Date: 2009-02-20 10:33 pm (UTC)
Ever heard of Indigo Som's Chinese Restaurant Project? She's trying to chronicle Chinese restaurants found in out of the way places in the States.

http://www.well.com/~indigo/crpintro.html

Your post reminded me of some of the thoughts I've had in the past about the role of Chinese restaurants and American social history. I grew up as the Chinese-American daughter of restaurant owners.

I heard about her project a couple of years ago, and I just googled her now. There is also Jennifer Lee's book--The Fortune Cookie Chronicles--which I think is supposed to be more of history type thing. It's on the to-read list.

Anyway, this was a weird tangent to take your post on, but it's where my head's been lately.
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