Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

~ John Updike

John Updike Boston Chinese Food Culture Food Foodie New England

You were abducted by space aliens. Of course you want egg rolls.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Thomm Quackenbush Abducted Aliens Chinese Food Space

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy.

~ John Updike

John Updike 1960 Chinese Food Hypocrisy Meat Vegetarianism