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Cooking, Chinese -- Social aspects.
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Kwan, Cheuk. -- Travels.
Chinese restaurants -- Anecdotes.
Chinese restaurants -- Social aspects.
Cooking, Chinese -- Social aspects.
Chinese -- Social life and customs.
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Have you eaten yet? : stories from Chinese restaurants around the world / Cheuk Kwan.
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Kwan, Cheuk.
Douglas & McIntyre, 2022.
Call #:
641
.013
K98h
Subjects
Kwan, Cheuk. -- Travels.
Chinese restaurants -- Anecdotes.
Chinese restaurants -- Social aspects.
Cooking, Chinese -- Social aspects.
Chinese -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9781771623155 (pbk.)
Description:
xi, 260 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"From small-town Saskatchewan to Cape Town, South Africa, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural outposts of far-flung settlers, bringers of dim sum, Peking duck and creative culinary hybrids, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of greater social forces -- and insight into time, history and place. Author and documentarian Cheuk Kwan, a self-described 'card-carrying member of the Chinese diaspora,' weaves a global narrative by linking the myriad personal stories of chefs, entrepreneurs, labourers and dreamers who populate Chinese kitchens worldwide. Behind these kitchen doors lies an intriguing paradox which characterizes many of these communities: how Chinese immigrants have resisted -- or often been prevented from -- complete assimilation into the social fabric of their new homes, maintaining strong senses of cultural identity, while the engine of their economic survival -- the Chinese restaurant and its food -- has become seamlessly woven into cities all around the world. An intrepid travelogue of grand vistas, adventure and serendipity, 'Have You Eaten Yet?' charts a living atlas of the global Chinese migration, revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better story." --Back cover.
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Anecdotes.
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