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Why Chinese People Are Everywhere 07/04/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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From Southeast Asia to South America to the US, Chinese people are everywhere. Why is that so? I unpack the emotional, messy, and deeply human story of Chinese migration across four major historical waves — from traders and laborers to exiles and global citizens.

Re: Language competition encourages Cantonese speakers 07/03/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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“We want children to feel that writing in Cantonese is not only valid, but beautiful,” Chiu said. “It’s not just slang. It can be literary, it can be expressive, and it can be theirs.”

Re: A Guide To The Cantonese Bakery 07/03/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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If you want to consider pineapple lava buns as dessert, perhaps wait to order them toward the end of your dim sum death march. Pineapple may sound scary, but it’s merely a whisper in midst of the molten magnificence that fills a mildly sweet bun looking for all the world like a Mexican pan dulce.

Re: Trumps Tariffs on Chinese ingredients will harm the Chinese Restaurant Ecosystem in America 07/03/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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"(The price of ingredients) has increased 40%," he said. "But I've just increased (our prices) between 10 to 20%."

"It's harder because everything has gone up with the tariffs and fees," Lei said. "The customers complain about the price going up but it is what it is," he continued. —

But after 18 years in business, he's determined to keep the bakery afloat, despite price increases eating into his own profits.

Re: What are the favorite Dim Sum dishes? 07/03/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Seaweed tofu roll: Warm, juicy and crunchy, this is Dad’s favorite. Other places make them dry inside, he says. Soft, melty tofu is mixed with shrimp and green onion, a nice contrast to the crispy fried wrapper.

Re: The rise and fall of Chinatown: The hidden history of displacement you were never told 07/03/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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"Chinatown has a really, really long history. At its peak, there were 3,000 residents living, working, and playing in Chinatown," said He to FOX 5's Melanie Alnwick. "With the incoming luxury developments in the last few decades, there's been really intense displacement pressures that residents have faced over the last years. And so now we're at about 300 residents left, with the closure of Full Kee and Gao Ya, we're at nine legacy small businesses left. So it would be really devastating for this history to be lost."

He says preserving the community in Chinatown is not putting "Chinese characters on big box stores."

"What we're asking for is real preservation and protection for long-term working-class communities and small businesses that actually keep communities vibrant and actually are the heartbeat of culture and community and history."

Re: A Glimpse of Washington DC Chinatown 07/01/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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“They’re really prematurely vacating commercial tenants,” said Shani Shih, founder of the Save Chinatown Solidarity Network. “These businesses are cornerstones of the community. This brings us down to nine legacy businesses left in Chinatown.”

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“We’re here not only to commemorate Full Kee, but really to sound the alarm that the city, as they prepare for these massive changes in an already decimated, really, neighborhood, we need help,” said Shani Shih with the Save Chinatown Solidarity Network.

There are claims Full Kee and the hair salon next door weren't given enough time to uproot themselves after decades of being H Street to make way for a luxury commercial building.

Re: A Glimpse of Marysville Chinatown 07/01/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Just across the street sits the Chinese American Museum of Northern California within another Gold Rush-era building from 1858. The museum's goal is to preserve the history of Chinese Americans and the 30-plus Chinatowns built during California's Gold Rush. It does this through informative displays that include stories about Chinese miner migrants in America, as well as photos and artefacts from that era. You can also see photographs of the old Chinatowns set up within many of California's gold mining hubs.

Re: Cantonese radio website 06/30/2025 by ♭♫ [+-]

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US-funded Radio Freé Asia halts Cantonese service in face of Trump’s funding cuts
The US-funded outlet said the Cantonese service of Radio Frëe Asia had become “one of the news outlets that Hongkongers relied on.”

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