They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
Vietnamese are very similar to the Chinese. They just can't sit on gold bars underneath their beds. Eventually, they will pull out their gold bars and invest.
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.
In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'
I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.
From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.
I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
