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Transcription: [00:36:33]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
So the next generation was even less into history. [[laughter]]

[00:36:40]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
I, I wonder when you feel like your relationship with D.C.'s Chinatown ended, or at least, you know, for instance, when you, how long did your family live in Chinatown? You mentioned that your grandparents moved into [[??]]--
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
Yeah.

[00:36:54]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
But what about your parents or your siblings or even you, how long did you all stay in Chinatown?

[00:37:01]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
I move out of Chinatown in around 1977 and move to campus H.W. and I never went back. My parents bought a little house out in Kensington, Maryland. And so when I graduated, that's where I moved to.

[00:37:19]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
But they didn't leave, my parents didn't leave that 911, New York Ave-- no, 927 New York Avenue until the building was being torn down. So they stayed there until, you know, the place was torn down and the new office buildings were put in.

[00:37:41]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
So that probably was in the, like, around early eighties I'm thinking. So (--)

[00:37:49]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
Mhm, and your siblings as well?

[00:37:52]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
Um, yeah. They, yeah. So they stayed there until it was torn down, and then they moved to the Kensington house. And um, you know it's funny cause last (--) early this month we, you know it was the anniversary of our 50th year in the US, and uh, so I told my parents, well my mother said well we should go out and celebrate. So my daughter named it the immigrant dinner.[[laughter]]

[00:38:29]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
And, so I said to my brother, we should go to the restaurant that is located right at the same spot as the Nanjing restaurant where our grandfather used to work. He said, I don't want to go to D.C, you can't find parking, you know it's like, I don't know the restaurant, or the food, and so I said okay. Not gonna go to a Chinese restaurant, we have to go to an American restaurant, maybe a steakhouse. [[laughter]]

[00:39:00]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
So we ended up going to Matchbox in Rockville, [[laughter]] because it was convenient, and uh, so um, so I, actually we were just in that neighborhood last week, of course every time I pass by I say, hey I used to work at that McDonalds. That's where I used to live. [[laughter]] I worked at McDonalds, across from the bus station, um, you know when I was like 17, and I remember the whole day the McDonalds was packed. With, you know, everyone coming off the bus.

[00:39:37]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
Which corner is that?

[00:39:39]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
Maybe 14th and New York? Is it right across from the Women's museum? , I think.

[00:39:46]
{SPEAKER name="Samir Meghelli, Ph.D. (Interviewer)"}
Oh yea, okay.

[00:39:49]
{SPEAKER name="Miu Eng (Interviewee)"}
Yea, yea, so.

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