{"id":124,"date":"2007-08-06T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/08\/06\/the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-chinese-restaurant-industry-is-homicide\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T15:35:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T20:35:42","slug":"the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-chinese-restaurant-industry-is-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/the-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-chinese-restaurant-industry-is-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"The leading cause of death in the Chinese restaurant industry is homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/songni.jpg\" title=\"Song Ni, portrait\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/songni.jpg\" alt=\"Song Ni, portrait\" style=\"padding: 5px\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Peggy Lim of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\">The News and Observer<\/a> in North Carolina has put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/story\/660761.html\">a touching profile<\/a> of Song Ni, 34, a Chinese restaurant owner who was fatally shot at the end of July in Stantonsburg, N.C. (population 800) during a robbery in his home. His wife and two daughters were in the other room. In so many ways, Song Ni&#8217;s story is the arc of the Chinese restaurant owner. He came from around the city of Fuzhou, he went to New York City as a Chinese restaurant worker and then scraped enough money to buy his own modest restaurant in a strip mall in North Carolina. North Carolina was supposed to be a lot safer than New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Violence is an inevitable part of the Chinese restaurant industry. In talking to the Fujianese workers, everyone knows somebody who knows somebody &#8212; a cousin, a neighbor, a neighbor&#8217;s cousin &#8212; who was killed  during a holdup, or a delivery. New York City averages about one dead deliveryman a year, which is why the NYPD went all out when  looking for Ming Kuang Chen after he disappeared while making a delivery in the Bronx in 2005. They had helicopters in the sky, divers in the reservoir and canines sniffing through the apartment building. Three days later they found him. Alive. <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4DE163EF935A35757C0A9639C8B63&amp;fta=y\">In the elevator.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(brief plug. My first interview as Chinese restaurant expert is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/110\/story\/660544.html\">sidebar<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy Lim of The News and Observer in North Carolina has put together a touching profile of Song Ni, 34, a Chinese restaurant owner who was fatally shot at the end of July in Stantonsburg, N.C. (population 800) during a robbery in his home. His wife and two daughters were in the other room. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-fujianese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}