Borneo is a large island in southeast Asia's Malaysian archipelago. It's divided between the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. In 2001, Peter Then left the Indonesian side of Borneo, also known as Kalimantan, for a safer life in the United States. When he arrived in Alhambra, the only Indonesian food he could find was from the main islan…

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the only law signed by the United States that prohibited a group of people of a specific nationality from immigrating to the U.S. It wasn’t repealed until Dec. 17, 1943. On Dec. 17, 2018, San Gabriel Valley community leaders and local elected officials commemorated the 75th anniversary of the repeal. Rep. Judy …

On Oct. 11, 2018 Alhambra Source partnered with a coalition of community organizations to co-sponsor Kids and Candidates – A Community Engagement forum at Alhambra High School. Katherine Lee, Andrea Lofthouse-Quesada and Adele Andrade-Stadler engaged in a lively discussion with a USC moderator about some of Alhambra’s most pressing issues.The missi…

Beloved food critic and Los Angeles legend Jonathan Gold passed away on July 21st. As a longtime culinary explorer and L.A. icon, his words have uncovered a captivating number of diverse restaurants all over the Los Angeles area – including local favorites in the San Gabriel Valley. Alhambra Source honors Gold in our next podcast episode by visitin…

In the early 2000s, Yunuen Bonaparte and her family had no choice but to leave Mexico for the United States. “There were times when we had to eat — how do you say it — old tortillas, like they get hard,” she said. “You just had to like warm them up, like eating tostadas and my mom would have a garden in the backyard, because there was times that th…