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Established in 1967, this museum is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate and the only pan-Asian Pacific American community-based museum in the United States.
Wing Luke Museum
A South Korean dystopian survival thriller drama television series where players risk their lives to play a series of children's games that resulted in death, if they lost
Squid Game
This drink originated from Taiwan where it includes many flavors and tapioca pearls.
Boba Tea/Bubble Tea
This month was chosen for AAPI Heritage Month to commemorate the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
May
A country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by European power.
Thailand
The location in California where it is estimated that a million Asian Americans were processed for immigration between 1910 and 1940.
Angel Island
This is a Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1988.
My Neighbor Totoro
This starchy root vegetable is a staple across the Pacific, and this is mashed to create the Hawaiian dish known as Poi.
Taro
This group of skilled navigators used the stars, ocean currents, and bird flight patterns to settle islands across the vast Pacific thousands of years ago.
Polynesians
Approximately how many islands make up the nation of the Philippines
7,641
This place officially became a part of the United States in 1959.
Hawai'i
A 2016 American animated musical adventure film tells the story of a strong-willed daughter of a chief of a coastal village, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.
Moana
Although similar dishes in Japan existed beforehand, this particular Seattle-style version was created and adapted by Toshihiro Kasahara in 1976
Chicken Teriyaki
The name of the last sovereign monarch of Hawaii before being illegally overthrown by American colonist in 1893.
Queen Lili'uokalani
The name of the indigenous people of the Northern Mariana Islands
What are the Chamorro (or Chamoru) people
This location - nicknamed "Camp Harmony" - was the first place Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.
Puyallup
An American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
Anna May Wong
This popular dish was popularized in New Orleans when Vietnamese immigrants fused their flavors with that of the region.
Vietnamese Seafood Boil
As early as the year 1765 and through the 1800s, these Filipino sailors, known as “Manilamen,” who worked as crew or indentured servants aboard Spanish galleons, jumped ship and established the first Filipino American communities in this state.
Louisiana
This 1944 Supreme Court case challenged the force internment of Japanese Americans during WWll.
What is Korematsu v. United States
The location where Filipino and Mexican farmworkers led a 5-year strike which led to higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions for the farmworkers.
Delano, CA
He gained a reputation as Hong Kong's best stuntman and is known in the U.S. as a martial artist and movie star. He starred in The Karate Kid with Jaden Smith.
Jackie Chan
This Samoan dish, consists of taro leaves wrapped around a filling of coconut cream and sometimes fish or meat, then baked in the umu until tender and rich in flavor.
Palusami
Archaeologists and linguists suggest that Polynesians made frequent contact with this Native American tribe in Central California around 400 - 800 BCE.
Chumash tribe in Santa Barbara, CA.
This is a monotheistic religion and philosophy founded in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in the late 15th century by Guru Nanak.
What is Sikhism