Dan Wang: belief

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…Dan? I would say Southeast Asia for me. I guess maybe more the street food that I find quite thrilling. I’ve had quite a lot of refined Chinese food. Now, it’s a street food for me. I have not spent time in Mexico at all, and I think that Mexico is hugely exciting. Rural Mexico in particular is one of my all-time favorites. For me, it’s on a par with China. I love Mexico City. It’s incredible, but just side-of-the-road dishes in small towns or on the edge of mid-size towns — for me, that’s the best food in Mexico. I will do that in life until I can’t do it anymore. I’ve been to Mexico over 30 times, and every meal is a wonder in the way that it is in China and can be in India, but not too many other places. I love Japan, but Japan also has a lot of the worst food. Now, I don’t go there to eat it, but it can be disgusting, or the desserts are . . . I think Japan has very high variance of food. Even though all of it is well done by its standards, sometimes I think they are pursuing the wrong standards.…

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