Fusion Cuisine

We've always joked about opening an Irish-Asian fusion cuisine restaurant called the Sham Wok. The menu item we've come up with so far is corned beef and cabbage sushi.

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Little did we know, there are already some hilarious fusions in the world, including the Jewish-Asian brain child, a soy sauce called Soy Vay. (Visit their page to hear a gong. Really.)

The story goes: "two friends, a Jewish boy and Chinese girl, came together over their love of food."

Like Veri Veri Terikyaki - how sweet (nyuk nyuk).

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"Occupy Ethnic Foods" by Tak Toyoshima in Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology features an outburst by a jar of Ah-So Sauce about the segregation enacted by "ethnic food" aisles in groceries across the United States.

It concludes with the following exchange:

Ah-So: Well, I'm proud of my identity... I've stuck with my Chinese roots, and I'll stand with my ethnic brothers!Cup Noodles: Chinese roots? Fool! You were created in ... New Jersey!

A dismayed Ah-So leaps from the grocery shelf to his (her? what is the gender of jars?) death.

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In conclusion, the Sham Wok will probably just wind up being a food truck that sells Guinness and take-out Chinese food.

Or, as they call it in China, "food."