05.30.08
Posted in Chinatown at 2:13 pm by william_lee_intern
A Chinese restaurant located in Hickory Ridge road Columbia, called China Chefs is serving great food at a low cost price of $25 or less.
This was opened 1989 and it is at the back of a hospital. The restaurant is not up to the competition, but they make their business stand out by giving their customers a different kind of impression that they can find here. China Chef is claiming to be different with other restaurant, because of their unique price and idea of a hard-to-find jewel.
Read more…
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04.18.08
Posted in Chinatown at 8:54 am by william_lee_intern
Asian Indians make up 16.4 percent of the entire Asian-American community and are the third largest Asian-American ethnic group, after Chinese-Americans and Filipino-Americans. To learn more about our Asian Indian neighbors, visit the Discover India Festival at the Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2010 Flora St., in downtown Dallas. Scheduled from noon to 5 p.m. April 26, this free festival will feature visual arts, craft-making, music and dance performances, and Indian cuisine.
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03.03.08
Posted in Chinatown at 11:15 am by william_lee
Proposed location for new Chinatown
A pair of restaurateurs is looking to start a new Chinatown near the intersection of Charles Street and North Avenue in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District.
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01.30.08
Posted in Chinatown, Crime at 12:43 am by albert_lim
Right: Hou’s children attend his funeral
Some updates on the shooting death of Hou Chang Mou, 47, a father of two who was working in Toronto’s East Chinatown when he became the unintended victim of a streetside gunfight:
Mao was commemorated in a funeral service on Jan. 25, with his 18-year-old daughter, Yun Yan, and 23-year-old son, Zuo Xi, in attendance. Mao’s wife, who lives in China, couldn’t afford to attend. The East Chinatown community had raised $10,000 to help with the funeral expenses.
A trust fund has been set up for Mao’s son and daughter at Scotiabank — donations can be made at any branch to account No. 41152-00320-18.
Police are still desperate for leads, and have posted several YouTube videos (here’s the English-language one) to that end. They’ve also set up a Facebook page, “Please Help! Hou Chang Mao,” that features videos, posters and a photo of a vehicle of interest in the case.
Hou’s death has sparked a call for a handgun ban in Toronto, and Mayor David Miller has met with Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley on the subject.
As Bentley says, “The handgun ban is essential, there are far too many handguns …”
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12.11.07
Posted in Sports, Chinatown, Interviews, Activism and Empowerment, Community Offenders, Media and Entertainment, Racism at 3:14 pm by mark_chang
In the lead up to a potential bout, in is the norm for boxers not only travel to watch their potential future opponents but also to engage in some trash talk as well when interviewed.
Recently Edison Miranda traveled to Canada to watch Jean Pascal in a bout, after which he provided the usual interview filled with bravado (published on www.fightnews.com/). Only this time I was shocked to hear his racially disrespectful closing statement, which was the aforementioned: “You are nothing more than a Chinatown boxer.” (translation: “You are a pussy”) which read less as an insult to Pascal and more as an insult to us.
The only thing Miranda did was exercise his right to freedom of speech. Maybe we should do the same (freedom of speech works both ways) and contact any stations televising his upcoming bouts (or any Warrior’s boxing events for that matter) indicating that we intend to boycott the sponsors.
The next Miranda bout is on January 11, 2008 and ESPN2 (contact page: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?page=contact/espntv) intends to televise both Pascal and Miranda the same night. Maybe a nice note (or nastygram, your choice) to boycott the sponsors of the program would be worthwhile.
Miranda is promoted by Warriors Boxing, the Executive Director of which is Leon Margules (leon@warriorsboxing.com), may want to send him a nice note as well.
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11.28.07
Posted in Chinatown, Activism and Empowerment, Culture at 6:24 am by george_lou
The storefront at 21 Mott Street had been unoccupied for over a year as the landlord, Jan Lee, waited for the right tenant to come along. A bank approached Lee about the vacant space, but he turned them down. Thank god. Manhattan’s Chinatown is already bloated with banks.
Finally, the right candidates came along and opened U-Choose Express restaurant. During the renovation process, an old sign was discovered. Turned out to be that of a former tenant, Lonnie’s Coffee Shoppe, a family-run burger joint from 1956 to the late 1970’s.
Lee was undecided on what to do with the 50-year-old sign. Then, owners of U-Choose Express, Peter Wong and Ivan Chang, decided to display it inside the new restaurant as an homage to Chinatown history. “It’s good to keep it in the original space,” said Chan. “This is a sense of history.”
I’m a proud patron of U-Choose Express. The food there is a must-have. And I met Jan Lee two years ago while videotaping a tv show at his art store, Sinotique.
This article is to credit those who display selfless appreciation of their culture and history. Keeping it real.
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10.20.07
Posted in Politics, Chinatown at 6:06 am by telly_wong
Chinatown: That mysterious land of malevolent intrigue
NEW YORK — Chinese American immigrants have been getting more politically active in recent years, thanks to the work of various community organizations as well as U.S. politicians recognizing the importance of the Asian American vote. A successful culmination of these efforts presented itself this past April when a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in New York City’s Chinatown yielded an unprecedented $380,000.
Sounds like a nice feel-good story about immigrants giving back to this great country, right? Well, not if you’re the Los Angeles Times. If you’re those folks, you assume something far more sinister is going down on Mott Street.
Apparently, Times reporters Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger believe the American public should be alarmed that hard working Chinese Americans (who the writers assume are all piss-poor dishwashers, waiters and street merchants) are legally donating their hard-earned cash to Hillary’s presidential campaign. Clearly, the assumption here –which Nicholas and Hamburger cowardly spend three pages hinting at but never directly addressing– is that not all these donations are actually coming from the pockets of these Chinatown folks, but possibly from people associated with organized crime and/or other unsavory types (can you say John Huang and Norman Hsu?).
The writers’ main issue of contention is a list of 74 contributors who are residents of New York’s Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx or Brooklyn. Apparently, Nicholas and Hamburger could only reach 24 of them –despite the fact that this is rarely an anomaly and certainly not unique to Chinese communities– which sent their imaginations into a tailspin. Of the 24 contributors Nicholas and Hamburger were able to track down, the ones that are featured in the article are portrayed as naive country bumpkins who have the nerve to think that the President of the United States can make a difference or simply vain jackasses trying to impress their buddies.
Nicholas and Hamburger’s poorly researched and ill-informed “expose” (which needed the help of three other writers and three researchers — none of whom appear to be Chinese, explaining the lack of any relevant cultural insight) is a totally incendiary, presumptuous and, dare I say it, racist piece of xenophobic filth that stinks worse than a dead skunk. It’s riddled with stereotypical imagery that paints Chinese neighborhoods in New York as crime-ridden enclaves populated by low class and uneducated illegal aliens who probably sign their names by scrawling an “X”.
Hard to believe that it’s 2007 and a major newspaper like the LA Times can’t hire writers who don’t have their heads up their asses.
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10.15.07
Posted in Chinatown at 11:03 pm by george_lou
Chinatown Revitalization Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to reviving Fresno’s Chinatown, is currently exploring the underground passages that used to be part of the town’s early 20th century life.
Radar is being used to find secret passages which were supposedly used as gambling and prostitution.
Fresno’s Chinatown was established in 1885 and was the hub for cultural and ethnic communities until it fizzled out in the mid 1900’s.
Find out more about Chinatown Revitalization Inc. by clicking here.
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10.12.07
Posted in Chinatown, Crime at 5:10 pm by telly_wong
Michael Chin Lenehan
**UPDATED 10/17** Fallout Central has learned that Michael Chin Lenehan’s father is Irish and his mother Chinese.
More disturbing details have emerged from the Tuesday arrest of Michael Chin Lenehan, the 29-year-old Chinese American man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and slept beside her corpse for several days before surrendering to police. The victim has been identified as Lorna Santiago, 38, who had been dating Lenahan for just a week.
On Saturday night, Lenahan had taken Santiago to a strip club in midtown Manhattan and spent $50 buying her lap dances, according to investigators. Later, they returned to his apartment in Chinatown, which he shares with his ailing grandmother. However, the next day, Lenehan and got into a violent argument. When Lenehan demanded his $50 back, Santiago kicked him in the groin. Furious, Lenehan grabbed Santiago and strangled her.
For two nights, authorities claim Lenehan slept beside Santiago’s body after scrawling an apology on the wall. On Tuesday, Lenehan called his brother and told him what he’d done and his brother alerted their mother who went to Lenehan’s apartment and made the grisly discovery.
Lenehan is being charged with second degree murder and held without bail.
Read our previous report on this case here.
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10.11.07
Posted in Chinatown, Crime at 2:40 am by telly_wong
Suspected murderer Michael Lenehan escorted
out of Chinatown’s 5th Precinct
On Tuesday night, police responding to a 911 call discovered the body of a dead woman in an apartment in New York City’s Chinatown. The suspect, 29-year-old Michael Lenehan (our Chinatown contacts inform us that Lenehan is indeed Chinese American and “Lenehan” is actually his middle name; no explanation why the media is not using his actual surname), is believed to have strangled the woman in his apartment on Saturday after meeting her at a club. Police say Lenehan had left the corpse in his bedroom for three days until his mother discovered it and called 911.
The victim has not yet been identified but she is believed to be in her thirties. Conflicting news reports have suggested she is either from Mainland China or Puerto Rico.
More on this as it develops.
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