Chinese Restaurants
Chinese Restaurant at the Belize-Mexico Border
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Sent to me by a friend who is traveling through Mexico. Funny to me, that it’s called Chopsticks, even though this is a Spanish-speaking area of the world.
Satellite Kids, a Chinese Restaurant By-Product
Sunday, July 26th, 2009In The New York Times, Nina Bernstein writes about the troubled development of satellite kids, (often) of Chinese restaurant workers, who are sent back to China to be raised (often) by grandparents. This was the case with the Hiawassee family in book (earlier article about the family here).
A 1999 article by Somini Sengupta covers [...]
Mr. Chow vs. Phillipe Chow (Chau?)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009New York Magazine’s grub street has an excellent write-up of the feud between Mr. Chow and Phillipe Chow, which culminated in a trademark lawsuit [pdf] filed in the Manhattan federal court. It’s a lawsuit that reads like it’s written by a PR person, not a lawyer, which means it’s a good read.
Basically Mr. Chow [...]
Where are the Chinese Restaurants in Israel?
Sunday, June 14th, 2009I have been in Israel for a few days now (mostly in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Jaffa) and I’ve barely seen any Chinese restaurants. I’ve seen two actually — one while driving and one while walking. I knew it wasn’t a big thing here, from queries on the Internet, but I was surprised by how [...]
Chinese-Mexican Food: The Chimale
Saturday, May 16th, 2009This Associated Press article on the Korean taco trucks in Los Angeles mentioned something in passing that caught my eye: “Chimales,” Chinese-Mexican tamales stuffed with kung pao chicken or Chinese barbecue pork. They are topped off with a side of pico de gallo and sour cream.
The chimales are made by DonChowTacos.com, whose motto is “Mexican [...]
This Paper is Not Edible
Saturday, May 9th, 2009My friend Tomoko, who lives in Tokyo, went to an upscale Chinese restaurant called Si Chuan Do Hua and had fortune cookies served to her. It was the first time it had happened to her. The fortune was in Japanese and English.
The more amusing thing is that on the back it warned, in small writing, [...]
Chinesefoodmap.com, now in English!
Monday, April 6th, 2009Chinesefoodmap.com, which provides Yelp style reviewed for Chinese in Chinese, now has an English interface thanks to Google translate. The translations are remarkably good. They are not perfect, but given that Yelp-type reviews tend not to be too literary (pretty simple declarative sentences), you can get the gist.
chinesefoodmap.com
The Chinese Restaurant Workers’ View of America: Through Area Codes. Chinatown Bus Ads
Monday, February 2nd, 2009These two are Chinatown bus advertisements for routes that go to the more obscure regions of the eastern United States. (Chinatown bus goes all over, not just Boston, NYC, Philly and Washington). Notice how they emphasize the area codes.
That is because many Fujianese restaurant workers are not educated and thus don’t really read and write [...]
Men at Wok
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008This is another hilarious name for Chinese restaurant, courtesy of Michael Epstein. I still think Wok n Roll is still better, but getting cliched. This one is located in Brooklyn, though apparently there are others: one in Williston, Vermont and one in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
men at wok
Comparing Non-Profits to Chinese Restaurants
Thursday, November 20th, 2008My friend Alex Tsai sent me this post on the scaling of non-profit giving from the Acumen Fund blog:
“We need to talk about how we get foundations to stop giving inefficiently,” said Aaron, who likened the multitude of nonprofits with similar missions to the hundreds of Chinese restaurants across New York City. “All the restaurants [...]
Fortune Cookie Chronicle Takeout Boxes
Monday, November 10th, 2008These were created and executed as the JCC of Greater Washington as part of my talk. I think they were absolutely adorable and I took one as a souvenir.
General Tso’s Inn: He’s Moved Into Real Estate
Thursday, October 16th, 2008General Tso’s Inn.
This was originally uploaded by HolmesBartonHolmes. I was surfing along on Flickr looking at General Tso photos, and was amused to discover General Tso’s Inn. He’s moved into real estate investments apparently. This is located in Southeastern Indiapolis. (GENERAL TSO’S INN. 642 TWIN AIRE DR. 317-917-1546)
Another talk, in Walnut Creek, Nov. 2 @ 5 p.m.
Thursday, October 9th, 2008Just got another booking for a talk, sandwiched between another event in Solano County earlier that day and a red-eyeflight later that night. (Northern California loves this book). Here are the details:
TIN’S TEA HOUSE LOUNGE
1829 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Walnut Creek
5:00 pm Sunday, November 2, 2008
A Fortune Cookie Chronicles book club at the Fortune Cookie Chronicles Powerball Restaurant
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008This is very adorable. I got a great email leading me to the photo above. “I’m the organizer for my neighborhood’s book club. We read your book last month and then ate at King Buffet, which is one of the fortune cookie winning restaurants here in Lawrence, Kansas.” The photo is of them holding [...]
Artinsanal Chinese food? Chinese food truck in France
Monday, June 23rd, 2008David Sax of deli fame sent me a photo of a Chinese food truck he stumbled upon in France!
He writes:
So there I was in a small town in the French countryside last Friday, picking up all sorts of cheeses, breads, and meats at a farmer’s market in the central square, when I came upon [...]
The best Chinese restaurants in the world…sorta
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Here is an incomplete list of the some of the restaurants I visited for my chapter on the greatest Chinese restaurant in the world. This is not an endorsement for all of them, as you will find reading the chapter. Rather what my research turned up as interesting candidates. Not all restaurants here made it [...]
A Chinese Restaurant in Venice (with a boat docked out front)
Sunday, May 4th, 2008My friend Kathleen took a photo of this Chinese restaurant in Venice for me (love the boat out front).
Chinese restaurants, Italy, photo, venice
Chinesefoodmap.com, for Chinese people.
Monday, April 28th, 2008This is awesome (though it’s in Chinese): www.chinesefoodmap.com, a Google maps mashup of Chinese restaurants that Chinese people want to eat at across the country, with ratings.
Chinese restaurants, chinesefoodmap.com, google maps
This is the Chinese restaurant story about waizhou that started it all
Sunday, April 20th, 2008Sometimes people ask how it came to be that I would write a story on Chinese restaurants. The story actually starts two years before the book with a story I did for the New York Times, published in January 2003, on a Fuzhounese immigrant family that travelled from New York City to rural Georgia to [...]
Facialisation and racialisation…Fortune Cookie Chronicles’s Academic Cousins
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008A reader just sent me a blog summary of an academic paper on Chinese takeaways in Great Britian.
The title of the paper, by David Parker, is ‘The Chinese Takeaway and The Diasporic Habitus- Space, Time and Power Geometries” — which is just a fancier way of saying “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles” (kidding). It is published [...]
Zoe’s in Somerville, where the Chinese go to eat
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008I did my WBUR interview with Here and Now at Zoe’s in Somerville, which is ote cited asone of the most authentic Chinese restaurant in the Cambridge/Somerville area. (See Yelp reviews, which have mixed opinion on the authenticity).
It’s a place where the dominant language spoken over tables is Chinese — especially last night since [...]
Harvard Advocate poster with Chinese Take-out Carton
Monday, March 17th, 2008I think the posters for my events are quite adorable and amusing. This one from The Harvard Advocate (and another one I will show from the Library of Congress) uses symbols of Chinese-ness (fortune cookies and takeout boxes) that are actually things largely indigenous to America.
The takeout boxes are so American they are not really [...]
My Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World, on the brink of bankruptcy?
Saturday, March 8th, 2008So the restaurant that I picked as the “Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World” is struggling and may be on the verge of bankruptcy, according to the Vancouver Sun, which is really sad.
Sam Lau’s business (like many Vancouver Chinese restaurants) is being hammered by cheap flights to Hong Kong and the weakness of the [...]
Newsweek! An interview at Tang Pavilion
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008Newsweek has a pretty lengthy feature in their books section this week by Jennie Yabroff (who asked really engaged questions about immigrations and bigger thoughts, where I really had to think, like didn’t have stock answers for).
For the interview, we went to Tang Pavilion, near the MoMA in Midtown East, which is known for its [...]
Hong Fu, you have to wonder if this was meant with irony
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Driving along in Cupertino. Again, had to stop and take a picture
Chinese restaurants, Cupertino, Hong Fu, quirky