Cantopop Dance Party w/ DJ yiuyiu 瑶瑶 and Chinatown Records

Sunday, December 14, 1-4PM at Open Test Kitchen, we're going full Cantopop nostalgia and you're invited! Come dance to Cantopop hits, enjoy tasty Hong Kong snacks by M&D Food, and support local makers this holiday season.

It’s a homecoming for DJ yiuyiu, whose parents ran a Chinese bakery on our block in her childhood. We cannot be more excited to bring the Chinatown Records archive back to our street!

Holiday Market line up coming soon!

About Chinatown Records

Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 is a homegrown community effort homebased in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. DJ historian yiuyiu 瑶瑶 takes on her childhood name to care for & activate the Chinatown Records archive of over 35 record/CD/tape collections inherited from her family & neighbors. As a community-taught & -powered DJ historian, yiuyiu 瑶瑶 has the most fun steering karaoke dancefloors on the streets of Chinatown & training up next generation DJ historians of all ages to go back-to-back (b2b) with our beloved songs. All along the way, Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 evolves as an ever-growing record of the people we love, who bring all this music to life with us.

About M&D Food (Chef Kit)

Hong Kong is synonymous with street style food — from the fishballs to stinky tofu and fried chestnuts to egg waffles. As a little girl growing up in Hong Kong, this was Kit’s playground. Kit used to hang out at the local open-air market where her parents sold garments from a stall. She remembers the smell of freshly made fried foods, steaming hot buns, and curry soups that would fill the market air. Eating at these carts was special for Kit because during brief breaks, she would eat together with her parents as a family.

Kit came to California from Hong Kong in 2011 to give her children a chance for a better future. When she moved to the U.S., she worked in restaurants washing dishes and recycling cans. Now, she brings her passion for food to her community as a "Yut So" - a person who specializes in after-birth diets and care for families with newborns, alongside catering and pop ups. SHe often hears from Chinese immigrants saying that her cooking brings them memories of home, and that is what she wants to keep doing.

About Oakland Bloom and Open Test Kitchen

Oakland Bloom is a nonprofit that supports working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs to develop their food businesses. Through its project Open Test Kitchen, Oakland Bloom hosts a community kitchen hub, which offers accessible resources for chefs to prepare and share their foods, collaborate with one another, and build support. Oakland Bloom also hosts events that foster community connection , healing , resilience joy, and learning - both at Open Test Kitchen and through its neighborhood-based initiatives in Oakland Chinatown.