Chinatown

... send you a facsimile."

Bro, that's why I just go to Chinatown in Boston and just look at the DVDs there and see what the names are.

'Cause that's how you ...

That's, that's, that's the originals, you know?

My father brought Wallum to the United States specifically so that he could share it with another culture.

And one of the big things was in Chinatown in Boston at the time, remember Dr. Paul Kwan would talk about how they didn't really want to share, you know, that the Chinatown elders and a lot of that mindset was like, this is ours.

And like, we need to we need to hold on to this space.

We need to hold on to these things.

So I feel like it is such an important conversation of like, why is the Wallum Temple in Orlando, Florida? Because somebody asked me that this weekend.

One of the guys was like, why did you guys pick Orlando? I was like, well, to be honest, My dad and my mom were both like, Boston's too cold.

But I told Larissa, I said, yeah, you know, couldn't really afford to make a temple in Chinatown, Boston.

There was no space and it wouldn't have been affordable.

The corner of my mouth kicked up, but I flattened it before she noticed.

One of my favorite restaurants before it closed was this tiny little place in Boston's Chinatown.

Vivian said hesitantly, like she was deciding whether or not to share the information with me even as the words left her mouth.

If you weren't looking for it, you'd miss it.

C- Christian, uh, Catholic, but then they'd be like, "Let's go to Chinatown and try some [laughs] Chinese medicine."

[laughs]

And so I remember, like, going to Chinatown Boston and, like, there'd this, like, disgusting black tea that, like, w- like, the woman had the biggest mole on her face-

[laughs]

... and she's giving it to you.