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Re: What are the favorite Dim Sum dishes? 12:18 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Join us as we spend a fun foodie day exploring San Francisco’s Chinatown—the oldest Chinatown in North America! From steaming dim sum and juicy dumplings to fresh-baked buns, egg tarts, and other delicious bakery treats, this food adventure is packed with incredible flavors and hidden gems.

Re: The Art of Setting Up a Chinese Banquet Table 06:02 by ♭♫ [+-]

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This grand rural wedding is held in Guangdong, China. The host spent 2.6 million yuan to prepare 288 banquet tables for guests. What surprises everyone most is that guests don’t have to give any wedding gifts or red envelopes. Everyone can enjoy premium delicacies like abalone and bird’s nest for free throughout the feast. It fully shows the generous and down-to-earth local customs of Guangdong countryside.

Re: Digital Yuan Spells End For US Empire? 07/14/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

Who wants yuan if you can't use it when you want to?

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One of China's biggest fears is Chinese money leaving China.

In this video, I break down Beijing’s massive crackdown on offshore brokerages like Futu, Tiger Brokers, and Longbridge, and explain why this is really about capital flight, collapsing domestic confidence, and tightening state control over ordinary Chinese households.

From trillion-dollar capital outflows and collapsing property markets to financial surveillance, CRS 2.0, and the growing restrictions on overseas investing, this is the story of how the CCP is gradually closing the financial exits.

Because in modern China, your money may legally belong to you.
But your freedom to move it increasingly does not.

THE MO LUM OF SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN a documetary film by Leo Gong 07/14/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

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What does a world look like when you finally stop being afraid of it?

San Francisco's Chinatown was one of the earliest centers for the development of traditional Gung Fu in America. From Lau Bun — the first person to openly teach Gung Fu in this country, from a basement on Brenham Place in the 1930s — to the schools, lion dance teams, and family associations that sustained martial culture across generations, Chinatown built a living system of discipline, mentorship, and belonging that most people walked past without ever knowing existed.

The Mo Lum of San Francisco Chinatown is a documentary film about that world — and about what it means to return to it. [youtu.be]

Re: Cool Asian Kids Who Love To Dance 07/13/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Unitree’s Robots Leave Simon Cowell SPEECHLESS!

Re: Table Manners 07/13/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Chinese Dining Etiquette Made Simple: How to Impress at a Chinese Dinner (10 Must-Know Essential)

Re: 🇨🇳 is ripe for a revolution 07/12/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

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A single sentence on live television — a comparison between leaving a political party and walking out of a cult — ended one of the Democratic Party's most productive fundraising careers. In this breakdown, we examine the story of Lindy Li, a bundler and member of the Democratic National Committee's finance apparatus who helped raise tens of millions of dollars for the party, and what happened to her when she began asking a straightforward question after the 2024 defeat: where did the money actually go?

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Chinese Socialism can only survive if Western Capitalism continues to prop it up. This is a lesson for Newsom's Socialist Democratic Communist party of America.

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Re: Role Models who lift up the Chinatown community 07/12/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

Tenderloin is referred to as "Little Saigon" in Cantonese.

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I went into San Francisco’s Chinatown before closing to gather food for people experiencing homelessness in the Tenderloin.

I wanted to build a Chinatown buffet with whatever I could find - chow mein, fried rice, string beans, sweet and sour pork, fried chicken, breads,, egg tarts, watermelon and water.

Some places only had what was left.
Some orders had to be adjusted.
Some still gave with so much heart.

By the time I started serving,the day became more overwhelming than I expected.

People wanted to help.
People stood close.
And I was learning, in real time, that love also needs space and boundaries to move safely.

Even though the day felt messy, the food still reached people.

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Lifting the community one bun at a time

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In-N-Out Wouldn’t Take My Order… So I Went Into Chinatown Before Closing

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She lifts 2 communities at the same time.

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I went into Chinatown before closing and asked if any shops had leftover food they’d be willing to discount if I bought what was left. Little by little, one yes turned into another - and by the end, I brought trays of Chinese food, bakery items, and desserts back to feed people on the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin.

What started as a quiet ask became more than I expected. Not just food, but small moments of kindness, people remembering what was brought before, and care continuing even after the meal was over.

This mission is never only about food.
It’s about presence.
It’s about returning.
It’s about carrying what you can, and meeting people where they are with dignity, compassion, and care.

Re: support your favorite Chinese restaurant before it disappears for good. 07/12/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

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"Asian Restaurants Are Dying..." Kids of Parents Running Chinese Businesses Say They Are Quitting

Re: A Glimpse of Taishanese-Americans 07/12/2026 by ♭♫ [+-]

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Chin moved from Toisan, China with his mother to Boston’s Chinatown at two years old, making him one of few Chinese children around at the time when the US had a quota of 105 Chinese each year. This was 1953. When a nosy neighbor asked him, “Does your father love to work in the laundry?”

“He loves working in the laundry. He’s there almost 7 days a week for ten, eleven hours. He loves that job!” Chin laments how mistaken he was as a child about the realities of laundry life.

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