Lambowner
(Lamb Owner)
August 29, 2018, 1:41pm
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As if Houston’s Chinatown weren’t already world class:
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Huh, surprised at its location in Houston. I wonder if they’ll have a little restaurant at lower prices like the CIA or other cooking schools.
Lambowner
(Lamb Owner)
August 29, 2018, 3:17pm
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That would be great! It appears the teaching will be via internet, but I guess there is a physical location for the students to attend.
Beijing is playing catch up to Bangkok:
I just don’t associate cooking schools with being in Houston. More like NYC or Napa.
sck
August 29, 2018, 6:23pm
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Is there a big Cantonese population in Houston?
Lambowner
(Lamb Owner)
August 29, 2018, 8:21pm
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I don’t know abut specifically Cantonese, but we have a large Asian immigration, which I assume includes many Cantonese. Our Chinatown is sure large and has hundreds of restaurants and food outlets.
https://www.visithoustontexas.com/blog/post/an-outsiders-guide-to-houstons-chinatown/
Chinese Americans are Americans who are descendants of Chinese ancestry, which also includes American-born Chinese persons. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is a further subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans are immigrants along with their descendants from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, as well as from other regions that include large populations of the Chinese diaspora, especially Southeast A
By demographics, Houston is technically in the top 20.
But if we’re going with wiki:
Chinese languages, mostly Cantonese, are collectively the third most-spoken language in the United States, and are mostly spoken within Chinese-American populations and by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, especially in California and New York. Over 2 million Americans speak varieties of Chinese, with Mandarin becoming increasingly common due to immigration from mainland China and to some extent Taiwan. Despite being called dialects or varieties, Cantonese, Taishanese, and Manda Acc...
Looks like a higher % of Hokkien is spoken in Texas. So no idea.
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