ET Online
Nov 29, 2021
David R Chan has a claim to fame: he has dined at nearly 8000 Chinese restaurants.
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Chan, a 72-yr-old former tax lawyer based in LA, travelled across the US for that.
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And he has plotted all these outings in a spreadsheet and a personal blog.
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Chan started sampling the dumplings and soups and rice at Chinese restaurants in the 1960's.
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Initially, Chan told the BBC, it was a search for his identity as a Chinese American.
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Later it became a document on how Chinese food and the culture evolved in the US.
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But Chan is no food critic. In fact, he says he is not even a foodie.
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Also, he sticks to a low-sugar, low-cholesterol, no-caffeine diet.
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But all that has not deterred him on his culinary journey of more than half a century.
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