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Cheuk Kwan's Chinese Restaurants
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2011
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: 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: 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
Great philosophy. Sounds Hegelian
Why you skip out on United States? Australia? UK? France, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines👎
Awesome Videos
The song that plays as you arrive at the golden dragon is spectacular. is there a recording of it available somewhere?
My estimation is that this was ~ 20 years ago. My late friend owned Mr Chans😢.
Bet that the Chinese Frank Sinatra guy sang in the Casinos in Cuba in the fifties…Maybe met Frank Sinatra.🐇
Sao Paulo's Chinatown should exist, since few years after the Chinese came to Brazil in 1812 and made the Chinese Brazilian community just 2 centuries ago.
good work!
Good piece.
Excellent series and an excellent book.
Great videos with a topic that interests me a lot. As a Chinese, I too, look for Chinese food everywhere I go, and I like the stories behind them. I feel that this channel should get many more views, and as a friendly suggestion, maybe using HD and better lighting will help?
Your shows are very interesting to watch, very informative.They remind me of when we were growing up. They show the struggles and perseverance of the Chinese people in different places around the world making a lifestyle through their restaurant. It was something I had to experience growing up in Ottawa, Ontario Canada, too since my parents had to raise us four boys who ate a lot and what a better way to make a living than to cook for people while feeding your family too. But nice insight into the lives of the different generations of restaurateurs. Good job. Keep up the good work travelling abroad and discovering new stories to share.
I stumbled onto your channel by watching Peruvian Chifa videos and have been binge watching all your videos. I had no idea the Chinese are in every corner of the world from Cuba to Norway and South America to Israel and everywhere in between! Great videos and so fascinating their individual stories!
More videos. Love your work. There are so many stories from overseas Chinese all around every countries.
Aiyooo this chapter is so sad😢
Chineseism 😂 first time I hear tht phrase. I learn something new everyday
I wanna go visit Madagascar. I like the cartoon Madagascar ❤
Nice
Always appreciate your video!!!
Amazing.
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Great documentary
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There is a estimation that 1.5-3 millions of peruvian are tusan
Really, there???.. many are mixed race, though, mixed with other races if ur talking 🇨🇳, hahaha. That alone we have of actual 🇨🇳 immigrants in 🇨🇦 fwiw. There 😒
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This was beautiful.
wow PERU FROM AUSTRALIA
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Gracias, ahora sé que es "umami", he escuchado a los cocineros esa palabra acá en Perú, no sabía el significado. Cuando cocino imagino que soy un chino cocinero y trato de sacarle el umami a todas las comidas. Me gusta saltear. Tengo familia de ojos rasgados {-.-} quizá tenga sangre china. 😂
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I have shared this with my friends....................
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im 1/2 white and 1/2 chinese 44, and my wife is 100% german. im a medical doctor working and living at LA, CAL, USA. i hate mexico and its evil people, lost history & gang raped nation. the mexicans treated my chinese family with deep and long hate. on a better & happy note, the people of peru treated my chinese family with open arms and love. us chinese love everything about pretty peru, wonderful history, warm people & nice climate. this is why i made this comment. if you are chinese and living at mexico, hit thumbs up if you agree. if you are chinese and live at peru, hit thumbs up if you agree. thank you peru from the bottom of our hearts, wise, rich & greatful chinese people!
cara, que viagem é essa que eu acabei de esbarrar?
Essa é a história dos meus pais. Eu cresci escutando as histórias deles mas vendo no filme me afeta de uma forma diferente. Muito orgulho dos meus pais.
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 TH-cam. 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
This is the story of my parents. They really had to swing across the river with very little training. My mom had no idea how to swim. Someone took her to the river and taught her the basics.
You must continue this series. Go to Europe and of course North America. You can go Jamaica.