Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

As I said you can't just whip up some dishes by asking. They need to prepare them in advance and some take a lot of effort and specialisation. There is no such thing as an 'everything Chinese restaurant ' in Asia.

For instance xiao long BAO dumplings.

Or Steamed ginger and black bean grouper .

Or Beijing kao ya.

Or Taiwanese beef noodles

Or Hong Kong Dim Sum

It doesn't work like that. Same as a French restaurant probably couldn't whip you up a decent pizza. This seems to be confusing to some of you.

I also noticed unfortunately there are very few Japanese in Ireland which probably accounts for the lack of authentic Japanese restaurants (some are run by Chinese).

PS Aobaba looks like the real deal, thx

Yeah I have never been to Aobaba. Big swing in me noodles.

And there's only a couple of streets in the capital city with semi decent Asian food. Otherwise it's a desert out there in the big city. Especially as many of us don't go into the city centre often cos it's...**** ..in parts.

I haven't eaten shite greasy Chinese food in Dublin in over 20 years, you need to sort out your confusion mate. I don't know who you are talking about.

Aobaoba looks like a bog standard Vietnamese restaurant to me. Which is equal to amazing in some folks shoes I guess.

Let's face it most of Dublin has little in the way of decent ethnic eateries, a bit in the city centre but sure a lot of us couldn't be arsed going into it very often cos of the well known issues. Dragging my family in and out of the North inner city for a meal isn't that enjoyable especially at night there. Parnell street and O Connell street being amongst the shittiest of all and an area I know very well indeed.

Musashi is probably the best sushi in Dublin imho, but lacks a bit of variety. The non-seafood japanese dishes everywhere don't really extend past katsu and ramen.

There's probably a better thread to discuss dublin restaurants than this one!

The problem around O'Connell Street and the north inner city is an over concentration of social housing, shelters and addiction centers.

All social ills are dumped in the city center to keep the suburbs happy.

It's only getting worse as more and more social housing and hostels are being stuffed in and businesses forced to close.

I don't see how most can complain about the results of such a deliberate policy which is just making the place more dangerous, run down and not a place many would choose to visit.

I use terms like mouthing off because that's what you're doing.

You're telling us all you're an expert on Asian food, that there's no good Asian food in the city yet you haven't tried any of the good ones! You're critiquing and reviewing restaurants that you've never been to, you're convinced Dublin is a massive city yet if you've been to Asia you'd realise it's not! You think the only restaurants in the city are on couple of streets!

Clueless posting. Laughable. Again, try the restaurants people have told you to go to, the ones where Asian people go, not the likes of you and come back to me.

Aka the underground rebel base from Terminator 1.

How you think your local takeaway chicken balls with sweet & sour sauce is proper Asian food is beyond me, ridiculous carry on, you still haven't been to Pho Ta, Aobaba, Pho Kim, M&L or Hanoi Hanoi yet you insist there's "none" in Dublin!!

Again, try the restaurants you were told about, stop reviewing them before you visit them. Get back to me then.

Did get a magnificent transformers watch there.

How long was the guarantee?

Yeah like who cares. You'll get a toastie with a pint o plain...and be happy...

There's enough mouth breathers that don't know the city running it down, we don't need another one who seems to have never been to the city!

The area around O Connell street and the quays is horrible but it’s been horrible for as long as I remember. What’s changed that prompted the taoiseach to make comments on it?

From all accounts it has worsened since the start of Covid.

What do people actually want ?

Dublin City is grand same as nearly ever City in the world it has its nice parts & strong points & then it has rougher run down parts,

What exactly do people want more from Dublin City,

Lots of restaurants from Asia , then more restaurants from Asia , probably a couple of restaurants from Asia.

Grafton street is fine, Henry street is fine,

Loads of cool places in the city for people to visit & relax

If your talking about O Connell street, Its not the main street in the City why do you perceive it to be ? What is there to make it the main street ?

Do you consider Oxford street in London safe . that is the "main Drag " there

How about las Ramblas Barcelona ?

How about Champs-Élysées Paris ?

Buddy,if you asked 1000 Irish people “What is the Main Street in Dublin” I would confidently suggest that 90% would say “O’Connell st”.

Its sad how they chewed up O Connell St.

I remember it back in the day, Anna Livia, Floosie in the Jacuzzi , wasn't paradise, still had a junkie problem , but was a lot better . It at least looked and felt more Irish and wasn't so damn run down, it had Clearys , Fibbers, Waltons at the other end. Now the whole area is grungy, manky, with certain ethnic groups occupying street corners all day , and the ground not even cleaned properly by the Corpo.

Parnell street is 5x busier than what it used to be but definitely not nicer. Again it was never nice but they actually managed to make it worse! Everytime I go there somebody is roaring or there's a gang of young fellas or Roma hanging outside the 'casinos' , maybe a junkie passed out on the side of the road, lads drinking across from the main Luas stop at the half abandoned block of flats (feel sorry for the Guard that I saw dealing with one not two days ago, hard job).

Ilac centre is actually packed and doing a roaring trade ,a lot of immigrants live in the city centre , that's good and bad I guess. As another poster noted the North inner city has diverged even more from the Southside over the last decade ..even extending up to Phibsboro and Dorset St, it has seen very little investment in terms of pavements, greenery etc compared to the South Inner City . Possibly because the largest number of immigrants in the state live there , along with many homeless shelters and hotels, fairly transient population mixed with a fairly large amount of social housing still? I don't know but it looks and feels starved of funds. For some reason they still use bin bags in that part of the city and so you see rubbish strewn across the streets all the time !

The main thing that had improved is the public transport situation. Again I remember lads smoking weed on the back of the bus , at least that doesn't happen anymore to my knowledge, and buses run very often now.

Correct, and that’s what’s happened, they let the scrotes take over the street.

Its quite simple here really. It’s a question of pride and resolve.

Do we want to surrender our ‘Main Street’ of our capital city to the scrotes and tossers and liggers?

Or do we want to take pride in our capital and invest in resources to ensure this swamp life doesn’t

have carte Blanche to create mayhem in the middle of our capital.

Its really that simple ………have we the balls to do it?

hmmm…..