the most popular restaurant in America are
burger joint a pizza places it's not even close
there are more Chinese food restaurants in the US the number at McDonalds Burger
King's
Wendy's Domino's and Pizza Hut combined does nothing more all-american
then Chinese food which is also one of our oldest cuisines
hamburgers about to have been introduced about 1904
around the same time as the ice cream cone but decades
after Chinese food became popular 3.8 million Americans have Chinese ancestry
the most heavily asian country and Chinese immigrants form one of the first
large-scale
immigrant groups in the nineteenth century many came as construction
workers to help build the railways
but were forced by racial discrimination into Chinatown spend jobs like food
service
because the many ball doesn't look a lot like Chinese food in China
Chop Suey was invented in the US and you'll get nothing but puzzled looks at
you try ordering crab rangoon in Beijing
and don't expect fortune cookies to arrive after a meal in Shanghai
almost all the three billion fortune cookies produced every year
are consumed in the US and you in China have ever heard of General Tso's chicken
which was supposedly name for real nineteenth century Chinese general
so soon taking but is thought to have been invented in the 1950s by a refugee
from China civil war
who opened a restaurant on 44th Street in New York
just wanted the 46,000 Chinese food restaurants
in the US yet
well