{"id":3436,"date":"2013-04-23T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:11:17","slug":"this-guy-has-eaten-in-more-chinese-restaurants-than-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/this-guy-has-eaten-in-more-chinese-restaurants-than-i-have\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Has Eaten in More Chinese Restaurants Than I Have!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/la-david-chan-art-main.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3437 aligncenter\" alt=\"la-david-chan-art-main\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/la-david-chan-art-main-300x200.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/la-david-chan-art-main-300x200.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/la-david-chan-art-main.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-chinese-eater-20130422-dto,0,6902048.htmlstory\">has a feature on David Chan<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chandavkl\">@chandavkl<\/a>)who has eaten in over 6,000 Chinese restaurants, and has a ginormous Excel spreadsheet to prove it. Though his list starts in 1955, which is decades before spreadsheets were even invented.<\/p>\n<p>The coolest part is the time-step map over the years, which plots all the restaurants in the Los Angeles area he has eaten at. It which is made possible because he has kept such meticulous records (including the addresses). Data visualization + Chinese restaurants. One of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess I might have eaten in Chinese restaurants in more countries than he has, but he certainly wins on the sheer numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has a feature on David Chan\u00a0 (@chandavkl)who has eaten in over 6,000 Chinese restaurants, and has a ginormous Excel spreadsheet to prove it. Though his list starts in 1955, which is decades before spreadsheets were even invented. The coolest part is the time-step map over the years, which plots all the [&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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-Tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}