Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston's Chinatown is small--eight square blocks--and quiet. The only testament to its presence is a large marble gate straddling Beach Street. From South Station, the arch announces Chinatown. Through the arch, the Rainbow Restaurant is one block down on Beach Street. The Rainbow is a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant and it serves cheap, good food. A Chinese family that immigrated to Boston from Vietnam runs the restaurant...
Members of the AAA presented Yan with a plaque commemorating a donation in his name to a Phillips Brooks House program which helps needy Chinese youths in Boston's Chinatown. Yan immediately opened his wallet and matched the $100 donation...
...seek his fortune in America. For a fee of $30,000, which he borrowed, he was smuggled into the country by plane at Honolulu. Confronted by the INS, Lin claimed political asylum, boarded another plane and promptly disappeared into the nearly impenetrable subculture of New York City's Chinatown...
Even without historical monuments, Boston's neighborhoods are wonderful. I'm a big fan of both Central Square and Beacon Hill, although for different reasons. The Asian groceries in Chinatown remind me of home and Haymarket almost makes up for that nearby tourist atrocity, Faneuil Hall. And as much as I might miss really good Mexican food, the Indian food around here is terrific...
BOSTON--More than half of Asians living in Chinatown are uninsured, and the utilization of health care services by Asian elderly people is one-third less than average, panelists told 120 gathered at the Medical School this weekend for what organizers called the first conference to be held on Asian American health issues...