>> soup dumplings, piping hot with ground pork and near boiling broth. >> this is why i come here. >> this is dumplings. >> so growing up, what was the national breakdown in school? >> my high school was a public high school but maybe 70% east and south asian, mostly chinese. all the kids went to harvard or nyu, those type of schools and the american dream is alive, it's in places like queens. >> what do you mean? >> still people coming here with nothing and making something out of it and as i kind of lose hope, the idea of like adversity as a positive thing or america as an open place or in a place in so much race and diversity, another place.