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Brazil North
Episode 9
In the frontier city of Manaus, on the Amazon River, Taiwan immigrant Jack Sun has been running the Mandarin for thirty years. He came to Brazil when he was a young man, to build his life in the resource-rich country.
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E1: South Africa
Episode 1
The Golden Dragon, started in 1947 by community activist Lam Al Ying, is Cape Town’s first Chinese restaurant. Through the his widow and daugther we glimpse a country struggling to address the bitter injustices and betrayals of its apartheid past.
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Chinese Restaurants
E2: Turkey
Episode 2
Wang Zhengshan fled China in a dramatic trek over the Himalayas in 1949 when Chinese Communists took power, thereby earning title as the man who "walked from China."
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Chinese Restaurants
E3: Trinidad
Episode 3
This is a rags-to-riches story of restaurant owner Maurice Soong, whose passion for quality and service has won him widespread affection and respect.
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Chinese Restaurants
Chinese Restaurants
E4: Peru
Episode 4
Lima-born Luis Yong is a medical doctor who took over a rundown restaurant, San Joy Lao, in the city's Chinatown. The charming and outgoing doctor hosts Chinese cooking shows on TV and promotes holistic Chinese medicine with healthy cuisine.
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Chinese Restaurants
Chinese Restaurants
E5: Argentina
Episode 5
In this episode, we meet 77-year-old Foo-Ching Chiang, who came to Buenos Aires in the 1960s and became the "Spring Roll King" of Argentina.
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