Foodie Friday: David Chan, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who has eaten at and documented almost 7k Chin
Foodie Friday: David Chan, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who has eaten at and documented almost 7k Chinese restaurant visits, is featured in the LA Times. He also talks frankly with the Times about growing up Asian American:As a child, Chan hated Chinese food. The few times his parents would drag him to Chinatown restaurants like Lime House for banquets, he’d sulk over a bowl of plain rice. Home-cooked dinners were American standbys like meatloaf and spaghetti.If Chan didn’t feel Chinese, it was partly by design.“I think my parents wanted to protect me,” Chan said. “I was pretty much raised as an American.”Immigration quotas then allowed just 105 Chinese into the country each year, and only 8,067 Chinese lived in Los Angeles in 1950 — less than half a percent of L.A.’s population at the time, according to census records.“Unless you lived in San Francisco, you were an oddity,” said Chan, a third-generation Asian American.Read more: “6297 Chinese restaurants and hungry for more.” -- source link
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