Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Ching How Menu
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- Description
- A menu for James Wong Howe's and Sanora Babb's Ching How restaurant in Los Angeles, California. The cover is printed with green and black border illustrations of stylistic Chinese motifs, including birds, dragons, and women in dress. Center of cover reads "Ching How Menu" and the illustration is signed by an unknown artist, "Sally" towards the lower right. Interior pages include variations of food entrees, appetizers, soups, and other dishes with their prices. The menu is bilingual, with the original dish names listed in Chinese and English descriptions below, for example, "Git Lic Gai...Fried breaded boneless chicken with sweet and sour sauce." Some items are crossed out in black pen, noting name changes or when the restaurant was out of a specific item. The menu promotes "Chinese food in the Chinese manner," while having "the chef of a thousand dishes," and an introduction to "the best in Chinese food." The approximate date of the item is based on text in the lower center of the menu, which mentions pricing being high in April 1943.
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