A Chinese Restaurant Restaurant in Sioux City, Iowa (1979)
Though I began writing on Chinese American history topics back in 1969, it wasn't until almost 10 years later in early 1979 that I wrote my first article on anything to do with Chinese food, which sort of was a restaurant review, though even back then I was talking about food in a greater context. “A Chinese Restaurant in Sioux City, Iowa" appeared in the January 31, 1979 issue of the weekly Chinese American newspaper out of San Francisco, East West Chinese-American Journal, and obviously there are no available online copies of this item until now. HONG KONG RESTAURANT, 3105 N. Highway 75, Sioux City, Iowa It seems that virtually any American city of any size has at least one Chinese restaurant. However, once one leaves the major Chinese population centers, the quality of the Chinese restaurant food becomes quite marginal, the sophistication of the customers (insofar as Chinese food is concerned) becomes lower, and the available ingredients become limited. Sioux City, Iowa ...