Funeral Parlor on Peterboro

[kempenstein]

I remember a Chinese restaurant used to be at Cass and Peterboro.

[softailrider]

I remember a Chinese restaurant used to be at Cass and Peterboro.

Chung's....place was always busy at lunch. Great food.

[tahleel]

Chung's....place was always busy at lunch. Great food.

As a Burton Alum, I can vouch for that place [[well, only the egg rolls because I never got anything else). I'm tempted to go to the new location. I believe is in Waterford.

www.chungsrestaurant.net

-Tahleel

[EastsideAl]

I remember a Chinese restaurant used to be at Cass and Peterboro.

Cass and Peterboro was supposed to be the center of Detroit's "new Chinatown," after the old one was torn down for the Lodge Fwy. and urban renewal on the western edge of downtown. That's why those widened sidewalks are there and those little Chinese-ized kiosk things. There were several Chinese restaurants clustered around there for a while, as well as some Chinese clubs, an Asian grocery, and a little concentration of Chinese residents. But Chinatown never really took off there and by the 80s Chung's, and a little center for Chinese seniors behind it, was all that was left.

When I was young we used to go to the Golden Dragon on Cass between Temple and Charlotte for many many years. My father had been going there since they were in the old Chinatown down on Third and Abbott. I even learned to use chopsticks there from the elderly waiter, Mr. Bing, who had been there from the old days.