April 25, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 8
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Month: August 2021

Women celebrate August Moon Festival
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QARI hosts in-person August Moon Festival in Quincy

by Sampan Staff

On August 15, 2021, the town of Quincy celebrated the August Moon Festival in person. The event, hosted by Quincy Asian Resources, Inc. (QARI), saw a multitude of attractions and vendors, from rock climbing and bouncy castles, to cultural performances that included groups of both East and South Asian descent. Despite the Summer heat, droves of families and individuals came out to enjoy the festival. The street was lined with vendors from both sponsoring organizations and local groups and shops. […]

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Press release – municipal non-profit partners address extreme heat in communities hit hard by COVID-19

by guest

BOSTON – Communities hardest hit by COVID-19 will be getting some extra help facing the dual challenges of pandemic recovery and rising summer temperatures this year, thanks to a unique partnership among local government and area non-profits.  The Boston-based Barr Foundation is working with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) and Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) this summer to distribute emergency heat mitigation funding to communities heavily impacted by COVID-19.  In this second year of the “COVID-Safe Cooling” program, five […]

Crepe at Cafe Phinista
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Café Phinista review

by Anna Ing

Owners Yeanie Bach and Phi Pham started out with a dream: to share the beauty of Vietnamese coffee with Boston by doing a few area pop ups, before finding their dream home in Fenway last summer to open Café Phinista. A month earlier they also opened a bánh mì shop, Bánh mì oi, in West Roxbury. At Café Phinista, they only use coffee beans in their Vietnamese Coffee from a farm in Vietnam (they are the world’s second largest grower […]

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Movie Review: Confetti

by Admin

Confetti, a film directed by Chinese Academy Award winner Ann Hu, is at first glance about a young girl named Meimei Chen (Harmonie He). Her story begins in a small town in China, where she lives with her father, Chen (Li Yanan), and her mother, Lan Chen (Zhu Zhu). Almost immediately, we learn that Meimei is functionally illiterate, as we witness her struggle to write her name and read sentences on a school chalkboard. Later in Meimei’s school, an English […]

Melissa Li and Kit Yang wrote the Chinatown musical
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Chinatown: The Musical

by Shira Laucharoen

Company One Theatre and Pao Arts Center held a virtual concert and conversation about a new musical informally titled the “Boston Chinatown Musical,” on August 19. The show was written and performed by Kit Yan and Melissa Li, the 2020-21 C1 PlayLab Pao Fellows, and the artists have given Sampan an inner look at their creative process. “This particular story is based on our own personal experiences in Boston Chinatown,” said Yan. “Melissa’s family lives in Chinatown. Based on some […]

Mooncake August Moon Festival history
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The first August Moon Festival in Chinatown

by Richard Auffrey

In 1885, Boston’s Chinatown celebrated their first public celebration of Chinese New Year, their most important holiday. Curiously though, their second most important holiday, the August Moon Festival, wasn’t celebrated publicly in Chinatown until 1970. It is unclear why it took so long for this festival to be celebrated, but it would continue to be celebrated nearly every year afterwards. The history of the August Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Festival, and the Mooncake Festival, […]

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New grant recognizes challenges for AAPI businesses

by Jacqueline Church

The AAPISTRONG Restaurant Fund of the National Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship (National ACE) provides grants directly to AAPI restaurant owners who have been negatively impacted by Covid-19 throughout the United States. This is a new grant opportunity for struggling AAPI restaurants. As restaurants begin to reopen or increase their capacity, unforeseen difficulties, challenges, and costs can accompany this process. National ACE looks forward to helping restaurants make this transition by providing them with additional resources. Grubhub’s $2 million donation […]

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Colleges reopening – a sense of normalcy returns

by Martin Ma (馬笑喻)

In the coming weeks, colleges will be fully reopened for the first time since 2019. Students will either get the chance to reunite with their friends or finally get a taste of real college life. However, a recent wave of COVID-19 cases propelled by the Delta variant has caused the colleges to restructure some of their guidelines upon the arrival of thousands of students.  At Tufts University, “All vaccines approved by another country or the World Health Organization (WHO) will […]

Malden's Chinese Cultural connection crowd of people
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Malden’s Chinese Cultural Connection engages community with open house

by Sampan Staff

On Saturday July 24, 2021, the Chinese Cultural Connection (CCC) in Malden opened its doors to the community. Located in the J Malden Center, the CCC gathered its staff and friends in the lobby for a day of fun, family and connection. Booths were set up showcasing traditional Chinese artifacts such as fans, coins, and dolls. Chinese knots were being woven, and across the way was a calligraphy station, where guests could request a custom phrase. The largest crowd present […]

Chop suey in bowl with spoon
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The origins of American chop suey

by Richard Auffrey

For those growing up in New England, especially during the 1960s-1980s, American chop suey was ubiquitous, at restaurants, functions, school cafeterias, and at home. The basics of this casserole dish included ground beef, macaroni and tomato sauce, with some variation of other ingredients, such as the addition of onions, peppers, or even Worcestershire sauce. I ate and enjoyed plenty of this hearty dish, which was considered inexpensive and easy to prepare. Many people believe that it is primarily a New England dish, largely […]

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