12/26/2023 0 Comments Chinese restaurants![]() The significant majority of original Chinese migration came from Kwangtung Province in southern China, heavily influencing the style of food, consisting of fresh vegetables and fruit, with fish, poultry, and pork, with rice, herbs and spices. They emerged as commercial enterprises on the Victorian gold fields. Main article: Chinese restaurants in AustraliaĪt the beginning of the 21st century, Chinese restaurants had been present in a significant majority of Australian cities and towns for over fifty years, and in many places for over one hundred and fifty years. The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted many Chinese restaurants in the UK, with a number of restaurants in London's Chinatown in particular facing financial difficulty, due to lockdown restrictions and social distancing as well as prejudice against Chinese takeaways which the BBC describe as "unfounded". In 2011, the Ming-Ai (London) Institute launched the British Chinese Food Culture project with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, aimed at exploring and tracking the changes in Chinese food throughout its history in the United Kingdom. Many takeaways served a pseudo-Chinese cuisine based around western tastes, and the limited cooking skills and experience of the shop owners. Opening a restaurant or takeaway gave a relatively low capital cost entry for Chinese families into self-employment. In the United Kingdom, the business employed a large percentage of Chinese immigrants in the 1980s (90% in 1985). In 2003, the first British Chinese restaurant achieved a Michelin star. One restaurant that stands out in the history of Chinese restaurants in the UK is the Kuo Yuan which in 1963 was the first restaurant to serve Peking duck. The restaurants were operated by Hong Kongers who moved to the UK. The rise in the number of Chinese restaurants in the UK only began after the Second World War, and has been attributed to returning service personnel from Hong Kong. ![]() In 1907 or 1908, the first recorded Chinese restaurant was opened in London. In 1884, Chinese food was made available as part of an exhibition featuring a 'restaurant' in the International Health Exhibition in South Kensington, London. In the early 1880s, Chinese food items and eating houses appeared in London and Liverpool, mainly visited by Chinese seamen and students. Many of the Chinese restaurant menus in the U.S. Adapting Chinese cooking techniques to local produce and tastes has led to the development of American Chinese cuisine. There has been a consequential component of Chinese emigration of illegal origin, most notably Fuzhou people from Fujian Province and Wenzhounese from Zhejiang Province in Mainland China, specifically destined to work in Chinese restaurants in New York City, beginning in the 1980s. ![]() As of 2015, the United States had 46,700 Chinese restaurants. The Chinese Exclusion Act forced Chinese immigrants to move away from wage work to self employment through laundries and restaurants. This fueled the opening of Chinese restaurants as an immigration vehicle. However, the Chinese Exclusion Act allowed merchants to enter the country, and in 1915 restaurant owners became eligible for merchant visas. At the ratification of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 there were only 14 restaurants in San Francisco. The trend spread eastward with the growth of the American railways, particularly to New York City. Soon after, significant amounts of food were being imported from China to America's west coast. By 1850, there were five restaurants in San Francisco. The first documented Chinese restaurant opened in 1849 as the Canton Restaurant. ![]() Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California gold rush, which brought twenty to thirty thousand immigrants across from the Canton (Kwangtung or Guangdong) region of China.
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