Here's a link to an article titled "Safe Treyf": New York Jews and Chinese Food," adapted from an ethnographic journal. It has some interesting historical information, even if you don't fully buy all their hypotheses as to causes. I ran across it while puzzling about why a New York Jew has so much to say about Chinese cooking.
Here's a joke from the article (dates probably wrong now): "According to the Jewish calendar, the year is 5749. According to the Chinese calendar, the year is 4687. That means for 1,062 years, the Jews went without Chinese food." -aem
