Growth of Authentic Chinese Food in the United States -- Drug Dealing Opens Even More New Frontiers For Chinese Dining
Once upon a time, authentic Chinese food could only be found in American locales where there was a large Chinese population, such as San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Because of the accident of the patterns in the earliest Chinese immigration to the United State, being a large city did not ensure the presence of real Chinese food. Until 50 years ago, you could not find authentic Chinese food in cities like Dallas or Atlanta, but you could in Augusta, Georgia, Clarksdale, Mississippi or Butte, Montana. After changes in American immigration laws in 1965 ended an eighty year period of near Chinese exclusion from migrating to the United States, large numbers of Chinese came to the United States from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and eventually Mainland China, as well as other Asian countries. Unlike the original Chinese migrants from the 19th century who were almost exclusively migrating from rural areas, the new wave of Chinese migration was almost enti...
