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The Pepper Wok restaurant may never be a sensation for purely culinary reasons.
It is a modest establishment tucked into a suburban plaza north of Toronto, serving traditional specialties like Hainan Chicken.
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But this month it became the unlikely focus of battling factions within the Chinese-Canadian community, its support for Hong Kong democracy and its sign referring to COVID-19 as a virus from Wuhan, China, apparently prompting a flurry of attacks.