Brandon ’s Reviews > Ten Restaurants That Changed America > Status Update

This chapter felt like it was about The Mandarin only tangentially, as opposed to Schraffts and HJ’s being the focus of their respective chapters. Also I couldn’t shake the judgement that Cecilia Chiang just gives off an elitist vibe….idk. He really kind of tries to tell the entirety of Chinese immigrant history in USA and can’t quite do it.

Something something white-American love of “exotic” food while simultaneously enacting systemic and social racism on the immigrants connected with it. thinking about (marxist?) alienation and also double-think / cognitive dissonance.

Classism vs racism once again

sometimes u forget italian immigrants were racialized to hell and back