@Darthskippy I suspect that may because Chinese people (at least in the US) have adopted it and use it. There's a Chinese buffet near me that has
four of them on the counter at the register. And there was another one that closed years ago that had even more, around ten of them. On the other hand, none of the Japanese steak houses around here have them, so it's easy to see why someone would assume it's a Chinese thing based on that.