Local cuisine

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope you are keeping calm and collected.  Please make a serious effort to relax and take care of your heart.  All this power may be very exciting but really, we are all only human.  Yeah, I'm blogging earlier than usual today because I have to be at the mosque by sunset.  How's your tummy?  I had an early dinner today.  I tried to do a little bit of yard work, but everything was so time consuming so I just gave up and heated up my mother's leftover curry.  I fried up some flat noodles with chicken for lunch today.  Fried flat noodles is a local cuisine, usually one would find it with made with cockles around here.  Below is a stock photo from Google of "keow teow kerang".

I like the stuff.  I know how to make it, and I grew up eating it.  But people from other nations may not find it as visually enticing, nor may they like it even after trying it, even though there's really nothing to acquire about the taste.  Some people are just used to eating what they are used to eating and that's all they want to eat, even though they are on a vacation to an exotic country.  So what do the locals do to get them to desire local food?  If they can't be creative then there's nothing they can do. It's the same as opening a restaurant anywhere: if nobody knows you and you're not serving something awesome, then don't expect people to eat your food.