The first Chinese immigrants took some essential spices in Chinese cuisine to the USA. But the sense of taste is so different from Chinese food to European food. For example, after a long journey from China to the USA, the spicy Kongbao Chicken was changed to a sweet and sour Zuo Zongtang Chicken, probably the most famous American Chinese cuisine dish.
Different food travels to different countries, the foreign cities will become their home eventually. The diversity of cuisine styles in Barcelona is quite high, with 35% foreign cuisine styles.
The correlation between density of immigrants population of density of foreign cuisine styles shows that immigrants are concentrated in the city center, on the other hand the foreign cuisines are scattered all around the city.
In Barcelona, we don’t have so many minority communities that have very concentrated centers and clear boundaries, with the barrier of language and culture. But this doesn’t represent the immigrants will lose there identity. On the contrary, local people can have more chances to get deep into the immigrants’ culture and food, and the immigrants can feel more belonging when local people can enjoy their food.
By creating our own Feast Index using the data about popularity, rating and number of reviews, we have our Top 5 recommendation from different cuisine styles.
Through the reviews on Trip advisor, people from different countries with different cultural backgrounds are enjoying the local and foreign food in Barcelona. It’s time to celebrate the diversity in Barcelona through amazing food!
