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Cheuk Kwan's Chinese Restaurants
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Released in 2006, Chinese Restaurants is a 15-part documentary series of stories from Chinese restaurants around the world. You can watch all fifteen complete episodes on this channel. The companion book Have You Eaten Yet? has been released in January 2022 in Canada and will be released in the United States later in the year. Available online and your local bookstores.
Chinese Restaurants Trailer
Trailer from the "Chinese Restaurants" documentary series (2005). Filmmaking Cheuk Kwan went to five continents and fifteen countries--from the Amazon to the Arctic--to bring you stories from the Chinese diaspora.
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Chinese Restaurants: Trinidad (complete episode)
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In the hills of San Fernando is the Great Wall, the most famous Chinese restaurant on the island. This is a rags-to-riches story of owner Maurice Soong, whose passion for quality and service has won him widespread affection and respect. As they dance to the infectious calypso music of the island’s annual Carnival, members of the Soong family reflect on how their assimilation and personal choice...
Chinese Restaurants: Turkey (complete episode)
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Istanbul’s China Restaurant is the oldest Chinese restaurant in Turkey. Its founder, Wang Zhengshan, fled China with his family in a dramatic trek over the Himalayas in 1949 when Chinese Communists took power, thereby earning a place in the urban legend as the man who “walked from China”. Wang died in 1961, leaving his widow Fatima and eight children struggling to survive. Now as Fatima contemp...
Chinese Restaurants: South Africa (complete episode)
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The Golden Dragon, started in 1947 by community activist Lam Al Ying, is Cape Town’s first Chinese restaurant. Ying’s widow and his daughter now continue his legacy. Through the mother-daughter team we glimpse a country struggling to address the bitter injustices and betrayals of its apartheid past. Strangers in a strange land who kept to themselves, the divided Chinese community is only now sh...
Chinese Restaurants: Norway (complete episode)
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In Tromso, Norway in the land of the midnight sun, Michael Wong and his wife Ting have opened one of the very few Chinese restaurants inside the Arctic Circle, the Lille Buddha. As the owner couple promotes their Hong Kong-style efficiency on the Norwegian waitresses, the Chinese kitchen staff openly discusses their lives as Chinese restaurant workers in Europe how they first entered Europe ill...
Chinese Restaurants: Peru (complete episode)
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Lima-born Luis Yong is a medical doctor who took over a rundown restaurant, San Joy Lao, in the city’s Chinatown. The charming and outgoing doctor hosts Chinese cooking shows on TV and promotes the marriage of holistic Chinese medicine and health-conscious Chinese cuisine. As Peru celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese coolies, and as subsequent generations of Chinese focus ...
Chinese Restaurants: Brazil North (complete episode)
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In the frontier city of Manaus, on the great Amazon River, Taiwan immigrant Jack Sun has been running the Mandarim for thirty years. Sun came to Brazil in 1967, when he was a young man, to build his life in the resource-rich country. After long years of hard work in a frontier town, Sun is feeling the effects of a burnt-out career. Meanwhile, his business-savvy US-educated son, Eddy, navigates ...
Chinese Restaurants: India East (complete episode)
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Samson, Richard, Samuel and Stephen Yeh were born in Calcutta and suffered from the aftermath the 1962 Sino-Indian border conflict. Today, the four brothers take turns running the New Embassy Restaurant in Calcutta and Hotel Restaurant Valentino in the Himalayan hill-station of Darjeeling. As they reminisce what it was like to grow up Hakka Chinese in India, the next generation’s emigration to ...
Chinese Restaurants: Madagascar (complete episode)
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Did the Chinese come Madagascar in the 15th century, years before the Europeans? And how have recent immigrants integrate in the most multicultural country of the world? These and other questions are answered as we visit Restaurant Le Jade in Tamatave, the port city with a large Chinese population. More traces of Chinese settlements are revealed as the filmmaker visits the oldest Chinese immigr...
Chinese Restaurants: India West (complete episode)
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The brothers Nini and Baba Ling grew up in a Chinese-Indian family. While Nini inherits his father’s Bombay restaurant, Ling’s Pavilion, his brother branches out into Delhi, opening the Imperial Garden. Both establishments enjoy success by strictly using the freshest ingredients in their cooking. As Nini contemplates his retirement, Baba is forging ahead with the ambitious construction of Nanki...
Chinese Restaurants: Israel (complete episode)
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Haifa’s Yan Yan Restaurant was established by Chinese-Vietnamese refugee Kien Wong. Wong is a devout Christian who evangelizes Chinese migrant workers and expatriates. His children, meanwhile, variously negotiate their complex identities as Christian Chinese Israelis in a Jewish homeland surrounded by Arab states, rocked by Palestinian uprisings and steeped in religious orthodoxy - in a country...
Chinese Restaurants: Mauritius (complete episode)
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In the middle of the Indian Ocean sits Chez Manuel, a restaurant run by Manuel’s wife Colette. In Colette we discover an innovative self-taught chef who serves up inventive new dishes combining Hakka Chinese, Creole and Indian flavors. Colette and Manuel, together with other members of the Hakka Chinese community, give us insights into the Hakka Chinese and their conservative traditions and val...
Chinese Restaurants: Cuba (complete episode)
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In Havana’s Chinatown, the Lung Kong is a charitable clan association run by Alejandro Chiu. The association also runs a home for Chinese elderly and supports itself by operating a Chinese restaurant on the side. Back in Barrio Chino, we go beyond the “Chinese Fantasy” created by the Cuban government to discover the legacy of a community that dates back to 1847 and has now become truly Cuban.
Chinese Restaurants: Canada (complete episode)
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Chinese workers came to Canada in the 19th century to build the trans-continental railroad, but by 1923, the country had kept Chinese immigrant workers out, as their services were no longer required. Against these odds, Jim Kook came to the Prairie town of Outlook, Saskatchewan as a “paper son” using a dead Canadian’s identity. The gregarious “Noisy” Jim soon became the most popular man about t...
Chinese Restaurants: Brazil South (complete episode)
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Chinese Restaurants: Brazil South (complete episode)
Cheuk Kwan's "Have You Eaten Yet?" book trailer
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Cheuk Kwan's "Have You Eaten Yet?" book trailer
Cheuk Kwan's Chinese Restaurants opening credits
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Cheuk Kwan's Chinese Restaurants opening credits
cara, que viagem é essa que eu acabei de esbarrar?
When I was a boy my family stopped at this random diner on a road trip. We were blown away by this "noisy Jim" guy. I'm 41 now and its still a funny family story we look back on. Today I randomly ran across this video on CZcams. The universe has such a way. Simply amazing and thank you very much for this.
No matter where you travel too, you will find a chinatown and of course Chinese Restaurants. Enjoyed learning about Jim's story. Thank you!
Now it’s reversed.., Taiwan is so far advanced than most North American cities.. AI, tech, etc
This is just another Canadian going about his day .
They never got paid in the railways. Every country abused the Chinese! In New Zealand they imposed a poll tax.Sounds like a British colonial thing to me.
This video was filmed in 2005. I remember watching a similar Chinese restaurant series on OMNI TV in Toronto at about the same time. The producer or director was named SHEK. Anybody has recollections of it?
This is history , gone . We don't have this kind of hard working Chinese anymore . I miss those days in Saskatchewan though........
Hakka people were not nomads. They were original Han people living in the centre part of today China and were driven out to the south of China during the 1000 years in 8 mass migrations. Every time was during dynasty changes. Once they settled in a town or a village, they didn't move for another 300 to 400 years. Not until last 100 years, some moved abroad to find better life or because of fleeing their life for their participation in overthrowing Qing dynasty, fighting for Hakka Han predominant Taipin Heaven Kingdom.
I went to Havana and searched out the only Chinese restaurant open after hurricane damage kept repairs being done elsewhere. It reminded me of an 80s Toronto Chinatown spot, flavors are familiar, but nothing stood out. It was owned & operated by a Mandarin speaking Chinese expat cook, and a local Cuban wife, a couple's business.
Paid indentured Chinese men are actors in a depressing part of Cuba history. Their controlling measures were so vicious that centuries before Communism, these workers were not allowed to leave the island, and raise families there. Their unmarked graves make modern Cubans mostly ignorant of these Chinese' existence.
No kidding, my grandfather & grandmother came from the same region, and their marriage portrait resembles Jim's in looks. Eerily, my name is Jimmy, named after Carter, though.
Swimming for 6hrs no training? I’m sure they would have drowned. They must find another way. Plus you can simply travel to other side of Pearl River then walk into Macau
You must continue this series. Go to Europe and of course North America. You can go Jamaica.
My niece told me, when her grand mother in law passed away in the small city of Southern California, the entire community shut down, tens of thousands of citizens came to her funeral.
they all went to wrong place could have gone to Canada colored folk eat Asian food there more customers that way
would dearly like to try can you imagine flavors five that was a lesson there
well the rent is not too bad otherwise prairie winter brrrr
The Chinese cafe in Canada like US diner
Great video. When was it filmed?
Wow, I love this! It reminds me of my parents and all of my relatives. True Trinidadian.
Mr. Song is sooo Trinidadian!
This series is a must view for every student of Asian studies. Thanks for creating the videos and for uploading them. They were fantastic and fascinating!
Thank you!
Greetings from Indonesia
Which city are you in SA love from uk .thanks x
Cape Town
The situation in Cuba is even worse than when you made this video twenty years ago. I bet that mix blood Chinese Cuban boy who brought you to the cemetery now lives in Florida.
Just a quick note: When Mr. Yong talks about the sixth flavor "ma," he's referring to the sensation of "numbness," commonly associated with "ma la" in Sichuan cuisine. The term "umami" you mentioned in your book should actually be "xian" in Chinese.
You are right about xian in Chinese for umami. But Mr. Yong indicated to me the "ma" is actually umami. (I don't know why he used the word "ma" may be it's a Peruvian usage?
I love your documentaries
Thank you very much for this documentary. This video is worth gold.
Well done and thank you for bringing stories of the Chinese diaspora to us!
I m Singaporean Chinese but i have lived and studied in Trinidad. Am always happy to see videos like this coz i miss Trinidad and Tobago. And its people. I think i can relate well to this story! 😊
I was a Singaporean too! Until age 12.
Wow! That was unexpected! So happy to know that! Can speak Singlish? @@cheukkwan
I enjoyed this episode
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The way people remember things in history is different then what you learn from some history class or book
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No opportunity in Taiwan so i came to Argentins hahahaha what a legendary joke, history lesson is a hard lesson for the old man.
It was so sad that their forefathers risked their life in boat to Cuba and what left for their descendants only poverty and memory.
Stumbled on this video when planning my Havana trip as a Chinese Canadian - will definitely check out Barrio Chino when I'm there. Nice to see them speaking Cantonese too!
11:35 during the invasion of Poland has nothing to do with Hawaii? Sorry Jim Im calling BS because your dates do not make sence in the slightest way.
There were German submarines operating in the Pacific.
@@cheukkwanThe Germans and Americans didn’t declare war on each other until 41. U boats in the Pacific during 39 would have been an aimless voyage.
Germans had their colonial territorial district in Shanghai, so they hung on to it during WWII. In fact, a German expat helped take in refugees in Nanking, and saved them from the slaughter of the Nanking Massacre. Only Nazi Navy records, if any survived, would tell the tale, tbh. Don't slight the dead.
@@mellow-jello What are you going on about? You don’t make any sense either. If you’re talking about the Kiautschou Bay lease. The Germans only had it from 1898 until 1914. What’s your point?
Very interesting story. I really enjoyed the entire series.
What a lucky man. I aspire to have a similar success to his as a first generation although things have been bleak so far.
This is so cool. And all from 20 years ago. As an ABC, I never really realized that the Chinese are all over the world seeking opportunities. Shows how Americans have such a narrow outlook on the world.
Fascinating story. He seems sad to me behind the way he presents himself.
Just the Asian way. His eyes always like.
The Spanish had nothing to do with Chinese immigration to Peru. Peru declared its independence in 1821 and the first Chinese immigrants arrived in 1849.
Mr. Kwan, you have stepped into a very truncated version of the Chinese food history in Calcutta. There are the Fujianese, Cantonese as well as Hakka strands within the Chinese food culture of Calcutta. Perhaps some day you might have some time to visit the eastern USA, or even share a few thoughts over electronic media. Should love to discuss aspects of the Chinese food culture of Calcutta that have not been covered in your outstanding video, as well as the entire series. For example, I do not hear of CAUL FAT and its use in the "Chinese cuisine" of Calcutta. When I was growing up in the 60s, there was no Nelson Wang on the horizon, but other than the Tengra colony, the number of Chinese restaurants frequented by the so-called elites of that city numbered fewer than 5. And therein hangs a tale, or many tales, if you so choose. No picture of Chinese cuisine and culture in Calcutta is complete if a reasonably thorough review of these places is missing.
you are quite right. As this is a half-hour episode, there's only so much I can cover. I am making this video for an audience and they may not appreciate the different stands of Chinese food like you and I. Check out this video of me in Mumbai Litfest czcams.com/video/dQFYICmXWDA/video.html
Another great video!
Thanks again!
This should receive way more views and exposure
thanks. please help promote. Also see my book "Have You Eaten Yet?"
Wow, this is quite a different episode. It really surprised me!
thanks
What is she making at around 7:50? And is she saying that "crispy chicken 【香酥鸡排?], chop suey [杂碎】, and chicken with mushrooms [蘑菇鸡片?]" are Hakka dishes?
Oh I see. No, she didn't make it. Those were photos of "Hakka" cuisine I found and I inserted them there when I narrated about Hakka people.
@@cheukkwan Thank you. I ordered the book!