China to Chinatown Chinese Food in the West 2
This book mainly describes about how Chinese food was accepted worldwide. The first half of the book is about westerners coming to China and actually eating local menus at local restaurants and reviewing them. The second half was about Chinese immigrants in America or Chinese who sailed to Britain and opened Chinese restaurants in the west. Westerners first discovered Chinese food, in the 13th century. Back then, many of the westerners criticized Chinese food, saying that they were very dirty that they would not eat it unless of severe hunger and that they had bad table manners. In the 19th century, these images of Chinese food changed. The westerners started noting recopies and even started to cook Chinese food. They were curious in Chinese food and learned about the ingredients, the meanings of it and how they cooked it. In Gray's book, he introduces a restaurant that served dogs' and cats' flesh. The restaurant even had a menu for a pair of Black eyes for 4 ce...
