Name: TED】Jennifer 8.李：曹將軍是誰？ 以及其他神祕的。 (【TED】Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:55:24.000Z
Duration: 16 min 39 s

There are more Chinese restaurants in this country

than McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wendy's, combined --

中國餐館的數量，比麥當勞、漢堡王、肯德基、和溫蒂漢堡的總和還要多。

Chinese restaurants have played an important role in American history,

中國餐館在美國歷史上一向舉足輕重，

就是在位於華盛頓D.C.的中國餐廳

called Yenching Palace in Washington, D.C.,

遺憾的是，這家餐館現在已經關門大吉，

原址將改建成大型連鎖藥局沃爾格林。

planned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

is actually also now a Chinese restaurant

called Wok 'n Roll, on H Street in Washington.

名為「熱炒搖滾」，就位在華盛頓D.C.的街上。

這店名也不是取得完全沒道理啦！

And Americans love their Chinese food so much

NASA, for example, serves thermal-stabilized sweet-and-sour pork

美國太空總署為太空人準備的菜單中，

就有經高溫消菌的糖醋排骨以供選擇。

If our benchmark for Americanness is apple pie,

如果蘋果派是美國食物的典型，

versus how often do you eat Chinese food. Right?

跟吃中國菜的頻率哪個比較高？對吧？

再者，如果你們曾經想過這件事，

or we think of or Americans think of as Chinese food

或我們、甚至是美國人認知裡的中國菜，

for example: beef with broccoli, egg rolls, General Tso's Chicken,

比方說：花椰菜炒牛肉、炸春捲、左宗棠雞、

fortune cookies, chop suey, the take-out boxes.

幸運籤餅、雜碎、還有外帶用的紙盒。

For example, I took a whole bunch of fortune cookies back to China,

這裡有個例子：我帶了一整包的幸運籤餅回中國去，

gave them to Chinese to see how they would react.

觀察他們在看到幸運籤餅時的反應。

The short answer is, actually, they're from Japan.

there are still small family-run bakeries

30 years before fortune cookies were introduced in the United States.

那是幸運籤餅被引進美國30年前的事了。

如果你比較日本和美國的籤餅，

會發現日本籤餅是褐色，而美國的是黃色；

Theirs are actually flavored with miso and sesame paste,

而日式籤餅以味噌跟芝麻醬調味，

也就是說，日式籤餅並沒有美式的那麼甜。

So, how did they get to the United States?

那麼，幸運籤餅是怎麼來到美國的？

Well, the short answer is, the Japanese immigrants came over,

嗯，答案是，隨著日本移民來到美國，

and a bunch of the bakers introduced them --

一些糕餅師傅把幸運籤餅帶過來，

而這家在舊金山的撒特街和巴禪南街街角，

called Benkyo-do, which is on the corner of Sutter and Buchanan.

made fortune cookies using very much the similar kind of irons

他們所用來製作幸運籤餅的模具，

how do you go from fortune cookies being something that is Japanese

幸運籤餅是如何從日本人的點心，

we locked up all the Japanese during World War II,

美國人在二次世界大戰時，把境內所有日本移民關起來，

including those that made fortune cookies,

so that's the time when the Chinese moved in,

這麼一來，中國移民有機可趁：

kind of saw a market opportunity and took over.

他們注意到幸運籤餅的商機，將其佔為己有。

They are more American than anything else.

它們其實是再美國不過的點心。

which, by the way, in the US Naval Academy

The original name in my book was actually called

左宗棠雞的確非常深入美國民間，

because he is sweet, he is fried, and he is chicken --

因為這菜是甜的、又得油炸、還是用雞做的，

that the chef who originally invented the dish

以至於最早發明左宗棠雞的廚師，

doesn't recognize it; he's kind of horrified.

He's retired, deaf and plays a lot of Mahjong.

過著退休的生活，失聰，每天摸好幾個八圈。

呃，他看到我秀給他左宗棠雞的照片，

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