'I’m honestly just so shocked at what I saw in the dinner buffet,' she said. 'As I go back and I look… these people are literally killing frogs… bullfrogs. Aren’t those poisonous? Aren’t those the ones that give you warts and boils and stuff?

'And the fact that it’s all stewed up with chilies, peppers, and onions. Like oh, you really made this a dish. All in all I’d give this like a solid 2 out of 10 so far, because this is crazy.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-15111481/Taylor-Townsend-booed-taunted-Chinese-tennis-fans-country-food.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777358&forum_id=2#49282452)

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6636680/2025/09/17/taylor-townsend-apology-chinese-food/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777358&forum_id=2#49282461)

i guess obese-tapenko was right that tt lacks education

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777358&forum_id=2#49282473)

China’s cuisine is one of the richest and regionally diverse in the world, so much so that “Chinese food” is close to meaningless as a label. Many of the dishes that Townsend mocks in her videos — bullfrog, sea cucumber, and braised soft-shell turtle — are delicacies, and a player following the Billie Jean King Cup and WTA Tour calendar from Shenzhen, to Beijing, to Wuhan would experience vastly different cuisines in each city.

But Townsend’s comments did not cause such a stir just for their culinary content. The inaccurate stereotypes of Chinese food as cheap, dirty or otherwise disgusting have been ingrained in American culture for centuries, and reerupted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Chinese immigrant restaurateurs, many of whom had simplified or adapted their regional dishes to suit the tastes of a majority White audience in order to make a sustainable living, were then attacked for their food culture’s perceived association with the origins of the novel coronavirus.

Chinese restaurant culture in the U.S. has evolved through the late 1990s and 2000s, with a greater focus on regional specificity and the historic traditions of Chinese cuisine, but the underlying stereotypes have not gone away. Townsend’s comments do not directly address these things, but they are a product of sentiments and stereotypes that go well beyond one player’s personal distaste for sea cucumber.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777358&forum_id=2#49282468)

"no player from China spent the European clay-court swing gawking at pizza."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5777358&forum_id=2#49282477)