{"id":44,"date":"2007-06-21T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/06\/21\/jamaican-chinese-food-jamaican-chinese-reggae\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T23:48:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T04:48:34","slug":"jamaican-chinese-food-jamaican-chinese-reggae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/jamaican-chinese-food-jamaican-chinese-reggae\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Chinese food? Jamaican Chinese reggae?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Tomorrow I&#8217;m heading to Kingston, Jamaica with my friend Eric Lee (who I know from Chinese camp from the time we both still wore braces) to do research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Jamaican\" title=\"Chinese Jamaicans\">Chinese Jamaicans<\/a>, and Jamaican-Chinese food and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danwei.org\/chinese_reggae_pioneers.php\" title=\"Chinese Jamaican music pioneers\">the importance of Chinese Jamaicans in the reggae music industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Chinese started arriving in Jamaica in the 1850s-1860s to work on the plantations and a few generations later they are completely assimilated and play important roles in Jamaica&#8217;s economy &#8212; including Jamaica&#8217;s biggest cultural export: music.\u00c2\u00a0 (One of the most prominent producers of early reggae was a Chinese-Jamaican, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Kong\" title=\"Leslie Kwong\">Leslie Kwong).<\/a> It is a bit weird seeing people who look like me, but talk like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Marley\" title=\"Bob Marley\">Bob Marley<\/a>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It gave me a sense of how weird it is for my friends in China to see me look Chinese and speaks like an American.<\/p>\n<p>There is a significant Chinese-Jamaican population and there are a number of Chinese-Jamaican immigrants to the United States. As a result there are a number of Jamaican-Chinese restaurants in Miami (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;um=1&amp;q=bowl+le&amp;near=Miami,+FL&amp;fb=1&amp;latlng=25591818,-80377463,12108814658789215902\" title=\"Bowl Le\">Bowl Le<\/a> in Miami) and New York (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakisaki.com\/\" title=\"Nakisaki Jamaican Chinese restaurant\">Nakasaki<\/a> in Hempstead, Long Island).<\/p>\n<p>People always say, &#8220;I love Chinese food! I love Jamaican food! Therefore I must love Jamaican Chinese food!&#8221; It seems logical, but you need to try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m heading to Kingston, Jamaica with my friend Eric Lee (who I know from Chinese camp from the time we both still wore braces) to do research on the Chinese Jamaicans, and Jamaican-Chinese food and the importance of Chinese Jamaicans in the reggae music industry. The Chinese started arriving in Jamaica in the 1850s-1860s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}