Today more than 21,000 merchants from more than 100 countries and regions live and work in Yiwu, which boasts more than 40 international restaurants owned by foreigners. One standout is Beyti Restaurant, a popular Arab establishment and said to have been the city's first foreign-owned eatery.

Mohanad Shalabi, a Jordanian who opened Beyti in 2002, says he has spent fewer than three months away from Yiwu since then, he thus considers the city his home, and, like Garcia, has a Chinese wife.

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