Chinese people would not understand the appeal of crab rangoon, deep fried wontons filled with fake crab meat and cream cheese. If you're hankering for a dumpling, order Xiao Long Bao instead.

Rice noodles from southern China, for example, are staples in Vietnamese and Thai cuisine.In fact, Chinese food has traveled all around the world. And since I am June 7, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT ...

Fuchsia Dunlop, a British food writer who has specialized in Chinese cuisine for over two decades, says much of the problem stems from the fact certain words don’t even exist in English ...

According to Isaac Yue, an associate professor of translation at the University of Hong Kong and a scholar of Chinese gastronomy literature, translating Chinese food names into English is simply ...

The Chinese food example comes from Gene M. Heyman's 2009 book on addiction; Heyman makes an interesting observation in this connection.

In 1985, the earliest year for which Zagat data is available, Japanese food had the sixth-highest average check price in New York. Last year, it ranked first.

“Filipinos adopting Chinese food still continues to this day,” he comments. “For example 7-11 has a cheese burger siopao. Polland bakery has released coffee fudge hopia and chocolate fudge ...

According to Isaac Yue, an associate professor of translation at the University of Hong Kong and a scholar of Chinese gastronomy literature, translating Chinese food names into English is simply ...