Many American’s have traveled to the orient, delving in the exotic culture dousing themselves in ceramic statues of good fortune, silk paintings, dangling tassels, red, teal, and gold décor surrounded by cherry blossom trees and Geisha Girls with the faint sound of a flowing fountain in the background without ever leaving their native country. Such an excitingly foreign experience has become an American pastime visited and revisited in our hometowns, on television, in just about every town across the country with nearly 41,000 Chinese restaurants spreading good fortune hidden in a cookie and serving Asian allures (Essman).
