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restaurant, café and cookshop industry

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    Jade Inn next to Waltons, c. 1970, by Unknown creator (see disclaimer), courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Melbourne Illustrated - In the Chinese quarter', 13 November 1880, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    'Sketches in our Chinese Quarter: Fan Tan playing, and a Chinese restaurant', 22 May 1880, courtesy of Chinese Museum (Museum of Chinese Australian History).
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    Cafe interior, courtesy of R. Ansell (private hands).
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    Quong Tart's tea house at 137 King Street, Sydney, 1881 - 1903
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    King St., Sydney from Pitt St., looking E [East, 1892] / [photographed by] H King Syd., c. 1892, by King, Henry, 1855-1923, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales - Mitchell Library.
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    Unidentified man standing outside bark hut, Stanthorpe, 1870s, courtesy of University of Queensland library - Fryer Library.
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Related People

Published Resources

Books

  • Chong, Elizabeth, The Heritage of Chinese Cooking, Weldon Russell, North Sydney, 1993. Details
  • Lydon, Jane, Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks 1890-1930, Monash Publications in History, Clayton, 1999. Details
  • Shun Wah, Annette & Aitkin, Greg, Banquet: Ten Courses to Harmony, Doubleday, Sydney, 1999. Details

Journal Articles

  • Nichol, Barbara, 'Sweet and sour history: Melbourne's early Chinese restaurants', Memento, no. 34, January, pp. 10-12. Details

Theses

  • Couchman, Sophie, 'Tong Yun Gai (Street of the Chinese): Investigating patterns of work and social life in Melbourne's Chinatown 1900-1920', MA thesis, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, 2001. Details

See also

  • '[Yin Bun Lowe cookstore, unloading bananas in Little Bourke Street, 1899]', The Leader, 11 February, p. 34. Details
  • Loh, Morag, 'Chinese', in Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 131-132. Details
  • Yu, Ouyang, 'All the lower order: Representations of Chinese cooks, market gardeners, street hawkers, laundrymen, storekeepers, domestic servants and herbalists in Australian literature from 1888-1988', in P. Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 100-112. Details

Images

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Jade Inn next to Waltons
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1970
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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'Melbourne Illustrated - In the Chinese quarter'
Type
Illustration
Date
13 November 1880
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Rear of Shanghai Café, Chinese Chop Suey House & Restaurant at 65-67 Campbell Street, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
6 August 1934
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - Campbell St
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Title
'Sketches in our Chinese Quarter: Fan Tan playing, and a Chinese restaurant'
Type
Illustration
Date
22 May 1880
Place
Australia
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Title
Unidentified men gambling and a man working in a kitchen
Type
Illustration
Date
c. 1887
Place
Australia - Victoria - Melbourne - Little Bourke Street
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Title
Cafe interior
Type
Photograph
Place
Australia - Victoria - Maryborough?
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Cavenagh Street view from under the Banyan tree
Type
Photograph
Date
1939
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Title
Cavenagh Street, Darwin
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1928 - c. 1931
Place
Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin (Palmerston) - Cavenagh Street
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Quong Tart in front of tea rooms, possibly 777 George Street
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1886 - c. 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street?
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Quong Tart posed with two staff members inside one of his tearooms
Type
Photograph
Date
1889 - 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
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Quong Tart posed with unidentified staff in private room [?] of one of his tearooms
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1886 - 1898?
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - George Street?
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Quong Tart's tea house at 137 King Street, Sydney
Type
Photograph
Date
1881 - 1903
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
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Streetscape including Quong Tart's Loong Shan Tea House, c1892
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 1892
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney - King Street
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Unidentified man selling poultry for Chinese New Year
Type
Photograph
Date
c. 5 February 1911
Place
Australia - New South Wales - Sydney
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Unidentified man standing outside bark hut, Stanthorpe
Type
Photograph
Date
1870s
Place
Australia - Queensland - Stanthorpe
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Prepared by: Sophie Couchman, La Trobe University

Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 9 November 2005