How I Came to Respect Chinese Food — and My Heritage
I had to leave home to appreciate the Asian meals of my childhood
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10 min readMay 26, 2020
When I was eight years old, I stood up in front of my parents and grandparents in the breakfast area of a Best Western during a family trip to San Diego and proclaimed that I hated Chinese food. My mother immediately admonished me, loud enough that a hotel worker…