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I loved this book. I loved that it took me to Peru, Norway, India, Canada, Israel and other places and inside the Chinese restaurants of those nations. Detailing not just the varieties of Chinese cuisine in various countries, but brief histories of the Chinese diaspora in each country. Chinese migration has had a strong impact on the globe, and definitely stronger than I had imagined in the attention I've paid to the subject of Chinese history. The impact of the Sino–Indian War in the 1960s hadn't occurred to me to be so long-lasting, for example. (I had known about the recent skirmishes but not about that significant impact it had on Chinese people living in India since the original battle.) Told from the viewpoint of a documentarian of Chinese restaurants worldwide (you can find them online!), Cheuk Kwan interviews several restauranteurs and affiliated restaurant workers, telling their sometimes harrowing stories of evading authorities to escape a life in China not meant for them and the impact Chinese culture (especially with regards to food) has had in many countries. As many photos as there were, I only wish there were more, and I'll turn to the documentaries to hear them speak and see them work. This is definitely eye-opening to anybody who's had only the experience of Chinese food where they currently live.