Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant : a memoir / Curtis Chin.

"Chin's memoir explores the experiences of Asian Americans and the LGBTQ+ community-along with some wonderful descriptions of food-in a hopeful, brash, and inquisitive exploration of identity and coming of age"-- Provided by publisher.

"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and where--between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions--he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself." --From publisher.

New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2023.

vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm

First edition.

Note to diners -- The tea -- Appetizers and soups -- Rice and noodles -- Main entrées -- The fortune cookie.

Stonewall Book Award, Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award Honor Book, 2024