28 Jan

Posted at 15:23h in Blog

Only a generation or two ago, Americans and other Westerners had a skewed, inaccurate view of Chinese food. They wrongly associated the cuisines with the cheap, greasy, imitation dishes found mostly in chain restaurants and malls. That began to change when President Richard Nixon visited China...

28 Sep

Posted at 09:43h in Blog

In 1961, the now-famous Cecilia Chiang opened an authentic Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco. At the time, only Americanized versions of Chinese restaurants existed in San Francisco and elsewhere in the United States.  Discrimination against Chinese due to the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act and the Chinese...

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