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Re: The rise and fall of Chinatown: The hidden history of displacement you were never told 03:05 by ♭♫ [+-]
Why do Blue-cities need to revitalize Chinatown after all the local Chinese were forced to leave Chinatown when Chinatown originally did not need revitalization when it was home to a large ecosystem of local Chinese? Nick Shirley, please follow the money trail to see which politicians got fat at the expense of forcing the local Chinese out.
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Re: Seniors violently attacked in Oakland Chinatown 02:58 by ♭♫ [+-]
Socialist Democrats want to build homeless shelters, halfway houses, social services, and jails in Chinatowns because they have a communist agenda to destroy Chinatowns. Yahya Muslim sounds like a name that should be deported to El Salvador.
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Yahya Muslim, 33, is accused of assaulting two elderly Asian women Sunday near Broadway and West Grand Avenue, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
Muslim is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. He refused to come to court from his jail cell on Wednesday and Thursday.
Previously convicted in Chinatown attacks
What we know:
Muslim was arrested in 2021 and later sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted in a series of unprovoked attacks in Oakland's Chinatown, including shoving a 91-year-old man to the ground and assaulting another couple.
He served about two years before being released.
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Yahya Muslim, 33, is accused of assaulting two elderly Asian women Sunday near Broadway and West Grand Avenue, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
Muslim is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. He refused to come to court from his jail cell on Wednesday and Thursday.
Previously convicted in Chinatown attacks
What we know:
Muslim was arrested in 2021 and later sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted in a series of unprovoked attacks in Oakland's Chinatown, including shoving a 91-year-old man to the ground and assaulting another couple.
He served about two years before being released.
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Re: A Glimpse of San Diego Chinatown 07/30/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]
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Opinion: A docent keeps memories of San Diego’s Chinatown from fading
A dragon mural stands next to the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. The mural, which marks the northern entrance to the Chinatown section of the Asian Pacific Historic District, was painted in 2001 following a city-design competition. The location was dedicated as Honorary Tom Hom Avenue in February 2022. (Joann Xie)
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By Joann Xie
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2026
Editor’s note: This essay was written for the 2025 API Summer Journalism Internship program, hosted by the Alliance of Chinese Americans San Diego.
Padres jerseys fill downtown San Diego, sidewalks blocked as people pose for selfies. Amidst loud pop music, at a corner along Third Avenue, white bricks build a small Chinese mission. Once the Chinese Community Church, this building now houses the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, holding fading memories of the Chinatown once filling the street. For about 10 years, Amie Lee Garapich has led the museum’s Asian Pacific Historic District Walking Tour, taking place on the first Sunday of every month. Last summer, weaving through San Diego tourists, Garapich led the walk reviving the rich Chinese history of San Diego.
Starting in the museum, attendees admired its walls lined with dioramas, one containing a wooden street of Chinatown — empty except for a few miniature figures and the plain, modest buildings beside them. Garapich, born and raised in Chula Vista and half-Chinese and half-English, recalls the appearance of Chinatown in the late 1940s and 1950s.
“When I was young, I would come down here to San Diego’s Chinatown, maybe to go to Woo Chee Chong, which was the major Chinese market in San Diego. I also attended Chinese language school twice a week in the Chinatown area,” Garapich explained.
If one were to stand in the museum and travel back to 1869, white brick walls would disappear, revealing a small Chinese fishing village by the bay. Named New Town, this was the first Chinese settlement in San Diego. Chinese settlers lived in shacks by the water, their fishing junks anchored in the harbor.
However, after the Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1888 and 1892, the community that had been built in New Town crumbled, forcing immigrants to switch to other industries.
“Unfortunately, they were forced to live here, so they started businesses, and they eventually started to raise families, and they got into other professions such as market gardeners, herbalists and produce vendors,” Garapich said.
As the tour led attendees outside the museum, some noticed how the building’s appearance greatly resembled a church, a bell built inside its roof.
“In the late 1940s and early ’50s, my dad was a pastor here at this church, and I would go to church here for Sunday services,” Garapich recalled. “The church at this point was really flourishing and they were having services in English also, and setting up different clubs such as the Ladies Guild, and they had picnics and youth outings during the summers.”
Continuing down Third Avenue, Garapich passed preserved pieces of Chinatown buildings such as the Chinese Benevolent Association, Quin Produce and Yingon Labor Association. For many of the historical buildings, only a wooden door or roof carved with Chinese characters remained.
An intricate painting of a traditional Chinese dragon catches tourists’ eyes, many stopping to snap a picture.
“This is called the Third Avenue Mural of Dragon,” Garapich said. “It was painted in 2001 with the support of the CCDC and building’s owners, and it marks the northern end of Chinatown.”
Turning right into Market Street, dodging lines for nearby clubs and bars, Garapich points to the first Japanese American restaurant in San Diego, its only remains displayed on a red label reading “664 Sun Cafe” on the second story.
“This was built between 1873 and 1883. It’s one of the oldest buildings in this district,” Garapich said. “It originally was called Obayashi Shooting Gallery in the 1870s, and they became so prominent that they decided to open their restaurant at the cafe in 1926. Unfortunately, though, during [World War II], they had to leave because they were picked up to go to the internment camps.”
With San Diego’s flourishing community of Asian American markets now found only in small fragments along crowded streets, the preservation of the Chinese Historical Museum is crucial to grasping pieces of Asian history before they disappear from San Diegans’ memories.
“One of the reasons I chose to be a docent for this tour is to tell you some of my experiences in the ’40s and ’50s,” Garapich expressed. “I feel that without these recollections that I tried to replay during my tour, a part of history might be lost. I hope to help bridge the cultural gap between the Chinatown and the Pan-Pacific District of the past and present.”
To learn more about the walking tour and other educational programs, you can visit the San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum’s website sdchm.org.
Opinion: A docent keeps memories of San Diego’s Chinatown from fading
A dragon mural stands next to the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum. The mural, which marks the northern entrance to the Chinatown section of the Asian Pacific Historic District, was painted in 2001 following a city-design competition. The location was dedicated as Honorary Tom Hom Avenue in February 2022. (Joann Xie)
Author
By Joann Xie
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2026
Editor’s note: This essay was written for the 2025 API Summer Journalism Internship program, hosted by the Alliance of Chinese Americans San Diego.
Padres jerseys fill downtown San Diego, sidewalks blocked as people pose for selfies. Amidst loud pop music, at a corner along Third Avenue, white bricks build a small Chinese mission. Once the Chinese Community Church, this building now houses the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, holding fading memories of the Chinatown once filling the street. For about 10 years, Amie Lee Garapich has led the museum’s Asian Pacific Historic District Walking Tour, taking place on the first Sunday of every month. Last summer, weaving through San Diego tourists, Garapich led the walk reviving the rich Chinese history of San Diego.
Starting in the museum, attendees admired its walls lined with dioramas, one containing a wooden street of Chinatown — empty except for a few miniature figures and the plain, modest buildings beside them. Garapich, born and raised in Chula Vista and half-Chinese and half-English, recalls the appearance of Chinatown in the late 1940s and 1950s.
“When I was young, I would come down here to San Diego’s Chinatown, maybe to go to Woo Chee Chong, which was the major Chinese market in San Diego. I also attended Chinese language school twice a week in the Chinatown area,” Garapich explained.
If one were to stand in the museum and travel back to 1869, white brick walls would disappear, revealing a small Chinese fishing village by the bay. Named New Town, this was the first Chinese settlement in San Diego. Chinese settlers lived in shacks by the water, their fishing junks anchored in the harbor.
However, after the Chinese Exclusion Acts of 1888 and 1892, the community that had been built in New Town crumbled, forcing immigrants to switch to other industries.
“Unfortunately, they were forced to live here, so they started businesses, and they eventually started to raise families, and they got into other professions such as market gardeners, herbalists and produce vendors,” Garapich said.
As the tour led attendees outside the museum, some noticed how the building’s appearance greatly resembled a church, a bell built inside its roof.
“In the late 1940s and early ’50s, my dad was a pastor here at this church, and I would go to church here for Sunday services,” Garapich recalled. “The church at this point was really flourishing and they were having services in English also, and setting up different clubs such as the Ladies Guild, and they had picnics and youth outings during the summers.”
Continuing down Third Avenue, Garapich passed preserved pieces of Chinatown buildings such as the Chinese Benevolent Association, Quin Produce and Yingon Labor Association. For many of the historical buildings, only a wooden door or roof carved with Chinese characters remained.
An intricate painting of a traditional Chinese dragon catches tourists’ eyes, many stopping to snap a picture.
“This is called the Third Avenue Mural of Dragon,” Garapich said. “It was painted in 2001 with the support of the CCDC and building’s owners, and it marks the northern end of Chinatown.”
Turning right into Market Street, dodging lines for nearby clubs and bars, Garapich points to the first Japanese American restaurant in San Diego, its only remains displayed on a red label reading “664 Sun Cafe” on the second story.
“This was built between 1873 and 1883. It’s one of the oldest buildings in this district,” Garapich said. “It originally was called Obayashi Shooting Gallery in the 1870s, and they became so prominent that they decided to open their restaurant at the cafe in 1926. Unfortunately, though, during [World War II], they had to leave because they were picked up to go to the internment camps.”
With San Diego’s flourishing community of Asian American markets now found only in small fragments along crowded streets, the preservation of the Chinese Historical Museum is crucial to grasping pieces of Asian history before they disappear from San Diegans’ memories.
“One of the reasons I chose to be a docent for this tour is to tell you some of my experiences in the ’40s and ’50s,” Garapich expressed. “I feel that without these recollections that I tried to replay during my tour, a part of history might be lost. I hope to help bridge the cultural gap between the Chinatown and the Pan-Pacific District of the past and present.”
To learn more about the walking tour and other educational programs, you can visit the San Diego Chinese Historical Society and Museum’s website sdchm.org.
Re: A Glimpse of Chicago Chinatown 07/30/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]
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Lee also said visitors often discover experiences unique to Chinatown.
"When they visit the stores, it's the aromas they catch from the bakery goods, BBQ goods, just stuff like that they would not be exposed to normally," he said.
Lee also said visitors often discover experiences unique to Chinatown.
"When they visit the stores, it's the aromas they catch from the bakery goods, BBQ goods, just stuff like that they would not be exposed to normally," he said.
Re: Support to RECALL Radical Socialist Governor Gavin Newsom 07/30/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]
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Lindy Li - Former Democrat Strategist and high dollar fundraiser. Now believes Democrats are a sick cult. She the author of Unburdened which reveals all the behind the scenes stories of top democrats. She’s also a podcaster.
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Re: support your favorite Chinese restaurant before it disappears for good. 07/30/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]
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There’s a particular kind of joy in flagging down a trolley cart stacked with steaming bamboo baskets as it rattles past, knowing your favourite dim sum is arriving straight to your table piping hot. It’s a ritual that has, sadly, largely vanished from Hong Kong’s dining scene – but Canto Jade is set on bringing it back to the city.
There’s a particular kind of joy in flagging down a trolley cart stacked with steaming bamboo baskets as it rattles past, knowing your favourite dim sum is arriving straight to your table piping hot. It’s a ritual that has, sadly, largely vanished from Hong Kong’s dining scene – but Canto Jade is set on bringing it back to the city.
Re: What it Meant to Be Cantonese in China and America, 1850–1900 07/30/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]
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Western interest in Cantonese cuisine also stretches back to the late 19th century. The OED cites an 1894 report from The Washington Post describing a dim sum dumpling as “shaped exactly like a fishing creel.” By 1908, The New York Herald was explaining the dish to its readers by comparing it to a “second cousin to steamed sponge cake.” These early descriptions reveal how unfamiliar foods were introduced to Western audiences through comparisons with things they already understood.
Western interest in Cantonese cuisine also stretches back to the late 19th century. The OED cites an 1894 report from The Washington Post describing a dim sum dumpling as “shaped exactly like a fishing creel.” By 1908, The New York Herald was explaining the dish to its readers by comparing it to a “second cousin to steamed sponge cake.” These early descriptions reveal how unfamiliar foods were introduced to Western audiences through comparisons with things they already understood.
Re: shrimp paste 07/30/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]
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Tse describes dried scallops and shrimps as “the umami soul of Cantonese cooking”, lending depth and richness to broths and sauces. “If I had to pick one ingredient, it would be fresh shrimp paste. It captures the sea, memory and wok hei [breath of the wok] in one bite,” he says, underscoring the emotional dimension of taste.
Tse describes dried scallops and shrimps as “the umami soul of Cantonese cooking”, lending depth and richness to broths and sauces. “If I had to pick one ingredient, it would be fresh shrimp paste. It captures the sea, memory and wok hei [breath of the wok] in one bite,” he says, underscoring the emotional dimension of taste.
