“Bighead” Meeting With Sister Ping 鄭翠萍

“Bighead” is a Chinese-American former gang leader (captain or dai-lo) of the Tung On gang from NYC’s Chinatown during the 1980s & 90s. In this clip Bighead talks about meeting with the notorious human smuggler “Sister Ping” 鄭翠萍, 萍姐 and their plan to smuggle people from China. Sister Ping was involved with the infamous Golden Venture Incident.
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[@tomyum3801]

Sister Ping! I remember reading a book about her at the library when I was a teenager. I think the book was called “Snakehead”. It opened a whole new world to me that I didn’t know existed in NYC’s Chinatown.

[@nullnull403forbidden]

Yes, that is correct. I have the book as well. They also came out with a movie about Sister Ping.

[@nobordernofate9767]

Null what’s the movie callled?

[@IamLegend32]

@@nobordernofate9767 I believe it's called "Snake head" and it came out not too long ago. It stars that Asian guy from the Fast & Furious movies.

[@nullnull403forbidden]

@@nobordernofate9767 It's called "Snakehead." kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2nUcmqqeKaNqq8

[@nullnull403forbidden]

@@IamLegend32 Yes, that is correct. It came out last year. The actor from the Fast & Furious is Sung Kang.

[@chriszee814]

Big Head still with a burner phone. You know that life is not over. Respect.

[@jbvap]

Maybe, maybe not. Chinese people are notoriously frugal and smart with their money.

[@yankees29]

That watch he’s wearing is baller status.

[@sil-zk8061]

Some people just dont care about having new phones. I rock burner phones too lol

[@jl1876]

big respect to bighead for having a big heart and doing the right thing instead of taking the easy money like he says real lives are at risk ffs

[@yellowjoe.2000]

wow. i knew Bighead. when i met him he was working a legitimate job already as a security guard for a small shopping mall area. very nice guy. you would never guess he was a high ranking gang leader.

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Bighead is def one of my fav interviewees here. He seems like he must have been a fun guy to be around back in the hey-day, that is if you were friends.. lol

[@yankees29]

I think he’s the best person they interviewed so far. They’re all pretty good but Big Head is funny as hell and he tells good stories.

[@rohulla94m65]

Another great interview, I clicked the like button before I clicked play.

[@piyanping4065]

Need more longer interviews with this man!!!!

[@thugxlove88]

Big Head also has a big heart

[@FlexWheeler2nd]

It shocked me a little bit to realize that the Golden Venture happened 30 years ago! I was just out of high school back then and remember first hearing about it on the evening news that night. Even my old school parents were amazed people were willing to endure all that to get here.

[@subReme]

90s is the best decade man. It's when people don't think much, it has all the fun. When you see a Ferrari, the whole town talk about it the next day. Today you see a Ferrari, no one really care man, cause all eyes are on the phones.

[@ClearviewTrading]

the older guys i used to hang out with at the time around 2001 with the fuzhounese triads, i met sister ping at her east broadway restaurant at the age of 12. Ill never forget it. it was like a chinese gangster movie with a bunch of OG's sitting at the round table chain smoking cigarettes, i was high as fuck (weed) and because i was so young and being that i was super high i just sat there quietly (not that i had much to say anyway) but i remember her giving me food and telling me to eat more lol. i do remember her being a nice lady.

[@weiyang88]

I lived in apartment building in Chinatown before when I was a kid in Philly. I've known many illegal immigrants from Fuzhou since I'm Fuzhouese myself. Some of my relatives and friends of relatives were smuggled here by Piing's group. A lot of ppl talk sht about Ping, mostly non-Fuzhouese ppl. However, Fuzhouese people absolutely adored sister Ping.

[@UncleHoCM]

Philly Chinatown is fun. Hope it doesn't die out.

[@fredcunningham9753]

Super interesting, keep up the work

[@alanchan1772]

Thank you big brother

[@airthrowDBT]

This is fascinating!

[@app1mxh]

More of this please 🎉

[@baksinghay9856]

Keep doing what you doing👍

[@mmzheng]

I am from Fuzhou, born in 1980s, I witnessed lots of smuggling stories in my hometown during my childhood there. it's interesting to see the stories from different angle, especially from those organizers and gangsters.

[@chinatowngangstories]

We will talk about a kidnapping case done by the Fujianese on this channel

[@cpcxgsr]

@@chinatowngangstories are you the person doing the interview? You’re Filipino?!?

[@chinatowngangstories]

Yes. Iloilo

[@cpcxgsr]

@@chinatowngangstories amazed that you’re so into old school Chinatown gang stories! Keep it up! Makes me reminisce about my childhood (I’m 42)! My family moved to Jersey so that my sister and I would not be caught up with Chinatown gang life! Unfortunately a few of my family members were not so lucky. So these stories brings back memories as a kid, where I would be at a family members house. And we would be discussing trials and stuff. Or which prison they would be held in… Man, the late 80s and early 90s were crazy!

[@chinatowngangstories]

Thank you for watching our videos

[@Peekaboo09]

Ping changed our lives. Living the American dream

[@brucegreen5781]

She died in prison after receiving 35 years to life

[@shermsmoke]

Sister Ping was a legend

[@Gr8pezGaming]

NICE

[@crook1d237]

Another banger! Can you do a video on the L q billards shooting? Green dragons? Were there 2 different sets? One in flushing and the other in Elmhurst? Much appreciated for the content

[@Ctown212]

@@chinatowngangstories There was a Le’Que shooting as well. Manhattan; Broadway and 10th street I think.

[@chinatowngangstories]

Le Que pool hall incident happened in the early 90’s. It involved a Tung On member. I’ll include that in future interviews

[@chinatowngangstories]

Green Dragons and the White Tigers were in Queens . Foo Chow Paul was the founding father of the Green Dragons and Stinky Bug was the founding father of the White Tigers. Future interviews will cover the history behind those 2 gangs in Queens.

[@rutgershouses]

@@chinatowngangstories correction stinky bug wasn’t the founder of the White tigers

[@chinatowngangstories]

It was Stinky Bug. Follow for more on that story. Ask Lenny.

[@sidesideful]

Idk if Ah Kay is out of jail yet, but would love to see him in one of these videos

[@HonestLe]

100%

[@---ll9qe]

Didn't Bighead shoot or stabbed Ah Kay? Might be some beef there.

[@paulnice1968]

Remember hearing about Ah Ping and eventually found her restaurant on E Broadway one day. Good spot. Don’t know if her family still has it.

[@dan020350]

❤

[@winstonl7814]

I was wondering if you guys know people from sf chinatown too?

[@leeentertainmentchannel247]

This some real shit. Big head is lucky that lady got a shit boat lol. Someone looking out for the brother

[@adventuresshows8155]

Big head still big head

[@energyasylum997]

Sup, my ninja!!!!!

[@UncleHoCM]

👍

[@jinbiaoma4808]

she is hero in Our FJ culture. Without her, there wouldn't be these many restaurants in USA. Plus 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen becoming Doctors and Lawyers

[@chinatowngangstories]

Correct!

[@daniell3235]

so with the boat do they go all the way to china and back to florida or do the people getting smuggled fly to mexico first then get on the boat?

[@internetvide0]

Yea it could take 2 months at sea but back in the day it was probably easy to do. Now they prob just fly to Mexico and the cartels sneak them in.

[@yankees29]

Good question

[@yankees29]

Someone said she was in Belize so they fly people there then Send them up here through Mexico

[@buttuser8950]

i cant feel my right ear in this video

[@airthrowDBT]

When he said the Fukienese snakes have to pay the snake handlers each month, is there a set amount they are working off or is it "rent" to be in the USA, forever?

[@chinatowngangstories]

Set amount.

[@tqtr123]

why do you zoom in so much into their head

[@nullnull403forbidden]

@@chinatowngangstories That's for sure. The videographer needs to also check his boom stick before recording. The sounds are only coming out on the left speakers.

[@victorsoto4821]

lmao that got me

[@a88888888a]

Why is there a pinoy interviewing this Canto triad tong guy

[@straightshooterz]

Lethal weapon 4

[@chinatownboy7482]

Everyone has a different approach. Some have more imagination than others. On The Left Coast, people come here as tourists and students. Then they simply don't go back. So much easier to fly over to The USA, pass customs with a legitimate student visa, tourist, or business traveler - then don't go back.

[@chinatowngangstories]

We’re talking about an era when those type of visas were not an option for the people on the boat. It was reserved for the upper class in China

[@chinatownboy7482]

@@chinatowngangstories In the 80's and 90's, people got student visas, tourist visas, and business visas. Most student visas became employment visas when you graduated and got a job. You couldn't get visas like that during The Chinese Exclusion Act.

[@18buddha4]

@@chinatownboy7482 its not as easy as u think back then. You gotta realize alot of these ppl smuggling for a good life are poor people with no money, they pay it off by workin it off so basically u can say the money is nonexistent to begin with. Those student n work visas are for ppl qualified. Tourist visa requires someone to have money to travel to begin with and do u think they will approve tourist visas too ppl with barely any income n a huge flight risk ? Probably not. The governments of America were tough on China since WW2 ended n the communists took over China, Not to mention the Chinese Government frowns about ppl migrating away to western lands in the first place and if you left a paper trail showing u went on a tourist visa n vanished I would think your family back home will be scrutinized by Chinese government for being traitors (yes as harsh as it sounds the Chinese guv views all migraters as traitors to the country). Smuggling yourself over to America leaves no paper trail too where u are. Where u went, what happened too you. Its all about finding a new life in a better land while also assuring your family back home is safe and while u will most likely argue by illegally being smuggled they also risk their families safety back home due to the Triads n gangs But lets be real no gangs or triads are actually gonna go spend the money, time and effort to go after your family as its always just empty threats that they know work 100% of the time out of the ppls fear for their families. Its all about intimidation and making empty threats n claims based on the notorious reputations of the gang itself that make it work n make ppl submit. Even if someone ran off from paying the gang off after arriving to America they would live in fear for their families lives daily forever, thats the psychological aspect of the threat that also makes it work.

[@chinatownboy7482]

@@18buddha4 Despite your view that I think it's easy....... which is not relevant. It still happened. I know it happened. I know people who came to The USA that way. In that era. 80's and 90's. They came here as tourists on vacation, as students, as guest workers. Never went back. Some got married here. Some had a baby here. Some claimed political asylum. Actually, most of the students on student visas filed for asylum immediately after Tiananmen Square. Nobody said it is easy. It's not easy. But it is not impossible. There were other ways to come to The USA. Some find their way to Central America, Mexico, Canada.....then cross the border on foot. In my association, several were merchant marines. They jumped ship. Even flight crew has been known to do it. I know a guy who was here as a competing athlete, and he just walked off the basketball court and never looked back. There's more than 1 way to get to The USA. Not everybody came in a cargo ship.

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

Is left coast the west coast

[@154g]

Sister ping lived in Belize, from their she sent em through mexico. Belize gyal rough

[@kensummoner9771]

BS. Sounds like the numbers didn’t work out

[@jimium3525]

interview Chinese gangsters from San Francisco

[@tyliu6040]

if you can interview this guy that would be great. He killed a vietnamese gang boss from the TL. Lam Choi kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZbIioGwqtyhnKs

[@NM-fi3y]

u sound like miami vice

[@xiongnu6373]

Alots of Asian gangster in NYC but why Asian getting beat by black? Can someone answer that

[@chinatowngangstories]

Asian gangs ruled Chinatown up until the mid 90’s when the 2nd wave of RICO was slapped on them by the FEDS. Since then all their rackets moved deep underground.

[@mikecee7993]

cause there no more asian gangsters in chinatown no more

[@rutgershouses]

Blacky beating on elderly blacky wouldn’t dare try that on a younger

[@yankees29]

Stuff like that would have never happened in CT back then.

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

It probably doesn't happen that often you just hear about it when it does

[@tangfung6511]

用白話訪問啦 聽唔明 又冇中文字幕 B站有人偷你片 加油🎉

[@michaelmcgee2026]

Only reason I've heard of Fukienese is bc there's a KZbinr that knows the language and shocks Chinese people when he speaks it

[@Dennis-bb4dz]

there's tons of people who speak english fluently and they're other races (mexican, asian, indian, whatever) and they don't get praise for it. I order perfectly in english at any restaurant and I don't get praise for it lmao.

[@Dennis-bb4dz]

I mean no hate by the way all love

[@26155101]

Very interesting, never knew chinéese gangsters existed. I always thought they didn’t partake In those activities

[@yankees29]

Definitely very active in NYC when I was growing up.

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

They who lol you never heard of triads or tongs

[@wilsonguo8642]

Wah Ching #1

[@trey6163]

Gallon of Rice

[@lexbraxman9270]

Interesting. Had to wiki what Golden Venture was, figured it was a ship but had to make sure en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Venture

[@michaelmcgee2026]

I think he did a video about her on his other channel about the snakeheads