c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 Karl Taro Greenfeld, The Sharin'-Huggin' Lovin'-Carin' Chinese Food Money
Machine; Fast-food chainPanda express is turning self-help tenets into
serious cash flow.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Nov. 18, 2010.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_48/b4205098143983.htm
Quote:
"It is the classic immigrant story: Cherng and his chef father, Ming Tsai
Cherng, who died in 1981, were fresh-off-the-jumbo-jet Chinese émigrés who
built an empire one location at a time, starting with a Panda Inn in
Pasadena, Calif., in 1973.
"Cherng grew up in Taiwan, the son of a chef who had fled with the
retreating Kuomintang from the mainland in 1949. The Cherngs moved to
Yokohama, Japan, in 1963, when his dad, Ming Tsai, got a job at a Chinese
restaurant in Yamashita-cho, part of Yokohama's vast Chinatown.
My comment:
(a) Excerpt in the window of the print:
"Cherng's belief is that the personal improvement of his staff--dieting,
working on communication skills, jogging, and attending seminars--increases
sales
"Kobari Beef was originally called Panda beef. Says the head of marketing: "
People thought we were actually serving Panda
(b) The teaser in the Table of Contents of the magazine: "How Panda Express
Wins Friends The fast=food chain has fueled its phenomenal growth in a
novel way: employee self-help
Panda Express 熊貓快餐
http://www.pandaexpress.com/
(b) Andrew CHERNG 程 正昌 (祖籍江蘇省揚州市)
wife Peggy TSIANG 蔣 佩琪
father Ming Tsai CHERNG 程 明才
(c) A black-and-white photo of Cherng's parents (dad in crew cut) in the
print carries the caption: "The elder Cherngs in Taiwan in the 1960s
(d) Baker University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_University
(a private university founded in 1853 affiliated with United Methodist
Church; oldest in Kansas)
(e) Life Acadeny 圓桌教育基金會
www.lifeacademy.org
life manual 倡導「人的使用手冊」觀念
(f) underbite (n): "occlusion in which the lower incisor teeth overlap the
upper"
That is, the lower jaw protrudes.
(g) Kobari(TM) Beef
http://www.pandaexpress.com/webzine/kb2010/default.aspx
Nobody outside the Cherngs knows what it means. Some speculate it is Korean.
(h) It is not easy to run a Chinese restaurant chain. Many (chains) have
collapsed in eastern Massachusetts.
(i) Altogether, the Cherngs, who might have born in China, spent roughly
fourteen (14) years in Taiwan (1949-1963). 還這麼惦記著! | Y****e
发帖数: 7007 | | l*******2
发帖数: 5311 | 3 家旁边有一家，我就喜欢你们的茄子烧豆腐
炒饭和炒面都不好吃。
酸辣汤凑合 | l*****t
发帖数: 4407 | | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 5 "你们的茄子烧豆腐."
Probably most dishes in Taiwan came from China--some are local dishes but I
cannot think of any from Japan (hard to believe--because there are many
loanwords in Taiwan from Japanese language), though Taiwan was Japan's
colony for half a century.
【在 l*******2 的大作中提到】
: 家旁边有一家，我就喜欢你们的茄子烧豆腐
: 炒饭和炒面都不好吃。
: 酸辣汤凑合
| l*******2
发帖数: 5311 | 6 他们的，呵呵
你的意思是这个菜来源于日本？
I
【在 c**i 的大作中提到】
: "你们的茄子烧豆腐."
: Probably most dishes in Taiwan came from China--some are local dishes but I
: cannot think of any from Japan (hard to believe--because there are many
: loanwords in Taiwan from Japanese language), though Taiwan was Japan's
: colony for half a century.
| c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 7 No, that dish 茄子烧豆腐 is from China. Chinese mainland. But I do not know where in the mainland, because after 1949 there are so many immigrants from various provinces (prior to that it is easy--they were from Fujian or Norther Guangdong (the latter being Hakka 客家[1]).
[1] Ethnic composition of people in Taiwan nowadays: Hoklo (福佬 or 河洛 in
Chinese characters) 70%, Hakka 14%, 外省人 14% and aborigines 2%.
In Japan, there are well known Chinese dishes (in US and Japan, Japanese
food stores carry spice packs to make those dishes in minutes).
Japanese Chinese cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Chinese_cuisine
(ramen; 中華そば "Chinese noodles"; 麻婆豆腐; 麻婆茄子; 青椒牛肉[2]; 酢豚[3
]; shabu-shabu[4]; Ebi no Chili Sauce[5]; 唐揚げ; 豚の角煮; 回鍋肉; 棒棒鶏;
春巻き; 蟹玉; 餃子; 炒飯)
[2] Wikipedia is mistaken. Not 青椒牛肉 but チンジャオロース (whose
pronunciation is "Chin-jao Rōsu") 青椒肉絲 in Japan (remember that Japan
simplified Kanji, so 常用漢字 may not include complicated Chinese characters
like 青椒肉絲).
[3] 酢 (n) vinegar
[4] しゃぶしゃぶ
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%97%E3%82%83%E3%81%B6%E3%81%97%E3%82%83%E3%81%B6
(section 4.1 名称: A restaurant Suehiro in Osaka made up this name in 1952,
which went on to register it as a trade mark. The one the restaurant
registered was not shabu-shabu, but 肉のしゃぶしゃぶ--so that other
restaurants might use shabu-shabu without violating trade mark law)
(a) Suehiro 末広 can be the given name of a man.
(b) EIRAKUCHO SUEHIRO HONTEN
http://www.e-suehiro.com/
("しゃぶしゃぶ発祥の店永楽町スエヒロ本店")
Suehiro スエヒロ
Eirakucho 永楽町 (within the present-day 大阪府 高槻市)
[5] ebi 海老 (Japanese for shrimp)
At last, I made a mistake in the previous posting. In my childhood in Taiwan
, miso 味噌 (a fermented soybean paste) was a common soup.
【在 l*******2 的大作中提到】
: 他们的，呵呵
: 你的意思是这个菜来源于日本？
:
: I
| l*******2
发帖数: 5311 | 8 lz说说你觉得panda press怎么样吧？有什么推荐的 ？
这样大家讨论方便些。 | c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 9 (1) The truth is I did not hear of Panda Express until I read this report.
Here is the
Restaurant Locator
http://www.pandaexpress.com/locations/locator.aspx
I live in Boston.
I went to the website of Suehiro (whose URL I supplied yesterday), and
searched the web again and again. But nowhere says where the restaurant Suehiro got its name.
About shabu shabu. Websites both in Japanese and in English say the term "
shabu shabu" is an onomatopoeia for the sound the meat makes as you swish it
through the water (so it could be called “Swish Swish” in English).
【在 l*******2 的大作中提到】
: lz说说你觉得panda press怎么样吧？有什么推荐的 ？
: 这样大家讨论方便些。
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