I am still in Southern California (I get a longer "vacation" from Hyphen land just for the fact that spring semester for me doesn't start til January 24th), preparing for my older brother's wedding next weekend. Although I'm still sick, I'm slowly recovering and getting back into Work Mode.
As I've been in the San Diego area the past few weeks, I've been getting to know my way around Bonita, National City, Chula Vista and the Paradise Hills part of San Diego. The first thing any outsider will notice is how Filipino it is here. It makes me wonder if there are more Filipinos here than in Daly City!
This part of San Diego is just as hill-y as Daly City, so the only noticeable difference is that Daly City has rice cooker fog and San Diego has a plethora of tropical greenery (kalamansi, banana and palm trees) that would not survive the Bay Area winters.
The other evening my friend Richie picked me up so we could get some late-night boba in Claremont (an area North of where I'm staying, where there are tons of Asian businesses and car dealerships). We never made it to get boba because our car blew a tire; we had to settle for greasy Denny's. But on the way to Claremont Richie was telling me how Claremont could be San Diego's "Little Saigon," but all the car dealerships prevent more Asians from opening up businesses, in a sense blacklisting them from expansion. It made me realize that there must be a great story behind why the farther south you go in San Diego county, the more Filipinos you see. I know there's more to it than that all these Filipinos are military families.
If anybody knows their San Diego Asian American history, or of a place to do some k-box karaoke, drop me a line!
Posted by Audrey at January 7, 2005 12:18 PM
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