Many people in America love Chinese food, but probably nobody loves it as much as David R Chan does. Mr Chan, 72, lives in Los Angeles. He has eaten at almost 8,000 Chinese restaurants across the US since he was 30. If you visit one Chinese restaurant a day, it would take more than 20 years to catch up with him.
Though Mr Chan’s grandparents were from China, when Chan first tried Chinese food as a young child, he did not eat much, for it tasted terrible for him.
Chinese food was cooked in the US for the first time in the mid 19th century. However, early Chinese food in the US, made with local ingredients(原料), was similar to American food to meet Americans’ taste. But in the late 1960s, things started to change. With a new law allowing Asians to come to the US, more and more Chinese people moved here. They brought in not only Cantonese food, but also different kinds of food from other parts of China. From then on, Mr Chan became a Chinese restaurant diner(食客).
“It was my interest in the history of Chinese in the US that brought me to Chinese food. And it helped me see what it was like to be Chinese in different parts of the country,” said Mr Chan. Through this, he learnt a lot about Chinese food and the culture behind it. “The best place to find the most delicious Chinese foods in America is the San Gabriel Valley in LA,” Mr Chan said.
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