Tag: Chinese
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 19, 2021
How (American) Chinese cuisine gave birth to the Minnesota-invented pizza roll
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You’ve probably eaten Totino’s pizza rolls, those bite-sized nuggets of fried dough, filled with tomato sauce, gooey cheese and a variety of savory fillings. You’ve even watched the Saturday Night Live sketches featuring Vanessa Bayer. But did you know that Totino’s did not invent the pizza roll? It was another Italian-American Minnesotan building on the
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 17, 2021
This is the best Chinese restaurant in every state
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Dim sum winners and chow mein champions The US has some incredible Chinese restaurants, from roast duck and chop suey served in longstanding Chinatown mainstays to high-end takes on dim sum. There’s so much good food, in fact, that picking the best place to eat can be as overwhelming as selecting a dish. We’ve done
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 13, 2021
Chinese students jailed for exploiting KFC app glitch to get unlimited free chicken
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A 23-year-old student accidentally found the glitch in the app and swindled thousands of worth of food (Getty Images for KFC) Five Chinese students ended up in jail after one of them exploited a glitch in KFC’s online ordering systems to get an unlimited supply of free chicken and then resell them to friends. A
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 5, 2021
Northern YouTube food critic visits Chinese takeaway famed for its ‘savage’ responses to customers
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In a crossover that will make Avengers: Endgame blush, two recent viral stars from the UK have crossed paths. Last week, we reported on Danny Manlin of Leeds, whose YouTube reviews of Northern takeaways have turned him into an unlikely star. His candid style and sense of humour and willingness to eat his food on
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 3, 2021
This Chinese Battery Company Has Produced More Billionaires Than Google Or Facebook
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Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology. (Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Images A little known but fast growing Chinese maker of batteries for electric vehicles now has more billionaires on Forbes’ list than just about any other public company. A whopping nine billionaires have fortunes
Written by Linda D. MohlerMay 1, 2021
Chinese tourists to take 18 million rail trips on May Day
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tourists are expected to make a total of 18.3 million railway passenger trips on the first day of the country’s five-day holiday for international labor day, according to an estimate by the state railway group. Tourists are rushing to travel domestically after the coronavirus has been brought under control in China.
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 27, 2021
How a Chinese American family discovered their roots in Mississippi
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Baldwin Chiu, a Chinese American from California, knew his grandfather was buried in Mississippi. How he ended up in the Deep South, Chiu did not know. With his father and brother in tow, Chiu traveled to Mississippi to learn his family’s story. What he discovered was a little known history of Chinese immigrants in the
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 21, 2021
Rutgers researchers develop tool to predict self-neglect in older Chinese adults
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Newswise — Researchers at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research have developed a new assessment tool that could help predict whether older Chinese adults will experience self-neglect. Self-neglect is a serious threat to older adults’ health and safety and often includes behavior such as failing to provide themselves with adequate
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 15, 2021
New San Antonio late-night eatery Buddhafull Belly to deliver Chinese food until 2 a.m.
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click image Unsplash / Call Me Fred San Antonio Munchies and Sari-Sari Filipino Restaurant will offer Chinese food until 2 a.m. Local food-focused influencer Alex Serna — known on social media as San
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 11, 2021
Too Chinese for the US, too American for China. Where can Asian Americans like me call home?
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Last summer, a Chinese man approached me on a crowded Beijing street and asked me in Mandarin if I was Chinese American. It seemed innocent enough, as I was speaking English with expat friends. But after I nodded, he switched to English and bellowed “go back to where you f**king came from”. These stinging words
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 9, 2021
Chinese tech firms with ties to the military added to US blacklist
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Seven Chinese businesses with ties to the military were added to the so-called Entity List on Thursday in a move that restricts US firms from dealing with the companies. All seven of the listed companies, the Department said, operate in the field of supercomputing and have helped the Chinese government modernize its military or have
Written by Linda D. MohlerApril 1, 2021
My Secret Affair With Chinese Takeout
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There are few things more irresistible than the forbidden. My contraband: an unassuming chicken in garlic sauce served at Chinatown Restaurant, a modest Chinese takeout counter near my childhood home in Brooklyn. The first time I encountered this dish, I was 10 years old. My older brother came home touting a plastic bag printed with
Written by Linda D. MohlerMarch 30, 2021
Senior Tory claims key WHO report on origins of COVID is biased because of Chinese influence
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The former Conservative leader spoke to TalkRadio about the WHO report. (TalkRadio) A senior Tory has claimed that a report on the origins of coronavirus from the World Health Organisation (WHO) “should be taken with a pinch of salt” due to China’s influence on the findings. The WHO-led team, which spent four weeks in and
Written by Linda D. MohlerMarch 24, 2021
Racism Toward Chinese Food Rife During the Pandemic
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There’s a story I’ve been telling since I was 16, about why my best friend and I stopped going to Asian buffets. In Birmingham, UK, we visited one of my favorites; they had salmon teppanyaki to order, crisp seaweed, braised aubergine and tofu, duck pancakes, sushi, an ice cream machine and more, for half my
Written by Linda D. MohlerMarch 16, 2021
Inter Milan Is Threatened by Challenges at Suning, Its Chinese Owner
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HONG KONG — The new, high-rolling Chinese owner was supposed to return Inter Milan to its glory days. It spent heavily on prolific scorers like Romelu Lukaku and Christian Eriksen. After five years of investment, the storied Milan soccer club is within striking distance of its first Italian league title in a decade. Now the
Written by Linda D. MohlerFebruary 18, 2021
Expand your horizons with these variations on Chinese food in San Francisco
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Outside of China, Chinese food ventures far beyond Americanized dishes like chop suey and General Tso’s Chicken. This remarkably versatile cuisine – born of centuries of immigration, persecution, and scarcity – has been reinvented repeatedly as required by custom and circumstance. Here we explore the history of three very different cultural takes on Chinese food,