im sure your aware from you friend over here but in France its generally a choice of Chinese, more and more japanese which is mainly sushi not true japanese restaurants, pizza and fast food which is basically mcdonalds, quick and KFC...you will occasionally find an indian restaurant, marocaine and that pretty much sums it up so a far cry from oz where you will find so many different cusines including and not at all limited to lebanese, greek, italian, thai, chinese actually its pretty much endless but saying that I miss it because thats what I grew up with but France has so many regional cuisines which I also love just sometimes I really crave something different!