The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese [Chinese Food: An All-American Cuisine, Pt. 2] | AJ+

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There's something adorable about an old Chinese women with a deep fried southern accent

I thank the Chinese in the Delta. They helped my mothers family for sure. My mother would tell me how they would allow my grandmother to buy on credit so they could eat. In tears! Thank you!

The deep southern accent makes me realize that this is their home. These communities are where they grew up. Made friends. Knew love. Knew heartbreaks. Laughs, cries, shared stories and delicious food. Southern culture shouldn't only mean the confederacy. This side of southern culture is underrated and needs to be known.

"We don't look like American people?" -cuts to grandpa wearing Ole Miss hat driving a bass fishing boat

That accent just shook my soul.

“Are we always foreigners?” That was very impactful for me.

"Southern style Chinese food" sounds absolutely amazing.

She ain’t Chinese, she’s American. Do you look at every white person and say they’re German? Do you look at every black person and say they’re Kenyan? These guys are hardcore Americans.

What I love about them is that they completely embrace their American culture without forgetting the Chinese culture

I'm a black woman raised in the south and I have never met a Chinese American person who sounds like a member of my family before. But when that lady started talking at 1:34 I was like "Aunt Geraldine???" I swear she sounds just like my aunt and my jaw just about hit the floor. I've never really considered before the contributions Chinese Americans have made to places other than either the east or west coasts of the US but it makes sense that they would be in the Delta too raising families and becoming part of southern history and culture. This video is great, thanks for teaching me something!

This near made me cry, I'm chinese and I have both black and white siblings, so I usually feel like I'm not allowed to be upset about racism against chinese people. It's always about black history in my house. Thank you for making me feel validated.

I am a Chinese that moved from New York to Louisiana 7 years ago and I am glad that I found this video. Helps me appreciate the southern beauty as a first generation Asian american.

Loooool Chinese lady with southern accent is everything

Damn that Chinese lady sound very southern that's how you know where you grow up has a very big difference

You can just feel the southern hospitality in Freida's voice and the way she conducts herself. She's very sweet.

Wow, they fed the black community when no one else would. Deep respect to the Asian community for that.

That southern twang is STRONG and I am living for it. She sounds like the kinda granny that would lead you inside, say you need some meat on your bones and then drown everything in gravy for you. This video made me very hungry and also made me disappointed that so many people would assume an Asian person is automatically fresh off the boat. Did people sleep through the Gold Rush section of their history class?

I'm from and was born in Greenville Mississippi. This video speaks facts. I guarantee you I could tell you the names of the Chinese Stores. I was born in 1960. And guess what. We did not call Chinese Asians, we call them Orientals because that's what we heard the whites say. But blacks saw the chinese as one of us and were very welcomed by our communities

This is the first time I have every seen a Chinese person with a southern accent it’s so amazing!