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Wong Cafe Menus, Saint Paul, Minnesota

July 18, 2023 by Museum Fatigue

Some years back I stopped at a small restaurant, the Wong Cafe, at Rice Street and Wheelock Parkway. It was a small operation in one of those buildings with a trademarked corporate design that you know was once a fast food restaurant (Pizza Hut, perhaps). Inside, however, was a family operation turning out some very tasty, if expectedly formulaic Chinese-American fare: chow mein, sweet and sour pork, Kung Pao chicken, that kind of thing. What really captured my attention, however, […]

Categories: Food • Tags: American Chinese Food, food, menu

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Chinese Restaurant Menu, Chengdu Spring 1990

August 17, 2016 by Museum Fatigue

This morning while cleaning my office I happened upon a menu that I collected over twenty-five years ago in the spring of 1990 while studying in Chengdu, Sichuan. I don’t remember what restaurant it is from, but the fact that the first page lists Green Leaves Beer (绿叶啤酒) and that page two lists “guo kui” (锅魁) is a dead giveaway that it was from that time. The menu is an interesting look back, not only at the kinds of foods […]

Categories: China, Food, Uncategorized • Tags: 1990, Chengdu, menu, Sichuan

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Beijing Menu Designates Specific Foods to “Say No!” to Smog

June 11, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

At one restaurant in Beijing, market capitalism has found an answer to the city’s now legendary air pollution—ordering the right foods off the menu. While collectively dealing with the causes of pollution is not a political option available to Beijing residents, according to the restaurant menu the effects of the pollution can be addressed through correct individual consumption. On the menus at Jindingxuan Restaurant (金鼎轩地坛店) specific foods are designated as “resisting haze and clearing out toxins” (抗霾排毒)—specifically good for “saying no” to smog. The […]

Categories: China, Consumption, Food • Tags: air pollution, Anti-Haze, Beijing, 金鼎轩地坛店, market capitalism, menu, pollution, smog, 抗霾排毒

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