First chinese restaurant in Dublin

tinyjiney

Anyone know when an where this was.???...First one i visited in the 80's was in Dun Laoghaire...The Lotus House.

rubadub

I do not remember early restaurants, I can remember a takeaway van outside killiney shopping centre, some say it went on to become Manleys in ballybrack shopping centre. I think the van said vietnamese on it.

I also remember frozen chinese ready meals in dunnes, think they were called Mr Chow and were made in bray.

Keeping with Chinese retro I remember wok with yan who got me into cooking.

annieoburns

Dame street area
Jumbo's Stillorgan

gipi

I remember the Sunflower on O Connell St (where burger king is now, I think). It was on the first floor, with a huge arched window looking down onto the street - window is still there!

Friend of mine remembers eating there with her family, and they left Ireland in 1979, so it was open way back then!

Bradidup

Lees Kitchen in Dalkey, goes back well pre Dart.

Can't beat their spring rolls and specials.

taffeta

Heard it was the Summer Palace on O'Connell Street (a few doors down from Savoy). Where Panang Malaysian is now.

theghost

Don't know the first Chinese restaurant but there was a Chinese take-away on Dorset Street in the late 60s/early70's. Can't remember what it was called but they did a lovely chow mein.

Degsy

There was a place called "Chopsticks" on Malahide road in the mid-70's and "The friendly House" in abbey st..the scene of a less than friendly altercation between groupls of people with cleavers in broad daylight!:)

Amalgam

rubadub wrote: »

I do not remember early restaurants, I can remember a takeaway van outside killiney shopping centre, some say it went on to become Manleys in ballybrack shopping centre. I think the van said vietnamese on it.

Quang Ning.. was it not named that. Just to say, that couple were very patient. They were attacked terribly by drunks and dickheads. Spat at regularly, including an incident where the gas cannister was interfered with, they were also locked in and had the trailer set on fire. Unreal treatment.

I was a kid at the time and hoped the ground would swallow me up when the woman had someone spit into her mouth beside me. Awful awful treatment. They often had their children with them in the trailer.

Degsy

Amalgam wrote: »

Quang Ning.. was it not named that. Just to say, that couple were very patient. They were attacked terribly by drunks and dickheads. Spat at regularly, including an incident where the gas cannister was interfered with, they were also locked in and had the trailer set on fire. Unreal treatment.

I was a kid at the time and hoped the ground would swallow me up when the woman had someone spit into her mouth beside me. Awful awful treatment. They often had their children with them in the trailer.

There was on not far from me in Donaghmede at the 29a bu stop called Trangh Trah( i think),it was usually staffed by a simple-looking irish bloke who was rumoured to speak vietnamese.

The scum from the adjoining St Donaghs estate regularly used to attack the trailer and harass the staff,often resulting in armed vietnamese arriving by car to sort it out.

I later heard that the intimidation was initiated by a rival chipper-van known locally as Greasy John who paid to have his competition burned down.

1968

Dublin’s first Chinese restaurants (1956 – mid 1960s)

Article on the Come Here To Me! blog.

BlaasForRafa

No idea about Dublin but the first one in Waterford was Jonny Jumbos on Ballybricken. Really foul stuff, probably packed with fat and MSG.

Degsy

The Imperial chinese restuarant was around in Dublin in the 1970's too..it was an upper-crust sort of place as i recall.

Amalgam

What was the Chinese Restaurant where Burger King is now, on O'Connell Street Dublin? Was that not an early one?

I haven't looked at the building much, but it had a sort of giant circular arch window and little circular windows on either side of it. I think they installed Burger King with the same shaped windows.

I think 'FM' was at ground level, at one point.



EDIT: Taken from 1968's link, the image the website uses for their header has it.

I used to love the look of the place as a kid, but I don't think we ever went there as a family.