First Chinese restaurants in Sheffield

[Jim Hardie 527]

I've seen no mention in this thread of a restaurant in the basement of the old Yorkshire Bank building on the corner of Haymarket and Commercial St. The entrance was down some external stairs on Commercial St. Wasn't this a Chinese restaurant?

 

Post #56. The Gambit.

[Broakham 10]

That's it Jim, thanks. -------> gets wallet and goes to Specsavers.

[juliavirago 10]

My father was a vet and visited a cafe in one of the small mining villages near Barnsley in the late 1950's. It was owned and run by a Chinese family, and was a small cafe cooking the usual sausage egg and chips and the like, but at the bottom of the menu were one or two Chinese dishes, whatever they were cooking for the family that day. It was a pretty tatty place, not the sort of surroundings you'd want to take your family for a nice dinner, but Dad used to phone them up and we would drive out there with half a dozen big pans and get them filled up for a "takeaway" of wonderful homecooked Chinese food - so my Dad always said he invented the first Chinese takeway in the area.........

[parkydave 10]

Was a small one at Firvale . Corner of Herries rd and Barnsley rd opp hospital , very early 60s or late 50s

[zakes 68]

When did the first Chinese Restaurant / chip shop open

 

Here is a shot of Golden Tiger restaurant at the junction of London Road / Abbeydale Road. 1972. Its wedged ‘atween Highfield Library and Trinity Church. The scaffolded Royal Hotel is to the right.

 

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This photo is of London Road – Boston Street in 1972. Note the mandarin shrift on the sign attached to the amusement arcade. Was there possibly an upstairs Chinese restaurant? If so, what was it called?

 

Suggestions:

 

- Man King?

- Ung Flung Dung?

- Gung ho?

 

 

TC Harrison’s far right, after Tiffany’s

 

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Ah’ve just discovered this, in this, in my extensive private library. Exactly where ‘Brenda’s’ now stands.

[Ontarian1981 10]

When did the first Chinese Restaurant / chip shop open

 

Here is a shot of Golden Tiger restaurant at the junction of London Road / Abbeydale Road. 1972. Its wedged ‘atween Highfield Library and Trinity Church. The scaffolded Royal Hotel is to the right.

 

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This photo is of London Road – Boston Street in 1972. Note the mandarin shrift on the sign attached to the amusement arcade. Was there possibly an upstairs Chinese restaurant? If so, what was it called?

 

Suggestions:

 

- Man King?

- Ung Flung Dung?

- Gung ho?

 

 

TC Harrison’s far right, after Tiffany’s

 

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Ah’ve just discovered this, in this, in my extensive private library. Exactly where ‘Brenda’s’ now stands.

You have now reminded me of the Bejing Olympics. They showed a TV traffic specialist on the rush hour news over there and they called hm Wong Wey:D

[Geo-atkinson 10]

I went to The Swan chinese take away on the corner of Dutchess Road and queens road a couple of years ago before it changed it's name and ownership, and the old man that worked there told me he was the first person to open a chinese in Sheffield back around 1968.

[lazarus 68]

The photo of the menu for the Goldfish Bowl brings back memories, the Goldfish Bowl was mainly just chip shop but was bought by the Golden Dragon just round the corner on Matilda Street, they then started selling Chinese takeaways, I worked on Sidney Street in the 70s & 80s and I had several young lads working for me and Friday, pay day, we all had a Chinese from the Goldfish Bowl for us all. The Rickshaw seems to have been the first Chinese Restaurant in town in 1960/1 it was on the corner of Devonshire Street and Broomhall Street.

Edited December 15, 2017 by lazarus

[mr_blue_owl 10]

When I lived in Hong Kong I moved into a rented house located in the far reaches of the New Territories. I was the only non-Chinese resident in the village. I spotted an elderly gentleman who looked like he might be an important member of the village community. Upon asking him how long he had lived there, he replied 'I don't live here, I own a chip shop in Sheffield'