A new Chinese restaurant in Greenwich Village, New York, has faced heavy backlash in recent days because the owner used the word “clean” to describe the food.
According to Eater, nutritionist Arielle Haspel wanted to create a Chinese-American restaurant for “people who love to eat Chinese food and love the benefit that it will actually make them feel good.” Since many of Haspel’s clients could not eat mein, fried rice, and kung pao chicken, she developed items with different ingredients, free of additives in order to “healthify” them. She has since been denounced as a racist for saying that lo mein makes some people feel “bloated and icky.”
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