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Cecilia Sun Yun Chiang (Chinese: 江孫芸 [1]; September 18, 1920 – October 28, 2020) was a Chinese-American restaurateur and chef, best known for founding and managing the Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco, California.
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]
Panda Inn is a chain of sit-down Chinese restaurants in California owned and operated by the Panda Restaurant Group. [1] [2] [3]The company's original founding goal was to bring new varieties of Chinese cuisine, such as Mandarin cuisine and Sichuan cuisine dishes, to Southern California, which had traditionally favored Chinese Cantonese cuisine.
Sam Wo was primarily well known by San Francisco locals for its "famous ... no-frills, late-night food and its you-get-what-you-pay service" and 3 am closing time. [2] In the 1950s Sam Wo was a Beat Generation hangout, [5] featuring poets including Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Bukowski. [6] Edsel with "abused" customers in 1982.
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]
Some of the earliest dim sum restaurants in the U.S. still operating today opened in the 1920s in San Francisco and New York City. [113] [114] The history of San Francisco's Chinese community is believed to have started about 30 years before the first dim sum restaurant opened in the city's Chinatown neighborhood.
Mandarin Restaurant Franchise Corporation is a chain of all-you-can-eat Chinese-Canadian buffet restaurants. It was founded in 1979 and currently has its headquarters in Brampton , Ontario . The chain consists of licensed restaurants across Southern Ontario offering over 100 Chinese-Canadian buffet menu items, take-out , and delivery , as well ...
[113] [114] According to the San Francisco Chronicle, activist Rose Pak then "almost single-handedly persuaded the city to build" the $1.5 billion Central Subway project to compensate Chinatown for the demolition of the freeway. [115] The 49-Mile Scenic Drive is routed through Chinatown, with particular attention paid to the corner of Grant and ...