Spicy hotpot chain goes global and plans to IPO in Hong Kong
Yang Guo Fu, a fast food chain specializing in spicy hotpot, has flourished abroad and in China. It’s now the first of its kind to IPO.
Chang Che
Chang Che was The China Project’s Business & Technology staff writer. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Nikkei Asia, and The LA Review of Books. You can follow him on Twitter at @changxche.
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