Chinese restaurant

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a restaurant operated by a Chinese, especially one of the small cafés that are found, particularly in the West, in most Canadian small towns.

Quotations

1920

. . . there were also hotels, stores, a lumber concern, a pool room and a Chinese restaurant.

1958

After that, the abstemious members of the visiting party would step into the Chinese restaurant for Denver sandwiches.