Ethnic restaurants in "ethnic" places?

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There’s an Outback here in Bangkok, and it’s a great place to go if you want a good steak without paying an arm and a leg for it. The main steakhouse here is Neil’s Tavern, named after – really – Neil Armstrong (because it opened on July 20, 1969 – really), but it’s outrageously priced. I know Outback’s American and not Australian, but it’s an excellent place to feed my craving for heart-attack food.

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Just an example of the diversity of cuisine here in Blighty, if you turn right out of my house, and walk about 3/4 of a mile, you get the following food outlets (from memory), all in the same street:

Halal fish and chips
Italian home cooking
Indian restaurant
East Caribbean restaurant
Kebab shop
Tapas bar
Kebab shop
Bangladeshi restaurant
Thai restaurant
Subway
Cantonese takeaway
Indian restaurant
Kebab shop
Chinese takeaway
KFC
Dodgy English pub-grub
Jamaican restaurant
Kurdish mezze restaurant
Tapas bar
Turkish patisserie
Japanese restaurant
Fusion cuisine bar
French-style café
American-style diner
Genuine Italian pizza
Nice English pub grub

I love my street! Even though I did get propositioned by a working girl on my street corner the day before last.

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If I may ask, what street in Oxford do you live on?

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Cowley Road.

Riding the bus up the street just now, I realised in my list above I missed out an Italian Deli, Greek Deli, Polish restaurant, two more kebab shops, and a Portuguese chicken joint (Nando’s).

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This thread reminds me of a chain restaurant we’ve seen in France:

The Buffalo Grill, which purports to be a hootin’ hollerin’ Texas cowboy kind of eating establishment. The website’s a bit difficult to navigate, but for those who have the patience, the menu is pretty funny. I especially like “Coupes Prohibition” - ice cream with alcohol (like Tequila) poured over it!

We ate at one once, and and saw a French gentleman trying to eat some barbecued ribs. First he tried to knife and fork them like a civilized European should, and failing that, picked up a whole rib on his fork and then delicately nibbled it. We were only eating burgers, but I’d have liked to have shown him the proper way to eat a BBQ rib - with the naked fingers, and getting sauce all over one’s face.

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Thanks, jjimm. I walked up and down Cowley Road quite a bit last time I was in Oxford in 2005.