{"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<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/photoessay2013\/photoessay11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/photoessay2013\/photoessay11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><figcaption>&#8220;Jean was a wonderful hostess at the restaurant.  She was so bubbly, alive and gracious &#8211; she was all those things.  In those days, the Kwong Chow was the best Cantonese restaurant in Toronto.&#8221; <br><br>Pierre Berton, author<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">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 &#8211; 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<p>Excerpted from Spirit of the Dragon by Arlene Chan, published by Umbrella Press. Copyright \u00a9 1997 by Arlene Chan<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; famous for its Cantonese cuisine. The restaurant was successful for many years and attracted well-known people over the years from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-post","8":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}