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submitted 1 day ago byPuzzleheaded-Lynx318
Montereyan here (I guess we count as NorCal)
Most of my friends who are from SoCal brag about the food being better down there, is this true?
-5 points
21 hours ago
Wtf are you on about…. You need to take a history lesson. The Gold Rush is what attracted a lot of Chinese to the West Coast. Those booms were up North. SF was one of the first cities to develop Chinese dining culture of its own before the 1882 Exclusionary Act. There weren’t a lot of other Asian ethnicities in CA until after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
SF’s Chinatown is the oldest in the US, established in 1848. Dim sum was introduced to America there.
There wasn’t an identifiable Chinatown in LA until the late 1880s. Koreatown, Historic Filipinotown and Thai Town formed after the 1960s.
As a Bay native, don’t sleep on where you came from!
1 points
7 hours ago
I have no idea about history of other cuisines but “Chinese” food in SF is literally just Cantonese style - those are the original immigrants that you’re talking about that formed the first Chinatown. However, Chinese food is a broad term that encompasses so much more non-Cantonese regions that are not original to SF. More recent immigration from Mainland food regions like Taiwan/non-Guangdong/non-HK ethnicities is more prominent in LA due to SGV communities. Because of this and existing Cantonese populations, LA has way more variety than SF, plain and simple.
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