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Sdog1981 t1_jdhkp9p wrote

I got into an argument with some rubes on this site about this very fact. PF Chang has spent a lot of money making up the story that his mom brought Chinese food to the US.

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Kagomefog t1_jdic05c wrote

Cecilia Chiang introduced non-Cantonese Chinese food to the US. She was a rich lady from Shanghai, grew up in a 52-room mansion and had many servants. She looked down on the poor Cantonese people in San Francisco and thought their food was slop. Basically major cultural and class differences.

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firelock_ny t1_jdir57v wrote

> Cecilia Chiang introduced non-Cantonese Chinese food to the US.

Northern non-Cantonese Chinese food. My great-uncle introduced the US to Southwestern non-Cantonese Chinese food. ;-)

(OK, he probably wasn't the first...but Sichuan cuisine is quite different from Northern (Shandong?) cuisine.)

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jointheredditarmy t1_jdhs4mh wrote

Was his mom an immortal vampire? Or one of those hopping Chinese zombies potentially?

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Sdog1981 t1_jdhzl3g wrote

I wish it was that fun. It was she put out a cookbook in the 1960s.

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