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Hong Kong Vintage Pop Radio

My Sifu, YC Wong. I've been with him since 1968. Life member.

My Si-Bak, Lam Chun Fai's website. He is the son of my Si-Gung, Lum Jo in Hong Kong.



Hung Kuen.net, a very good website of the Hung Ga style.



Here's a great list of AA Artists:



A very informative site about Chinese Lion Dancing, The Lion's Cave.



In case you're wondering what that Nihon Machi Street Fair is all about after seeing all my posters, it is a street fair in San Francisco's Japantown. Held every first or second week of August since 1974.



Kearny Street Workshop...theeeee Asian American Arts Organization. I was one of the original members started in 1973. Unfortunately, they don't have activities for us old farts anymore, but if you're between the ages of 18-35 and still consider yourself a spring chicken, you're gonna have a ball!



Our fearless former leader of Kearny Street Workshop....he's now a popular teacher at Kamehameha Academy in Honolulu.
Jim Dong, the man, the legend... and his wife, Gail Aratani also a former artist at the now defunct Japantown Art and Media Workshop is also a faculty at Kamehameha...unreal!



To the memory Wes Senzaki, a fellow artist at the now defunct Japantown Art and Media in San Francisco. He helped me in the past with the screenprinting of the street fair poster. Here's an article about him.

Film Maker Curtis Choy, Chonk Moonhunter Productions

The World of Lily Wong. A comic strip in Hong Kong. Written and drawn by Larry Feign, an expat in Hong Kong. The Lily Wong character is based on his Hong Kong wife whom just so happen to be a psychotherapist for expats adjusting to life in HK. It seems to make sense.
Unfortunately, the strip has been retired as of Oct. 1, 2001. Take a look at the archives at the site.



Taishan is the county in Guangdong, China which my parents immigrated from. My father left the place when he was twelve years old to join my grandfather in Yreka, CA. My great grandfather worked on the Trans Continental railroad in the US.
I first went to Taishan in 1979. And many times thereafter where I eventually got snagged for life. Just think...if there was no emigration from Taishan, we'd probably be standing shoulder to shoulder in Taishan devouring each other today...."KEH MA GAW HOY!"



Huaren, a site about the Chinese diaspora around the world. During my world travels, it was great coming upon ethnic Chinese everywhere I went...some in places I would never suspect...The world is a Chinatown--Four Seas, One Family;



Here are the lyrics and song for Chinatown, My Chinatown, 1906.
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Here is probably the most comprehensive list of sites about Chinatowns all over the world on the web. Please let me know of any dead links or any Chinatown links that I missed. Thank you.

Tangra, Calcutta's Chinatown

The Tangra Tiger, Chinatown, Calcutta, India

A Chinese Temple at Achipur, Bengal, India

The Chinese of Calcutta, India

The Chinese of Calcutta, India

Charek Chen's Images of Tangra, Calcutta, India

Chinatown, Madagascar

Chinatown, Yangon, Myanmar

Chinatown: Yaowarat, Bangkok, Thailand

Chinatown: Yaowarat, Bangkok, Thailand

Chinatown: Manila, Philippines

Chinatown, Singapore

Chinatown Glodok, Jakarta, Indonesia

Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chinatown, Portland, Oregon

Chinatown, Locke, CA

Chinatown, Havana, Cuba

More on Chinatown, Havana, Cuba

More on Chinatown, Havana, Cuba

photos of Havana Chinatown

Barrio Chino, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chinatown, Peru

Hakka Chinese of Jamaica

Tsinoy: Chinese of the Philippines

Barrio Chino, Lima, Peru

Chifa's are popular in Chinatown, Lima, Peru

photos of Chinatown, Lima, Peru

Chinatown, Phoenix, Arizona

Chinatown, Sydney, Australia

Chinatown, Melbourne, Australia

Chinatown, London, United Kingdom

Chinatown, Manchester, United Kingdom

Chinatown, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Chinatown, New York, New York

Chinatown, Boston, Massachusetts

Chinatown, Boston, Massachusetts

Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA

Bok Kai, Chinatown, Marysville, California

Chinatown, Butte, Montana

Chinatown, Butte, Montana

Keno got began in Chinatown, Butte, Montana

Tong war, Chinatown, Butte, Montana

Chinatown, Jeff Davis Creek, Montana

Chinese of San Diego, CA

Chinatown, Houston, Texas

The History of Chinese of Houston, Texas

Chinatown, Chicago, Illinois

Chinatown, Philadelphia

Philadelphia's Chinatown: An Overview

Chinatown, International District, Seattle, Washington

Chinatown, Oakland, CA

Chinatown, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Chinatown, Calgary, BC, Canada

Chinatown, Montreal, Canada

Chinatown, Edminton, Alberta, Canada

Chinatown, 102nd Avenue and 97th Street, Edminton, Alberta, Canada

Chinatown, Toronto, Canada

Chinatown, Paris, France

Chinatown, Rome, Italy

Chinatown, Yokohama, Japan

Official site of Yokohama Chinatown, Japan (in Japanese)

Yokohama Chinatown 1899, Japan

Official site of Shinchimachi, Chinatown, Nagasaki, Japan

Chinatown, Nagasaki, Japan

Chinatown, Nagasaki, Japan

Chinatown, Nagasaki, Japan

The Chinese in Nagasaki

Nankinmachi Chinatown, Kobe, Japan

Photos of Nankinmachi Chinatown, Kobe, Japan

Chinatown, Havana, Cuba

Chinatown, Honolulu, Hawaii

Chinese in Sri Lanka

Chinatown, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Chinatown, Sydney, Australia

Chinatown, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

Johannesburg Chinatown, South Africa

Chinatown Italia

Chinatown, Paris

Chinatown, Las Vegas, Nevada

Chinatown, Deadwood, South Dakota

Chinatown, Washington, DC

Chinese Texans

1940 Map of Chinatown, Fresno, CA

Fresno-Chinatown

Philadelphiašs Chinatown

Chinese Texans

Chinese Camp, California

Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas

Chinese, El Paso, Texas

Chinese Colony, El Paso, Texas

Chinese Dens, El Paso, Texas

Plum Alley, Salt Lake City, Utah

Ping Yang, Marcola, Oregon

Please let me know if I missed any other Chinatown sites

ChiamOnline, a resource of Chinese Americans
ChiamOnline


The Chinese American Experience by William Wei



The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

Jest Jamming Band
a true Chinatown band that still play a lot of Motown sounds.



Giant Robot, an interesting website of an AA magazine.



Yolk Magazine, an AA magazine. They've changed their format lately and included all kinds of babes...then that didn't work. Now the magazine is now defunct. Anyway, buy one of their famous "Got Rice?" t-shirts while you're there and say hello to Tommy Tam for me. He MAY give you a discount.



ok...Yolk has folded...now what is Tommy Tam to do? Open up a shop in San Francisco and continue selling those "Got Rice?" T-shirts.

Throughout my travels in Thailand, I was fascinated by and collected Buddhist amulets wherever I went. Many of them have special powers...like standing up to bullets. Here's a very informative website that explains what these amulets are all about.


Sam Hui, a Cantonese pop singer of the from the late 60's to throughout 90's. The site is in Chinese, so you're gonna have to adjust your character set to traditional Chinese.



Here is a site where you can listen to Sam Hui's famous hit,
Bun Gan Baat Leuhng (Tit For Tat)
The song is from Sam's movie, The Private Eyes (1976). There is a good translation and romanized words for you to sing along.


Teresa Teng, she is a very popular Chinese and Japanese singer from Taiwan. She mysteriously died a about seven years ago...maybe she just pulled an "Elvis" on us and is really alive and well somewhere happily collecting her royalty checks...OK Teresa...that was very funny, you can come out now...*boo hoo*



Hong Kong movie actress, Cherie Chung (Jung Cho Hung). She was popular throughout the 80's. She got married in 1989 and dropped out of the limelight.
Thanks to Mollie Choi of Korea for putting together this great site for this legendary actress.



Chow Yun Fat, da main. A great actor. I will never forget that last scene in the HKTV series, The Bund (circa 1980), as he was getting shot up. Check it out if you ever have a chance.



Yao Ming, one big bad chino

Old Master Q Comics of Hong Kong. Also know as Lo Fu Jih in Cantonese. A longtime comic character. Here is the official site. I hope you find Lo Fu Jih as funny as I have. The creator and artist, Alfonso Wong now lives in the San Gabriel Valley of California.



Here's another site with some Lo Fu Jih comics.

Hung Sheng of Taiwan's southern lion dance mpegs. That third clip is amazing.

Chinese Playground, a book written by Bill Lee. I grew up only a block from the playground and spent a lot of time there when I was a kid. It was definetly ground zero for the Chinatown gang explosion in the mid 60's that eventually broke out into all out gang war that left a carnage of over thirty casualties. Lee's personal account is an interesting view of what it was like to grow up in Chinatown during that era. By the way, he's May Lee's brother.

The Wah Mee Massacre in Chinatown, Seattle, Washington in 1983 with 14 fatalities. By Todd Matthews. A 17 chapter book on the web.

Ho Yan Hor Herbal Tea. This is my magical cure all Chinese herbal tea. It relieves my headaches, hangovers, stomach flus, overwork and all the yeet-hei stuff. You can find this tea at most Chinese herb shops and some grocery stores. Made in Ipoh, Malaysia, one of my old stomping grounds on my world travels where Lee Suet Wing said, "let's make a move". (This is not a paid advertisement.)

Photographer Calvin Jeng, lucky guy gets to photograph all the beautiful babes...now why can't I do that? By the way...he knows his Hassleblad cameras and does very reliable repair work.




Girls with guns....what more can I say? Has some of Calvin's ripped off pictures here too.




The last movie theatre in San Francisco which shows Hong Kong movies on the silver screen. All the Chinese movie theatres in San Francisco's Chinatown have all closed down. Please support them and let everyone know that video did not kill the Chinese movie theatre. Oh, and while you're there, please give my regards to Junior. He might give you a free popcorn when you tell him the HULK sent you.



My fav restaurant, New Lun Ting, aka Pork Chop House on Jackson Street in SF Chinatown. I can only find a write up of their toilet on the world wide web. Try their world famous lamb curry or roast pork. Too bad Connie doesn't work there anymore. She was becoming the female version of Edsel Fong, other than having a bad case of steatopygia, she would have started grabbing the guys too.



Oh...here's a little write up about Pork Chop House



Meet Professor Joe Fong, PHD.



The entire Liang Zhu Concert (also known as Butterfly Lovers) in midi


Here's is the entire 27 minute Lian Zhu Concert in audio format. A 12 megabyte download.


The story of Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai explained


.....and an official Liangzhu site. It's in Chinese.


The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
(American Memory, Library of Congress)

Tons of historical images and historic documents pertaining to the Chinese in California.

a site for Chaozhou (or teochiu, diojiu, chiuchow) people. I'm not Chaozhounese, but I really appreciate a lot about their culture, style and food. I met many Chaozhounese in my travels especially in Southeast Asia. I have even traveled to Shantou and Chaozhou city.

My favorite restaurant for siu yeh (midnight snack). Probably the narrowest building in San Francisco...about 12 feet wide. They have good jook, low mein, guen fun (rice rolls), etc. Funky wooden stools, 100 year old marble table tops with echoes of the spirits of Sam Wo's past, a classical hand operated dumb waiter (that's a little elevator for food which I nearly got my head chopped off when I was a kid), louvre windows overlooking the street (a perfect sniper position facing the Golden Dragon). The only thing that's missing is Edsel Fong. I was told by the waitress that all of those polaroids of Edsel groping at female customers were burned at the gravesite at his funeral.



For the best Beef Chow Fun in the city, the bare bones Kam Po restaurant on Broadway and Powell Street, San Francisco. Their famous roast pork and pan fried noodles are excellent. Their toilet floor seems to be always greasy...your feet slide apart when standing, that is SO cool!



Tu Lan Vietnamese restaurant. Probably the best Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco. Located on a drug infested street, 6th and Market Street. The best place to appreciate this restaraunt is the seats at the counter where you can watch the two cooks whip out one dish after another. I learned how to cook beef curry just sitting there.
Here's an interesting write up:



Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War



The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.



A lot of us baby boomers will be or is or already went through this...caring for our aging parents. If our parents had us in their mid-twenties or thirties, they are now most likely frail and dependant elderly who require a lot of attention or have passed on.

Being 2nd generation Chinese American, the Confucian ethic has been unconsciencly deeply ingrained in me. Honoring my parents and caring for them in their old age was naturally my responsibility because of the filial piety in Confucianism.

Caregiving for a frail elderly parent is very demanding and no one on the outside can fully understand what this is like. For more than a year I cared for my frail, diabetic, visually impaired with heart condition, mother which was not easy while juggling the demands of my family, work, deadlines and caring for my own health and sanity as I found myself falling into a depression. My siblingsdidn't help much nor wanted to talk to me about the situtation. My mother went in and out of the emergency room with hospital stays four times in one year.

She enrolled in On Lok Senior Daycare Center and it helped her with a daily routine and attention to her medical condition. I continued caring for her in the evenings and weekends. Unfortunately my mother did not qualify for Medi-Cal, so we were paying through our noses for the care. It was either that or me going on Prozac.

Please do learn the signs of stress from such a situation, remember, you're not alone. Seek help professional help.

My mother passed away on Auguest 4, 2003.

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Artists whose works I admire and influenced by:








Anna May Wong. The first Chinese American of the American silver screen.


I've been collecting vintage (1920's to1949) Shanghai Posters. Here are some sites with an interesting collection of Shanghai posters. What I really like about these posters was that it was from a time when mass media and printing was just beginning. Graphic art and design were fairly innocent then. The posters are beautifully done. They incorporated fine art in its medium.




Here's my collection now online. Contains a handful of rare nude Shanghai posters. They were censored from a gallery showing at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.


The Shanghai posters evolved into a propaganda art during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution (1966-1975) in China. Here's an exhibit of those posters.



Another site with a good collection of Cultural Revolution posters with explanation of the history and events around those times. The Stefan Landsberger collection.


A site about Mao buttons.


Here's are two books on mastheads and clip art from the cultural revolution era online.

Posters mostly from post cultural revolution.

The East is Red, a Chinese revolutionary play during the cultural revolution. Here's a site with a lot of clips from the film.

Shanghai Tang....I had very similar ideas of doing things like that before.


Here is an interesting site you can spend a few hours reading about the heart of Asian cinema.


An interesting site on Japanese pop culture. I like the movies they have in the video section. Especially the one of the Weiner Festival.

Learn how to swear in Cantonese....but I do not recommend you use it on a Cantonese person unless you're tired of living.
Do you lay low in May? Yes, far and high.

Another site to learn how to swear in Cantonese. Can you say Polk Guy?

.....and another site on how speak "cho-how" Cantonese. Actually, you can learn a lot of straight Cantonese here too.

Xizhang, Zhongguo (aka Tibet)

Hey...did you know the first man ever executed with lethal gas was a Chinese American?
Read about the execution of Gee Jon on February 8, 1924

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