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@skinnylatte

I'm a white kid, but I think I was spoiled growing up eating fantastic food in Vancouver/Richmond in Canada. It's really hard to travel anywhere because when I get a jones I know I will be disappointed. Which is part of why i learned to cook as much food from around the world as possible as well. If you can't find it you gotta have skills!
I've studied a fair bit of Cantonese cooking, but mainly Hong Kong style.
Edinburgh made me cry when I lived there 25 years ago.

I think the only meal I had in SF that was fairly solid was at Dol Ho in Chinatown about 12 years ago. I don't know if it's still to the same standard though. I was the only white person there and I definitely drew a lot of attention being a weird white kid ordering dim sum by myself, to the point that an older lady who didn't speak english came to sit with me cuz I think she felt bad that I was getting laughed at, but she wouldn't share my dim sum when I offered.
It was fairly solid, but it still wasn't as good as what I'm used to. I think i've been spoiled with the good stuff on a multinational level. Van is a weird city and not very livable but damn, the food is next level.

Mang Kang still made the best daan tat I ever ate though.