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Top Three Advice to Chinese Take-Out Restaurant Owners
To keep your customers coming back, please make sure that you offer quality food and services. Too many Chinese restaurants have gotten away from it. The word will spread quickly that you are doing it better than the rest. Click for the full article…

American Chinese Cuisine
In the 19th century, Chinese restaurateurs developed American Chinese cuisine when they modified their food for American tastes. First catering to railroad workers, they opened restaurants in towns where Chinese food was completely unknown. These restaurant workers adapted to using local ingredients and catered to their customer's tastes. Dishes on the menu were often given numbers, and often a roll and butter was offered on the side. Click for the full article…

Famous Chinese American dishes
Some dishes that often show up as American Chinese on menus include: General Tso's Chicken - dark-meat tidbits of chicken that are deep-fried and seasoned with ginger, garlic, sesame oil, scallions, and hot chili peppers, and often served with steamed broccoli Sesame Chicken - deep fried, normally dark meat chicken with a sweet, mildly spicy sauce. Click for the full article…

How can you tell if a Chinese restaurant is good?
I am one woman who loves to eat. Ask any of my friends. At my first business trip to Nashville with a partner at my law firm, the partner came back and all he can say was "she ate a whole rack of rib by herself. When I go out with my friends, I always get this "my gosh" look that I would finish everything that order.Click for the full article…

Eight Culinary Traditions of China
Combining elements of cooking from northern Anhui, south-central Anhui, and the Hui-speaking areas of southern Anhui, Anhui cuisine is known for its use of wild game and herbs, both land and sea, and comparatively unelaborate methods of preparation.Click for the full article…

Pursue Your Dreams
When your life is moving so fast, it may be difficult to pursue your dreams. Slow down, take a breath and get back to focusing on your dreams. We all have dreams that we needed to put on hold for the right time. Now is your time.Click for the full article…

The Chinese New Year
The most famous celebrated holiday for Chinese people is the Chinese New Year. This holiday is of great significance and is celebrated by people of Chinese descent throughout the world. Like most other Chinese holidays, the date for celebration is determined according to the lunar calendar.Click for the full article…

A Native Foreigner's Impression of China: Finding Home Through Food
In the summer of 2005, I traveled back to China for the first time after nine years. The notion of returning home was both a wonderful and frightening feeling. I was born in Fujian, China and was raised there until I reached the age of eight years old. My trip to China, in my eyes, was my rightful claim back to homeClick for the full article…

Chinese Tea
China, in addition to being the homeland to the Han people and fifty-five other ethnic groups, is also the birth place for one of the world's most consumed beverage- tea. Tea plants originated in China and were first used for medicinal purposes. It is believed that tea plants have been in existence in China for six thousand years already. Two thousand years ago, tea was developed as a drink.Click for the full article…