Tag: Chinese New York

Chop Suey City: A History of Chinese Food in New York

Post author By GY
Post date May 22, 2020
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EPISODE 328 New Yorkers eat a LOT of Chinese food and have enjoyed Chinese cuisine – either in a restaurant or as takeout – for well over 130 years. Chinese food entered the regular diet of the city LONG before the bagel, the hot dog and even pizza. In this episode, Greg explores the history… Read More

Tags Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese New York, chop suey, Doyers Street, Mott Street, Walter Winchell

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Manhattan’s Chinatown: a tribute to the old neighborhood, and to the temptations of rich delicacies and basement vices

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date September 23, 2011
9 Comments on Manhattan’s Chinatown: a tribute to the old neighborhood, and to the temptations of rich delicacies and basement vices

PODCAST Manhattan’s Chinatown is unique among New York neighborhoods as its origins and its provocative history can still be traced in many of the buildings and streets still in existence. Two hundred years ago, the sight of a Chinese person would have astonished New Yorkers, and the first to arrive in the city were… Read More

Tags Chinatown, Chinese New York, Five Points, Podcasts

The sad tale of New York’s first Asian female ‘celebrity’

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date September 22, 2011
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Meet Afong Moy, the Chinese teenager who became the most famous Asian person in America in the 1830s. I would not exactly call her notoriety enviable. There’s a strong likelihood that Moy (in the illustration at right) was actually the first Asian woman to ever step foot in New York. Early trade with China, beginning in… Read More

Tags Chinese New York, muse, PT Barnum