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http://www.ted.com Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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  • She doesn't talk too fast. She keeps it fast-paced and entertaining. Excellent.

  • Excellent stuff and hilarious too!

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  • nicceee

  • she gives a very good presentation, well researched and much fun to listen too.

  • She was good

  • 27 people thought they were being debonair when eating "odds and ends."

    /And probably can't use chopsticks, either.

  • The hypocrisy Americans are just like their ancestors one centernary ago. They eliminated the Indian population, but they failed to do the same thing with other westerners on Chinese. Now it is the time for them to pay the price, they will learn their lesson.

  • What a great presentation =) Thank you Jennifer!

  • She wasn't flicking anyone off when pushing up her glasses. To the Chinese, the middle finger isn't used as a vulgarity. In fact, it is actually more often used to point at things than the index finger is.

  • get your propaganda off youtube

  • @grgisme

    LOL! She totally flipped everyone off. Yes, very definitely a Freudian slip, or perhaps even intentional.

  • Freudian slip? She flicks off the audience as she talks about Chinese not being allows to immigrate into the US for 100 years. 8:49

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