Contents

PROLOGUE

Chapter 1. American-Born Chinese

Chapter 2. The Menu Wars

Chapter 3. A Cookie Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma

Chapter 4. The Biggest Culinary Joke Played by One Culture on Another

Chapter 5. The Long March of General Tso

Chapter 6. The Bean Sprout People Are in the Same Boat We Are

Chapter 7. Why Chow Mein Is the Chosen Food of the Chosen Peopleā€”or, The Kosher Duck Scandal of 1989

Chapter 8. The Golden Venture: Restaurant Workers to Go

Chapter 9. Takeout Takeaways

Chapter 10. The Oldest Surviving Fortune Cookies in the World?

Chapter 11. The Mystery of the Missing Chinese Deliveryman

Chapter 12. The Soy Sauce Trade Dispute

Chapter 13. Waizhou, U.S.A.

Chapter 14. The Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World

Chapter 15. American Stir-fry

Chapter 16. Tsujiura Senbei

Chapter 17. Open-Source Chinese Restaurants

Chapter 18. So What Did Confucius Really Say?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

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