It's like that in Canada too, Q. Without the influx of many interesting foreigners from Asia and elsewhere that has occurred in the last few decades, I shudder to think of the wretched stuff that one would be limited to eating at the local restaurants. One can still get that wretched stuff, of course, but now own has a choice! ;-) In my case, I eat mainly at the Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Indian restaurants. There are also one or two Chinese places which are pretty good. And there is ONE genuinely fine fish and chips place in town...for that, I guess, I can think the British tradition.