One of the first days I was in Panama, a Panamanian person who watches Neng Now messaged me and told me the best spot to get dim sum. I thought they might just profiling and thought I was Chinese…but they were not, because it’s literally just a Panamanian tradition to go get dim sum on the weekends. “Chinese breakfast,” they call it.
I am not Chinese and I speak literally not a lick of Chinese, haha. However, Flavio speaks some Chinese (much more than I do) because he went to a Chinese school, where they taught Mandarin, even though most Chinese-Panamanians speaks Cantonese! The vast majority actually - over 90% - speak Cantonese. So if that isn’t cultural intermingling, I don’t know what it!
So here it is: a (very) brief history of the Chinese in Panama. It’s just another part of what makes Panama a diverse country. History is never perfect, but if we can learn from it, the future will thank us. And for now, Panama is doing a pretty good job…that happens to be very yummy too ;)
Thanks to Flavio for taking me out to dimsum and teaching me SOOO much about Panamanian history - I am glad we will have lawyers like you. Thanks to Carlos Enrique for making this video with me! And to Zebulo Hostel for putting up with my filming all the time :P
That’s all for now - like Neng Now on facebook and instagram...and go to Lung Fung for the best dimsum!
...P.S.
For those curious:
Bruce Chen, MLB pitcher (Baseball is Panama's national sport!)
Jorge Cham, Artist of Piled Higher and Deeper (got his PhD from a weird school named Stanford)
Shey Ling, Miss World Contestant 2007 (I think this is important because it's a minority competing on the world stage)
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