Talk:Palauan Cuisine/@comment-71.22.37.231-20140817194607

born and raised in palau and sorry to say, your info is not quite right. if you are basing this from having tried cooking in restaurants in palau, than i could understand where this went wrong. one can never experience real palauan food in a restaurant, because they are designed to cater to tourists. the newer generation of palauans tend to veer away from traditional dishes, and this demand for "western" food contributes to the muddled sense of what real palauan dishes are. sorry if im coming off a bit douchy, but there is a side of palauan food that is slowly receding from the world. there has never been pastas, pizzas, cheese or bread in traditional palauan. not to say that they are not welcome. inovation and finding something new, mixing the old with the new is great, but as a palauan and someone who has been in the bussines of cooking for the last decade, i have to say that real palauan cuisine is strong enough to stand alone. the only thing left to do is to re descover it and market it as is. thank you.