This Month’s Film: Eat a Bowl of Tea
Cuisine: Chinese

Chinatown New York was a dreary place in the decades before World War II. Not because of its dark alleyways, or its dusty mah jongg parlors, but because of its conspicuous lack of women. In the pre-war years, Chinatown New York was populated mostly by Chinese men who had come to America to seek their fortunes, leaving their wives behind, as the U.S. government would not allow entry to Chinese women. But with so many Chinese men having served on the battlefields of World War II, the government rescinded the restriction barring Chinese women, and war veterans were allowed to bring their brides to America. Wang Ben Loy is one such veteran.

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