Roboting Yum Cha

    17 November 2024

    November 2024

    I had never been served in a restaurant by a robot before last week. I didn’t even know there was such thing. I came across them in a White Paper on Food AIs which discussed them.

    ones which were like something out of the Jetsons, a weird conical shape with a ‘head’ and ‘eyes’. I was hooked: the food nerd in me had to try it. I found a Chinese restaurant in Sydney which advertised that they had service robots at yum cha. Thus it was I and a cohort of food adventurers climbed the stairs to the first floor dining room to have yum cha with robots

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.