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Chinese fine dining slices through America’s takeout-food stereotypes
- In recent years, Chinese American chefs and restaurateurs have opened upscale venues from San Francisco to New York City, featuring refined tasting menus beyond Chinese takeout.
- Bolun and Linette Yao say they opened Yingtao in New York's Hell's Kitchen to break biases and increase representation by presenting contemporary Chinese food elegantly.
- At China Live, chef George Chen oversees an open, multi-station kitchen with dumpling, noodle, and Peking duck stations, and offers a $150 chef's tasting menu, with courses ranging from $88-$188.
- At the same time, chefs are winning recognition as Michelin coverage in New York shows Chinese regional cuisine mentions increased from 3% to 7% between 2006 and 2024, despite market friction.
- Rooted in history, chefs like Ho Chee Boon emphasize reclaiming Chinatown amid Chinese food’s stigmatized U.S. past shaped by racist myths and historical forces, while Krishnendu Ray links culinary prestige to economic power.
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Ancient stigma around Chinese food is vanishing rapidly in top restaurant scenes: 'we are trying to break this bias'
Taiwan-born chef George Chen, whose family immigrated to Los Angeles in 1967, remembers vividly how his school lunch of braised pork and Chinese sauerkraut between two pieces of bread was looked at by his classmates. “‘Oh, God, what are you eating? That’s gross,’” Chen recalled during a recent busy lunch hour at his San Francisco restaurant and bar, China Live, on the edge of the nation’s oldest Chinatown. “And now everybody wants the braised po…
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Chinese fine dining slices through America's takeout-food stereotypes
Upscale Chinese American restaurants, from San Francisco to New York City, have sprung up in recent years, garnering buzz beyond Chinese food takeout staples with refined tasting menus.
Chinese fine dining slices through American takeout stereotypes
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