Most of Asian Village, a three-restaurant complex, will be open by the end of this week. The open portion will include a gourmet tea and coffee shop and Asian Marketplace, a take-away featuring various street cuisines.
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Marketplace is designed to replicate street food from vendors in Bangkok, Tokyo, Shanghai and so on. "It's the tastes of all of that put it into one space," Jewell says. Cuisines will be featured that can be difficult to find in Metro Detroit, like Malaysian, Indonesian and Vietnamese. Jewell says, "I think that Detroit and the metro area never really gets the credit that it deserves for its desire for a broader range of food. It's not that the market doesn't exist, it's that no one has provided it. People in metro Detroit know what good food tastes like and are adventurous." Asian Village hopes to satisfy this curiosity, he explains, "with a certain amount of cultural integrity."
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