User:10000BL/H1-How it started

The Chinese are the oldest ethnic minority in The Netherlands, yet in general not much is known about the origin and start of these people that have there roots far away in the East. When you think of Chinese people, you think of their cuisine. You remind yourself the takeaways of fried rice, Foe Yong Hai and Babi Pangang stuffed in plastic white boxes that come together with pieces of 'kroepoek' and a sachet of sambal. Chinese restaurants are already for decades a familiar sight in everyday village and city. The type of restaurants range from cheap takeaway to dim sum restaurants and to restaurants that serve dishes from a specific region (e.g. Sichuan and Beijing). What is mostly unknown is how the Chinese people and their cuisine landed and conquered such a place/niche in Dutch society. This chapter gives a glimpse of the turbulent start of the Chinese when they arrived to the rise of Chinese restaurants in The Netherlands.

The first Chinese came....

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