I first traveled to China in the late 1980s. China was an emerging market in those days. As a commodities trader, China was a significant market participant in the raw material markets. Over the past decades, significant economic growth in the world's most populous nation transformed the Asian country into the demand side of the fundamental equation in the commodities asset class.
One of the first things I learned when visiting China was how different diets were from those in the western world. In food markets, the offerings were strange. Even in the most upscale