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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]
[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 ...
Ching Hai was born to a Vietnamese mother and an ethnic Chinese father, [15] on 12 May 1950 in a small village in the Quảng Ngãi Province in Vietnam. [16] At the age of 18, she moved to England to study and later to France and then Germany, where she worked for the Red Cross. [17]
The San Francisco Michelin Guide was the second North American city chosen to have its own Michelin Guide. Unlike the other U.S. guides which focus mainly in the city proper, the San Francisco guide includes all the major cities in the Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Berkeley, as well as Wine Country, which includes Napa and ...
The Golden Dragon massacre [1] was a gang-related mass shooting that took place on September 4, 1977, inside the Golden Dragon Restaurant at 822 Washington Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, United States.
The vast majority of Chinese in California were from various districts on the west side of the Pearl River Delta, in Guangdong province. Thus, the first huiguan, or ui-kun, as it was locally known [12] in Cantonese San Francisco, the Sam Yap (Chinese: 三邑; pinyin: sānyì; Jyutping: sam1 jap1; lit. 'Three counties') Company, emerged in 1851.
San Francisco, California - 137 Waverly Place; San Jose, California - 639 N 6th Street (defunct) Seattle, Washington - 512 Maynard Avenue S;
Chiang's son Philip is a co-founder of the restaurant chain P.F. Chang's. [27] Having lived for many years in San Francisco, she moved to Belvedere in Marin County, after selling her restaurant in 1991. [7] She moved back to San Francisco in 2011 where her daughter May and grandchild Alisa Ongbhaibulya live. [5]