Asian Life in Houston | Asian American Poll

ASIAN LIFE IN HOUSTON
(Updated Tuesday, Apr 1, 2008, 05:14:25 PM to reflect the 100 most recent valid responses.)

Which Houston area offers the best environment for Asian Americans?
Katy/West Houston | 26%
Sugar Land/Ft Bend Cty | 32%
Westside Chinatown | 7%
W Univ Pl/Inner Loop | 24%
The Woodlands | 11%

What's the best thing about living in the Houston area?
No Cold Winters | 3%
Many Good Asian Restaurants | 32%
Reasonable Cost of Living | 54%
Southern Hospitality | 11%

What's the worst thing about living in the Houston area?
Hot Muggy Summers | 56%
Pollution & Dominance by Big Oil | 25%
Rednecks in Outlying Areas | 19%
Asian Community Political Squabbling | 0%

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MR ES:

There are two Little Saigons in Houston.

One of them is in Midtown, between Milam and Main street, south of Pierce Elevated and north of 59. There's a ton of Viet restaurants and businesses over there, along with street signs in blue giving an APPROXIMATE Viet translation for the American names. (Thanks to then-councilwoman, Dr. Martha Wong!)

The other Little Saigon is on Beechnut between Beltway 8 and Cooke Road in Alief. The corner of Wilcrest and Beechnut is packed with Viet grocers, Pho parlors, Cafés and music stores. Ironically, some of the businesses in Westside Chinatown (Following Bellaire Blvd from Fondren to Dairy Ashford) are Viet owned, including many Chinese restaurants. However, the street signs there are transliterated into Chinese Characters below the English signs instead of approximated in Vietnamese.

My wife and I have lived in Westchase for years because it was very easy to go to Westside Chinatown or Little Saigon to do business with Asian stores, yet still be close to Westheimer to do business with Western Stores as well. We're now living IN Westside Chinatown and it's just as good.
Hank Lewis Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 07:45:16 (PST)

Little Saigons? Where are they? What would you call the area just Soouth of Downtown around Taum an San Jacinto. Lot of Asian stuff there.

And where is Little Pakistan? I'm quite familiar with the ethnic grousps of Houston but aparently not all. As Indian(Hindu) things I know Alief has a supply.
MR.ES Sunday, March 17, 2002 at 23:26:25 (PST)

Sad news fellow Houstonians: one of the most visible Asian American newsanchors, Pauline Chiou of KPRC Channel 2 is leaving after the May Sweeps in order to travel the globe. Apparently she can't travel the extent she wants to while she's under contract. Her plan is to travel around the world--bicyling through Europe and Asian for two months, then come back to the US and reevaluate her career plans.

Ms. Chiou will be sorely missed by a lot of people in Houston. She's been coanchoring the 5-7 AM News2Houston Daybreak show first with Rob Johnson, then with Don Armstrong for the past five years, making it the highest rated local morning news show in Houston.

Her departure from Channel 2 will leave Shern-Min Chow Hartney (Weekend Evening Anchor for KHOU-11), Sandra Gin (Weekend Morning Host for KHOU-11), Patti Shieh-Davis (assignment reporter for KRIV-26), Chau Nguyen (assignment reporter for KRIV-26), and Elizabeth Lee (assignment reporter for KHWB-39) as the main Asian American presence in Houston TV News.

On a side-note, former KPRC-2 night beat Reporter Jeannie Ohm is currently an anchor with MSNBC news, so I think that a national spotlight may shine on Ms. Chiou in the future. Nonetheless, I will sorely miss waking up to Ms Chiou's smiling face with my morning coffee.
Houston Pauline Chiou Fan Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 06:55:36 (PST)

CCCTV:

From the Houston Chronicle:

"Mark Cole and Martha Wong will compete in an April runoff to represent District 134, which cuts through a swath of affluent neighborhoods near downtown, including Memorial Park, River Oaks, Montrose, West University Place, Bellaire and the Texas Medical Center."

Whoever wins will then need to face Democratic incumbant Deborah Danburg in November.

Wong had the largest % of the vote in the primary wiht 38% and Cole was the second highest at 27%. So, all Republican Voters who voted in the primary in District 134 (NOT 144) please remember to vote for Martha Wong in the Run-off and again in November against Deborah Danburg.
Houston Voter and Martha Wong Supporter Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 12:48:32 (PST)

Another reason to live in H-Town:

Dr. Martha Wong has garnered the Republican Candidacy for State Senator in District 144 with over 40% of the vote in the primary. Her democratic opponent is unimpressive and doesn't have Dr. Wong's name recognition in Houston nor Statewide (Dr. Wong had chaired the Texas Economic Development Board when George W. Bush was governor).

Dr. Wong is an up and comer, and I wouldn't be surprised to see her as a Lieutenant Governor, Congresswoman or US Senator for Texas before too long.
Conscientious Conservative Chinese American Texan Voter Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 06:22:32 (PST)

According to Jay, FOBS are too "poor" to afford commercial districts in San Diego. Somehow, I don't think so. Filipinos are not known as the wealthiest of people but they surely created a healthy Manila Town in San Diego. If there are enough people, they will build it.

Houston is an appealing city that attracts many types of people. Even those people who hated the idea of going to Houston, not knowing what to expect, actually started to fall in love with it. I know, because I speak FROM that experience.

IF people live in Houston "because they have no choice", then why do I find myself longing to go back eventually even though I do like it in here in San Diego? San Diego is nice and all, but it doesn't have Houston's more urbane majesty.

Houston has two Chinatowns, while San Diego has none. Houston has two Little Saigons while San Diego has none. Houston has Little Pakistan while San Diego has none. Houston has a more sophisticated downtown while San Diego's is more like a Disney type. San Diego has appeal, but apparently not all of it.

Sure, Texas has "fugly" regions that I've seen such as the Odessa Midland regions along I-20......but it also has the beautiful areas like The Woodlands, Corpus Christi, San Antonio's Riverwalk, the Hill Country, the many beautiful green lakesides.............it's just anti-Texas sticks-in-the-mud who say baseless things about it.

California has ugliness too. Most of it is a desert beyond the pretty coastal areas.

worldlyman Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 23:39:31 (PST)

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