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Caribbean Chinese cuisine is a popular style of food resulting from a fusion of Chinese cuisine|Chinese and Caribbean cuisine|West Indian cuisines. The Chinese influence is predominantly Guangzhou|Cantonese, the main source of Chinese immigrants to the West Indies. West Indian food is itself a mixture of African cuisine|African, British cuisine|British, Spanish cuisine|Spanish, French cuisine|French, Indian cuisine|Indian and :Category:Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean|Indigenous cooking styles. Although a long-favoured cuisine in West-Indian eateries and Chinese-Caribbean households, it is only recently that an explosion in Caribbean-Chinese restaurants has occurred in Canada and the United States. These are more often than not Guyana|???Guyanese restaurants??? owing to that country???s particular historical connection to Chinese immigration, although signs may also disclaim ???Caribbean Chinese food,??? ???West Indian & Chinese Cuisine??? or variations thereof. In 1834 the British slavery|slaves working in the Caribbean colonies were freed, creating a labour vaccuum that was filled by indentured labourers from Madeira, India and China. A sizeable portion of these immigrants were destined for Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, and Guyana|British Guyana. The first groups of Chinese immgrants were forcibly kidnapped or deceived into making the journey, although this practice was curbed somewhat by an agreement between British and Chinese authorities to formally supervise recruitment processes. From then on families were encouraged to emigrate, although often without being completely informed of the working and living conditions, or their contractual obligations. Chinese women began arriving in 1860, but in small numbers. The period from 1860 to 1866 saw a relatively large influx of immigrants, bringing the local Chinese population in British Guyana to a peak of 10 022 in 1866. There would be only two ships to supplement this population following 1866, and afterwords Chinese immigrants came of their own free will and at their own expense. It could be said that Chinese and Caribbean foods fit well together, the one infamous for its heavy starches and sauces and the other known for its pungent meats and spices. The fusion of the two cooking styles and ingredients has resulted in an emerging cusine that grows more and more popular every day. The menus of Caribbean Chinese restaurants are greatly affected by whether or not the restaurant identifies with a specific Caribbean nation or not. Dishes from nation-specific restaurants are often variations on local specialities, in addition to more widely-known food items:
Caribbean Chinese restaurants enjoy considerable popularity in Toronto, Ontario|ON Canada, where more Chinese and Caribbean people may coexist than anywhere else in the world.
Category:Chinese cuisine Category:Caribbean cuisine This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Caribbean Chinese cuisine".
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