Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.

Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.

Julia Sun, a law student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who spent the first 10 years of her life in Shanghai, was shopping at an Asian grocery store half a mile from campus last year when a package in the snack aisle made her do a double take. “They had this waffle-biscuit thing that I ate in second grade,” Ms. Sun said. It had been so long since she had seen the waffle-biscuit thing that she was sure it was extinct. “I thought I…