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September 17, 2021 0

Sounds of udon at Tsurutontan

Tsurutontan is a Japanese udon restaurant chain where the founder opened his first restaurant in Osaka, Japan in 1979. Then, in 1989, the first TsuruTonTan-Noodle Craftsman’s Hospitality restaurant opened up after the founder did extensive research on various styles of udon noodles. Their first international location outside of Japan was opened in 2016 in New York City. Now, they have expanded their locations to include Boston, another Manhattan location, and one in Hawaii. According to their website, the restaurant name […]

September 17, 2021 0

Balut brings business to Cavendish Game Birds

by Richard Auffrey

On a recent journey to southern Vermont, I visited Cavendish Game Birds to tour the facility and learn more about their captivating success story during this pandemic. Cavendish was established in 1988 by Bill Thompson, a chef who initially started raising pheasants, selling them to local restaurants. His brother, Rick, was convinced to join his brother’s endeavor, and in 1998, they purchased a 75-acre farm in Springfield, Vermont. They started selling other game birds as well, from quail to ducks. Over the […]

September 17, 2021 0

Shang-Chi: the success of cinematic Asian-American representation

by Sampan Staff

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings made history on September 3, 2021 as the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to feature an Asian lead. Just days later, it became the new record holder of highest grossing film during Labor Day weekend, and the highest grossing overall during the COVID-19 pandemic, having earned $71.4 million at the box office. Shang-Chi is an adaptation of a Marvel Comics storyline with dated origins that has been brought back […]

September 17, 2021 0

Massachusetts aids in Hurricane Ida recovery

by Sampan Staff

On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana. A Category 4 storm, nearly reaching category 5, Ida is now the second most damaging hurricane to hit the area after Katrina, which made landfall exactly 16 years prior. Ida brought extreme flooding and sustained winds moving at a high of 150 miles per hour as it tore through the state and made its way up to the Northeast. On September 1 through September 2, Ida weakened to a tropical […]

September 17, 2021 0

DACA ruling leaves undocumented in limbo

by Shira Laucharoen

On July 16, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) “is illegal,” according to the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. DACA is an immigration policy that permits some people with unlawful presence in the country, who came to the U.S. as children, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a work permit. Local activists in Boston responded […]

September 3, 2021 0

Cajun comfort comes to South End: Bootleg Special

by Anna Ing

High School friends and co-owners Chris Young and Stephen Chan opened their South End eatery Bootleg Special, a southern crawfish joint with a nod to the French Quarter. We went there to check out their dine-in only weekend brunch, available on Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 2:30pm. Located at the edge of South End by Mass Pike, upon entry you see a large, deep dining room. The setup transports you into a New Orleans-like space with chandeliers and a […]

September 3, 2021 0

New Josiah Quincy Upper School plans for fall

by Shira Laucharoen

The development of the new Josiah Quincy Upper School building is on schedule. The construction of the facility on Washington Street will mark a milestone for the school’s community, as students and teachers have been in temporary spaces, which did not accommodate the school’s growing needs, for a long time. While some community members have expressed concerns about the usage of the site and how building will impact the environment, they have also stated that it is important for students […]

September 3, 2021 0

Ongoing Struggles in Massachusetts Childcare

by Moninisha Yadav

When the COVID-19 pandemic took the U.S. by storm in March 2020, we saw nationwide shutdowns of nearly every type of establishment. This included schools and child care centers, leaving child care providers out of work, and parents to adapt by either working from home, leaving a job, or trying to get their child involved in Zoom classes. Now, as Fall approaches a year later, schools are preparing to go back, and parents are returning to in-person work, bringing back […]

August 20, 2021 0

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. […]

August 20, 2021 0

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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