Egg Rolls and Chicken Balls
BY JUNE CHUA I picked up a copy of Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses at a book exchange in…
Essays
From a Chinese Child of the Apartheid
BY CARL QUETON September 1992 I was about eleven years old. I had lived in South Africa my entire short…
Eat the World
From Madagascar to the Arctic Circle, globetrotting filmmaker Cheuk Kwan gets a mouth of Diaspora. BY KATHLEEN HALEY Hong Kong,…
The World According to Chinese Restaurants
BY CHI HUI YANG The family-run Chinese restaurant is a global icon of immigration, community and good (or bad) food.…
Chinese Restaurants
BY KEN HOM The simple title of this extraordinary documentary series is almost deceiving. It is not a cookery or…
Song of the Exile
BY JUNE CALLWOOD Chinese Restaurants is not a travelogue and is not a cooking show. It is an original, fascinating,…
Spicy Noodles
BY TONY CHAN Asian Canadian feminist writer Momoye Sugiman once used the phrase “Asianadian fever” to describe the cultural, social,…