The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory—and Unsavory—History
By Richard Grant Photographs by Rebecca Stumpf The oldest continuously operated Chinese restaurant in America is not in San Francisco or New York, but in Butte, Montana, where 47-year-old Jerry Tam, the great-great-grandson of the original owner, presides over the Pekin Noodle Parlor. Standing on South Main Street outside the weathered two-story brick building, […]