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… Continue reading “Egg Rolls and Chicken Balls”…
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… Continue reading “From a Chinese Child of the Apartheid”…
Eat the World From Madagascar to the Arctic Circle, globetrotting filmmaker Cheuk Kwan gets a mouth of Diaspora. BY KATHLEEN HALEY Hong Kong,… Continue reading “Eat the World”…
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.… Continue reading “The World According to Chinese Restaurants”…
Chinese Restaurants BY KEN HOM The simple title of this extraordinary documentary series is almost deceiving. It is not a cookery or… Continue reading “Chinese Restaurants”…
Song of the Exile BY JUNE CALLWOOD Chinese Restaurants is not a travelogue and is not a cooking show. It is an original, fascinating,… Continue reading “Song of the Exile”…
Spicy Noodles BY TONY CHAN Asian Canadian feminist writer Momoye Sugiman once used the phrase “Asianadian fever” to describe the cultural, social,… Continue reading “Spicy Noodles”…