At a new restaurant, expats find a taste of home and locals try foreign treats like fortune cookies.
Imagine living in China and missing Chinese food. It happens. American expatriates who grew up with popular takeout dishes like General Tso’s chicken can’t find it in China because it essentially doesn’t exist here. Much of the Chinese food we grew up with isn’t really Chinese. It’s an American version of Chinese food. Chinese immigrants created it over time, adapting recipes with U.S. ingredients to appeal to American palates. Now, Americans living in Shanghai can get a fix of their beloved Chinatown cuisine at a new restaurant.
This NPR podcast is just one more delicious example of how globalization impacts cultural products. Globalization flows in many unexpected directions. For more, see this TED talk embedded below on the search for the origins of General Tso’s chicken.
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