Have questions about the #MadeOnMott Residency or the application process?

Join us for office hours — an open, informal session where Welcome to Chinatown staff will walk you through the program and help you put your best foot forward.

Office Hours will be held in-person at the Hub (115 Bowery) or virtually on July 21 and August 13, from 2–4 PM — drop in, ask anything, and leave ready to apply.

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

Artist Alley Opening: "From Wenzhou” Caroline Xia and Leslie Xia

Welcome to Chinatown’s Artist Alley is showcasing From Wenzhou by Caroline Xia and Leslie Xia

​From Wenzhou is a photographic and video exploration of lineage, grief, and belonging. Created following the passing of Caroline Xia and Leslie Xia’s maternal grandmother in Wenzhou, China, the work documents a return to their family's hometown after nearly twenty years away.

​Born and raised in Queens, New York, the Xia sisters grew up in Flushing, one of New York City’s largest Chinese immigrant communities. The journey to Wenzhou became an opportunity to reconnect with their roots and reflect on who they are and where they came from. Through intimate visual documentation, the Xia sisters explore what it means to mourn across borders and generations, tracing a journey not only across the globe but inward, into questions of identity, regret, and intergenerational resilience.

​The seven photographs presented here are selected from From Wenzhou, a multimedia project and photo book photographed by Caroline Xia and designed by Leslie Xia. The images move between personal family history and the cultural specificity within the Wenzhounese community. Included are photographs from their grandmother's abandoned apartment, visits to her grave, portraits of family members, and scenes from their mother and grandmother's hometown, alongside observations of daily life in Wenzhou.

​Accompanying the photographs is a video installation of VHS footage recorded by Sing Liu Ha, Caroline and Leslie's paternal grandfather, and other family members. Filmed throughout the 1980s and 1990s in both Wenzhou and Queens, the footage documents everyday family life across continents, capturing family dinners, conversations, life at home, and childhood moments.

​While rooted in a specific family history, From Wenzhou is a love letter to grandmothers, immigrant daughters, and the fragments of heritage that continue to shape us even when we are far away.

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

An evening of writing & community centered around the tenderness of personal excavation and fearlessly finding your voice, led by Lydia Pang and Jenn Lam.

Personal storytelling is transformative, but as creatives, we know it can be a tender process. How do you actually write like no one will ever read it?

Join us as we celebrate our friend and author Lydia Pang's debut memoir, "Eat Bitter," with an evening of connection, writing, and exploration into how to exhume and define your inner story.

Schedule: DOORS OPEN AT 7PM

7:15PM - Reading and Intro to "EAT BITTER" with Lydia Pang, hosted by Jenn Lam

8-9PM - Writing workshop facilitated by Slant'd

9-9:30PM - Close out & connection

Tickets include one copy of "EAT BITTER," generously contributed by Lydia Pang.

ABOUT LYDIA PANG

Lydia Pang is a Creative Director and entrepreneur shaping the biggest brands with cultural strategy and trend foresight. Her work has attracted a cult following and these pages are filled with her misfit creative energy. Bold, tender and witty in all the right places, Eat Bitter is a life-altering lesson in the power of food as a medium to process emotions.

ABOUT SLANT'D

Slant'd is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit independent publisher reimagining publishing to be more accessible, equitable, and joyful for AAPIs everywhere. Our dream is to become the creative home for AAPIs to experience personal growth, creative expansion, and meaningful connection. Jenn Lam is our Director of Programs, a founding Board Member, and a heart-led artist and brand marketing consultant that finds deep joy in the messy unknown. Here at Slant’d, she works to craft an abundant haven for Asian Americans to freely play, connect, and celebrate their personal stories.

EAT BITTER - OUT NOW - purchase here

A beautiful, fearless, dynamic exploration of food and feelings from a distinctive new voice – for fans of CRYING IN H MART, BUTTER and MIDNIGHT CHICKEN.

Eat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning ‘endure hardship to taste sweetness’. For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors – a Chinese ethnic group subjected to forced migrations whose ingenuity produced a distinct food culture based around fermenting and foraging.

Pang develops the philosophy of eating bitter as a tool to reframe the most challenging moments of her life, from burning out and pushing her marriage to the brink to struggles with fertility and caring for a parent. As she plates up eight favourite recipes for us, we taste char siu pork her Gunggung cooked on Sundays, silly eggy noodles her father made when her sister was ill, bone broth she boiled in New York while desperately homesick, and homegrown courgettes in her current home in rural Wales as a means of marital reconnection.

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All ticket proceeds go directly toward supporting our mission of making publishing more accessible, equitable, and joyful for AAPIs everywhere.

Join us and Green Tile Social Club for a night of Mahjong!

*Tickets for this event will be available starting 1 week before the event date on GTSC's website.*

Hong Kong mahjong, taught the gtsc way 🤝
The night will begin with a dedicated 1.5 hour mahjong lesson taught in groups of six. your gtsc teacher will run you through the complete basics — terminology, role recognition, core game constructs — before real-time instructing you thru an open hand game

Once you’ve graduated to closed hand, stay and enjoy your new playing chops till we get kicked out at 10 🫡

Whether you're running a business or want to start one, Text It. Done. is the hands-on AI workshop that meets you where you are.

​If you've only just dipped your toes into AI — or haven't started yet — you're in the perfect place. This workshop opens up a whole new way of working most people don't even know exists yet.

​Bring one thing you need to get done: a customer reply, a social post, a product description, a menu update, a vendor email, a checklist, a plan, or that tiny task that keeps getting pushed to tomorrow.

​We’ll help you use AI to move it forward. And, when possible, turn it into a workflow you can use again.

​

Who should come

​Small business owners. Small business staff and operators. Freelancers and service providers. People starting or thinking about starting a business.

​In other works, this is a good fit if you:

• ​used it to chat but not for real work yet

• ​tried ChatGPT or Claude once and did not know what to do next/want to use it more effectively

​You do not need technical experience. You do not need to know how to code.

​Agenda

​We’ll move through two hands-on working sessions:

​1. How to talk to AI clearly
Learn how to give AI the right context, examples, tone, and goal so it can actually help with real work.

​2. How to turn one task into a repeatable workflow
Take one prompt or output and shape it into something you can reuse for your business.

​We’ll use live examples from everyday small business work, including customer replies, social posts, product descriptions, operations checklists, vendor emails, menu updates, and business planning.

​What to bring

​Please bring:

​A laptop or phone.

​One real task from your business or business idea.

​It can be messy, unfinished, annoying, or something you have been putting off. That is perfect.

​Schedule

​6:00 — Welcome and check-in

​6:10 — How to talk to AI so it actually helps

​6:20 — Hands-on: work through one real business task

​6:50 — Share what worked

​7:00 — Turning one prompt into a reusable workflow

​7:10 — Hands-on: build your workflow

​7:40 — Support, polish, and next steps

​7:50 — Share-outs

​8:00 — Close

​Getting in

​Space is limited so we can keep the workshop hands-on and useful.

​Please RSVP with a few details about your business, your comfort level with AI, and one task you might want to work on during the session. This helps us shape the workshop around the people in the room.

Introducing Missus Softee! The 2nd feature by writer/director Cinder Chou. Come meet the team and celebrate pride at this ice cream social!

Join our Ice Cream Social fundraiser at The Welcome to Chinatown Hub to support production of Missus Softee, Cinder Chou's sophomore feature.

Set in 2005, Lincoln, a newly out Taiwanese-American teen, spends her last summer before college in the off-brand Missus Softee truck trying to outscoop ice cream rivals, work on her gaydar, and make enough money to escape Jersey.
The Ice Cream Social is "Sundae" June 21st from 1pm-4pm

Ticket admission includes one ice cream and one raffle ticket. Additional raffle tickets will be available to purchase. Short speeches by some of the production team and raffle drawing will be at 3pm. The playlist will be period appropriate, dress code: aughts optional!

Space is limited so get your tickets before your chance "melts" away!!

Rose has played soccer her whole life- and every 4 years, World Cup fever hits different. Anyone else feel the same??

As one of our AAPI Women Incubator winners, Rose is back at the Hub and we're SUPER excited to announce @rosespineappleshorts World Cup Residency at The Hub every Friday 11am–5pm this summer!

Whether you're a local or just passing through, all are welcome to swing by for:

🆓 FREE World Cup viewing

🆓 FREE co-working w/ cafe atmosphere

🧋 Bake + Bev Combo: $10 pineapple short + tea/coffee service

🛍️ Souvenirs & gifts from @rosespineappleshorts + other local businesses

Featuring Tea + Coffee Friends!

📅 June 12: Grand Tea + Imports

📅 June 19: Of Tea

📅 June 26: Favor Coffee Co.

📅 July 3: Uju Studios

📅 July 10: Dae Tea

📅 July 17: Alcove Coffee Co.

The Hub is closed on Jun 19th, 2026 for Juneteenth.