Obsessed: This Guy Has Eaten at Over 7,000 Chinese Restaurants

Posted on: November 21, 2022 November 21, 2022
Categories: Chinese restaurant
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David R. Chan isn’t your typical Chinese food enthusiast. He can’t speak Chinese, he doesn’t use chopsticks, and he grew up barely eating anything Chinese. But the Los Angeles native has over his adult life, obsessively eaten at over 7,000 Chinese restaurants, mostly in America, and has them all methodically logged in an Excel spreadsheet. This is his story.

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