72岁华裔吃遍美国近8000家中餐馆

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初中三年级

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健康与饮食

现居美国的华裔老人David R Chan(陈戴维)现年72岁，已经在全美接近8000家中餐馆就餐，这一数字还在不断增加。他对中餐的印象从小时候的“不喜欢”到现在的“热衷”，他现在已经成为了名副其实的中餐美食评论家。他的经历也在某些方面反映了中国美食和中国文化在美国的变迁。

Many people in America love Chinese food, but probably nobody loves it as much as David R Chan does. Mr Chan, 72, lives in Los Angeles. He has eaten at almost 8,000 Chinese restaurants across the US since he was 30. If you visit one Chinese restaurant a day, it would take more than 20 years to catch up with him.

许多美国人喜欢中国菜，但可能没有人像David R Chan那样喜欢它。72岁的陈先生住在洛杉矶。自30岁以来，他已经在美国近8,000家中国餐馆吃饭。如果你每天去一家中国餐馆，要花20多年才能赶上他。

Though Mr Chan’s grandparents were from China, when Chan first tried Chinese food as a young child, he did not eat much, for it tasted terrible for him.

虽然陈先生的祖父母来自中国，但当陈先生小时候第一次尝试中国菜时，他吃得不多，因为它对他来说尝起来很糟糕。

Chinese food was cooked in the US for the first time in the mid 19th century. However, early Chinese food in the US, made with local ingredients(原料), was similar to American food to meet Americans’ taste. But in the late 1960s, things started to change. With a new law allowing Asians to come to the US, more and more Chinese people moved here. They brought in not only Cantonese food, but also different kinds of food from other parts of China. From then on, Mr Chan became a Chinese restaurant diner(食客).

19世纪中期，中国食物首次在美国烹饪。然而，美国早期的中国菜是用当地食材制成的，与美国食物相似，以满足美国人的口味。但是在20世纪60年代末，情况开始发生变化。随着一项允许亚洲人来美国的新法律，越来越多的中国人搬到了美国。他们不仅带来了广东菜，还带来了来自中国其他地区的不同种类的食物。从那时起，陈先生成为了一家中餐馆。