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A retail center in Chinatown in southwest Houston, where restaurants serving authentic Chinese food are located. The Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown Management District) defines it as being roughly bounded by Redding Rd and Gessner Rd to the East, Westpark Dr to the North, Beltway 8 to the West, and Beechnut St to the South. [1]
Vietnam War memorial in Little Saigon, Houston, Texas, United States. Vietnamese Walk of Honor Sign. Little Saigon, also popularly known as Vietnamtown or simply Viet-Town, is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas centered on Bellaire Boulevard west of Chinatown. It is one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the United States.
Many Chinese businesses moved there, [6] as a previous Chinatown in Downtown was replaced with commercial development by the 1970s. [7] The EaDo Chinatown solidified as many Asian immigrants, including Viet Hoa, began moving to Houston in the 1970s. By the 1980s a theater, supermarkets, warehouses, a bank, and restaurants were located there.
The Daily Houston Telegraph, in January of that year, stated that 247 Chinese docked in Galveston and went onwards in the region. [3] The 1877 Houston City Directory listed three ethnic Chinese who worked in laundries, [4] and the 1880 United States Census, the first to count the Chinese in Houston, [3] showed 7 Chinese residents in there ...
In 2005 Houston had 32,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, making it the second largest Vietnamese American community in the United States of any city after that of San Jose, California. [14] In 2006 Greater Houston had around 58,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, giving it the third largest such community of all U.S. metropolitan ...
History of Vietnamese Americans in Houston; History of Vietnamese military ranks; History of Việt Nam; History of organized crime in Saigon; History of the Armée de l'Air in the colonies (1939–1962) History of the Cham–Vietnamese wars; History of the Communist Party of Vietnam; History of the Ho Chi Minh City Metro; History of the Jews ...
Houston has large populations of immigrants from Asia. In addition, the city has the largest Vietnamese American population in Texas and third-largest in the United States as of 2004. [1] [2] Houston also has one of the largest Chinese American, [3] Pakistani American, [4] [5] and Filipino American [6] [7] populations in the United States.
Several Asian Chinatowns, although not yet called by that name, have a long history. Those in Nagasaki, Kobe, Kuwana, and Yokohama, Japan, [18] Binondo in Manila, Hoi An and Bao Vinh in central Vietnam [19] all existed in 1600. Glodok, the Chinese quarter of Jakarta, Indonesia, dates to 1740. [20]