2010. When I played a scarface #Asian mafia boss lady on a horror film short production. Filmed at the old Hung Fat #kungfu club in Chinatown. Gentrification got their longtime, oldest kungfu association in BC, evicted a few years ago.

Gloria Tsoi, pictured with me, owns & runs the kung-fu club - passed down from ancestors. We've been friends since the 90s.

Their website:
https://www.hungfut.ca/

#Mangosteens from #Chinatown
I love them. Rarely buy because they aren't cheap here.

#arte #streetart #Chinatown #Chinatownsurseine #streetphotography #photographie #fotografía #Leica / París en color … Street art en Chinatown-sur-Seine, homenaje a Saul Leiter …
https://unatemporadaenelinfierno.net/2025/03/24/paris-en-color-street-art-en-chinatown-sur-seine-homenaje-a-saul-leiter/

Buying things in cash from Chinatown grocers is quite a bit cheaper than buying from the online Asian grocer I use.

Something that costs $9.99 online is $8.50. I can also try different new restaurants as they open. Fave recent new Chinatown spot is Rice Roll Express which has good freshly made cheung fan. Saw a new takeout dimsum spot today that looks better than the one TikTok tells people to go to.

My Chinatown strategy is, if I see a large number of old Chinese aunties in line, I stand in it and get what they get.

It’s never let me down

I also prefer Chinatown to the west side Chinese grocers. It’s just more density of cool things to see.

Hell money: in Taoist Chinese culture, we burn paper money for our ancestors to use in hell

(Yes we believe everybody goes to hell)

Heaven and hell are sort of the same (doesn’t have the Christian interpretation)

I’m not up to date on dates but I think Qing Ming festival is around the corner

I went to Chinatown for a date

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #monolake #owensvalley #disaster #nativeamerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #indianwar #habitatdestruction #books #nonfiction #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon

Philadelphia’s #Chinatown isn't just a place to eat -—it’s a community with a 50-year legacy of activism. From fighting expressways to opposing arenas, a #history professor explains how residents have continually fought to protect their neighborhood: https://theconversation.com/phillys-chinatown-has-a-rich-tradition-of-activism-the-sixers-arena-fight-was-just-one-of-many-to-preserve-the-neighborhood-247549 @histodons #Histodons

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate - or who, like me, are happy for an excuse for fabulous feasting. (And a reminder of how much richer Canada is because of its magnificent diversity.) https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18agkU3QQZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr #LunarNewYear #ChineseNewYear #YearoftheSnake #YearOfTheSerpent #Edmonton #yeg #Chinatown

San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. People in front of a store having a close-out sale, prior to the evacuation of the proprietor, of Japanese ancestry. The store is located on Grant Avenue in Chinatown. The evacuees will be housed in a War Relocation Authority center for the duration of the war

#SanFrancisco #Calif #Japanese #GrantAvenue #Chinatown #California #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #Japan #PearlHarbor #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2021650555/

Rewatched #Chinatown yesterday and although the film is a little meandering and slow, the ending always gets me. People with money and power always come out on top. The film hasn't lost its relevance today.

Finally rewatching my copy of this. #filmnoir #Chinatown #hdr #4k #uhdbluray

Eindrucksvolles Bild,
@SheDrivesMobility
aber was anderes - ich stell mir vor, dass grössere Siedlungen von #Geflüchtete gebildet werden könnten, gerade in so Dörfern und Vierteln, wo der Kindergarten z.B.schliesst, weil nur noch zwei Kinder da sind, usw. Man hört öfter von Orten, die Häuser für einen symbolischen Euro verkaufen und #Zuwanderung auf jede Art unterstützen.
Den Gedanken verbinde ich mit dem Prinzip #Chinatown Wenn #Flüchtlinge

The Game

We recently listening to Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto, which was an enjoyable cozy mystery/found family story set in San Francisco's Chinatown with a very larger than life protagonist. Reading this was well-timed because we had just done a tea tasting in that very location a few days before. The audiobook was well narrated by Eunice Wong.

#books @bookstodon #mystery #cozy #SanFrancisco #Chinatown