Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
by ams6110 on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:21PM
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Assuming these fruits were not native to SoCal, how did they get the plants/seedlings there? Under the table? I think it would be very difficult to bring Vietnamese flora into the USA through legitimate channels.
Re:How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels
by tathougies on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:02PM
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The fruit I was talking about is dragon fruit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya
Which, while popular and does incredibly well in Asia, is also apparently native to the Americas up to Mexico, so it wouldn't be a far leap to grow it in SoCal
But I mean, as someone whose family is from Asia, it is not particularly difficult to sneak things in to the United States.
Yes absolutely. As an Indian American, I'm familiar with the Indian grocery store model. However, I grew up in a majority vietnamese area of Southern California, and most of my friends growing up were vietnamese. They had a few interesting hustles going on:
1. A few families were involved in growing produce in their backyards, and grocery stores would source these fruits. Many of the fruits (certainly not all) popular in Vietnam would grow in the heat of SoCal, but they were not farmed commercially.
2. My mom's friend told her that many vietnamese restaurants sourced their egg rolls from various aunties scattered around the community. The egg roll they made was very standardized, and they would sell many trays a day to the restaurants for cents on the dollar.