Chinese Restaurants

US immigration law is behind why there are so many Chinese food restaurants in the US →

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/22/467113401/lo-mein-loophole-how-u-s-immigration-law-fueled-a-chinese-restaurant-boom

My post about Thai restaurants got me thinking about all the Chinese ones, and turns out there’s an interesting story there as well. One of my favorite things to learn about is unintended consequences (I even have a Google Alert for that phrase), and looks like this is a textbook case of one. And we’re all better, and better fed, because of it.

Bonus: Here’s an even longer article on the history.