St. Paul sandwich gangs in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" and was probably derived from egg foo young. They believed that the early Denver sandwiches were actually St. Paul sandwiches. This sandwich was featured in the PBS documentary "Sandwiches That You Will Like" in 2003 and will be featured in a book by artist Kelly Pratt to be released in 2016 called "Stately Sandwiches" as the sandwich chosen to represent the state of Missouri. It is usually only available in Chinese restaurants in the St. Louis metropolitan area as well as a select few Chinese American restaurants in outlying regions of Missouri,
Chinese Canadians in Greater Vancouver Kongers came there. Hot pot restaurants became very popular in the 1990s. The use of British Columbian seafood and the presence of star chefs from Hong Kong gave Vancouver's Chinese restaurant scene a reputation for quality, and the variety of Chinese cuisines that already existed in Hong Kong due to its history of receiving transplants from other parts of China was duplicated in Vancouver. As of 2011 Richmond has multiple Chinese restaurants, most of which served Cantonese cuisine, with a customer base almost fully ethnic Chinese; that year Mia Stainsby of the "Vancouver Sun" wrote that the city had the