In modern times, the main population of Chinese Americans is scattered around the northern suburbs of the City of Dallas.
Additional Chinese residents came in the wake of a strike at Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC).
After settling in Dallas, some Chinese established businesses such as laundries, and others worked as cooks and domestic servants in residences of white Dallasites.
[citation needed] The city had 43 Chinese, including 41 laundry owners and workers, one physician, and a domestic servant by 1891.
[3] A local directory published the same year stated that there were 25 ethnic Chinese in the City of Dallas.
[citation needed] At that time, there was a grouping of businesses owned and operated by Chinese in the Downtown Dallas area.
[citation needed] After 2000, Collin County continued to expand rapidly in size and population, and many Chinese Americans began to call places like Allen, Frisco, and McKinney home.
[14] In 1991 the Plano Independent School District (PISD) began a Chinese bilingual program for preschool and kindergarten students developed by Donna Lam.
[8] In the late 2010s through the 2020s, Frisco and Plano have experienced an influx of mainland Chinese and Taiwanese chains including Haidilao and Gong Cha.
This is part of a shift in Dallas from restaurants owned by Chinese immigrants to more commercial, overseas sources of ethnic cuisine.
Eventually, Asian businesses encompassed the entire complex, which resulted in the center being renamed 'China Town'.
As the population began to move northward, similar complexes with Asian restaurants, supermarkets, and businesses were established in Plano, Frisco, and other Collin County cities.
[15] In 2015, DFW-based American Airlines began a non-stop flight service to Beijing, China, a result of both the strong trade relationship between Texas and China and the significant population of Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants in the metroplex.