here in southern AZ as well...