Much like the surge of a new type of Chinese restaurant in tandem with the upward mobility of wealthier, better-educated immigrants and visitors from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the current renaissance of bubble tea is symptomatic of the emergence of East Asia as a global power, says Krishnendu Ray, associate professor of food studies at New York University and the author of the book The Ethnic Restaurateur , in which he writes that Chinese cuisine, after a history of being devalued in American estimation, is likely to ascend in the global hierarchy of taste if Chinas economic rise continues
More than storage, it's a statementan heirloom-worthy piece that echoes the elegance of a bygone era
It felt like a kind of secret language for which only my Asian-American friends and I held the Rosetta Stone, a currency of exchange in a foreign landscape in which I otherwise felt lost and alone
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While Tsengs designs are so far only a concept series, she hopes the buzz that it generates could get people to see smoking as still within their control