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[quote=Anonymous]This reminds me.  My parents both immigrated from China to come for graduate school.  They met here and raised their family here.  Growing up, we often had blended holidays.  So, our big Thanksgiving dinner was always half American and half Chinese.  One year, when I was in grade school, one of my friends from the neighborhood came to play at my house in the afternoon.  About 3:00 he was going home and passed through the kitchen.  My mother was just pulling a large baking pan of egg noodles out of the oven.  She boiled them, then baked them until they were slightly crispy and later added a chow mein topping over the noodles.  The friend saw the noodles coming out of the oven and ran home and told his mom, "The X family is so poor that aren't even having turkey for Thanksgiving, just spaghetti!"  The turkey was in the other oven.

So, in addition to turkey, mashed potatoes, salad, green bean casserole, stuffing and gravy, Mom usually also made a big batch of Chow Mein, a stir fried beef, fried rice, one or two Chinese vegetables (something like a gai lan or Chinese Brocolli or a Bok Choy type dish).  And then other friends often brought side dishes to share since we usually had like 25-35 people.[/quote]

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