Every day farmers and migrant workers come in to China’s cities from the countryside.

In a loud smoky restaurant somewhere in China, two friends have just raised their shots of Baijiu, a potent Chinese liquor that’ll put a little more hair on your chest with every sip, high in the air to toast to their friendship.

In China, it’s customary for the host to pick up the entire bill. That’s true at family dinners, business dinners, and dinners out with friends.

The Chinese immigrants of America made their cuisine famous throughout the world, but the real deal is a world apart from your Friday night egg fried rice, kung-po chicken and chop suey!

In many places in the West, Chinese food has earned a bad rap as an unhealthy, low quality cuisine- largely owing to wei jing- which could be translated as The Flavor Spirit: MSG. MSG has a very different reputation in China, and throughout much of Asia, than it does in the West.

The Lunar Festival, also known as the Mid Autumn Festival or the Moon Cake Festival, is China’s Harvest Festival that has been compared to Thanksgiving Day in America.