{"id":73,"date":"2007-07-10T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/07\/10\/cocooning-myself-to-meditate-on-the-greatest-chinese-restaurant-in-the-world-outside-greater-china\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T18:53:20","slug":"cocooning-myself-to-meditate-on-the-greatest-chinese-restaurant-in-the-world-outside-greater-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/10\/cocooning-myself-to-meditate-on-the-greatest-chinese-restaurant-in-the-world-outside-greater-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocooning myself to meditate on The Greatest Chinese restaurant in the world (outside Greater China)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back, shaking off jetlag, from with one last chapter to write: The hunt for the greatest Chinese restaurant\u00c2\u00a0in the world outside Greater China (which is subtly different from &#8220;best Chinese restaurant in the world outside Greater China,&#8221; because one can be the greatest restaurant without being the best.\u00c2\u00a0 (The chapter explains) This crazy search took me to a bunch of different countries\/cities: London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lima, Melbourne, Sydney, Vancouver, Toronto, Bangkok, Mauritius, Dubai, Auckland, Mumbai, Kingston (Jamaica). It was actually in Tokyo that I went to Yuji Wayika&#8217;s Wakiya, and London that I went to Alan Yau&#8217;s Hakkasan (both of who were tapped to open a Chinese restaurant for the Gramercy Park Hotel).\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;m cocooning myself until this chapter is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back, shaking off jetlag, from with one last chapter to write: The hunt for the greatest Chinese restaurant\u00c2\u00a0in the world outside Greater China (which is subtly different from &#8220;best Chinese restaurant in the world outside Greater China,&#8221; because one can be the greatest restaurant without being the best.\u00c2\u00a0 (The chapter explains) This crazy search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-1b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}