One of the Oldest Chinese Restaurant Menus in America: Mon Lay Won from the 1890's
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- Mon Lay Won was an upscale Chinese restaurant at 24 Pell Street in New York, popular at the turn of the last century.
Timestamps:
0:00 First record of menus
1:07 Upscale vs. basement restaurants
2:20 Mon Lay Won menu front cover
3:41 Mon Lay Won menu items
5:20 Mon Lay Won patronage
6:51 Café Boulevard comparison
7:27 1890s salary from United States Bureau of Labor
Credits:
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Great channel. Thanks for the videos.
The oldest Chinese restaurant of all places is in Montana. I heard this on the radio. It was a trivia question
It is believed Pekin Noodle Parlor was the oldest Chinese restaurant. I had an episode on it: ruclips.net/video/x4t-ujRAg_g/видео.html.
That is wrong. This restaurant date back to 1912. A Chinese restaurant in Oakland California date back to 1903. Another restaurant in San Francisco date back to 1911.
They have different definitions like "continuously operated", "operated in the same family", etc. If this is a topic you're interested in, I recommend reading the research paper from the UC Davis team that broke the story of Chicago Cafe -- Symbols of Survival: Finding the Oldest Chinese Restaurants in the United States (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4493301)
Fascinating!
This is a very cool video love it
Very cool channel!
This is great. I had a restaurant a few years back and we put vintage menus on the wall as artwork. One was for the California Zephyr. This is a train ride on my itinerary. Will be great to see how the menus compare.
"10000 Clouds"
You should share this on reddit /r/VintageMenus/, I think people will love this. I love learning about history via food, thank you so much!
I shared this channel on r/VintageMenus a few times, but the link probably gets lost. :\ Thanks for liking my channel!
This is really cool!
I was such a baby with this first episode. 🤣