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While the Chinese community in Mexicali is a historical community, today there are still immigrants going to Mexicali to make a new life. There are many Chinese clubs and associations. Mandarin and Cantonese classes to preserve the language. Chinese festivals. The Chinesca has slowly been renovated and revived, especially right before Covid. It's an important community. There's also a large Chinese community with a Chinatown in nearby Tijuana. And of course Mexico City has a big community and beautiful and ever growing historical Chinatown and like 3 other unofficial Chinatowns.
My girlfriends family is from Sinaloa. There was also a large population of Chinese immigrants there. She is 1/8th Chinese. The stories she tells is her family who was Chinese was forced to leave the country. Chinese immigrants were being blamed for the poverty in Mexico at that time. Many had to leave or just disappeared. Her grandmother and siblings who were 50% Chinese were allowed to stay.
By the 1920s, the number of Chinese in the country was about 26,000. However, strong anti-Chinese sentiment, especially in Sonora and Sinaloa, led to deportations and illegal expulsions of Chinese-Mexican families in the 1930s with an official count of 618 Chinese-Mexicans by 1940.[7]
While the Chinese community in Mexicali is a historical community, today there are still immigrants going to Mexicali to make a new life. There are many Chinese clubs and associations. Mandarin and Cantonese classes to preserve the language. Chinese festivals. The Chinesca has slowly been renovated and revived, especially right before Covid. It's an important community. There's also a large Chinese community with a Chinatown in nearby Tijuana. And of course Mexico City has a big community and beautiful and ever growing historical Chinatown and like 3 other unofficial Chinatowns.
Apparently there is a growing demand for quality chinese food.
Of course the food has been localized...this happens everywhere with every cuisine (Hard shell tacos in USA and Spaghetti with meatballs...in the UK Chicken Tikka Masala...it happens all over) but in Mexico City for example if you want AUTHENTIC Chinese cuisine you go to Colonia Viaducto where they are recent immigrants and keep coming in and the restaurants mainly cater to them but more and more locals are going in compared to the historic restaurants in the downtown Chinatown which went through the same process as Mexicali, Tijuana, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, NYC...etc...there's a little for everyone!
I dated a girl born in Mexicali, and she talked about the Chinese population there once or twice. I dont have any particular insight into their culture, but I can confirm they exist, as a sizeable/identifable minority in Mexicali.
Only the owners of Chinese restaurants in Calexico. When I was in Calexico, I saw a Korean Church. I was like, what the heck is that doing out here. But then I looked it up online, and there is even on in El Centro
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