List of English words of Chinese origin

English words with Chinese origin usually have different characteristics depending how the words were spread to the West. Despite the increasingly widespread use of Mandarin among Chinese people, English words that are based on Mandarin are relatively scarce...

Nevertheless, you may like to learn the origin of:

Coolie
Dim sum
Doufu

and many more from the wiki page here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Chinese_origin

Notes: Though the terms originated from Chinese, the spelling of the English words depends on which language the transliterations came from.