Imagine my surprise , then , when I was early into an interview with some major food journalists in Beijing and was being drilled about my team of Culinary Institute of America chefs that I had brought to China to teach Chinese chefs -LRB- what we could teach them , we who came from the land of hamburgers and Kentucky Fried Chicken , they could n't imagine -RRB- when this young , otherwise very formal journalist could n't contain herself any longer . ''