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- Her meals quickly became popular among college students and the families at the Buckingham School. This inspired Chen to open her first restaurant in 1958, called “Joyce Chen Restaurant.” At this restaurant, she served both Chinese and American dishes to encourage customers to try new foods.
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In 1973, Chen opened her 350-seat 390 Rindge Ave., North Cambridge, location. It was on two floors, with a kitchen in the basement where chefs specialized in five primary cooking styles: Kan Shao, Kung Pao, Ma P’o, Yu Hsiang – all Szechuan – as well as Mandarin Moo Shi and Shanghai cuisine.
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History. Joyce Chen was Boston’s first real celebrity...
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Chen opened her first restaurant, Joyce Chen Restaurant, at 617 Concord Avenue in Cambridge in 1958. [8] According to her son, Stephen, here she pioneered the all-you-can-eat Chinese dinner buffet to boost sales on otherwise-slow Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
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617 Concord Ave, 1958-1971 The Joyce Chen Small Eating Place (1967-1988) 302 Massachusetts Avenue Joyce Chen Restaurant(1969-1974) 500 Memorial Drive
Joyce Chen was Boston’s first real celebrity restaurateur and holds indisputable importance in American culinary history. In the same era Julia Child was changing America’s palates through French cooking, Chen was doing just that with regional Chinese, introducing Peking Duck, Hot & Sour Soup, and Moo Shu Pork to American palates. Chen left China i...
Books
Chen, Joyce. The Joyce Chen Cookbook.New York, Lippincott, 1962. Clickard, Carrie. Dumpling Dreams: How Joyce Chen Brought the Dumpling from Beijing to Cambridge. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Articles
“Advertisements.” The Cambridge Chronicle,17 September 1959, p.21. “Advertisements: Taste Authentic Chinese Food by Joyce Chen.” TheCambridge Chronicle, 8 December 1983, p.21. “Community Calendar: Person of the Week: Joyce Chen.” The Cambridge Chronicle,12 September 2001, p.16 Famed Restaurateur Joyce Chen Dies, 76. The Cambridge Chronicle,1 September 1994, p.9. Lin-Sommer, Sam. ‘Joyce Chen’s China’: How a Film Used Food to Bridge a Cold-War Divide. Atlas Obscura. 10 May 2024. Modlin, Daniel....
Videos:
Joyce Chen’s Peking RavioliAmerican Chinese Food Show, 2021. “Fall Conversation: How Has Food Mended Cambridge?”History Cambridge, 2021. Stories of Cambridge: Chinese American Culinary PioneersHistory Cambridge, 2024. Two Women Brought Northern Chinese Food to AmericaAmerican Chinese Food Show, 2021.
Chen continued to popularize Chinese food in the Cambridge area by opening two larger “Joyce Chen Restaurants” in 1969 and 1973. However, she began to expand her brand by marketing various cooking items in stores. She famously created and patented the Peking Wok, a flat bottom “stir-fry pan” and its handle in 1970.
May 10, 2024 · In 1958, she opened the Joyce Chen Restaurant, a 250-seat establishment with white tablecloths, black-and-white-checkered linoleum floors, and walls dotted with Chinese art—sparsely, because...
Oct 10, 2024 · In response, Chen opened her first restaurant, Joyce Chen Restaurant, which focused on Northern Chinese food—one of the first to do so. After her restaurant received positive feedback, she wrote Joyce Chen Cookbook in 1962.
Joyce Chen, a recently arrived immigrant from China, was determined to radically change this situation. A pioneer of Chinese cooking in the United States, she would face a daunting task when opening a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the 1950s.
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