Crowd Sourcing in Chinatown

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Yelp is a great place to find food, but not if you're looking for the real thing. The people who live in chinatown might not be your best source of information. There's a pattern here in chinatown specifically because of whos using yelp and then going to chinatown. But when you're looking at the sort of like av stars, you've already lost that information.

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