San Francisco dim sum is Chinese Town dim sum [Mori Akira]

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Economist. Affiliated with a think tank (United States). Specializes in exchange rate policy, monetary policy, macroeconomic policy, and financial regulation. Interacts with market participants, financial authorities, and policy makers, conducting analyses of exchange rate trends from multiple perspectives.

※This article is a reprint and edited version of an article from FX攻略.com January 2020 issue. Please note that the market information described in the text may differ from the current market.

Long ago, there was an opportunity to stay in San Francisco on the West Coast. It’s a city I find beautiful and lovely. In San Francisco, I rented a splendid apartment on a hill. I became acquainted with a woman who lived in that apartment, who worked as a loan officer for a large bank’s mortgage lending department. Our families began to associate with each other, and our young daughter played daily with a girl of the same age in a park in front of the church. I vividly remember the two of them crawling across the sandbox, calling it a snake game. I also remember my wife muttering at my daughter's muddy clothes.

Although San Francisco is filled with such memories, this summer I landed at the airport with a friend who is succeeding in business. At that moment, a nostalgic melody suddenly came to mind. In childhood, a talent named George Takei once said, “San Francisco dim sum (yum cha) is in Chinatown,” while promoting xiaolongbao. It was the advertising song for a famous donut shop. If you explain this song to younger readers, you probably won’t understand a thing….