“We are all one big family in the world, and we want to understand our brothers and sisters from China, and add it to our understanding of the world in which we live now, and which we are building for our future.”

“For me, food always represent family interaction, passing down of culture, passing down of customs.”

"As an Italian, it's very hard to enter the Chinese world. After they understood my passion and my true desire to become an expert, I was eventually accepted and welcomed as their own brother."

“I’ve learned and I use my experience in China in my classroom at Carleton. The students love to hear me talk about traveling in China, teaching in China. There’s a huge appetite and. interest in China here in Canada, so these students want to hear about it.”

“Acupuncture and Chinese medicine are really profound and very powerful healing systems. We take care of not only the body but also the emotion.”

"We do see that MMA is a growing sport in China, and the rising middle class in China presents a very big business opportunity. There is more of a focus on health and wellbeing in China, so we do believe that hopefully in China, we'll definitely be able to grow to multiple gyms across China in the future."

“The construction of tunnels was an American architecture trend. It was a trend basically used as storage. Here in Mexicali with the high temperatures, it was used as shelter from the heat.”

“I just had the dream, so I quit my job as an accountant in a big company and started the (guzheng) store.”

“Who knew where Chengdu or Chongqing, or Xi’an was before? Going and checking out food, which is a lot of fun, is also a process of educating ourselves and the public about this vast culture that is China.”

“When I first arrived here, they were very nice to me, especially because we don’t have language barriers. I’ve retired. I don’t have a job here. So, I joined them in the volunteer work. This is a good place to contribute.”

“Chinese medicine doesn’t stand at one point. Nowadays, it stands at a high level and it further evolved as well. Lots of scientific researches have been conducted.”

“I just always feel like I’ve got very big shoes to chase after, and I try. My dad will always be an almost unreachable goal, but I try!”

"After a while, I started to realize that this was actually teaching them the work ethic that I was seeing in China, which is what built China and took China from where it was 20 years ago, to where it currently is."