In "East and West", with a series of anecdotes about Chinese life in the United States as the main line, the Zhang family's struggle history of developing "Oriental Cuisine" supermarket chain in the United States is described. In these two restaurants, Oriental Cuisine and Western Coffee, China people's life events such as American language, identity, employment, education, insurance, taxation, medical treatment, car purchase, weddings and funerals, etc. It has aroused the audience's positive thinking and reference to the comparison, conflict and integration of eastern and western cultures.

The artistic form of the play adopts the structure of "pearl necklace"; Taking the two intertwined emotional lines of the main characters in the play as the main thread running through the whole play, a series of anecdotes and interesting cases related to the main characters in the play are strung together one after another. In the case, the fate of the characters is bumpy and changeable, and emotional entanglements make people cry. American laws are weird and reasonable, and the story is humorous but not kitsch, which makes people laugh and think deeply!