In 1984, volunteers stood outside supermarkets in Orange County, clipboards in hand, helping fellow Vietnamese Americans register to vote. Van Tran, then a freshman at UC Irvine, was one of them. The ...
NEIGHBORHOOD ALIVE. ON SACRAMENTO’S STOCKTON BOULEVARD. INSIDE THIS VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT, TRADITION IS IMPORTANT. THE RESTAURANT’S BEEN HERE ABOUT 19 YEARS, BUT MY HUSBAND AND I TOOK OVER RIGHT ...
A Vietnamese-operated shop at Wilson Blvd and N. Hudson Street, circa 1987 (photo by Michael Horsley, via Echoes of Little Saigon Project) A marker celebrating a former cluster of Vietnamese ...
ABC Supermarket in the heart of Little Saigon is like a Donald Trump tariff rant come to fragrant, tasty life. Sorghum liquors from China. Frozen seafood from Malaysia. Thai fish sauce. Japanese ...
As the southern city of Saigon fell and South Vietnamese residents fled, tens of thousands made their way to the United States and many to Orange County where they gave birth to Little Saigon. And in ...
As the Little Saigon community gathers to celebrate Tết, the Lunar New Year, we know a little bit more about its residents than before in its nearly 50 years. Many of this year’s celebrations – ...
The brother-and-sister team behind Little Saigon restaurant, one of Mills 50’s first Vietnamese venues, is closing after ...
The fall of Saigon 50 years ago prompted a mass exodus of Vietnamese over the next months and years. Many were evacuated by the United States military and brought to America to resettle. And as more ...
Dodging artillery fire and the blooms of fiery explosions, the family of 10 ran fiercely toward the promise of America. “It was to find freedom,” said Vinh Nguyen, who was 15 when his family almost ...
The owner of a struggling shopping center in Seattle’s Little Saigon neighborhoods is suing the city after a deal to transform the mall fell through. In a lawsuit filed in August, Dennis L. Chinn, ...
Tết is officially Jan. 29, but the festivities begin weeks ahead of the holiday and continue well afterward, making this is a great time to visit San Jose’s Little Saigon neighborhood. Shops and ...