Dan Wang: prediction

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…You may eat your dumpling. I have a question for Dan. Dan, you’re a Canadian citizen. You’ve also spent plenty of time in China. How was Chinese food different in the United States versus Canada? Depends on where you go. Where I grew up in Ottawa, there wasn’t a terribly great amount of Chinese cuisine. I think there was a little bit more of the Cantonese influence. Something like 11 percent of Canadians live abroad. I believe that is the highest ratio in the world. That is because in the ’90s, the Canadian government just offered extraordinary numbers of visas to Hong Kongers to basically escape Hong Kong before their return to the mainland. That has a very big Cantonese influence. Now, I haven’t really tested this, but people would say that Vancouver, at some points, had the best Chinese food in the world because of just the amount of influx there. But I haven’t really tasted enough in Vancouver to say. I’ve only been there three times. My sense was they had first-rate Cantonese food. Not quite as good as Hong Kong, but clearly the best in this hemisphere. In the other areas, at least at the time, they were much weaker.…

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