The Chinese migration from Canton to Stockton stretches back to the Gold Rush. Kai’s father, grown up and married, joined him in 1952. Kai’s grandfather returned to America in 1950, settling in Stockton, and opened the Golden Star Café. Kai’s father, though only 2 ½ years old at the time, vividly remembered his family scrambling outside just before the building collapsed. They ran a store until the Great Quake of 1906.
Kai Chan holds a picture of his parents, Jimmy Yoke and Bo Lan Chan, who ran the cafe from 1970 until 1990 (MICHAEL FITZGERALD/CONTRIBUTOR)įrom Xinhui the Chans immigrated to San Francisco. Some of the Golden Star’s recipes trace to Kai’s great-grandfather, who in the late 1800s ran a café in Xinhui, China. “Next month, 43 years,” Kai Chan said of all the time he’s put in. Kai and Elaine Chan are selling the Golden Star Café, ending a 72-year-run in which three generations of Chans have satisfied south Stockton’s craving for egg foo young.Ī San Francisco buyer will keep the café open, which is good, but without the Chan family slinging potstickers from behind the 12-seat lunch counter, a tradition since 1950. They made me drive over there for no reason.Feature photo: Kai Chan stands outside of the Golden Star Cafe, which three generations of his family have run. So I’m waiting and they’re talking back and forth and then the lady just prints out the receipt and tells me that the charge was voided. I told them I’ve also sent a picture to her already. So I get there and they tell me they have to take a picture and send it to the manager.
But I didn’t express that, I just drove over there. But I sent this picture and she told me I had to drive over there to get my refund back on my card. Like she was implying that my food couldn’t possibly taste bad. She told me they’ve sold so much of it today and I’m the only one that has complained about the taste.
And they got the manager on the line and she asked me to send her a picture as if she is going to taste the picture. I called them and they told me they had to call the manager and they asked me to come back in and I asked them if they can just refund me because to drive back is an inconvenience for me. I’ve ate here Only a few times but their mandarin chicken was good the first time I ordered it and then the second (last night) it was okay but not as good as the first and they didn’t give enough sauce for the chicken but I ordered it again tonight hoping it would taste like the first time I ordered it but it was bad, it tasted fishy, and it was rubbery.
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