Lucy Kan sits down with MOCA to discuss her family’s journey from China, then to Peru, and eventually to the United States. She discusses her grandfather’s beginning in the Peru and the shop he owned there, and then how her father eventually moved back to China to start his family. Lucy describes growing up trilingual in Peru, speaking Chinese at home, Spanish with her classmates, and doing her homework in English. She discusses being one of the few Chinese people living in her community in Lima at the time, but still being able to find a community of Chinese people. She fondly remembers going to the Cantonese Opera as a child with her parents and the neighborhood children and their families. She discusses eating at “chi-fas,” or restaurants created by Chinese people to serve rice dishes. These restaurants were very popular in Lima at the time. She discusses her identity as a first-generation American and how her upbringing was very centered around Chinese customs and Chinese identity. She discusses imparting this identity to her grandchildren as well and continuing the legacy of oral history.