Jason Wang, co-owner of Xi'an Famous Foods, remembers 11 years ago when the restaurant was only a small stall selling Western Chinese food in Flushing, Queens. "In Chinese culture, we talk about yiqi (brotherhood spirit), we talk about respect, we talk about paying back," Wang added. Wang said it was eight years later, when he and Bourdain were interviewed for an article, that he finally got a chance to tell Bourdain how he and his show helped the restaurant. The chef and world traveler, whose popularity grew with his CNN series Parts Unknown, visited China on numerous occasions and expressed his appreciation for Chinese food and culture in many different shows. When he opened season four of Parts Unknown with a visit to Shanghai in 2014, he wrote "China - Shanghai in particular - is a very different looking place every time I go.