Yan Can Cook . A year later, he publishes his first cookbook, The Joy of Wokking . In 1998 his show wins an Emmy. He is now the most watched TV chef in the world, with an audience of 2 billion people in 75 countries. A new immigration law allows for the first time since 1943 increased immigration to the U.S. from China.
Chinese restaurants boom.
Joyce Chen, who fled Mainland China's Communists in 1949, opens New England's first Mandarin restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Customers include Julia Child. She publishes the classic Joyce Chen Cookbook four years later. 1920 Detroit grocer Wallace Smith teams up with Korean immigrant Ilhan New, his former university classmate, to start La Choy Food Products. They sell canned and bottled bean sprouts.