[SJackson]

A 26% decline vs 22% for non Asian restaurants from Feb to Apr. Someone tell Clarence Kwan it's December. Who did the "survey"?

I wouldn't eat an any restaurant with this mission statement.

Chinese Protest Recipes, a new zine by Clarence Kwan, announces three goals in bold typeface on its fourth page:

1. SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER

2. RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY

3. RESIST THROUGH CHINESE FOOD

A particularly concentrated period of anti-Black violence rippled across the United States earlier this year, a confirmation of the dark prophecy indicated by the nation’s disregard for the disproportionally Black and Brown victims of this pandemic. We shared, marched, rioted, and donated; we read, cried, taught, wrote, and pored over the news. But many of us, people of color in diasporas worldwide, are still grappling with the devastation. Chinese Protest Recipes comes at a time when Asian communities in the West are suffering under racist aggression newly emboldened by Covid-19, and the deliberate misinformation circulated about its origins. “I realized I had a lot to say,” Kwan tells me during our correspondence. Having volunteered on the ground in Toronto’s Chinatown, cooking and distributing free meals to community residents in need, the Chinese-Canadian cook took to his Instagram (@thegodofcookery) to begin sharing messages of solidarity between Black and Chinese communities after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “Whether you are conscious about it or not, you are making a political act and actively upholding white supremacy three times a day when you choose what to eat,” he wrote on Instagram. Calling for a decolonized approach to cuisine, Kwan urges his audience to look beyond what has been validated by Eurocentric accolades or institutions – and toward an exchange of cultural knowledge produced and perfected with patience, practice, and love.

[Steve_Seattle]

“Whether you are conscious about it or not, you are making a political act and actively upholding white supremacy three times a day when you choose what to eat”

What utter BS. I'm upholding white-supremacy if on any given day I don't go to a minority-owned restaurant or eat ethnic food? Does it work the other way around? If Asians prefer their native food to "Western" food, does that make them racists?

[Zhang Fei]

[Chinese Protest Recipes, a new zine by Clarence Kwan, announces three goals in bold typeface on its fourth page:

1. SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER

2. RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY

3. RESIST THROUGH CHINESE FOOD]

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An Oriental grifter is now horning in on Al Sharpton’s shtick? As performance art, you gotta say it’s pretty amusing. A schnorrer with a yellow tint.

[AnxiouslyWaiting]

Shut up slant eyes Kwan. You voted for the politicians who keep you shut down you racist pig.