April, 2010 // Posts published in April, 2010
a unique culture, the Canadian born Chinese?
We’ve updated our “About us” info. On it, we write: … if they can have “Taiwanese Chinese” day and “Hong Kong Chinese day” in Vancouver, it’d be nice if we can also celebrate “Canadian born Chinese” day too. Our French Canadian citizens celebrate their unique culture and heritage. Maybe it’s time we do the same for the unique ...
Fortune Cookies… born in the U.S.A. (and Canada)
Foo’s Ho Ho is still one of few Chinese restaurants in Vancouver and its metro region that still offers fortune cookies as the last course of the meal. Years back, all the old Chinese food eateries offered the fortune cookie as part of the dining experience. Something novel, especially for the “Lo fans” (ie. Gweilo)… the ...
1849: first Chinese restaurant in America
Macao and Woosung, founded by Chinese immigrant Norman Asing in 1849 is the first recorded Chinese restaurant in the U.S. Where was the first Chinese buffet served & when? “Chinese” food first stalked American appetites around the time of the San Francisco Gold Rush when, according to the Smithsonian Institution, the first recorded Chinese restaurant on U.S. ...
Authentic village food relives at Foo’s Ho Ho
Foo’s Ho Ho Restaurant is a landmark in Vancouver Chinatown… and open again! by Jim Wong-Chu Where can you get good old village -style Cantonese food in historical Vancouver Chinatown? Today, there are many styles of Chinese food from Hong Kong, Beijing, Hunan, Shanghai, even Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean and Japanese. The new immigrants that speak mandarin now out-number ...
Ed Wang… NFL’s first Chinese American player… ?
Ed Wang, a football player at Virginia Tech… Will he be the first? … if Ed gets drafted this week, he will be the first 100% Chinese American player ever drafted! We did some research, he’s projected as a late round pick, 6′-5″, 315 lbs, a big boy! Great bloodlines, both parents are former Olympians. Cool. The CFL ...
George Gee… a swinging Banana!
If you’re as tired of that “Canto-pop” noise as much as this banana is (i.e. me), then let’s explore our Chinese-North American roots and let’s start searching for real home grown talent! Uh … okay, that imported entertainment from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan may be music to many ears… but folks, it’s performed in a foreign ...
[GC] Response to New Westminster’s racist heritage
This is a guest contribution post by Gary Gee of Calgary, Alberta in response to the recent discussions on the city of New Westminster’s racist past. Response to New Westminster’s racist heritage by Gary Gee This is for everyone in Chinese Country and beyond. I’m a writer working on a history book for high school students on the head ...
Wayson Choy, an ‘in-between’ citizen speaks…
Award winning Canadian novelist, short story writer and memoirist Wayson Choy will deliver the UBC- Laurier Institution 7th annual Multiculturalism Lecture at UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 7:00 pm on April 11th, 2010. Wayson Choy explores his personal view that many of us – whether recent arrivals or long-established citizens – suffer fears that ...
Yes, We can… Hell NO you can’t.
Ah, we muk muk lovers up here in the great white North, love our neighbours down south, with their own political mudslingings and all. Gottaa just love what the many bright minds out there who’ve compiled this witty Youtube video on a Republican (John Boner Boehner) response to U.S. President Obama’s Health Care reform bill, “Hell ...
Vancouver: greenest hydroponic city
While trying to recover some of our earlier blog postings… almost lost to cyberspace, we retrieved this old post from our archives on a *green* cash crop grown here in wild, wild, British Columbia. In particular, a cash crop here in metro Vancouver. Our current Mayor and Council is on a mission to earn Vancouver as ...
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