#Movies #AAPI

Rewatched #RogersAndHammerstein's #TheFlowerDrumSong (1961) again yesterday.

Many #AsianAmericans, like me, have a love/hate relationship with this movie because of all of the #Asian & #Chinese stereotypes that it portrays & because most of the actors in the film weren't even Chinese.

The film is also pretty misogynistic & gender limiting too which is consistent with the times.

That said, I remember when how excited my mother & the Chinese community in #SFChinatown were when the movie was released because it was the 1st time that the Chinese were portrayed in the film with anything close to our reality & because it was the 1st & only film (until #TheJoyLuckClub (1993) in which the cast was almost entirely #Asian. . . .

It's nonetheless an important film to watch in terms of understanding how Asians are under represented in American media.

The Wiki synopsis of the film is pretty good & worth reading if you have any interest in the film & Asian American media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Drum_Song_(film)

#BookStadon #books #SanFrancisco #SFChinaTown #KSFO #DonSherwood #DJ #disjockey

#AAPI #SFChinatown

Just watched the #ChineseNewYearParade on #KGO7.

It was the 1st time KGO covered the parade -- #KTVU2 always covered it in the past -- & IMO KGO did a poor job of it

The commentators were out of synch in describing the various parade participants, poorly interviewed rhe Miss Chinatown winner w/no mention of the other participants & totally blew the coverage of the finale -- barely showing anything of -- Gum Loong-- one of the longest & biggest dragons -- & shot the fireworks too close up.

Very disappointing.☹️

Glad I've seen so many other CNY parades in the past on TV & in person, so it really didn't matter to me but I feel for those who were seeing it for the 1st time on TV or online who were not given a better idea of what the parade is actually like. Oh well . . .🤷

#WokHei #HongKong #BreathOfTheWong #ChineseFood #Cantonese #AAPI

I've had many opportunities but I've never traveled to Hong Kong but this article makes me want to make the trip despite of the #Chinese #Communist government's take-over & repression of the city . . .

If I do decide to finally go there, this article will be my travel guide because I miss the "old flavors" of the Chinese food (most of which originated in Hong Kong) that I grew up with in #SFChinatown too.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/26/magazine/hong-kong-dai-pai-dong.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE4.S6xg.Fc7aX2UXt1Va&smid=url-share

The SF Chinatown community has a unique relationship with the police at Central Station. The ones shown onstage mostly speak Cantonese and know many of the residents by name. The crowd was so excited to participate in the safety quiz. It felt so wholesome!
#Chinatown #SFChinatown #PortsmouthSquare #Police

Grant & Bush, Oct 1974
The Chinatown Gate was only 4 years old at this point and those strange brass sculpture art shops had not yet taken over the block then dominated by hamburger joints. #sfhistory #sanfranciscohistory #SFchinatown

a scene from san francisco chinatown in front of the seafood and vegetables store.

(Minolta Hi-Matic 7S II, Kodak T-Max 400, Xtol stock @ 12:45, scanned on Noritsu LS-600)

#SanFrancisco #BelieveInFilm #Chinatown #SFChinatown #BlackandWhite #Kodak #Minolta #KodakTMax400 #FilmIsNotDead #Photography #FilmPhotography

#AAPI #SFChinatown

An invitation from the #ChineseAmericanMuseum in DC:

". . . join us for a virtual screening of “A Moment in Time”, a one-hour documentary by Lambert Yam and Academy Award winner Ruby Yang about the experience of the Chinese in San Francisco's Chinatown. The film is about the growth, evolution and eventual demise of five ethnic cinemas in San Francisco’s Chinatown and their role in bridging the gap between China and the United States."

"The film hones in on the golden era of Shanghai cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, when San Francisco became home to Chinese families who frequented the movies for a nickel on a Saturday."

"The film largely is about the evolution of America’s perception of China and the changing views of first-generation Chinese Americans as they grew to understand their parents’ often heart-rending immigrant experiences in the dark of the movie theater."

https://www.chineseamericanmuseum.org/amit-screening

🐇 White Rabbit Brand for the win!

Iconic 🍬

#SFchinatown #sfba

#AAPI #SFChinatown #ChineseNewYear #ChineseNewYearParade

Awkwafina will be the Grand Marshall for this year's Chinese New Year (CNY) Parade in San Francisco to be held on Sat 02/24/2024.

Chinese New Year celebrations begin on on Sat 02/10/2024 and end on Sat 02/24/2024 this year.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/16/chinese-new-year-san-francisco-awkwafina-grand-marshal-parade/

Here's a schedule of events connected with CNY in SF this year:

https://secretsanfrancisco.com/chinese-lunar-new-year-sf/

PS: There are actually 2 ways to say Happy New Year in Cantonese:

1) The more common -- Goong Hay Faat Choy (which literally means "Wishing You Prosperity or Good Fortune) and

2) The less common -- Sun Neen Fai Lok (which actually means "Happy New Year."

If you want to prove you're "hip" to your local Chinese American friends, use the latter.

BTW, if you try to say Happy New Year in Mandarin to a local, you will not be understood and will just be viewed as a foreigner.

LOL! 😉

Is that a lion pretending to be a bunny or a bunny pretending to be a lion? Happy new year of the rabbit!
#YearOfTheRabbit #LionDance #SFChinatown

Ok lots of people want to know about the secret hotpot store in SF Chinatown.

It's not really a secret, you just have to REALLY want to go to a hotpot specialist store. I wrote up where and what to get there: https://goo.gl/maps/ZdxVpCBwtXHjpxYJ6

#sanfrancisco #chinatown #sfchinatown