Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers ...
Tomorrow marks the start of the 15-day-festival celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year. We explore the rich history of the Bay Area’s Chinese American community.
Asian carp, which was imported into the United States in the 1970s to clean algae in commercial ponds, spilled into the ...
For my Chinese-American family, our table will be laden with mountains of steaming homemade dumplings and shiny garlicky greens for wealth, a whole fish for abundance, sweet sticky rice cakes for ...
The Leon family relocated to Los Angeles, where Ricardo managed Chinese American restaurants while Wendy worked in garment factories and cafeterias. At home their children devoured Wendy’s ...
Typically a steamship with American hopefuls would anchor ... who were often Chinese and could visit family members in San Francisco to make sure the stories lined up. The cooks would return ...
This became personal when a young family member (Charles’ son) developed a soy allergy. In a Chinese American household, not being able to eat tofu or season stir fry with soy sauce was hard.