ABSTRACT
Several years ago, my uncle took my parents, siblings, and me to a Chinese restaurant in a suburb east of Los Angeles. After we ate our delicious Chinese meal, a waiter came over and dropped
off some cookies that were strange but intriguing at the same time. Prior to coming to the US to visit my uncle and his family in the early 1990s, I had never seen these cookies before. As I reached over to get one of the light brown Pac-Man shaped cookies wrapped in plastic, I asked my uncle what it was.
