in San Gabriel Valley, Asian Americans make up more than half of the population. The casino buses aren’t hard to find here; they run back and forth from Las Vegas and Southern California’s many gambling houses, picking up passengers in the parking lots of Asian supermarket chains like 99 Ranch. They’re run by companies with nondescript names like Da Zhen and QH Express. The buses are often unmarked and hard to find on the web, because their older clientele doesn’t often speak English and therefore doesn’t use the internet. The companies are frequently resented by city councils and residents alike, because the buses clog up traffic, and the crowds, 25 passengers were injured in 2018, when a bus overturned at 4 a.m. in downtown Los Angeles on the way back from Pala Casino in San Diego County.
