A talk on Chinese food in America ... Funny and interesting.

[vningjc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MhV5Rn63M

[kashby]

You can follow Jennifer 8 Lee on Twitter @jenny8lee Her tweets are funny and informative about the intersection of China and America.

[paglino9]

For those unfortunate souls who can't access youtube in mainland you can check out the video here at TEdtalks

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jenni ... l_tso.html.

My favorite is about the Chinese hijacking the Japanese concept of fortune cookies during WWII. Classic Chinese business ethics. Shanzhai has been around for a lot longer than I thought.

[kimiik]

In the US of A, at what stage can you put a number in your "given name" (like Jennifer 8 ) ?
# 1 Birth certificate
# 2 Social Security card
# 3 Driver's license

[kimiik]

"Lee was not given a middle name at birth and chose her own middle name later.She chose "8" as a teenager because of the prevalence of her first name."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee