live? well, i'm already here so let's start with this place. ♪ >> anthony: soup dumplings, piping hot and filled with ground pork in near boiling broth. >> heems: this is why i come here. >> anthony: yeah this is dumplings. >> anthony: so when you were growing up what was the international breakdown of a typical class at school? >> heems: my high school is a public high school, but it was maybe 70 percent east and south asian, mostly chinese and korean, and all of those kids end up going to harvard. all of those kids end up going to nyu and those types of schools, and you know if the american dream is alive i think it's alive in places like queens. >> anthony: what do you mean by that? >> heems: that there are still a lot of people coming here with nothing and making something out of it. and as i kind of lose hope and the idea of diversity is a positive thing or the idea of that america is an open place, i think in a place with so much race and diversity it gets in the way less here than it does in other places.