
5. Where Bushes use chopsticks
The Peking Gourmet Inn in Falls Church, Va., installed a bulletproof window for a reason: It was George H.W. Bush's favorite Chinese restaurant around Washington, and his son has dined there, too. Another national security/Chinese restaurant tie: the now-closed Yenching Palace in Washington D.C.'s Cleveland Park neighborhood was a secret meeting place for a US and Russian emissary during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(Andreas Altwein/REUTERS; REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)

