A Tso by Any Other Name Would Taste As Sweet
(03/19/24 11:29pm)
McClelland Sushi and Market is the fan favorite of Penn dining halls: brisk and busy, similar to its clientele. Walking in, you’ll see students toting boxes of gyoza, bowls of udon, and trays of pork buns. One of these things is not like the other, but the systematic translation of Chinese food into American names is so normalized as to be unnoticeable. You are what you eat, and for a health–conscious America, even Chinese syllables prove to be too much of a toxin.