Ten years ago, the American girl Nina set foot on Chinese soil, thinking it was just a short exchange career. Ten years later, when she returned to her hometown again, she found that she had completely "changed."
Her stomach refuses burgers and only misses the fried noodles in Beijing; her tongue speaks fluent Chinese, but her English has a Chinese accent; she is accustomed to using chopsticks and is more comfortable wearing a cheongsam than jeans. In the eyes of her American friends, she has become a "strange hybrid", while in China she will always be the "foreigner".
"Who am I?" Is a question that always comes up.
When her old friend Rebecca tries to get her back to a "normal" American life, when company executives question her "pure" American identity, and when everyone asks her to make a choice, Nina begins a journey to find her true self.
In the process, she met the warm Chinese teacher Li Moxuan, who told her that "this place of peace is my hometown"; she met the chef Wang who accompanied her when she grew up, and he said, "Your stomach is Chinese, and you are not one of us yet"; and the small restaurant that cooked her favorite home-cooked dishes, those late-night phone calls, those longings across the Pacific...
Perhaps, home is not a place, but a feeling. Perhaps, she does not need to choose, but can have the beauty of both cultures at the same time.
A heart-warming story about belonging, growth and cultural integration, dedicated to everyone on the road to finding "home".
