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Chungking restaurant in Riverside, with Voy Wong, second from left, and Harold Wong, second from right.

Gom Benn’s Restaurants: Recipe for Success

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Post published:January 11, 2020
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Long before there was Panda Express or PF Chang’s, there was Chungking Cafe in Riverside, Bing’s Cathay Inn in San Bernardino, the Great Wall in West Covina, Kun Ming Kitchen…

The basic ingredients for chop suey included slivers of beef, chicken or pork plus celery, onions and bean sprouts.

What Is Chop Suey?

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Post published:January 10, 2020
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Chop suey is to Chinese restaurants what hamburgers are to American fast-food stands. It’s hard to imagine now, but chop suey was the Howlin’ Ray’s fried chicken of its day…Okay,…

Chinese laborers at citrus packing house, c. 1890s. Source: Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Little Gom Benn

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Post published:October 11, 2019
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They came to lay track. They stayed to pick oranges. And eventually prospered cooking up chop suey. The history of Gom Benn in America began with the building of the…