Fusion Cuisine - Background

Background

This type of restaurant's success depends on a number of factors. Among these are:

  • Clientele's (or prospective clientele's) cultural diversity
  • Clientele's travel patterns and experiences.
  • Clientele's culinary sophistication and openness to new eating experiences.

Wolfgang Puck is considered as one of the pioneers of fusion cuisine. However, his restaurant "Chinois on Main" was named after the term attributed to Richard Wing, who in the 1960s combined French and Chinese cooking at the former Imperial Dynasty restaurant in Hanford, California.

A sampling from the menu of an American-European-Japanese restaurant in California might include the following items:

  • Sake cocktails
  • Salad with crisp nori topping, and a miso-cilantro vinaigrette dressing
  • Rock shrimp dumplings
  • Eel, lettuce and tomato sushi handroll
  • Poached tofu


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