One of the Oldest Chinese Restaurant Menus in America: Mon Lay Won from the 1890's

[@AnomalyDocs]

Great channel. Thanks for the videos.

[@Ultradude604]

Fascinating!

[@256kar]

This is a very cool video love it

[@kennylee1732]

Very cool channel!

[@MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia]

The oldest Chinese restaurant of all places is in Montana. I heard this on the radio. It was a trivia question

[@AmericanChineseFoodShow]

It is believed Pekin Noodle Parlor was the oldest Chinese restaurant. I had an episode on it: ua-cam.com/video/x4t-ujRAg_g/v-deo.html.

[@tonysaidhi]

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.

[@AmericanChineseFoodShow]

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)

[@johnpettigrew83]

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.
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[@nnf9431]

This is really cool!

[@AmericanChineseFoodShow]

I was such a baby with this first episode. 🤣