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Brandon Jew (周英卓), a Chinese American, was born in a year of the Goat in San Francisco and raised in its Richmond District. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] While in college, in one restaurant, Jew initially worked as a busboy , then a food runner , and then a cook after substituting for an absent cook in one stint. [ 4 ]
The Sunset District contains several large park and recreation areas. The San Francisco Zoo is located in the southwestern corner of the neighborhood by Lake Merced, the largest lake within San Francisco. Also within the Lake Merced area are several golf courses: the private Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club, and the public TPC Harding Park.
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]
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Very large dim sum restaurants in major cities like Hong Kong, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, and New York were also established. [34] In the nineteenth century, Cantonese immigrants brought dim sum to the west and east coasts of the United States. [112]
Crab rangoon was on the menu of the "Polynesian-style" restaurant Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills in 1955 [14] and in San Francisco since at least 1956.[15] [16] [17] Although the appetizer has the name of the Burmese city of Rangoon, now known by Burmese as 'Yangon', [18] the dish was probably invented in the United States by Chinese-American chef Joe Young working under Victor Bergeron ...