Chinese food is having a moment outside China, driven by huge success and intense competition back home. And nowhere is this ...

The Chinese still here. in fact, became such a bachelor generation that the male-to-female ratio in 1890 was 25:1. The Chinese who didn't go home were shut out of ways to make a living.

When I arrived in Philly over 50 years ago, I was introduced to Chinatown and the Imperial Inn. I've been going back ever since. The menu exemplifies classic Chinese food for American tastes.

My parents, like many Chinese immigrants, operated restaurants in Houston for most of their lives. But instead of dishing up chow mein and egg rolls, they served hamburgers and chicken-fried steak.

Old-School Gilded and Americanized Discussions have long raged about what is and isn’t authentic Chinese food and whether or not Chinese restaurants are allowed to evolve with the times.

In 1961, Chiang opened San Francisco's The Mandarin, a high-end Chinese restaurant that served authentic fare. Today, her DNA is all over American Chinese food, from P.F. Chang's to Panda Express.

Similarly, the menu remixes elements from a range of regional Chinese dishes – some restrained, others loud. Of the starters, the Chongqing chicken ($8) and the tea egg salad ($8.88) were standouts.

King Food — Years ago, when The Insiders Guide to Chinese Restaurants in New York (Grosset & Dunlap, 1969) was authored by William Clifford, the Upper West Side was a stronghold of Chinese ...