ChineseFoodMap is covered by National Public Radio this morning:
“But what if your neighborhood is the entire country? That was the problem for Brian Hui, a graduate student at the University of Southern California who splits his time between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Hui is like a lot of Chinese immigrants who don’t cook — they comprise a large market of people nationwide who want a little taste of home.
That’s how ChineseFoodMap.com was born — an entirely Chinese-language site with reviews plotted in major metro areas around the country, including Houston, Seattle and Atlanta. But chances are, your favorite local Chinese restaurant isn’t on the list.
“The Chinese restaurant for Chinese here and the Chinese restaurant for non-Chinese is kind of totally different. That’s why Chinese people need a Web site for themselves!” Hui says.
If you can’t read Chinese and you feel like you’re missing out on the good stuff, fear not. Hui wants to help his favorite Chinese restaurants get new non-Chinese customers. He plans to complete an English version of the site by the end of the summer.”
Thanks to Cyrus Farivar for his report.
The full covery is here at NPR website:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89990576
3 responses so far ↓
1 Bubbles // Apr 28, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Yeah, I was one of those who heard about your website on NPR this morning. Woke me up good!!! Thanks for your hard work, and good luck
I’ve passed this on to my other Chinese foodies, and we’ll check on the site from time to time. Gotta go eat now!
Cheers!
2 Kim // Apr 28, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Just listened to this. I’m looking forward to the English version!
3 Zhi // May 11, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Great work! I will share this with all my friends.
Hope you can have more cities, restaurants, and reviews to come!
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