The restaurant culture is still finding its footing - local chefs often tend to overload their plates and pile too many ideas on top of one another.
Top chefs tend to dislike the Asian version.
This is precisely why chefs tend to keep writers out of their kitchens.
Behind a glass partition is a sparkling slate-walled kitchen where chefs tend the tandoors.
The filets that the chef or his sons tend are the exception.
The chefs without portfolio tend to agree about the reasons for their situation.
"The Chinese chefs in America tend to be culturally xenophobic about ingredients," she says.
Yet chefs tend to treat them as supporting players in their big-budget productions, partly because consistent supplies are hard to come by.
Fulton realised that chefs who did television shows tended to lose their audience.
In terms of experience, personal chefs tend to be chefs who have worked in restaurants, hotels, catering or all three.