Americans love to "get Chinese" for takeout or as an easy meal. But there's still a lot of Americans out there who don't know the "Chinese food" they're eating is essentially American food. Today, let's dive into the history of Chinese people in America and how they're recreated a new genre of Chinese/American food.

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Credits:
Producer - Matthew Li
Production Assistant - Mana Chuabang
Script Supervisor - Russ Medcalf

Special thanks:
Louis Govier
Yusef Iqbal
Yeevonne Lim
Dylan Payne
Brandon Goddard

Music from Musicbed & Tom Fox

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Chinese food isn't Chinese
1:29 - Introducing American Chinese Food
2:39 - The Gold Rush & Chinese migration to the US
3:42 - Chinese people overstay their welcome in the US
4:17 - The Chinese Exclusion Act
4:52 - The Driving Out
6:23 - Why all Chinatowns look the same
7:20 - The origin of the Chinese takeout box
8:30 - The origin of the egg roll
8:59 - The origin of general tso's chicken
9:16 - The shocking origin of the fortune cookie
10:21 - Trying omikuji senbei
11:20 - Why fortune cookies became Chinese
13:00 - An American history of being Asian-American

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