Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but became popularized in the 1920s and the 1930s.
My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.
Chinese cooking is noisy - a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.
Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.
We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.
The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.