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  2. Miss Chinatown USA - Wikipedia

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    Miss San Francisco (2nd Runner-Up) 1997 1999 Alice Tam San Francisco, CA Miss San Francisco (2nd Runner-Up) 1994 Yan Wang Seattle, WA Yan Wang (unplaced in MCU 1998) competed as Miss Seattle Chinatown 1998. 2000 Karen Chen San Francisco, CA Winner 1999 2001 Valerie Foo San Francisco, CA Miss San Francisco (2nd Runner-Up) 2000 2002 Pamela Woon

  3. San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade

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    The Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Pageant is an annual pageant taking place in San Francisco, where Chinese American women compete to become Miss Chinatown USA, a Chinese community goodwill ambassador, along with winning prizes and scholarships.

  4. Ah Toy - Wikipedia

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    Ah Toy (Chinese: 亞彩; Sidney Lau: Aa 3 Coi 2; [1] 18 May 1829 – 1 February 1928) [2] was a Chinese American [3] sex worker and madam in San Francisco, California during the California Gold Rush, and the first Chinese sex worker in San Francisco. [4] Arriving from Hong Kong in 1848, [5] she became the best-known Asian woman in the American ...

  5. Melissa Ng - Wikipedia

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    Ng was crowned Miss Chinatown USA 1992. After winning the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant based in the city of San Francisco, she represented San Francisco at Miss Chinese International 1996. Ng had an interview during the final night, where she challenged Eric Tsang, and was later crowned as 1st runner up. Due to her strong Cantonese and ...

  6. Maria Kang - Wikipedia

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    She won first prize and began competing in beauty pageants on a regular basis. Over the next few years, Kang entered and was crowned Miss Petite Teen International, Miss San Francisco Chinatown, and Miss Philippines USA. [3] Kang then switched to fitness and figure competitions and, in 2003, won Miss Bikini

  7. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin

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    Cantonese is the language of San Francisco Chinatown’s dim sum restaurants and herbal shops, of Northern California towns such as Marysville, where Chinese gold miners settled in the 1850s.

  8. Column: The story of Las Vegas' Chinatowns has roots in the ...

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    Read more:San Gabriel becomes brand-name destination for Chinese tourists “A big part of the traffic coming into Chinatown is coming from California,” said Francisco, herself a former Californian.

  9. Coco Lee - Wikipedia

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    Lee and her family moved to San Francisco when she was around 10. [24] [25] She attended Redding Elementary School, Presidio Middle School and Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School there. [26] Lee won the title of Miss Teen Chinatown San Francisco in 1991 at age 16, marking a significant step toward her later success in the entertainment ...