An eye-opening and soul-nourishing journey through Chinese food around the world. From Cape Town, South Africa, to small-town Saskatchewan, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural outposts of far-flung settlers, bringers of dim sum, Peking duck and creative culinary hybrids, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of greater social forces. They are an insight into time, history, and place.Author and film-makerCheukKwan, a self-described "card-carrying member of the Chinesediaspora, " weaves a global narrative by linking the myriad personal stories of chefs, entrepreneurs, labourers and dreamers who populate Chinese kitchens worldwide. Behind these kitchen doors lies an intriguing paradox which characterizes many of these communities: how Chinese immigrants haveresistedāorhave often been preventedfromācompleteassimilation into the social fabric of their
new homes. In both instances, the engine of their economicsurvivalātheChinese restaurant and itsfoodāhasbecome seamlessly woven into towns and cities all around the world.An intrepid travelogue of grand vistas, adventure and serendipity, Have You Eaten Yet?charts a living atlas of global migration, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better story.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Noisy Jim
- Chapter 2: Port of Refuge
- Chapter 3: Feelinā de Vibe
- Chapter 4: No Money, No Island
- Chapter 5: A Very Ferocious People
- Chapter 6: Love in the Time of Apartheid
- Chapter 7: Soupe Chinoise
- Chapter 8: The Man Who Walked from China
- Chapter 9: Like a John Woo Movie
- Chapter 10: Fantasia Chinesca
- Chapter 11: The Great Escape
- Chapter 12: Into the Heart of the Amazon
- Chapter 13: A Passage to India
- Chapter 14: Tea in the Himalayas
- Chapter 15: Last Tango in Argentina
- Chapter 16: Have You Eaten Yet?
- Epilogue
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Permissions
- Index
- Copyright
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