Occasionally, you guys sound like media reporters talking about
"stalls."

"Orient" came into disrepute when Edward Said published _Orientalism_
in 1978. Read the book, or at least some reviews, and make up your
own minds about Said said, but recognize that historically, "the
Orient" was mostly used by pre-war Europeans to refer to the Ottoman
empire. The terminus, for the "Orient Express," ferex, was Istanbul.

An "Asian" restaurant FWIW, typically offers a range of dishes from
east-Asian countries. (No Bulgarian kapama)

Don (northern-European mongrel-American)