... the table. Visitors to china are often surprised when a typical dinner for a table of eight people consists of four courses of cold dishes, four courses of hot dishes, couple with soup and steamed rice; they consider this a lavish spread. But in the Chinese mind, a dinner prepare as above for guests in the minimum requirement. A standard banquet will consist of four to ... ...

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... surrounded Winnie's environment as a young girl especially from her mother who "liked English biscuits, of course, and also their soft furniture, Italian automobiles and French gloves and shoes, White Russian soup and sad love songs, American ragtime music and Hamilton watches" (Tan 106), so the cultural mixture that exists in Pearl's life does not seem unfamiliar to Winnie who lived in ... ...

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