Worth Repeating: Paul’s Kitchen in L.A.’s City Market Chinatown

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 12/4/13:

Paul’s Kitchen is located in City Market 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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