The History Of Chinese Immigrants

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Not long after their arrival in California, Chinese immigrants started to scattered their culture as well as cuisine throughout the country. In no time, their cuisine made a big hit and they created most remarkable innovation in the US food history. A Chinese restaurant named Kin-Chu Cafe promoted their food by introducing the first take-out and delivery service. Although they claimed to be the only place to offer this service, in fact, many restaurants in the States also offered this service in the following years. People could have a set of Japanese, Indian, American or other kind of cuisine on their dining table.
After the World Wide II, the number of take-out order in restaurants had skyrocketed as much as the number of natality in the

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