Bighead (Tung On), Speed (Flying Dragons), and Kenny (Ghost Shadows) Discuss Their Gangs [ENG SUB]

Bighead, Speed, and Kenny from the three notorious, now defunct, Chinatown street gangs discuss why they joined their respective gang, their early days of the gang life, childhood, and many other interesting stories that happened throughout.
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[@sliccgaming]

We need more Cantonese content nowadays? Need to normalize our language and that mandarin is not the ONLY mainstream Chinese language. Loving the content keep it up and congrats on 10K! 💪

[@suuudo]

I completely agree with this as someone whose second language is Cantonese, and feels that this language is rapidly shrinking in terms of venues in which it’s spoken. Leave it to the hak seh wuy to keep canto alive!

[@johnyossarian9059]

Whoever told you not to speak Cantonese?

[@maolo76]

There's a whole region in China Gouzhou that speak cantonese. I don't think it will die.

[@farqusada6939]

​@@suuudo as long as they understand no maynay im not tripping

[@tony31349]

Cantonese is not a language it is a dialect , get that right

[@seforachriss3111]

Thank you so much for using Cantonese to share your stories with us! My family is Cantonese and I love learning about your unique experiences while practicing the language. I really appreciate all that you do :)

[@chinatowngangstories]

Thank you for seeing the value in our project.

[@840618paul]

這段故事我相當感興趣 2020年 我去了一趟New Jersey 投靠親戚打疫苗 看到China Mac 當時在做反歧視華人運動 對於他相當佩服 因此在Chinatown 待了好幾天 去看了很多公所 也了解到這段歷史 謝謝你 梅警官 願意把這些記錄下來👍 你哋願意用廣東話說出呢段歷史真係好重要 加油！

[@chinatowngangstories]

Thank you so much Paul for supporting our channel from all of us at CGS! Stay safe! 👍👍👍

[@Klit1023]

The OGs speaking Cantonese is so captivating to listen to. You can only truly understand the lifestyle and culture listening to the language they communicated in. Definitely need more Cantonese content from these guys.

[@joshuaward3]

非常精彩的经历。这期讲得很好，可以每期都像这样详细的讲吗？

[@bryanlau9433]

This is Golden! Great Work!

[@hghmuscle]

Always ❤

[@michael42666]

Congrats 👏

[@shirleychan7494]

好亲切👍

[@kpcheng2514]

大頭哥做到道理哥😂

[@mdiesel23]

Big Head is a lucky guy. Kinda crazy how he was so close to death several times. 😳

[@JaWs738]

I think Big Head is a good fighter in younger days

[@kungshih3881]

有協勝七叔的紙，勿街鋪九十年代過年要買捧來的年桔，八十年代還有電影院有新聲璇宮，而新都七十年代有槍殺！堂人街歷史鈎沉

[@stormtrooper4829]

Will there be any interviews in toisan?

[@OneHauteShot]

Thank You for Cantonese. Big head is gifted in story telling, paints a picture with his words. The essence of this channel is to preserve/record history then letting these guys speak in their native language goes a long way. More Macau underworld and Hong Kong showbiz stories 🙏 please

[@kuhau3252]

香港聽眾有得聽番廣東話順暢好多，聽下啲大哥係美國當年如何生存既故事同往事good show👍

[@chinatowngangstories]

Thank you, please share Bighead's videos with your family and friends in Hong Kong!

[@kuhau3252]

大頭哥上兩次訪問講賭同佢中槍經歷好警世，唔好賭錢同江湖路險會面對生命危險

[@paulboi15]

It’s funny how kids who get bullied in Chinatown don’t intentionally becomes gangster to survive the streets. Bighead is very smart and understand the true essence Chinatown gang drama. If he was not in a gang, I could see him being a successful businessman! They all have something in common and that’s to protect all Chinese people against bullies and discrimination. All 80s Chinese kids struggled to get representation and respect therefore gang life was the only option.

[@teovu5557]

if only chinatown today had the same people the elders wouldnt be bullied and beat up by the blacks...

[@Alex-bu2yg]

Great to hear in Cantonese. 10 of us here in singapore watching together , all former heng tai when younger . Amazing that chinese around the world has similar life experiences .

[@sidesideful]

Whoever did the subtitles did a fantastic job.

[@saynomore3022]

🤣🤷‍♂️

[@Jupac415]

@@sidesideful hella good job come to SF guys we got a HUGE Cantonese community here

[@SanjiK670]

Excited to watch this, I think it'll help me learn some Canto too. Shoutout to Mike, Bighead, Speed, and Kenny keep them coming!

[@TheActiveLifeLived]

I had to pause around 20mins into the video. As an ABC, the subtitles are dam spot on. I mean, my Canto has degraded over the years, but watching this and reading the subtitles brought back so much of the vocabulary that I lost...one love y'all and stay safe...

[@eastcoastmecca7109]

As an Italian my Cantonese ain't was used to be . But hearing Big head talking about "fai Go" Clifford and Tony Ng brings so many memories. Big head and uncle Dai were at house for July 4th 1987 with all the big players including Uncle Benny for a Mah Jong and dominoes game that placed about 15 mil on dining room table .

[@pcimprezzive]

Big head is a great storyteller! I couldn’t stop laughing with his sawed off shotgun story and his black trench coat that was made famous by Mark Gor / Chow yun fat in A Better Tomorrow. Great english subtitles and translations BTW. The Chan Wai Man story and his yellow corvette was hilarious too!

[@wangu4951]

i laughed when he said all he knows is "yes, no, fuck you" lol

[@bhonemyatpaing4963]

Hello I'm from Myanmar (Burma) and Chinese Burmese myself. Even in my country there was a lot of Triads are here also. There is 14k, Wo guys and Sun Yee On in Yangon's (my city) Chinatown . My grandfather is also connected and memeber of Wo society here. Even Burmese locals gangs did not interfere in Chinatown. We don't go to their business and they stay away from us(but certainly know each other and do some business together)

[@mchan1983]

This has to be the best upload by far. The stories are better than watching a movie. Hoping more like these are on the way. Thank you.

[@lexbraxman9270]

Congrats on the 10k subs! Looking forward to reading this all the way through.

[@64kdawg]

Yes thank you, so important, more recordings of the elders speaking in chinatown cantonese. So important to preserve cantonese language and culture

[@georgieman1910]

Most heartfelt moment 46:58 - Kenny apologizes on GS's behalf for ruining Bighead and Speed's future. Were it not for GS, they might have not sought out and entered into the gangs for protection. Kenny's prayer gesture for forgiveness and the high five he gives Speed is so cathartic. Funniest moment 48:05 - Bighead laments about his crew's lack of muzzle discipline and attention to firearm safety.

[@sumaznkid124]

Wow!!!! So the 3 leaders of flying dragons, ghost shadow, tung on were classmates and part of the same crew under uncle 7 and eventually split to start their own thing. Amazing history.

[@Alex_From_CGS]

Fascinating piece of history for sure, I'm glad we have that out and not taken to the grave. Uncle Seven really was the Godfather of Chinatown, living up to his title.

[@mrpink3630]

@@Alex_From_CGS i never heard of uncle 7!!! more content would be great 🙏

[@jameshwang8267]

@@Alex_From_CGS need more story on uncle 7

[@Alex_From_CGS]

@@jameshwang8267 Will speak to Mike about it.

[@mrHoHokid]

Xebec and his crew of whitebeard, kaido, and big mom

[@lexbraxman9270]

Really interesting to hear all the stories. Bighead being accosted by GS outside of school was kind of funny to hear because it’s straight out of so many old movie plots. And every crew has a quiet calculated guy like Speed. Great job with the subtitles, very easy to read and well written. Thumbs up!

[@tumuch8936]

Congrats on 10k Mike! This canto version definitely gives it a completely different vibe, love it! Keep the content coming brother 🤝 🧧🐲

[@davdmoi]

Soccer club coach was Mr. Ng . I was part of original group team. I was only 13 then. They did have that interest intention helping youths stay out the street try doing good things after school. Of course, there always fell bad apples within the group causing the whole club bad name. Miss identifies happens all the times. Some of us get pick out on street. Back cops don’t know who is good or bad . They just take you in station house for questioning. No issues no file records they let you go. Still stay in touch with all the old timers . Truth , we did played many times with Hong Kong celebrity team back in 80’s with Alan Tam and his crews. Alan was pretty good player when we play them. All for good causes friendships charity.

[@yogitam2372]

There were many organizations trying to help the Chinese Youth to stay away from gangs. After school, many youths worked at factories and/or restaurants. Others who were more fitness oriented played sports and did whatever we could to stay away. I also remember Sammy from Chinatown Life. A lone Italian man who had nothing but love for the Chinese youth. He is a good guy. Shout out to all those that tried to help.

[@davdmoi]

@@yogitam2372 I remember him well also. Great guy he had help many young youths in many different ways. Some of old gangsters respected him also. As long as you willing stay out of trouble of gangs . Sam will make efforts to help you. Sam also had his relatives in Italian mafias. But he keep himself low key.

[@fishscale415]

Y’all should tap in with San Francisco Chinatown! Would love to hear these stories but from the west coast

[@dypkyangboy]

This is so good! love cantonese ones and the HK stories from Bighead! these are awesome - could listen all day

[@patchao7592]

May be you can provide some history about the White and Black Eagles, the kwan ying, chun yee tong (14K) back in the late 60's. I used to fight some of the Eagles on Mott and I hung with some kwan ying and others before I got drafted in 68, then I became a LEO like you did up in CT with the local and state. Detective Ming Li from the 5th squad was a friend of mine.

[@chinatowngangstories]

I met Ming Li back in the days. Glad you turned out fine. We will cover those stories on this channel

[@patchao7592]

@@chinatowngangstories Thanks buddy. Detective Patrick Lee also is a friend of mine, Wei Lau and some of the old timers. I am still doing Federal and State investigation on my second career and should be retire again next year, 25 as a cop and 25 as investigator. Too long!!

[@ace8781]

Looking forward to this boys ! Keep up the great work. Regards from the Uk 🇬🇧 Cantonese 👏🏻

[@shugies]

Would be awesome to hear more from Speed - definitely seems brainy, would like to hear more about his experiences

[@saber26ful]

47:04 😂😂😂😂 Bighead only knew 4 English phrases when he was a recent immigrant: yes, no, maybe and f you lmao!

[@hangrykaka]

YEAH👏👏👏最想睇你哋用廣東話做訪問🤜🤛👍👍👍👍

[@jeffwong8036]

Congrats on 10K subscribers.... Jimmy (Bighead) should consider writing a book.... Very interesting.... ✌🏼

[@averagedave1953]

Wonderful content! Especially love the Cantonese version which is 100% original gangstar

[@jollywong1118]

Can you please let Big Head know that if he can share some of the Hong Kong action scenes such as Tsim Sha Tsui Fei Lung 新義安尖沙咀飛龍，及不同大佬

[@kongpeter7352]

Yes we hong konger really expecting hear more story about Dai Lo in hong kong , such as 'ghost tim' , 'sai b' , 'tai lon ', 'tun mun fai kit' .And other gang such as 'jai jai' in yuan long ,' etb' , '何澤' , '黐線勇' .

[@bennycheung5032]

兩位大老，代表龍記果個好奄春，當年龍記沖头，阿陸，科學家果班唐人街最top ! 亦係最有學識，有大學生 ，又搞酒巴肉批發！ 亦係七叔亲兵，其他冇得揮 ！

[@silver_back]

Congratulations on 10k subscribers! This is becoming my favorite channel.

[@batmanvsupermanyoutube925]

This video and chan yee pretty much advocates for Cantonese as a social binder. That probably tied everyone together uniquely bcuz of the fluidity and camaderie in Cantonese. It's a shame to lose it.

[@pulsevisionary]

More Wai Man stories please

[@chinatowngangstories]

Coming

[@路人甲-q1k]

望返轉頭, 好感慨....人生如戲 😆

[@人王-s4m]

大頭，如果你是東安幫，亦可以說是我的孫輩，你知全英是何人所創，全英社對聯，全群一致，英雄本色是何人所作嗎？黃志輝是跟邊個大佬出身嗎？你知道芽菜房嗎？那是七零年代開始的事，相信你一點都唔知 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂搵玉石小組Albert Chan 問一問喇 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ginap.]

Big head Jimmy seems to be friends with everyone. Did he hangout with White Tigers back in the 80’s? Btw, Congrats on 10k subscribers!

[@jimmytsui9329]

Yes, I am friends with all the WT

[@chinatowngangstories]

Yes…Tung On and White Tigers were friends.

[@baitxd3585]

Canto is so much more natural.

[@燕北山前萬梅山莊主人]

可惜紐約唐人街幫會內鬪嚴重做唔大，冇義大利佬或猶太佬咁勁。

[@MagsTheFoodie]

I'm new to this channel. I go to chinatown in NYC all the time. I love the stories behind it. Now I look at the places differently.

[@sts265]

Awesome segment. Would love to hear more from Speed and other FDs in the future

[@crus2334]

Hope all the viewers can join to the gangs sooner 😂

[@myominsoe7188]

Please keep doing Cantonese videos with English subtitles like this. I don’t speak Cantonese but I really like these guys’d first hand accounts

[@路人甲-q1k]

Kenny 問得好天真, 去學校搞啲靚仔目的當然係收靚啦 😅

[@lostinthought475]

Doing it in the mother tongue Respect! Can you put the caption script of what is said in the description?

[@Alex_From_CGS]

English subtitles are available under "cc" on the video.

[@fantazylivez]

Please post more in Cantonese

[@DopestNativesAlive]

I knew a couple guys who came from NY to Vancouver BC around 1991 Flying Dragons... they teied setting up here.. A gai was one name i remember he was known for having no bone in his nose...

[@geekzsti]

45:28 this is where there clouds open up and speed (middle guy) says his first words. 🤭

[@jacobayers2391]

Big head is legit a goat storyteller like he’s so good at it he could have a career doing it

[@LJ.3388]

加油！支持你！ 真的很喜歡看也謝謝你們的分享❤

[@triple8331]

Mike congrats on 10k subs!! These videos are best when spoken in Canto.

[@teovu5557]

speed looks nervous.

[@CP4Z167]

Awesome video, love hearing the stories. But how come the guy in the middle didn't get to talk much....

[@calebgrissom8122]

I thank my ho lang gf and sleeping dogs for being here

[@kongpeter7352]

Congratulations ! 10k sub ! Keep up yall , get 100k soon !

[@Ober0229]

果然多恩怨，聽到最後終於聽到一個名係聽過嘅，係F 仔。以前有個讀羊頭灣嘅同班好似話係F 仔嘅頭馬，都入過冊

[@jpw5029]

I like how no matter where Chinese speakers are from or what dialect they speak, the nicknames are all the same

[@daisai9096]

Great to see Bighead back. 啲故事夠晒經典

[@ironleeFPS]

“Flying Dragons”, “Ghost Shadows”... they definitely have cool names for their gangs 😅

[@teovu5557]

sounds stupid in english but they mainly said their gang names in chinese tho.

[@georgieman1910]

IS 131 was considered one of the worst schools. It was a hotbed of activity for gang recruitment. Same for Seward park. For that reason, my parents sent me all the way uptown for junior high where I met a white kid and we hung out. You would think the chaos of Chinatown was left behind but it was the opposite. Slowly, I started seeing Chinese kids waiting for us after school. They were his friends. Trademark spikey hair, tapered pants definitely kids from ctown or queens. We would altogether go home, take the subway etc. I never really thought about who they were until much later when I eventually lost sight of my friend. He resurfaced when he was swept up during a raid of a GS hangout and that's when I said omg, that's him. That's my buddy from school.

[@mharm734]

Have you ever considered making a museum in VRChat for people to go to with all the stories?

[@FriedrichI]

我叫化骨龍，尖沙嘴啲麥當勞我睇嘅。

[@donaldlee4824]

一班大叔話當年。 以為無錢就可以做壞事😂

[@crus2334]

最惨成班傻嗨观众以为黑社会好型😂

[@davidklam888]

Great story's guys keep it up. Big head has definitely been around his story's are so interesting. He knows a lot of stuff about the Hong Kong triads 👍

[@kongpeter7352]

I know its hard for talking alive ppl , but I would like to hear more story about Dai Lo in hong kong , such as 'ghost tim' , 'sai b' , 'tai lon ', 'tun mun fai kit' .And other gang such as 'jai jai' in yuan long ,' etb' , '何澤' , '黐線勇' . And Big Head's Ferrari .

[@yogitam2372]

Hey Big Head, do you have a picture of your Ferrari and your Porsche

[@oscar7651]

Thanks Is "Bau" means money in 台山話？

[@Potatoepewpewpew]

Any stories about connections with asian gangs from Toronto. Just like new york toronto had alot of asian gang from the 80s to 90s

[@chinatowngangstories]

Yes, coming soon on this channel

[@yausanlee7641]

M. Chen, Y.P. Louie, C. Wong all went to Seward Park H.S.

[@fooddoyouhave5927]

正! 廣東話

[@yikchentee-rk4ye]

想请问，当时有没有wah ching帮。。。wah ching帮又是怎样的一回事？好想听关于wah ching 帮的事

[@wiseguyjimmy4812]

食飯唔使錢😂 睇戲唔使錢😂 有女沟😂 正到痹！👍👍

[@chriszee814]

Uncle Mike. You need to work on the mic volume a bit. Very hard to hear them speak when they sit so far away. Thanks

[@waiwong1205]

好好聽如果講香港多啲更加好👍👍👍👍💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍

[@princek141knumber]

花都棠

[@DopestNativesAlive]

Curious what is the benefit to the "OGs" to talk about their business online? They making money off it?

[@chinatowngangstories]

blog.historia.network/why-people-should-take-part-in-recording-history/ Not everything is about money.

[@njcdailo8934]

Nice all canto . Better flow.

[@hungtrinh8898]

Love these stories!! I remember coming to usa in the 90s and lived in Philadelphia and heard them Chinatown gang n BTK! It would be epic if there’s interview of ex BTK!

[@nathanquan9197]

Such a good story to tell about gangster in the 70’s back in the old days. The Ghost Shadows, Flying Dragons, Tung On and the BTK have a history to tell. Gang stories, gang wars and making money is in the old days.

[@johnnytobin5203]

雖然我係大陸人 但都非常想了解哩d過往歷史 十分感謝

[@peterpan69]

I can tell the Flying Dragons had a lot of gf when he was young

[@howard1117able]

It’s going to be interesting to hear some stories about the San Francisco tongs

[@cldriver]

Whats the name of that HK dai lo Big Head mentioned that was a Tai Chi champion? Very interesting story! Your channel is doing well, youtube is putting an ad on like every 5 to 10 min 😂

[@daisai9096]

蘇龍 So Long. Muay Thai Instructor.

[@teovu5557]

Thai boxing as in Muay Thai not Tai Chi....

[@jimmytsui9329]

蘇龍，香港泰拳協會主席，唔係太極

[@Smak778]

More more Cantonese content please

[@charliema9386]

大头哥 legendary! 👍 can make a whole movie out his stories .

[@Igotbignose]

Don’t be a dumbass, these are the assholes that terrorized our neighborhood , they cheat and took money form the elderly with scam and beat up ppl.

[@fuwachii]

Love the Cantonese ❤❤❤

[@Winston_Chu]

10k congratulations 🎊 👏

[@brucegreen5781]

Big Head should get on MacTV🐲🔴💰💯

[@batmanvsupermanyoutube925]

Further to the comments on the Mactalk video that preceded the posting of this video, does hk triad agree to shielding taiwan and its effort to start ww3 with chicoms and Japanese killing each other so kuomintang can return to rule a. Democratic mainland like nyc is so rule of law and democratic? Im surprised that anyone would stay in nyc if they could be in hongkong. Its freezing here. Does hk triad believe its safe to offend usa with taiwan teaching sina loa to make fentanyl after the ban by china when there was no money in it for triad BUT it increases hate against China. Trump won bcuz of Sicario.

[@batmanvsupermanyoutube925]

That channel and this channel's families incl their kids should be proud of their dads especially for this video.

[@pierusa123]

Which gang is the contact when Chow Yun Fat coming to New York during the 80s?

[@chinatowngangstories]

GHOST SHADOWS.