Chapter 5 Summary

This chapter begins with the different basement kitchens where Biju has worked. He meets different people from all over the world from places he has never even heard of. Everyone tells him their countries are full of Indians, that they can't get rid of them. It was a different world for him working in the basement kitchens, and he doesn't know how to act. He hated a Pakistani based on old stereotype and they fight that is heard upstairs so both are fired. When leaving the basement, they round the corner they run into each other again, then turn away again.

Chapter 5 Analysis

All the restaurants where Biju works are American or European cuisine, and all the food is cooked by people from developing countries, alluding to the idea that there is inequality and pseudo-slavery even in the restaurant business. Though he knows...