Dragonball series takes place in China

Kind of figured this out a while ago. There are several clues left by Toriyama-san: Son Goku's name uses the Kanji that in Chinese means Sun Wukong, the monkey from Journey to the West, a Classical Chinese work. Gohan mentions that his mom makes Dim Sum, a Cantonese food consisting of small bite sized varieties of dumplings, steamed stuffed buns and other steamed foods Shenron, or Shen Long is a Chinese style dragon and the dragonballs resemble dragon pearls in Chinese folklore Table manners in the series are more Chinese style in some cases, in Japan you would not shovel rice into your mouth with the bowl close to the mouth itself. You all are welcomed to correct or dispute this if I got anything wrong, especially anyone here who knows about Chinese culture more than I do.