Paul’s Kitchen is located in City Market in L.A’s Chinatown, a neighborhood that has changed a lot since the restaurant opened in 1946.
“For 23 years, manager Charlie Ng has run the restaurant on downtown’s San Pedro Street as his uncle Paul directed, adhering to a business strategy that has over the years been elevated to maxim: Keep everything the same. It’s even woven into the restaurant’s Chinese name, bao ju — a common naming format for restaurants of the time period that translates literally as ‘treasure memory.'”
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