Greater St. Louis has a Chinese community. There are 1,931 Chinese Americans in St. Louis (0.6% of the city's population), and 14,460 living in the Greater St. Louis area (0.5% of the area's population). The first Chinese immigrant to St. Louis was Alla Lee, a 20-year-old from Ningbo who arrived in 1857. He socialized with the Irish American community and married an Irish woman. He sold coffee and tea in a shop on North Tenth Street.