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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Sir, Good Point! One must study how Chinese restaurants emerges in England especially in smaller cities those days. Unlike the prime restaurants, they cooked a lot of food from canned goods as most cooks are really cooks by needs as a job when they immigrate to England. They cooked as how they...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Thank You Sir, I am sure that taste of Lychee still lingers in your memory taste. Just to share a humor with you that that was the dessert that the restaurant loved to sell as that makes the best return of profit. Today a good restaurant would try to get fresh Lychees. Hahahah
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I think I knew that restaurant as the owner was someone that came in from Hong Kong after working a few years with relatives who got them over. The owner went to open another - The Slow Boat - close to the Chinese quarters at Hagley Road
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Would you believe that the original Chinese restaurant never had curry on the menu until through circumstances coping to compete with Indian Restaurant and demand from those who had lived in the Far East like India and Singapore. Today a good and real typical Chinese restaurant in Singapore...
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    yes it was
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I would said it was the one of the first sit down restaurant first owned by a Chinese family and in theearly 1970's sold to the Indian Family and closed in late 1990
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    good and am sure you must have enjoyed te meals. What was your usual dining meals. They were good in curry
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    Thank You. It was
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    I was serving tables at Kam Ling over the weekend in 1973-75. Many pleasant memories of the Chef Choy
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    As a student, missing out on Chinese food then, it was Happy Gathering or the Slow Boat. I bought my lovely Indonesian Chinese girl there for dinner after a movie. She loved the roast meat and noodles with a lot of chilli sauce
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    Restaurants In Birmingham 1960s

    In the 1974, I was studying in Birmingham and was a working waiter at Kam Ling over the weekend. At that time the restaurant was owned by two Indian brothers and the Chef was a Chinese. The restaurant no longer exist and I wonder anyone can still remembered patronizing the place as I am writing...
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