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In the United Kingdom, a chinky is a Chinese takeaway restaurant, or the meal that one buys from such a restaurant. (The word "chinky" is the adjectival form of chink, but unlike chink which is generally used as an ethnic slur for Chinese people, is almost always used to refer to takeaway food, in which context it carries no derogatory overtones to most people. The United Kingdom seems to be alone in this usage however. ) These restaurants are known for serving food that no native of China would recognize as Chinese food.[1] Stereotypically, their food is cheap, and the restaurants themselves the subjects of popular prejudice that, according to Gill[2], makes it "difficult to improve the quality and sophistication of the dishes, or to charge more".

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mark Shackleton (2004). "More Sour than Sweet? Food as a Cultural Marker in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet, Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet". The Electronic Journal of the Department of English at the University of Helsinki 3. ISSN 1457-9960.
  2. ^ A. A. Gill. "Table Talk", The Sunday Times, 2004-04-11.

[edit] See also

  • chippy — a takeaway fish and chips shop
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