My Interview With Hong Kong Apple Daily News.
My Interview With Hong Kong Apple Daily News - October 7, 2020. Apple News was one of Hong Kong's leading daily newspapers, but it was closed in a crackdown by the Hong Kong government in 2022 and the original article is now unavailable. It begins with a video that was essentially a copycat of my 2019 interview with Clarissa Wei which has been viewed over a million times on Facebook and another 300,000 times on YouTube, but this time in Chinese (obviously my part is in English), with a different venue but similar format. It is then followed by a short written article. 新冠肺炎在美國大爆發,餐館不是轉攻外賣、戶外用餐,就是捱不過封城而倒閉。美國美食"KOL"鼻祖、走遍全美中餐廳的華人David Chan坦言,這是他開始食評工作40年以來"最差的時代",高峰期每年訪問200家新餐廳的他,今年隻試食了20家。而疫情沒有離開跡象,他隻寄望餐飲業能夠適應外賣、戶外用餐等"新常態"後,能夠浴火重生。 71歲的洛杉磯第三代華裔移民David R.Chan,40年前機緣巧合下,開始記錄自己到訪過的中餐廳。在他整理資料的電腦試算表內,足足收錄了全美超過7,600家中餐廳,最遠可追溯至1951年。這些資料除了記錄他的"搵食"足跡,也見證美國中餐文化變遷。 疫情下,全美大部份城市停止餐廳堂食,David Chan說,餐飲業情況是他開始撰寫食評以來"最差的時代"。由於病毒來自中國,很多人對中餐廳避...