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Oral History Interview with Cecilia Chiang, 2015-12-21
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Identifier: 2016.037.006
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Cecilia Chiang her incredible life story from wartime China all the way to becoming a restaurant owner in New York City. Her interview is riddled with her fascinations towards Chinese cuisine as she narrates the role Chinese cuisine has made during the turbulent events of her life, from her journey to Chongqing during the Japanese invasion of China to her time in Japan. She expresses her fondness of Chinese cuisine through a genuine desire to share the wonderful variety of Chinese food as...
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2015-12-21
Oral History Interview with Chris Cheung, 2015-11-01
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Identifier: 2016.037.004
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Chris Cheung is a Chinese-American chef who owns the restaurant, East Wind Snack Shop. He was raised in Chinatown and Bensonhurst, exposing him to both Chinese and Italian food at a young age. He grew up in 1970s and 1980s New York and recalls generational differences in Chinese restaurants. The teahouses that he enjoyed as a child have transformed. As Cheung grew older, he worked at several Asian restaurants. He began to work with high profile names in the culinary world; he learned...
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2015-11-01
Oral History Interview with Cori Xiong and Hen Chan, 2015-07-01 - 2016-12-31
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Identifier: 2016.037.028
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Cori Xiong and Hen Chan started the Mala Sichuan Bistro restaurant business in Houston, Texas. The two met while studying at University of Texas Austin. Xiong’s father was a food engineer in Sichuan, China and convinced Xiong to start her own family business. With the help of family, Xiong was able to bring authentic Sichuan flavors to the United States. All the chefs that work in her restaurants have studied at a culinary school in Sichuan. Xiong and Chan both believe that regional Chinese...
Dates:
2015-07-01 - 2016-12-31
Oral History Interview with Doron Wong, 2015-10-30
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Identifier: 2016.037.025
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Doron Wong grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a Cantonese family. His parents emphasized the importance of understanding one’s heritage. Wong’s interest in cooking started when he took a job as a teenager at a local pizza restaurant. He later went to culinary school and studied with David Burke in New York. Moving forward, Wong worked around the world including cities such as Boston, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He was strongly influenced by CiCi Li, whom he met in Singapore. Wong thinks that...
Dates:
2015-10-30
Oral History Interview with Guo-Gan Yan, 2004-03-08
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Identifier: 2014.036.025
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Mr. Guo-Gan Yan is an immigrant who arrived in the United States from Guangdong, China in the 1990s in search of better educational opportunities for his daughter. Yan describes his life and career in Guangdong before immigrating. He details aspects of life in China related to recreation and work habits and compares it to his life in the United States. Yan also describes the effects of the 9/11 Terrorist attacks on his job as a restaurant worker in Chinatown, and the assistance he received...
Dates:
2004-03-08
Oral History Interview with Jason Wang, 2015-10-23
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Identifier: 2016.037.024
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Jason Wang was born in Xi’an, China, and moved to the U.S. when he was eight years old. His father worked at restaurants throughout his time in high school. In 2005, his family started a bubble tea business in Flushing, Queens. Wang went to college and after his first year his father decided to change the shop to sell street food. Xi’an Famous Foods was created. The restaurant focused on street food from Xi’an, China, with recipes honed by Wang’s family. After four years of studying finance,...
Dates:
2015-10-23
Oral History Interview with Jonathan Wu, 2015-11-09
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Identifier: 2016.037.027
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Jonathan Wu discusses growing up in the Bronx and Hartford, CT., and then his education at FCI which lead to his career as a restauranteur. Jonathan Wu has working in restaurants in Brittany, Madrid, and Venice, as well as in New York City. He has learned a variety of techniques over his career and has benefitted greatly from supportive bosses and exposure to different cultures and cooking techniques and prattices. Wu is now the founder of Fung Tu, a Chinese restaurant with a modern vision...
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2015-11-09
Oral History Interview with William Chiu, 2004-03-30
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Identifier: 2014.036.017
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William Chiu, born in 1952, begins this interview recalling his childhood growing up, learning and working in Hong Kong. He talks about his father’s work as a chef and his father’s fateful opportunity to immigrate with his family to the United States. He describes his education and reasoning for desiring to go to the United States. William recounts his first job working as a waiter in training before beginning to work with his father in the restaurant business. He also describes the working...
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2004-03-30
Oral History Interview with Wilson Tang, 2015-10-30
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Identifier: 2016.037.019
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Wilson Tang was born in 1978 and grew up in Queens, New York. Tang’s parents decided to move out of Manhattan Chinatown to Queens for a better work environment. Tang later found his way back to Chinatown when he attended college at Pace University. After college, he went into a finance career, as parents wished. After working for a few years, he realized that he wanted to run a business. Thus, he opened a bakery at his father’s building on Allen street. The bakery ran from 2004 to 2007 and...
Dates:
2015-10-30
Oral History Interview with Wing Ma, 2003-11-07
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Identifier: 2014.036.016
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Wing Ma (Ma Wing Guo) was born in China to a poor farming family who moved to Hong Kong as refugees when he was age two. Wing talks about his life growing up in Hong Kong with his mother working in the garment industry and his father working as a chef in Manila. He studied until post-secondary school before moving to the United States to train and work as an engineer. Wing would eventually join the garment industry as a factory owner, and describes the industry’s decline over time due to...
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2003-11-07
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