Ok, I tried the Chinese restaurant by the train station. I wan’t say I haden’t been warned by someone, but what the heck.

When I was little we used to have “Chinese Restaurants” that had stuff like “chopped suey” which were overcooked vegetables in oil with some chicken or whatever in it.  Super bland mush.  I assume you know where I am going with this.  After I ate (a very little, it was really bad, and their “hot sauce” was just tomato sauce). The woman who had taken my money asked how I liked the food. I was honest and she said: “there is no call for Chinese food in Oulu, if we served Chinese food, no one would eat it.”  It is regionalized Chinese food. That is not unusual, I have had very weird Chinese food in Mexico, Japan, whereever.  But, if you are from Silicon Valley and are used to Chinese food there, don’t even dream of getting Chinese food in Oulu.

 I haven’t found any sushi restaurants either. 

 But there is lots and lots of pizza, the Finnish national food.