亞利桑納出現「小台北」Arizona’s Tiny Taipei: How a Taiwanese Chip Factory Seeded a Community

亞利桑納出現「小台北」- - - 台積電員工和家屬

Taiwan Bistro, a stir-fry restaurant in Phoenix, is popular with employees of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has a plant nearby.Credit...Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times

Arizona’s Tiny Taipei: How a Taiwanese Chip Factory Seeded a Community

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a global tech giant, brought thousands of workers from Asia to the Phoenix suburbs for jobs at a plant that the Biden administration helped fund.


Taiwan Bistro, a stir-fry restaurant in Phoenix, is popular with employees of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has a plant nearby.Credit...Cassidy Araiza for The New York Times




The growing numbers of workers are seeding a cultural and demographic shift where the Phoenix sprawl melts into the Sonoran Desert. Real estate developers are converting a beige outdoor mall into an Asian shopping center. Its name, 808 Union Hills Plaza, plays up the lucky number eight in Chinese numerology. The wife of one engineer at TSMC’s plant has already opened a boba tea shop there. Other developers are hoping to build Taiwanese-style townhouses in the desert off a dead-end road near the factory.