Summary Of From Restaurant To Panda Express

For my book review, I decided to learn more about the history of Chinese restaurants in the American culture. So for this assignment, I am reviewing the book From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: a history of Chinese food in the United States by Haiming Liu. It talks about the journey from the California gold rush to the present day through the lens of food and the evolution of American-Chinese cuisine. It also talks about how Chinese food changed and how it influenced American culinary cultures and how Chinese restaurants became a place where shared ethnic identity if affirmed. The book also talked about national chains such as P.F Chang’s and Panda express and how Chinese food culture continues to spread around the globe. For over 150
With many of them being pushed into the restaurant industry, they brought their food tradition and recipe with them. This became a problem for many of the Chinese immigrants for a few reasons. For example, one reason this was a problem was due to the fact that a lot of their food relied on ingredients that are indigenous to the different regions of china. Unlike China, in the United Stated, we did not have access to ingredients such as rice, and certain vegetables. But they did not let that get them down. They tend to use what they had around them to prepare their dishes. This had a strong impact on the culinary culture of the area because it gave more variety to people in the area. Now with this being said this style of food did not pick up quickly. Many of the immigrants were not accepted by the America people even though they treated them fairly.But over time their food started to grown on everyone and started to shape and change what everyone knew about food and culinary
It may not have had the best start but after some time it soon became one of the biggest genres of food in the United States. Now with that being said the Chinese food we know and love is not the same as what they have in china. Through the years of being Incorporated into the American culture it was altered and changed a bit to fit the taste and traditions of the United State. With Chinese food at an ever growing rate with the establish of Americanized fast food version such as P.F Chang's and Panda express the Chinese culture and food still help mold and shape the United State a little at a time.
For over 150-year Chinese immigrants have come to the United States to seek sincerity. They brought their food and traditions with them that help mold and alter are food traditions as we know it.They also jump-started the Americanized Chinese food revolution and make it a stable in the American