how politics helped shape Chinese food in Australia
- Written by Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
A Chinese community dinner in Sydney, some time in the 1930s.City of Sydney ArchivesIn this series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today.
The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century Australia would have emanated from tiny huts owned by Chinese workers in the goldfields. There, they faced...





