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    Embracing failures and successes, Asian American business network aims to reach 1 million members

    by Anh Do, Los Angeles Times Dec 31, 2019 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - On a stormy Saturday, Raina Huang settled into a corner at the La Habra Crab Shack and gorged her face on a spicy 10-pound seafood boil. She wolfed down mussels, clams and Dungeness crab while looking straight into a camera that was filming for her YouTube channel.

    "Oh my God, the garlic, it's so yummy. Lots of places don't marinate it right and they don't give you this much sauce," she gushed, on cue. "My mouth is definitely on fire."

    In her junior year, the 25-year-old left UC Riverside, where she was studying business, to become one of the few Chinese American competitive food eaters in the U.S. At 5-feet-7 and 135 pounds, she once polished off a 4-pound burrito in six minutes and for a recent promotion devoured 100 chicken wings.

    Initially, her foreign-born father

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