http://chinesecanuck.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/real-chinese-food-poll/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://chinesecanuck.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/real-chinese-food-poll/#comment-1008 thinkingdifference Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:53:10 +0000 http://chinesecanuck.wordpress.com/?p=199#comment-1008 i can see the discourse of nationalism classifying food for us: this is Chinese, this is Belgian, and so on, and so forth... the truth is food has always circulated, knows no national boundaries, and the various dishes that appear as 'national' and inflate our sense of pride have in fact been cooked here and there, with more or less variation. if you have access to the database, try this article: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120718785/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 (Hiroko, 2008, Delicious Food in a Beautiful Country: Nationhood and Nationalism in Discourses on Food in Contemporary Japan) i can see the discourse of nationalism classifying food for us: this is Chinese, this is Belgian, and so on, and so forth… the truth is food has always circulated, knows no national boundaries, and the various dishes that appear as ‘national’ and inflate our sense of pride have in fact been cooked here and there, with more or less variation. if you have access to the database, try this article: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120718785/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 (Hiroko, 2008, Delicious Food in a Beautiful Country: Nationhood and Nationalism in Discourses on Food in Contemporary Japan)

]]> http://chinesecanuck.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/real-chinese-food-poll/#comment-1002 Harry Li Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:37:03 +0000 http://chinesecanuck.wordpress.com/?p=199#comment-1002 I don't think it's quite Chinese in the traditional sense, milk tea and egg tarts seem more like a distinctive Hong Kong cuisine... but the thing is, does it matter? I don’t think it’s quite Chinese in the traditional sense, milk tea and egg tarts seem more like a distinctive Hong Kong cuisine… but the thing is, does it matter?

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