"At Uncle Lou in Manhattan’s Chinatown, one of Bon Appétit’s 50 Best New Restaurants of 2022, the collaboration between proprietor Louis Wong and his younger friends and family is partly a way to preserve the cuisine of the loh wah kui—a term that refers to the first immigrants that came over from Cantonese villages around the Pearl River Delta. The loh wah kiu are responsible for having built Chinatowns throughout the U.S., and 'most Chinese Americans and Chinatown families can trace their ancestry to this region,' says Wong, who is in his 60s." - ByEmily Wilson