Recently I read a book about the Chinese community in and around Sacramento. Many of them huddled in smaller, less urban areas because of anti-Chinese violence in San Francisco Chinatown; as well as to flee white supremacists who killed them, at various points throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.

That gives me more perspectives when I read stories like these.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/oldest-chinese-american-restaurant-chicago-cafe

More info on places like Locke https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/14/journeys-locke-in-the-sacramento-delta-is-the-rural-chinatown-youve-never-heard-of/

#AAPI #California

Is America’s oldest Chinese restaurant in a tiny suburb of Sacramento? Historians investigate

Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if it’s really 121 years old – and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories

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I can’t even begin to tell you what a massive improvement it is for my mental health that there is now an Indonesian coffee shop near where I live in SF; that PLAYS LAGU GALAU (emo Indonesian music; one of my major music genres!)

It just opened, and.. hearing this music, and this language, around me in a place where I sometimes feel unmoored and far from home, is just a godsend.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hK36xYNDvbVPDWeB8?g_st=ic

#SanFrancisco #Kopiku #BayAreaEats #BAE #California

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