"We're very transparent, we do use MSG. And we are very proud of it, because it is a part of our culture. So we're not going to hide that away. But for people to use that as an attack on our culture is just so unfair.""I feel like one the biggest advantage that [my sister] Susan and I have is that we actually were born here and our second language is English. So we're not easy targets. But that doesn't mean we're not targeted. One way that that I feel like we're targeted a lot is actually through our food. So when we first reopened in 2021, White people mostly will come in and say why do you use MSG, why would you put this in food and hurt people? And we actually got this pretty much daily for a good two weeks. I'd train my staff to stay calm, how to approach it and explain MSG is actually a generic naturally occurring process in a lot of foods."

This is William Liu, owner of Kam Wai Dim Sum in Chinatown. Kam Wai is a family restaurant, previously ran by William's father. When asked how racism has changed over the generations as a business owner in Vancouver’s Chinatown, he responded:

"My parents, they never did; it was so safe for them to do business in Chinatown, because growing up, the entire community was Chinese. Everybody had their had their had each other's backs. I think racism was actually better as my dad would say, he always thought White people were the nicest people. Because he never really encountered that much. His community was Chinatown. We grew up two blocks down from work. So it was work, home, and work every single day. So there was really no reason to leave Chinatown. But if you would ask my dad now, he would say that white people are scarier than the people on the Downtown Eastside. People like Downtown Eastside, they're not gonna hurt you. They're there under poor circumstances, you know, they, they struggle all their life. They're not going to go out of the way and hurt you. But White people, on the other hand, they've had all the opportunities in life with all the privileges. And yet they still hurt us in any way because they have a right to.”