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Chinese and Doughnuts: A California Mystery

By Ernie | Saturday, March 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

In California, you see a lot of doughnut shops that double as Chinese food restaurants – there is one down the block from my house in San Francisco, and I can think of at least three other restaurants in the city. The answer seems to be a practical one: doughnuts are popular in the morning, Chinese food at night. There’s a great article in The Atlantic that discusses this, along with an explanation of why so many California doughnut shops are Cambodian owned and operated; it’s a fascinating article.

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Thanks for passing this article on. Next time I'm in Southern Cali, I'll look for these restaurants.

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  1. White Residents of Flushing, NY Object to “Weird Asian Food” | (simple) | 8Asians.com says:
    August 6, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    [...] If you’re a foodie or you’re from the New York Metropolitan area, you know that Flushing, Queens has good Chinese food. So says Anthony Bourdain, so says Serious Eats. Those who aren’t thrilled? The white and Jewish people that live in Flushing, which has become a point of contention after the sole non-Asian grocery store has moved out of the neighborhood. “The problem is that the older folks in the neighborhood, they haven’t got a place to go buy their Entenmann’s.” Do you know how I know I’m Asian AND from California? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ENTENMANNS IS. (Seriously; that’s a doughnut, right? Aren’t those Chinese too?) [...]

 
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