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Ready to learn how to cook from a Chinatown auntie?

On the eastern side of Chinatown at 1 Pike Street, we're building Chinatown!Studio, an intergenerational space where Chinatown aunties (and uncles!) of different regionalities can teach culture through food. Through learning about ingredients and cooking techniques, we'll discuss wider traditions around food that are tied to rituals or regional heritage. By honoring women’s roles as the transmitters and guardians of culture and memory, we foster listening and knowledge sharing to build our collective memories and sustain our neighborhood’s cultures.

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Chinatown Shopping

The Chinatown Shopping series celebrates the diversity of the Chinese diaspora found in Manhattan’s Chinatown through the lens of everyday kitchen ingredients. In this three-episode series, each video features a Chinatown aunty or uncle who takes us along on their typical grocery shopping experience in the neighborhood. They explain to us what they buy at each location and how these products are reflective of their regional background. There’s Meemee, the sword wielding Cantonese aunty, Angle, owner of the Teochew snack shop, New York Bo Ky, and Aunty Chen and Aunty Lian, opera singers from Fujian! Each person takes us through the familiar streets of Chinatown, but shows us a slightly different culinary side. 

The mission of this series is to highlight Chinatown’s small businesses and locally made delicacies. As such this is supported by the Department of Small Business Services as part of the All In NYC campaign.