Mandarin Restaurant Cup
Mandarin Restaurant Cup
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- Description
- Original cup from The Mandarin, in San Francisco, California, a restaurant owned by Cecilia Chiang. The cup is white with a handle and features the restaurant’s original logo of a Chinese woman in Qing dynasty regalia framed within a circular design. The logo is blue in color.
- Cups can tell you a lot about the Chinese restaurant. In our collection for Cecilia Chiang’s The Mandarin Restaurant, we have two kinds: one white teacup and one green tiki cup. The white teacup suggests that Mrs. Chiang served tea, a typical Chinese hot beverage, at her original restaurant on Polk Street, San Francisco. Although a Drinks section did not appear on her original menu in her Polk Street restaurant, tea is a traditional beverage that comes alongside any Chinese meal. A drinks section of coffee and tea did appear later in the Beverly Hills location.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- The Mandarin Restaurant Menu
- Restaurant Menu
- Menu
- Cup
- cup
- Measurements
- overall: 7 cm x 11.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 4 17/32 in
- ID Number
- 2011.0115.01
- catalog number
- 2011.0115.01
- accession number
- 2011.0115
- Credit Line
- Cecilia Chiang
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- Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
- Food
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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