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Tony Hwang

willshak wrote:

on 2/5/2008 10:36 PM said the following:

Hi,

I am a graduate student of Tsinghua University and major in
Information System. Our team are trying to finish a project related to
Beijing Olympic Game 2008. The project's goal is to figure out and
show the differences for Chinese food between native China and western
counties. As you know, when in Rome do as Romans do, Chinese food does
the same in your country. For example, in Unite States, even though
the same dish, compare to the one in native China, they are different,
maybe totally different taste. There are some popular Chinese food
dishes in U.S. but you cannot find in China. And more interesting,
something maybe caused by custom and culture, as you know, almost in
every America Chinese restaurant, they will give you fortune cookie
after you had meal. But nobody knows such thing in China. Actually,
this is our project on research to know how many of them between our
Chinese food and yours.

Our mission is to help more and more people to know the culture of
China via Chinese food whatever they are coming to Beijing for Olympic
Game 2008 or not. And this is also a way to let our people learn the
world outside.

Why through the topic of Chinese food. As you know, there's old saying
in China -- To the people foodstuff is all-important.

After some research work, we came out this idea to contact Chinese
restaurant's owner (or Chef) in U.S.. We think they should know such
differences very well since they do business in the different world
market. And they still keep in traditional way to cook for them self.
So far, there are many problems needed to solve. Ex. We have almost 12
hours difference in time zone. So it's hard to phone those
restaurant's owner from Beijing China and cost is high too. We have
searched for their e-mail address from Internet. Unfortunately, 99% of
them don't have it or unavailable.

We hope we can collect 1000 samples to the date to finish done with
the project. So this is why I post here looking for help. Any
suggestion or information will be very appreciate.

Thanks in advance and happy Chinese New Year here!

BTW, you can contact via or
, Gmail is preferred since it's easier to manage.

Bread

If you can contact a chinese restaurant in the US, I doubt you would get
much help. They don't have time to talk on the phone. Much of their
conversation would result in something like "20 minutes. Number 52"

Hi,
Chinese food in U.S. is westernized Cantonese style. Best bet is just
collect their menu. Some are written in English, some are in Chinese.
I don't speak Chinese but I can read and write. I usually ask for
menu written in Chinese. There I can find items I can't order from
English one. Also some Chinese restaurants are franchised.