The Food Chain

Chinatown

The Food Chain ›

26:29 | Nov 21st, 2015

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Nearly every major city in the world has one- a district where Chinese immigrants have settled to live, work and eat. This week in a collaboration with BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Food Programme’, Dan Salad...Show More


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epekilis recommended:Jan 28th, 2020

I had no idea that there was a long history of Chinese immigration to Cuba, including slavery on sugar plantations. Episode also features a UK Chinatown walking tour led by none other than Fuchsia Dunlop, one of the great writers of Chinese food culture. She is English but lived and trained in Sic...Show More

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mmJan 29th, 2020

@epekilis I’ve been to Cuba’s Chinatown! I had wonton soup but it definitely didn’t taste like wonton soup I was used to at all. Excited to list to this.

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epekilisJan 29th, 2020

@mm !!! That must have been such a cool experience. It’s funny, in the episode he said that the Chinese food in Havana didn’t taste like Chinese food. It’s all been adapted to the local culture and that the Chinese restaurants mostly sell Italian food. He said that now thy are trying to revive C...Show More

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