Asian Cuisine

Food and cuisine is one of the most important and influential aspects of how a country's culture is shaped and by looking at how this has been accomplished, it is clear to see direct links between dishes and aspects of Japanese and Australian Culture. REFERENE By researching a meal from each country, Okonomiyaki and Damper, connections are made and analysed between identity, culture and the communication.

“Enjoyment and appreciation of food is universal and has provided so many bridges between disparate cultures. Chinese food was adapted for Western palates and became the main attraction for people to venture into Chinatown and have the chance to meet and learn about Chinese people.

In an article written by Amy S. Choi entitled, “What Americans can Learn From Other Food Cultures,” Choi discusses food in ways that pertain to ones culture. Today, our younger generation has become less thankful for simple, traditional foods and more wanting of foods prepared in less traditional ways, almost

The only thing I can find was a men name Li Hung Chang who had influenced the making of chop suey. I chose this because as I said before I love food and it still fascinates of how we went from eating with hands to putting food on a plate to putting in can. At the time it was first sold in America, a new act was pass it was called the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped newly immigrants from coming. During the time people were afraid that the Chinese were going to overpopulate American do to the mass amount of migration from Asia, what’s surprising is that even when they are afraid that the Chinese were going to overpopulate the area they are still eating Chinese food. The chop suey in a can shows how American has accepted Chinese

Cultural Plunge at an Asian Market As I contemplated on what my cultural plunge was going to be, it made me realize that I am lucky to say that I have been exposed and acquainted with maybe more than the usual. My ex-husband is Middle Eastern, I am Mexican, and I have homo-sexual friends, and have and had friends that are African-American, Caucasian, Japanese, Filipino, Jewish, and Korean. I finally chose to explore more of the Asian culture because although I have friends that are Asian I liked to know more about their culture. Being that I love to cook, I decided to go to an Asian market. As I searched the internet for suggestions on where to go, I found 99 Ranch Market to have the highest ratings. 99 Ranch Market is an Asian

White American women viewed Thai food as a quick getaway for viewing the Thai culture as they made variations labeled as Siamese (Padoongpatt 21). This relates to the argument because Thai cuisine was able to create a false sense of cultural knowledge; much like how people will claim orange chicken is their favorite Chinese dish, they are both things that White Americans claim makes them more multicultural. This leads into Padoongpatt’s next major point of changing geography. During the 1960 and 70’s, an influx of Thais decided to come into the United States, legally and illegally, with it came the uprising of both domestic access to Thai ingredients and Thai restaurants. This brought forth the fanfare of White Americans falling in love with the Thai people through their culinary treasures presented in their aesthetically traditional restaurants (Padoongpatt). This phenomenon can be attributed to the liberal multiculturalism found in the Los Angeles area because only through Thai cuisine was Thai America able to gain

The Vietnamese immigrant’s cuisine mainly consists of rice, noodles, tofu, fish, pork, chicken, vegetables, and vegetable oil. Rice is always involved in any of the daily meals. Green tea, jasmine tea, and pure water are the daily drinks. In daily meals, a pair of chopsticks is always an indispensable tool with most of Orient. It takes the role of a fork in the cuisine Western. Among the Vietnamese immigrant’s cuisines in the United States, noodle soup has become the highlight of Vietnamese culture. In noodle soup, white rice noodles come together with sliced rare beef or chicken, meatballs, and brisket. The broth for noodle soup is practically made by boiling beef bones, white onion and herbs, such as cinnamon, ginger, fennel seed, clove, star anise, etc., Customers are served noodle soup with jalapeno, basil, bean sprouts, and lemon. In South Sacramento, among plenty of Vietnamese restaurants, there are dozens of noodle soup restaurants concentrated in the Little Saigon Supermarket and neighborhoods. Some restaurants are Huong Lan, Thanh Huong, King, Pho Bac Hoa Viet, Pho Garden, Pho Anh Dao, Bon Mua, Ho Tay, etc. Vietnamese cuisine has become a popular choice of food, for both those who have immigrated to the United States and those born in the United States. It has enriched the American

Mexican cuisine, a style of food that originates in Mexico, is known for its varied flavors, colourful  decoration and variety of spices and ingredients, most of which are native to the country. The cuisine of  Mexico has evolved through thousands of years of blending indigenous cultures, with later foreign elements  added after the 16th century. In November 2010, Mexican cuisine was added by UNESCO to its lists of the  world's "intangible cultural heritage"

Growing up, I had the privilege of exploring different cultures in my community; one aspect - food. A love for going to a Chinese restaurant by my school and converse in Mandarin Chinese with the waitress, or go to the Mexican grills near my home and learn the cuisine in Spanish, spurred my passion for finding a connection to my own culture’s value of food. With so many wide ranges of cultural foods, I have begun to learn that it wasn't just one culture that loved food or good times, but a universal theme.

Fry bread cornbread turkey blueberry mush is all part of the cuisine of the native americans.

Guanlin Situ EWS 301.02 Prof Banh 5-14-2013 The Westernized Panda As the melting pot, “the United States has the largest ethnic Chinese population outside Asia” (Zhou 43). When people choose to step in the melting pot, their original identities will be blurred in some ways, languages, daily habits, religions,

The Lack of Authenticity of Ethnic Foods in the U.S As the globalization progresses, there are increasing number of people expanding immigrate to other countries. At this point, the ethnic food also come with them into other countries. For example, the American fast-food chains, such as McDonald 's and KFC, substantially adjust their menus, including by providing special items, into the non-US markets. Stern mentioned that the restaurant should depend on scrambling to come up with new dishes to please local tastes. (Stern). The chains have removed and added special menu items to ethnic cuisines to adapt local tastes. In the modern American society, ethnic dining is a significant part in American life, because around half of all meals consumed in America are coming from other countries. According to Lu and Fine, more than 30,000 Chinese restaurants operate in the United States even though Chinese Americans constitute a small percentage of the overall population (Lu and Fine). These restaurants were influenced on external market facts, which to be Americanization, they had to transform ingredient and techniques of traditional recipes to meet American tastes (Lu and Fine). Despite those changes made food to be popular in American market, the question about that lack of authenticity of ethnic foods also was coming. And it was results in ethnic food to become Americanization ethnic foods. As a result, the original ethnic food lacks their authenticity, and it could be reflected

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Culinary historian and anthropologist tend to identified three main categories of Asian dietary cultures that have developed through the centuries. The three traditional styles are from the southwest, southeast, and northeast with their own unique sauce. Asian food is generally a blend of several tastes and flavors together that is

Time flies and with comes many changes. It’s quite astonishing that how much change from modernization has brought over time. Not just modernization to be the most influential but also the cultural integration that has been happening. Changes have come forth in many practices of a culture but the motive of this paper is to look in to the shifts in consumer food preferences, in the context of food consumption from home cooking or eating out such as restaurants or local diners etc. I am a Bangladeshi and from Bangladesh’s perspective it is quite difficult to explain the change, hence I would also prefer adding western countries like America to make the topic more liable. Overall, the motive of this paper is to understand why eating out has become socially and economically acceptable, and also trying to include how class difference has influenced it.