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Subject(s)

• Chinese restaurants—United States [Browse]
• Food in popular culture—United States [Browse]
• Food in popular culture—China [Browse]
• Cooking, Chinese [Browse]
• Food habits—United States [Browse]
• Chinese Americans—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Gastronomy [Browse]

Summary note

"A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307).

Contents

• Prologue: March 30, 2005
• Chapter 1. American-Born Chinese
• Chapter 2. The Menu Wars
• Chapter 3. A Cookie Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
• Chapter 4. The Biggest Culinary Joke Played by One Culture on Another
• Chapter 5. The Long March of General Tso
• Chapter 6. The Bean Sprout People Are in the Same Boat We Are
• Chapter 7. Why Chow Mein Is the Chosen Food of the Chosen People-or, The Kosher Duck Scandal of 1989
• Chapter 8. The Golden Venture: Restaurant Workers to Go
• Chapter 9. Take-out Takeaways
• Chapter 10. The Oldest Surviving Fortune Cookies in the World?
• Chapter 11. The Mystery of the Missing Chinese Deliveryman
• Chapter 12. The Soy Sauce Trade Dispute
• Chapter 13. Waizhou, U.S.A.
• Chapter 14. The Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World
• Chapter 15. American Stir-fry
• Chapter 16. Tsujiura Senbei
• Chapter 17. Open-Source Chinese Restaurants
• Chapter 18. So What Did Confucius Really Say?

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ISBN

• 9780446580076
• 0446580074

LCCN

2007033432

OCLC

165082896

Other standard number

• 40015233199

RCP

C - S

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