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Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown

di Bruce Hall

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For Bruce Edward Hall, whose family name was once Hor, and whose grandfather was a much-loved bookie operating out of a florist shop off Mott Street, Chinatown is filled with ghosts. Behind every teeming basket of raw chicken feet and dried sheep's lungs, every redolent platter of square fried turnip cakes and lotus-seed pastries, and every pot of tea that burns (a teapot full of scotch), there is a tidbit of tradition. Behind the whispered schemes and blistering gunfire of feuding tongs and behind every celebration of the birth of the honored First Son, there is an empire of symbolism. At the Port Arthur, The Best Restaurant That Ever Was, with its tank of goldfish warding off demons, there is the uproarious sound of generations coming together to celebrate a shared and proud heritage. A loving portrait of a family whose superstitions about the old world are eclipsed by the possibilities of the new, Tea That Burns brings to life the spirit of Chinatown that even modern-day residents may never before have perceived.… (altro)
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As the subtitle indicates, this is a family memoir of Chinatown -- written by Bruce Edward Hall, a fourth-generation Chinese American.

His book shows a great flair for language and story-telling. Although it is a non-fiction account of his life -- and how it is entwined with that of his family and Chinese Americans throughout the past -- it packs all the power of a well-constructed novel.

A must-read for anyone with a taste for the history of New York or an interest in the Chinese American experience. ( )
  ElizabethChapman | Nov 15, 2009 |
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For Bruce Edward Hall, whose family name was once Hor, and whose grandfather was a much-loved bookie operating out of a florist shop off Mott Street, Chinatown is filled with ghosts. Behind every teeming basket of raw chicken feet and dried sheep's lungs, every redolent platter of square fried turnip cakes and lotus-seed pastries, and every pot of tea that burns (a teapot full of scotch), there is a tidbit of tradition. Behind the whispered schemes and blistering gunfire of feuding tongs and behind every celebration of the birth of the honored First Son, there is an empire of symbolism. At the Port Arthur, The Best Restaurant That Ever Was, with its tank of goldfish warding off demons, there is the uproarious sound of generations coming together to celebrate a shared and proud heritage. A loving portrait of a family whose superstitions about the old world are eclipsed by the possibilities of the new, Tea That Burns brings to life the spirit of Chinatown that even modern-day residents may never before have perceived.

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