摘要
The term‘African food’is often thrown back and forth in Mandarin as if to refer to some uniform,imaginatively exotic cuisine.Yet just as'Western food’can't possibly articulate the stark differences between fine French dining and an American burger,oversimplifying African culinary styles undermines their individual splendor.Hence the mission of Kiki,the spunky founder of Abyssinia,who hopes to introduce local Chinese to the concept of eating with one's hands while also satisfying the cultured palates of Ethiopians living in Guangzhou.