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That's interesting. "African" is not a known Garmin restaurant category. What GPS do you have?

The following assumes you are using a map created with mkgmap's default style.

mkgmap takes OSM key-tag pairs and converts them into Garmin objects. The OSM cuisine=indian key-tag pair does not result in an Indian restaurant in the Garmin map because Garmin GPS units do not offer an Indian restaurant category. So any restaurants tagged like this are instead given the default Garmin restaurant code (0x2a13) which on my GPS at least fall under the "Other" restaurant category.

The OSM cuisine=chinese key-tag pair does have a corresponding Garmin category, hence why it works as you expected.

The only restaurants that will appear in your Asian category are those that have been tagged with cuisine=asian, as this is the only key-tag pair that mkgmap uses to generate Garmin objects in the Asian restaurant category.

You can see which key-tag pairs are being used by mkgmap to generate its maps here:
http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/svn/wsvn/mkgma … ult/points (scroll down to the section with amenity=restaurant & ...

If you create your own style for mkgmap

If you create your own style and compile your own maps, you can assign any key-tag combination you like to any particular Garmin restaurant category. For instance, I assign the following key-tag pairs to the Garmin Asian restaurant category:
cuisine=asian | cuisine=japanese | cuisine=korean | cuisine=malaysian | cuisine=noodle | cuisine=thai | cuisine=vietnamese

Thus I get many more restaurants falling into that category for the maps that I make.