Steve C. (Cheese) reviewed on 5/19/2008 + 324 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I am on the fence about this book. Parts of it were pretty good. Parts of it I could've done without. I didn't like the way the author would jump around when telling a story. Almost like she was telling two stories at once. For example, there is one chapter when she talks about a missing Chinese deliveryman. The story was pretty interesting but she kept getting sidetracked on other things and then come off with an approach like "let's see how the investigation is going in the missing deliveryman". Not in those words mind you, but that is the feeling I was getting. She did present very interesting facts in the origins of AMERICANIZED chinese food, as well as packaged soy sauce, fortune cookies and the white take-out containers. I wish the book would have followed more along those lines. Not a bad book but not as interesting to me as the FAST FOOD books that were out a year or so ago.

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