Would you believe Chandavkl Confesses He Hated Chinese Food As a Child?

https://www.menuism.com/blog/favorite-chinese-dishes/

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Absolutely

He still doesnā€™t use chopsticks.

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He really is a treasure. In a way he reminds me of my grandfather who came over as an immigrant from Mexico. Stories like this and some of the work of Gustavo Arellano are a great reminder of where we came from culturally and an international food city to where we are now for better and for worse

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Heā€™s written about that before.

imagine if heā€™d penned that in a fortune cookie when he had the chance.

ā€œyouā€™re not being insulted if they give you a forkā€

not to mention:
ā€œthat wasnā€™t chicken in the lemon chickenā€
ā€œitā€™s ā€˜fried riceā€™, you stupid plick!ā€
ā€œsometimes you win, dim sum you loseā€
ā€œwe mean you no harm. we seek only supercomputers for our youngā€

alot of immigrant children are embarassed or despise the food they eat growing up only to realize its so much better than the ā€œAmericanā€ food they think they wanna eat.

As a child myself I aspired to eat at places like Black Angus or Red Lobster based off the commercials.

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