Historical notes on Chinese restaurants in Portland

Historical notes on Chinese restaurants in Portland, Maine. - Gale

Chinese people have called Portland home since 1858 and have owned restaurants there for 125 years.

History of Portland's Chinese Restaurants

The first Chinese restaurant in Maine, established in 1880 at One Custom House Wharf. He brings the story up to the present 22 restaurants presently operating ...

The History of Chinese Food in Portland, America's Second-Oldest ...

The original Portland Chinatown was located in the heart of today's downtown in the 1850s, making it the second-oldest Chinatown in the United States.

Historical notes on Chinese restaurants in Portland, Maine. - Gale

When Ar Tee Lam opened what is believed to be Maine's first Chinese restaurant at 1 Custom House Wharf in 1880, Portland's population of 33,810 ...

Historical Notes on Chinese Restaurants in Portland, Maine.

Historical Notes on Chinese Restaurants in Portland, Maine. · Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 2006, Annual · Publisher Description · More Books Like ...

A Forgotten Part of Portland - The Franklin Post

The history of one of the most popular Chinatowns in America stretches back to the 1800s, when immigrants moved to the West looking for work. Chinese families ...

Historical Notes on Chinese Restaurants in Portland, Maine. by ...

According to the 2000 Census, Maine was the "whitest" state in the country. (1) While Portland, Maine's largest city is somewhat more multiethnic than Maine ...

Portland's Old Chinatown is Fading—We Visited Every Chinese ...

But lately most of the city's Chinese population, and most of its best Chinese food, has moved to the new New Chinatown on 82nd Avenue ( ...

Portland Chinese-American History Walking Tour

Nothing is known of the restaurant's name or cuisine. However, since there were only 9 Chinese men among Portland's 33,810 residents at the time of the 1880 ...

Restaurant Menus | More Local History Collections

Imperial China, 1989 ... 1989 Menu from Imperial China Chinese Restaurant, 220 Maine Mall Road, South Portland. The business opened in 1989. 1989 and 1992 ...

Portland Chinatown, 1886 - Oregon History Project

Several thousand Chinese lived in Portland in the 1880s, most of them unmarried men who plied a variety of occupations.

Portland's Chinese Community in the 1920s

One of the first documented Chinese immigrants in Portland was Ar Foo Fong, a tea merchant who came to Portland in 1860. He selected teas for ...

Chinese Food in Portland - Szechuan Garden

Historians say there's no reliable written source to help trace the history of Chinese food in Portland but archaeologists have been able to preserve some of ...

The Pagoda (restaurant) - Wikipedia

The Pagoda was a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Hollywood District, in the United States. The Pagoda. Exterior of a bank building in 2014; ...

Remember the Hungry Tiger: An Excerpt from Martha Grover's New ...

It was one of those old Chinese restaurants with a pagoda-shaped sign that advertised “Chinese and American Food.” I don't know how the food ...

Maine's Chinese history is 'more than just ethnic food and laundry'

Another Chinese-American Portland tale Libby unearthed is that of Ar Foo Fong. A tea merchant by trade, Fong came to Portland around 1860. He ...

The Downfall of Maine's Hottest Chinese Food Restaurant Ever

According to CafamMaine.org, a restaurant called Hu Shang took Portland (and all of New England) by storm in 1979. Located on Congress Street, ...

Wong's King - Wikipedia

Wong's King Seafood Restaurant (or simply Wong's King) was a chain of Chinese/Cantonese and seafood restaurants in the metropolitan area of Portland, ...

Good Eats: A Tribute to Oregon Dining

... Chinese restaurants along Northwest 4th Avenue in Portland's Chinatown. ... Drive-in Restaurants of Portland Oral History Project. A series ...

Portland's Living Food History

Here's what I have so far. Please email me at [email protected] with additions and corrections. Note: There have been a lot of ...