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Tongs also provided protection for a workforce which was portrayed as bringing down American wages with their willingness to work for less than livable wages, used as scabs to break through mining strikes and blamed for general drunkenness, corruption and disease wherever it was found.īetter than ones you could buy: Make chicken lettuce wraps better than P.F. Mexico in the late 19th century didn’t have this cheap and plentiful labor, nor did it have the funds for these desired modernizations.Īmerican and European investments made the realization of extensive mining and necessary railroads possible, mostly on the backs of Chinese immigrants, mainly from the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong province in southern China.Įarly Chinese immigrants into Mexico were arranged through the Tongs in San Francisco, halls which served as gathering places for immigrants, as well as provided job placement and housing.

There was a need for cheap and plentiful labor to lay railroad tracks, cut tunnels through mountains and dig precious metals out of mines. The story of Chinese immigration into northern Mexico is much the same as their story in the western United States. What's interesting is that this dish doesn’t have much of a home presence in American households the way it does in Sonora, and even in Mexico, this homecooked noodle dish is limited mostly to home kitchens in Hermosillo, much in the same way a taste for root beer and hot dogs was left behind due to foreign investment, mining and railroads. Yes, the same chop suey found in every Chinese-American restaurant from coast to coast. However, this noodle dish is just as typical of Hermosillo as the world famous Sonoran doggos. One dish I grew up eating from my mother’s kitchen may not fit the expected Sonoran profile of golden fried beef and potato tacos, machaca con huevos, tamales and carne asada.