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Many towns and cities across Canada have Chinese restaurants, most prominently in areas with large concentrations of Asian Canadians such as Markham, Ontario.

Egypt

The majority of Egypt's Chinese restaurants are found in Cairo, described by Slate in 2015 as "Shanghai on the Nile" due to its burgeoning Chinese food scene.^[8]

In 2000, periodical Flavor and Fortune recorded between 7 and 8 restaurants in Cairo and around "a dozen" in the country, although the number was increasing.^[9]

In 2020, Egypt's Health Ministry launched a campaign aimed at inspecting Chinese restaurants over food safety concerns in light of the COVID-19 pandemic;^[10] however, Egypt denied reports that premises were being raided.^[11]

Germany

In 1928, one of Germany's first Chinese restaurants opened in the Kantstraße region of Berlin, known for its large Chinese community.^[12] By 1966, there were 100 Chinese restaurants across Germany; in 1992 this had increased to over 3,000.^[12]

Today, Chinese restaurants can be found throughout Germany to the extent that, in 2016, almost every German city with a population of over 15,000 has at least a single Chinese restaurant.^[12] The largest concentration is found in Berlin^[13] where restaurants have been known to pair traditional Sichuan- and Shanghai-inspired dishes with German wines.^[14] Many students from China and Hong Kong studying in Germany open Chinese restaurants.^[15]

Netherlands

There are many Chinese restaurants in the Netherlands,^[16] although the number has fallen in the decade preceding 2019.^[17] The first Chinese restaurant opened in the 1920s.^[18] Chinese food in the Netherlands is often inspired by Indonesian cuisine owing to the Netherlands' colonisation of Indonesia.^[16]

In 2019, it was reported that the previous decade had seen a 22% decline in the number of Chinese-Indonesian restaurants in the Netherlands, whereas the number of other restaurants increased by 15%.^[19] Researchers attributed this to Chinese restaurants not meeting "modern" desires of consumers, including outdated décor and fatty food considered unappealing to an increasingly health-conscious population.^[17] For the Netherlands, the typical Chinese-Indonesian restaurant culture – where three cultures come together (Chinese, Indonesian and Dutch) – has been acknowledged as Dutch intangible cultural heritage.^[20]

In 2020, a number of Chinese restaurants began trialling the use of

In the early 1880s, Chinese food items and eating houses appeared in London and Liverpool, mainly visited by Chinese seamen and students.^[24]

In 1884, Chinese food was made available as part of an exhibition featuring a restaurant in the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, London.^[25]

In 1907

The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted many Chinese restaurants in the UK, with a number of restaurants in London's Chinatown in particular facing financial difficulty,^[33] due to lockdown restrictions and social distancing as well as prejudice against Chinese takeaways, which the BBC described as "unfounded".^[33]

United States

Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the

At the ratification of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 there were only 14 restaurants in San Francisco.[34] However, the Chinese Exclusion Act allowed merchants to enter the country, and in 1915 restaurant owners became eligible for merchant visas. This fueled the opening of Chinese restaurants as an immigration vehicle.^[36] The Chinese Exclusion Act forced Chinese immigrants to move away from wage work to self employment through laundries and restaurants.^[37][38] As of 2015^[update], the U.S. had 46,700 Chinese restaurants.^[39]

There has been a consequential component of Chinese emigration of illegal origin, including

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References

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