Stan Mah on the Blue Willow Restaurant's fish pond

Stan Mah on the Blue Willow Restaurant's fish pond

Stan Mah reflects on his late father, Victor (Vic) Mah opening and running the original Blue Willow restaurant. He takes listeners back to the past with a vivid description of the restaurant including a fun story about the restaurant’s goldfish.

Interview and editing by Scott Bell. This documentary was produced as part of a Community Service Learning project at the University of Alberta. It is part of a multimedia project capturing the history of Edmonton's Chinatown, called Figure 一,二,三,六,八.

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Grace Law, photo in front of the Harbin Gate, 1988

Grace Law, photo in front of the Harbin Gate, 1988

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Emmy Mah on the Klondike Days Parade float, 1953

Emmy Mah on the Klondike Days Parade float, 1953

Emmy Mah was a young teenager when she came to Canada, and she was one of the very few Chinese females in Edmonton at the time. Due to this, she was asked to participate in the Klondike Days Parade Fl...

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Ken Gee on picking goji berries in the Edmonton river valley

Ken Gee on picking goji berries in the Edmonton river valley

In this piece, we are just outside of the Shaw Conference Centre with Ken Gee, learning about the hill of Goji berries that once grew there on Grierson Hill. Ken shares a meaningful memory about him p...

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Fundraisers - Helen Kwan Yee Cheung on Cantonese Opera and Philanthropy

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Helen Kwan Yee Cheung, a 2013 M.A. University of Alberta graduate, pursued studying the Chinese community history in Edmonton through the lens of Cantonese Opera. She found that Cantonese Opera had el...

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Marty Chan on Dim Sum, Haw-Flakes, and Old Master Q

Marty Chan on Dim Sum, Haw-Flakes, and Old Master Q

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Maria Wong on burger places with friendly faces

Maria Wong on burger places with friendly faces

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Tin Yip on The Two-Way Street

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