The Lecture and Tour will allow you to experience Chinatown, as you’ve never imagined and tie into New York State’s curriculum:

• Visit a Foreign country in New York City
• Learn about Chinese immigration in New York
• Learn about the unusual cultures, traditions of Chinatown
• Learn where the term Hatchetman comes from
• Visit a Dim Sum Restaurant
• Hear about the present & past Chinese Mafia
• Why there were forty men to every woman in Chinatown
• Learn about how the Chinese helped build the Erie Canal and the Transcontinental Railroad but were encouraged to leave America
• Opium Dens
• Illegal sweatshop & human smuggling. (snakeheads)
• Visit a populous Buddhist Temple and learn about the predominant religions of China
• Learn where the Gangs of New York & the 5 Points originated
• Learn about the amazing Chinese funeral customs
• Tea ceremony experience, Chinese calendar interpretation & even learn a little Chinese
• The New Wild Wild West section of Chinatown
• Visit an Underground Railroad site & the secret tunnel of Chinatown
• Visit the Bloody Angle
• Visit Art Galleries, shop and enjoy the best Chinese food in New York
• Learn about the singing waiters who changed the entertainment industry
• Visit the church where Mother Cabrini, Enrico Caruso & Jimmy Durante worshipped
• And much more!!

Now that we’ve got your attention, join us on a cultural, education and culinary visit to America’s largest Chinatown.