Asian restaurants in Germany

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An Asian restaurant is a restaurant that offers East , Southeast and South Asian national dishes for their guests (outside of Asia).

history

In the 1930s there was only one Chinese restaurant in Germany , which was located in Berlin at Charlottenburger Kantstrasse 130b. It opened in 1923. In Hamburg had indeed been established and Chinese Local in the 1920s - but it was not about Asian food restaurants, but harbor bars. In the interwar period, there was also Japanese gastronomy in Berlin.

After the Second World War , the establishment of these specialty restaurants developed rapidly.

Change in the food culture from the 1960s in the FRG

A large number of Asian restaurants settled in major West German cities in the 1960s, including Hamburg 14, Berlin (West) 10 and Dusseldorf 12. Even in medium-sized cities like Bonn there were Chinese restaurants at that time Japanese cuisine also gradually established itself in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Due to the diversity of Asian cuisine, this strange cuisine spread at a rapid pace in the 1970s, and business was booming throughout the Federal Republic of Germany.

Not only the culinary specialties of China, but also Thailand, Vietnam and other Asian countries conquered the gastronomy market.

The "feeding wave" of the post-war period was over and people began to think about a healthier diet. The new, modern food culture was inspired by the rising wave of Germans traveling. Delicatessen shops offered a wide range of Asian foods and symbolically built bridges to the food culture of Asia.

The dependence of the food culture on the supply situation in the GDR

In the GDR, on the other hand, Asian restaurants were unknown until the mid-1960s - if only because of the lack of raw materials.

The HO restaurant "Waffenschmied" in Suhl , Thuringia , presented Japanese specialties for the first time in 1966 under the direction of Rolf Anschütz .

From 1978 Thomas Schaufuss offered a cross-section of East Asian cuisine in the restaurant "Goldener Stern" near Oederan ( Saxony ). The typical local food was obtained from the GDR delicatessen trade, chopsticks were made by a brush factory in the Ore Mountains, and private breeders supplied Japanese quails and fresh herbs. The service staff presented the dishes in Asian silk costumes. These culinary evenings were usually booked up for 12 months in advance. Not only the curiosity about the exotic food played a role, but also the longing of many GDR citizens for a foreign way of life.

The upscale hotels followed the trend, in 1979 the restaurant Jade opened in Berlin and in 1981 the Japanese restaurant Sakura opened in the Interhotel Merkur in Leipzig . In Warnemünde there was an Asian restaurant at Schillerstraße 14, in 1985 the Buri-Buri opened in the Interhotel Bellevue in Dresden and a Vietnamese restaurant was opened in Leipzig. In the East Berlin Friedrichstrasse the Chinese restaurant "Beijing", the chefs were trained by the Chinese Embassy Koch opened.

Since reunification in 1990

After the reunification of the two German states, there was a considerable expansion of the Asian food culture in the new federal states. Vietnamese and Chinese restaurants spread particularly quickly.

Today, star chefs present Euro-Asian dishes, there is Asian front cooking in company restaurants and there is a large number of Asian fast food in the cities. There are more than 10,000 Chinese restaurants in Germany, as well as a variety of Japanese, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean, and Thai and other Asian restaurants.

"The increased need of consumers to eat healthy, yet tasty, can be met in particular by Asian cuisine."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Björn Rosen: Chinese Charlottenburg, Berlin's Chinatown . Tagesspiegel from June 17, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
  2. ^ Maren Möhring: Foreign food: The history of foreign gastronomy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich, October 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71236-0 , p. 109
  3. ^ Maren Möhring: Foreign food: The history of foreign gastronomy in the Federal Republic of Germany. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich, October 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71236-0 , p. 107 u. 109
  4. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE: Japanese restaurant in Suhl, Sushi made in GDR . October 19, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ Restaurants Warnemünde In: WMNDE.de , accessed on October 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Melanie Wassink: Hamburger Imbisskette, A drive-in for hunger in Vietnam . Hamburger Abendblatt dated January 11, 2012. Retrieved September 14, 2017.