China Overseas Chinese Network, March 24. According to the US Chinese website, NBC's veteran program "Today" on Tuesday (22) broadcast a program dedicated to how Chinese food in the United States has become a staple of American dinner tables.

　　The show interviewed Lucas Sin, a young restaurant owner in New York.

He is trying a new business model, hoping to save Chinese restaurants in the United States by borrowing from the local American food culture and promoting fusion dishes.

　　Lucas Sin was born and raised in Hong Kong.

However, the Chinese food he ate at a summer camp in the United States when he was young made him linger, and for the first time tasted American Chinese food-orange chicken, General Tso's chicken, broccoli and fried rice.

　　After graduating from Yale University, Lucas decided to continue to specialize in American Chinese food and opened a Chinese restaurant called Nice Day with his partner.

　　The pair acquired a family-owned Chinese restaurant facing bankruptcy and transformed it into an American-style Chinese takeout restaurant.

Its first location is in Melville, New York, and the second is on Long Island, New York.

　　After the acquisition, Lucas chose to continue to cooperate with the older generation of owners.

　　"It's important to me that these new (restaurants) work with the previous generation of owners because they have a lot of knowledge that we don't have," Lucas said. "They know the customers, they know what to sell, and they know how to make these dishes."

　　Lucas said his goal is to "give back to the previous generation of restaurant owners" to ensure these owners can retire well, while preserving their legacy in a new breed of Chinese restaurants and creating some new cuisine that goes with the times, Such as Cheese and Cheese Fried Noodles.

　　Since the beginning of the pandemic, rising rents and the retirement of older restaurant workers have made Chinese restaurants in the United States face many difficulties.

　　Citing the NBC report, a report from San Francisco's Chinatown Community Development Center said businesses in Chinatown lost an average of 70 percent of their revenue in the first three months of the outbreak.

　　Of the 1,670 storefronts in New York's Chinatown, 380 have closed, according to the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation.