Bruce Lee and the Oldest Chinese Restaurant in Seattle

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@andyzhang7890 7 ай бұрын

Visited Tai Tung on my trip to Seattle 2 summers ago… I’ve heard Cantonese food where I live (Scarborough/Markham, Toronto) is some of the best in the world, but this place blew me away, their beef ho fun absolutely amazing

@relathan1 Жыл бұрын

Your videos get better and better! And they were great to start with!

@AmericanChineseFoodShow Жыл бұрын

Aw, thanks! It's really nice to get feedback because I really don't know how I am doing with these videos. 🤣 I sure have fun making them!

@ometofu Жыл бұрын

Keep doing what you doing! This is most awesome channel for Chinese American….. once you done in US. Go North for Canadian Chinese or south to Mexican Chinese. Pure Gold!

@AmericanChineseFoodShow Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's one big compliment. I do think American Chinese food history is such an amazing way to tell part of our story. You're not the first person asking for some Canadian Chinese content, maybe I'll push that up after all (I have so many episodes lined up haha).

@algernon5776 6 ай бұрын

What fantastic & entertaining channel.

@sergea6446 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful job like always!

@AmericanChineseFoodShow Жыл бұрын

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@davec3964 Жыл бұрын

Nice bit of history! Thanks for the episode, keep up the great work!

@nickorp000 19 күн бұрын

Your comment about ordering chop suey and vegetables coming out is interesting. A local filipino restaurant near my work has chop suey on the menu but it's basically stir-fried veggies. So I think "chop suey" to filipinos is any stir fried vegetable dish just like your video.

@hultonclint 11 ай бұрын

Wow, they also have Filipino lechón on the menu. Plus, the pancit is 粉丝, which means a special kind of pancit. I ate at Tai Tung 6 years ago, but it is funny: I don't remember this menu! I only remember that I order some green vegetable and some meat. I think they thought I was weird. I was laughing as the waiters furiously filled other customers' glasses with ice water, constantly. It made me remember the old-style restaurants of my childhood, where it seemed like waiters must have been told that "Americans" drink lots and lots of ice water, and you must refill their glasses even if they have taken only one sip! That was a showing of "good service," maybe meaning good tips!!! Sometimes it drove me crazy: You could not eat in peace because every time you took a sip of water, a waiter would swoop in to fill the glass. And everything was so icy. I am grateful, now, for "normal" Chinese service, where you just call the waiter if you want something :)

@AmericanChineseFoodShow 11 ай бұрын

OMG I completely didn't draw the connection between pancit and 粉絲! Haha, according to Yelp reviews, the "norma"l Chinese service now is rude service.

@hultonclint 11 ай бұрын

@@AmericanChineseFoodShow Yes, those Yelpers think they are clever! Asian Americans / ABCs keep coming up with ideas and then they eventually spread to non-Chinese Americans, who think they have the "secret". Like: "If the reviews for a Chinese restaurant on Yelp are bad, it's actually a good restaurant; it just got rated poorly by non-Chinese reviewers who didn't "understand" that rude service is the mark of an "authentic" restaurant" Ha! Sometimes these ideas come close to feeling rather racist, other times they are more innocent but just silly. But I suppose that is getting off topic! More relevant, in my experience, is the evolving view of Chinese restaurants in America. I think the status of Chinese food as "comfort food" for Americans has stayed pretty constant. However, what has changed is that Chinese restaurants used to be a place to go where the diner felt like they were doing something *slightly* "fancy. Or rather, it was a modest level of fanciness that was in the reach of poorer or lower-middle class people, for whom a truly fancy dining experience was inaccessible. More recently, with these notions of authenticity grounded in things like "rudeness," the value has shifted from "working class elegance" to a sort of "it's quick and dirty, that's why we like it." I often see statements like "You can't get good Chinese food anymore," which is absurd because good Chinese restaurants in US are (arguably) easier to find than ever. What I think those people mean is that they used to get that "elegance" and now what they find, more often, is a Panda Express aesthetic-fewer waiters in vests filling water glasses on white linen tablecloths, etc. Quite possibly, they are correct to an extent: If we only look at American-style Chinese food, and ignore all of the excellent China-style restaurants, we find fewer that are cooking the America-style dishes with care. More often, America-style Chinese food is in fast food or careless restaurants (and this clientele has yet to discover the truly elegant China-style restaurants).

@TerryTa-e2v 7 ай бұрын

i love the Menu Price...... he....

@art0925 8 ай бұрын

I think Tai Tong has the look of an old style Chinese American restaurant. But over the years, some of their menu items cater to the Chinese palates have evolved to a similar offerings comparable to the rest of the ChInatown/ International District (ie: modern Toisanese flavor which is much stronger taste then what we Hong Kongers used to back home). I remember 20+ years ago they have Beef and Tomato Rice (茄牛飯) on the menu, which I think was the best I had in town. However, went back again recently and it's no longer available.

@AmericanChineseFoodShow 4 ай бұрын

They have the tomato sauce beef, I am not surprised it's not the same anymore. I know exactly what you mean by 茄牛飯. We just have to make the food at home if we want to recreate what we ate when we were kids back in HK.