Long-time residents of Oakland's Chinatown share their stories for a project that aims to preserve the community's history.
"It's easier to digest by your body. You cannot find this type of soup anywhere in the United States," said Chen. "Our moms would cook this soup for us."
Chan is carrying a black and white picture of the building taken in the 1950s, when it was the Great China Restaurant. "My family owned that restaurant from 1943 to 1961 and that was where my childhood blossomed," said Flo Oy Wong, a self-described "restaurant kid" who worked at her family's restaurant after school.When she was a child, somebody gave her a Brownie camera which she used to take photos of people and places around Chinatown. In the 1980s she began to make drawings of life in Chinatown from those photos.
"At times, I felt like I was really not an American because of racism and sexism. Chinatown was the only world I knew, even though we were a part of Oakland. My heart is there," she explains.
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