{"id":6427,"date":"2019-05-13T19:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca:\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:20:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:20:27","slug":"the-kwong-chow-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/?p=6427","title":{"rendered":"The Kwong Chow Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Jean was a wonderful hostess at the restaurant. She was so bubbly, alive and gracious – she was all those things. In those days, the Kwong Chow was the best Cantonese restaurant in Toronto.”

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Jean and Doyle decided to open a restaurant, rather than continue the grocery store. In 1959, they opened the restaurant in downtown Chinatown and called it Kwong Chow, named after a city in China – famous for its Cantonese cuisine. The restaurant was successful for many years and attracted well-known people over the years from prime ministers and politicians to movie stars and theatre people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from Spirit of the Dragon by Arlene Chan, published by Umbrella Press. Copyright \u00a9 1997 by Arlene Chan
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Image Credit: Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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