-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 07 Feb 14  22:22:51 <=-
 MK> -={ Fri Feb  7 14:22:51 PST 2014 }=-
 MK> -=< Re: yo ho ho and a bottle of rum >=-

 NB>> I'm not so easily mobile myself nowadays

 MK> Understood.  I believe far too many are feeling the pinch these days.

Even those that do economise are ending up agonising as well...

 NB>> Oregon and Washington state have a relatively high Japanese
 NB>> population, too, possibly other Asian as well

 MK> For sure.  I believe it extends from at least the Mexican/US border
 MK> north to Alaska along the Pacific coast.  

Makes sense, as that is the presenting coast to the other continent...
Of course, there are also large Asian enclaves on this side of this
continent as well..  :)

 MK> Not sure about Mexico but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a
 MK> large Japanese - and other Asians - presence there as well. 

Dunno.  Not that I've been aware of...  But lots of Mexicans have come
up into our southern reaches...  ;)

 NB>> So that could have been another early foothold...

 MK> Exactly.  The article where I read it quite some time ago had a well
 MK> known Japanese chef opening the first sushi bar in Vancouver with one
 MK> in San Fransisco pulling up a close second.  Either that or the other
 MK> way around but I seem to recall Vancouver being first.  I'll have to
 MK> see if I can find that article again to confirm my memory of it. 

Could have been...  Both are well established now, of course...  :)

ttyl         neb

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