The Oldest Chinese Restaurant In The United States Is In A Town Near Sacramento. And It's For Sale...
The restaurant has been operating in for over one hundred years.
Once a target of discrimination and tactical methods to eliminate, Chinese restaurants have become a traditional feature of society in the United States. Very few know there exists a portal of time traveling in disguise as a plate of chow mein (a conundrum that doesn’t contain noodles), pupu platter puffy shrimp of the pan-pacific-asian-tiki days of yore and all in the setting of an Americana coffee shop that’s been around for over a century right here in Northern California. It’s managed to survive racism, the Chinese Exclusion Act (and therefore the exclusion of their businesses), archaic tropes of serving vermin and feline as comestibles and even a kitchen fire in 1936. 1 And yet, it couldn’t survive the fourth generation not taking over the family business.
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