Renge to Naruto! - Ch. 48 - Tanghulu!

[MsW0lf]

tanghulu is chinese..

They said it got “popular in Korea”, not “originated in Korea”, and talking about social media trends. And the restaurant IS a Chinese restaurant.

 

[crobat3]

I'm pretty sure there has got to be some sort of clause in the Geneva Convention against sugar coated shumai?????

 

[earl]

They said it got “popular in Korea”, not “originated in Korea”, and talking about social media trends. And the restaurant IS a Chinese restaurant.

It was already popular in China. By that logic anything Chinese could only get popular outside of China. But it might be true that the variations of tanghulu with grapes, strawberries, etc. instead of hawthorn berries got popular in Korea. Ideally an author writing about a girl running a Chinese restaurant would understand and concisely explain the nuance of that but oh well.

 

[earl]

I'm pretty sure there has got to be some sort of clause in the Geneva Convention against sugar coated shumai?????

I choose to believe that the shumai are simply skewered instead of coated with sugar, for my own sanity.

 

[MsW0lf]

It was already popular in China. By that logic anything Chinese could only get popular outside of China. But it might be true that the variations of tanghulu with grapes, strawberries, etc. instead of hawthorn berries got popular in Korea. Ideally an author writing about a girl running a Chinese restaurant would understand and concisely explain the nuance of that but oh well.

I didn’t exactly make myself clear. They were all talking about “trends”, specifically social media trends. So, even though it is a Chinese treat, it had only recently popped up as a trend in Korea. Hence being “popular in Korea”. Japanese social media users then take notice, like Renge, who then took the idea and put her own spin on it. The entire theme of the chapter.