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Chineese [[Chinese]] resurants [[restaurants]] can be used as a timeline to Chineese [[Chinese]] immigration. earlier Chineese [[Chinese]] immigrants came railroad, miners. Yet as time went on their "otherness" exclusion laws made it more diffciult to assimilate so they found these two oulets. resurant [[restaurants]]/ or laundry - still available to recent immigrants - WWII - it continued, though today.
                      
? migration diaspra & resurants [[restaurants]] - popularity, history, of ch. food in america "all they eat is rats cats & dogs" - 1800 1900 - catured just to chineese [[chinese]] folks no Am then president Grant brought Chineese [[Chinese]] Prime minister over w/ his own chef his chef served threw stuff together "chop suie" - egg foo young - beef & brocolli [[broccoli]] not chineese [[Chinese]] at all but testing limits of Am. taste - fortune cookies - Am invention 

? Chineese [[Chinese]] food in Am - ofen [[often]] does not come from a culanery [[culinary]] sandpoint [[standpoint]] - but when will people bye [[buy]] - try to interact w/ community

? how has Am. chineese [[Chinese]] influenced Chineese [[Chinese]] food - interesting in xpat areas - there has been a change in the food served over there. weird its american experience in asia. now you have "american chineese [[chinese]] food" for chineese [[chinese]] people who want to eat like Am. tried marketing fortune cookies - confused about paper inside of cookie.

? - Chineese [[Chinese]] Ams who have been here for a while - which to they prefere [[prefer]]! home cooking! authentic Chineese [[Chinese]] dish at a reg. resurant [[restaurant]]??. go find an immigration center? some will have 2 seperate [[separate]] menus. wont bother translating other items. go for [[discussing?]] - all 50000 resurants [[restaurants]] are real - authentic is a loaded word. "prepared in chineese [Chinese] way"

? - was there was a backlash to the Chineese [[Chinese]] antrepenours [[entrepreneurs]]? during th exclusionary period was deserving of the opportunity - those that were in this country were stuck - most men - law says this you can do - so they did - chop sui was a savior to chineese people in the Am - explosion of chop chop shops - end of 1800s.It may have saved community.
Am Chinese food is so different then the food in China it didnt feel like a bastardazation - its really seperae - the country is so huge - diverse - this is just a different part of the options - no one will offended "its top 40"
? -chineesee breakfast? rice porage. rice watery. salted vegetables. pastrys- greesy fried chineese dougnu - egg custard tarts - parision, western culture influence