• K. Hema Latha
• Dr. A. Linda Primlyn

Abstract Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan foreground the anthropological and cultural elements of food, its preparation, and people’s eating habits. In their works the Chinese characters very often sit together and eat the same food. Such assemblies, the Chinese believe, strengthen the relationship among the members in a family. It is a means to retain cultural identity. Also eating the same kind of food sitting at the same table is a cultural act. If it is happily served and actively eaten without any murmur, the scene is something to be cherished and remembered. Chinese women use food as a medium to assert themselves and to revive and give a new lease of life to their age-old conventional habits and customs.

Food, Customs, Culture, Chinese Food, cooking.

"Depiction of Chinese Food and its Cultural Significance in the Works of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.594-597, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806476.pdf

"Depiction of Chinese Food and its Cultural Significance in the Works of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp594-597, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806476.pdf