First Chinese restaurants in Sheffield

[JACK HEWITT]

Man with holes in pocket feels cocky all day man with two holes feels too cocky the old ones are always the best I always thought it was the Zing Vaa but then i was born a towny and remember the staff killing chickens at the back of the Zing Vaa in the very early 60s with a axe and letting them run around headless.

Edited October 18, 2010 by JACK HEWITT

[sedith]

Can anyone tell me when the first chinese rest. was opened in sheffield i came across a photo of the one next to highfields library prior to Oct 1960 .

 

This got me thinking when did it open ? was it the first one ?

Wasn't the one next to Highfields library called the Silver Tiger? I would imagine the Gambit on Commercial Street was one of the first ones around.

I remember the Oriental on Langset Road, what dump that was!

[crookesey]

How about The Canary on Charles Street?

[bullerboY]

Well done crookesey id forgot about that one,remember the Concord at the corner of Surrey st and norfolk st.

[echo beach]

How about The Canary on Charles Street?

 

Or The Peacock (I think that was its name ) ont' Wicker. That was the first one I visited in the early 60's. Subsequently the Zing Vaa became popular because a friend at college worked there (hence good discount) followed finally by The Golden Dragon.

[sedith]

Or The Peacock (I think that was its name ) ont' Wicker. That was the first one I visited in the early 60's. Subsequently the Zing Vaa became popular because a friend at college worked there (hence good discount) followed finally by The Golden Dragon.

Yeh, the Peacock on the Wicker ... they used to do a 'businessmans' lunch ... three courses for £2, can't imagine what sort of businessman would go in there, ha, ha!!

[billhaley]

Or The Peacock (I think that was its name ) ont' Wicker. That was the first one I visited in the early 60's. Subsequently the Zing Vaa became popular because a friend at college worked there (hence good discount) followed finally by The Golden Dragon.

 

Hey I remember the one in The Wicker, and it was there in the late fifties as I remember going with my dad when we had the Manchester on Nursery St, and although it wasn't exactly a restaurant, there was a chinese chippy I think up near Woodside lane called Lin Hong or similar unless my memory is playing tricks.

[sedith]

Anyone remember the Goldfish Bowl takeaway at the back of the Zing Vaa, they used to do purple sausages. When I think back at the crap I've eaten over the years, its a wonder I'm still here

[tony.p]

hi bus man,the chinese restaurant at the side of highfield library was called,' lin hongs' opened around 1956 .tony p

[dutchpeter]

iremember a cafe at the top of fowler st that did chinese take aways this about 1957/8 could this be the first one in sheffield