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  2. How the Zagats Created a Social Reviewing Empire and ... - AOL

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    By then, they were publishing guides for Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., ... Zagat surveys restaurants in 90 cities around the world, and reviews everything from golf ...

  3. Cecilia Chiang - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Culinary Workers' Union called the location a "sweatshop", which prompted Chiang to sue them for libel. She won the suit in the late 1970s. [3] Chiang opened a second Mandarin in Beverly Hills, California, in 1975. She handed over control of that restaurant to her son Philip in the 1980s. [3]

  4. Mandalay (restaurant) - Wikipedia

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    In 2024, Mandalay was deemed an "America's Classic" by the James Beard Foundation, [4] [2] who stated the restaurant "might be the best of the bunch" among Burmese restaurants within the city. [3] Eater writer Lauren Saria included Mandalay in a list of the best restaurants in San Francisco, recommending the tea leaf salad, noodles, and samusa ...

  5. Chinese restaurant - Wikipedia

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    Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California Gold Rush, which brought twenty to thirty thousand immigrants across from the Canton (Kwangtung or Guangdong) region of China. The first documented Chinese restaurant opened in 1849 as the Canton Restaurant. [34] By 1850, there were five restaurants in San Francisco. Soon ...

  6. Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant - Wikipedia

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    The restaurant was opened in 1997 by Xuqun Yang and Feng Wang, a husband and wife [1] who emigrated from Beijing in 1987. [2] At first, they ran the restaurant with their 14-year-old son and one other employee. [1] As of 2015, it was the only Muslim Chinese restaurant in the city, [3] and at

  7. Zagat - Wikipedia

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    The Zagat Survey, commonly referred to as Zagat (stylized in all caps; / z ə ˈ ɡ æ t /, zə-GAT) and established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979, is an organization which collects and correlates the ratings of restaurants by diners. For their first guide, covering New York City, the Zagats surveyed their friends.

  8. Johnny Kan - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Kan (1906–1972) was a Chinese American restaurateur in Chinatown, San Francisco, ca 1950–1970.He was the owner of Johnny Kan's restaurant, which opened in 1953, and published a book on Cantonese cuisine, Eight Immortal Flavors, which was praised by Craig Claiborne and James Beard. [1]

  9. American Chinese cuisine - Wikipedia

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    American Chinese cuisine is a cuisine derived from Chinese cuisine that was developed by Chinese Americans. The dishes served in many North American Chinese restaurants are adapted to American tastes and often differ significantly from those found in China. History Theodore Wores, 1884, Chinese Restaurant, oil on canvas, 83 x 56 cm, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Chinese immigrants arrived in ...