Question

what did the narrator and her family find strange when they reached the dinning table​

Answer 1

The story is about a Chinese family who was invited to an American dinner and there they ate celery. While they were eating celery, all of them started to pull the strings out of the stalk. There were sounds of Z-z-zip, z-z-zip, z-z-zip everywhere and everyone in the started looking at the Chinese family. The Lins go to the Gleason's buffet party and embarrass themselves because they did not know proper American buffet etiquette. ... They zip the strings on celery, they bring chairs over to the buffet table to eat, and they slurp their soup at the restaurant.