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Review: Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants around the World , by Cheuk Kwan

2023; University of California Press; Volume: 23; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/gfc.2023.23.4.102

1533-8622

Koby Song-Nichols,

Culinary Culture and Tourism

Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants around the World, by Cheuk Kwan Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants around the World, Cheuk Kwan, Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2022 272 pp. $24.95 (paper); eBook Koby Song-Nichols Koby Song-Nichols University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2023) 23 (4): 102–103. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.4.102 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Koby Song-Nichols; Review: Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants around the World, by Cheuk Kwan. Gastronomica 1 November 2023; 23 (4): 102–103. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.4.102 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search “Chinese Food Everywhere.” This is the name of a Facebook album I created in 2018 that documented Chinese restaurants in cities around the world that I or someone I knew had visited. This was the beginning of a dream global Chinese food project that I very quickly shelved thereafter. What I did not know when I started my album was that this task had already been done years before by filmmaker, director, writer, and activist Cheuk Kwan. In the early 2000s, Kwan embarked on a four-year, five-continent odyssey visiting and documenting the stories of Chinese restaurants and communities in more than fifteen cities around the world. Bringing us to places ranging from the frigid, small town of Outlook in Saskatchewan, Canada, to arctic Tromsø, Norway, to vibrant Saint Julien, Mauritius, and a transitioning Cape Town, South Africa, Have You Eaten Yet? is a travelogue-memoir of this incredible journey. Kwan is... You do not currently have access to this content.