Creator
Cathay Tea Garden
Title
À la carte
Coverage
Philadelphia
Date
May 29, 1926
Description
The Cathay Tea Garden had a large dance floor and hosted a regular radio program. This menu follows the standard format of the era, with four pages equally divided between “American dishes” and “Chinese dishes.” By now, chop suey had become so popular that it was served at other kinds of restaurants, even though the cooks did not necessarily have the recipes or proper ingredients. After more than fifty years in business, the Cathay Tea Garden closed in 1973. Nevertheless, by the early twenty-first century, there were 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States.