Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants War of 1812 and its place in human

and its place in human history

laughter and love in an easy style that reads more like a novel than a historical memoir

Experience history with the Mary Ann Shadd Cary Pillow

she was a compelling female voice in the midst of an almost entirely male writing community

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants War of 1812 and its place in humanIn 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been includedher parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that there was so much of her own history she didnt yet know,