WASHINGTON - Mr John Chan, who owns a dim sum restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, is busy nowadays trying to get customers to come out and eat as usual at Chinese restaurants.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent in Los Angeles County, California, Dr Eugene Gu visited a Chinese restaurant in San Gabriel he knows well, and found it unusually empty - so empty that he could actually park nearby.
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