South Koreans consume almost 2.2 million tons of kimchi per year. However, the country can’t make enough of it to feed the national addiction. It has to import an additional 260,000 tons per year. And most of that comes from China.
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“Then again, it is always easier to yell at an unsolvable problem than actually trying to solve it.”
― Barbarian at the Gate: From the American Suburbs to the Taiwanese Army
― Barbarian at the Gate: From the American Suburbs to the Taiwanese Army
“The economic and political backlash culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in stages between 1882 and 1902, which restricted Chinese immigration and prevented Chinese arrivals from becoming naturalized citizens. It would be the only law in American history to exclude a group by race or ethnicity.”
― The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
― The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
“It’s nice that human society has reached a level of sophistication and development that we don’t have to spend our time bent over in fields encouraging food to appear from the ground. However, now that we’ve all become yoga teachers, graphic designers, and writers, it’s easy to forget how spectacularly bereft we are of actual life skills, how flimsy our qualifications are in the things that really count: life and death things.”
― Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places
― Don’t Go There!: From Chernobyl to North Korea—One Man’s Quest to Lose Himself and Find Everyone Else in the World’s Strangest Places
“But other New York City Council members expressed concerns over freedom of speech. Misa, too, argued that the menus were little different from the political fliers that were distributed on the streets.”
― The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
― The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
“The budget “Chinatown buses” that shuttle between New York and Boston and New York and Washington originally started out as routes for Chinese restaurant workers, before college students and the Lonely Planet crowd caught on. The buses exploded in popularity in the late 1990s, and the competition sparked violence between rival bus companies.”
― The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
― The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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