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- ISBN-13
- 9781771622226
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- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Chop Suey Nation: the Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants
- Item Height
- 215mm
- Publisher
- Douglas & Mcintyre Publishing Group
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories, Food & Drink
- Topic
- Holidays, Social Sciences
- Item Width
- 139mm
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included-her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didn't yet know, set her on a time-sensitive mission: to understand how, after generations living in a poverty-stricken area of Guangdong, China, her family had somehow wound up in Canada. Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurantsweaves together Hui's own family history-from her grandfather's decision to leave behind a wife and newborn son for a new life, to her father's path from cooking in rural China to running some of the largest Western kitchens in Vancouver, to the unravelling of a closely guarded family secret-with the stories of dozens of Chinese restaurant owners from coast to coast. Along her trip, she meets a Chinese-restaurant owner/small-town mayor, the owner of a Chinese restaurant in a Thunder Bay curling rink, and the woman who runs a restaurant alone, 365 days a year, on the very remote Fogo Island. Hui also explores the fascinating history behind chop suey cuisine, detailing the invention of classics like ginger beef and Newfoundland chow mein, and other uniquely Canadian fare like the Chinese pierogies of Alberta. Hui, who grew up in authenticity-obsessed Vancouver, begins her journey with a somewhat disparaging view of small-town fake Chinese food. But by the end, she comes to appreciate the essentially Chinese values that drive these restaurants-perseverance, entrepreneurialism and deep love for family. Using her own family's story as a touchstone, she explores the importance of these restaurants in the country's history and makes the case for why chop suey cuisine should be recognized as quintessentially Canadian.
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Douglas & Mcintyre Publishing Group
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9781771622226
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Book Title
Chop Suey Nation: the Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Holidays, Social Sciences
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories, Food & Drink
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Height
215mm
Item Width
139mm
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Canada
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