End of an era: Chinatown restaurant set to close
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2022
- People can’t miss the large arch flanked by red dragon pillars driving through Chinatown. Golden Palace seafood restaurant has been a community staple for more than 2 decades, but it's set to close for good.
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We are sooo sorry the Golden Palace Seafood Restaurant is closing! While in Oahu, we appreciated the excellent food & service & almost every few days made sure to obtain enough take out to keep us going for a few days. We (& our family) developed a great relationship with the Lam family over the many years. Uncle Howard, his family & extended family worked very hard over the many years to provide the best chinese food to us, the community & tourists particularly my family from Australia recently. Sadly we will miss the good food & the warm Lam family. We wish them well, lots of rest & look to the future for Chapter 2 of the Golden Palace Restaurant.
We live in Maui & had hoped to make it this month to the Golden Palace Seafood Restaurant but unfortunately a health issue prevented our travel.
Good bye Golden Palace Seafood Restaurant & Good Luck to the Lam family & staff. We will miss you tremendously. Aloha!
I grew up in the chinese restaurant business. Abount 26 of my 36 years of my life. It took it’s toll on me socially. I missed a lot of friends and school events because of it.
That’s so sad. I’ve been to that restaurant. The owner actually stop by and said hello in Chinese. My wife and I felt the warmth and welcome.
This is sad. I really hope someone would step in and take over the business ❤️
Someone to take over wouldn't be the same without the original crew that made the food delicious.
The reason is because people have this mentality that Chinese food must be cheap and it’s hard to keep prices reasonable with inflation. But it’s ok for other cultures food price be marked up and people would not bat an eye.
So true.
Dim sum isn't actually cheap anymore and it's quite easy to rack up an $100 bill for 3. Also when it's like $6 for 3 piece of dim sum. There are many factors of why many Chinese restaurant failed. Another reason is there target audience are majority old people while younger people like to go to trendy places that sells cheap foods at a premium price just because it's instagrammable.
Like you walk in a dim sum restaurant everyone including the servers are old Chinese people. You go to a boba shop or a Trendy cafe (HK cafe) you see young people. Also older people are very stingy with their money. Many old people just order a few items within their budget and sit there drink the unlimited tea for hours and chat with their friends because Dim Sum is about socializing and hang out with some tea.
Also Dim Sum restaurant has a hard time sustaining itself because it is getting harder and harder to get young chefs to learn the skills that required. Most young people don't want to work in a restaurant and the kind of skills for traditional Chinese especially for dim sum restaurant takes years. Some of those dim sum chef learn the skills since they were children as well. It's another reason many Chinese owners retired or die and the restaurant is closed down because no one has the skills.
@@CrimsonEclipse
California is not safe for Asian Elderly to be going out to eat or just to go out period. Dim Sum is not worth getting your head stomp on while get rob .
2people 75 dollars for dim sum, is that cheap?
i gave up on expensive dim sum and now have opted for cheap tijuana hookers. 😎
They have the best baked char siu baos! I just got some today had no idea they were planning to close.
It is sad to see the Chinese restaurants are slowly closing. It is not just Hawaii. It is all over the USA. I think that it is the high rent, high wage and high cost of food. How much can you pass down your customers? I can’t believe that just won ton soup now cost $9.75. Are these price for the residents or for tourists?
Yeah, that's true. It's also affecting dim sum restaurants in Hong Kong as well where because the cost of labor is too high to substance for the amount of work and younger generation also refused to learn the skills to require to make dim sum because it's labor intensive and takes a lot of time. Many cooking skills are lost because it's not worth younger generation to learn to make a living. Many newer dim sum restaurant gets their dim sum frozen from factories now a days instead of making them so the quality isn't there as well.
Yeah, 2nd generation chinese American probably don’t want to take over parents’ restaurant business. Also, Chinese parents also prefer their children to be doctors/ lawyers/engineers.
That's not the reason, most of the chinese children stop inheriting their father's cooking because apprently, being chinese is a shame in America, so they have to act white in order to be accepted.
We can thank Joe Biden (aka Brandon) for this mess
$10 unfortunately is not expensive these days. Here in Asian town in Southern California, average dish was $8 pre-COVID. Now it cost $15 per dish.
Hi Gary n Team@Golden Palace - Thx so much for being there for us in the last 2 decades 🙏 👏 🍻
You know what thats not right people have been going there for years, and years I grew up in Chinatown that was my playground back in the day, my grandmother used to work in or most of the restaurant's I remember and yes they were just building so many restaurants there. Chinatown will never be the same. Such good memories for me there.
There closing thanks to many many factors,
they won't say it on t.v. but sadly this place we call Chinatown is No longer China town once you remove a stable signature place for customers that's been there for 20 years then it's not Chinatown anymore. I honestly believe part of it is the Homeless, the inflation of economic rise in price and lastly the crime in Chinatown has increased so bad, Chinatown is not safe to go there to eat and shop.
GAME OVER BEEYOTCH!!!!!!
Chinatown across North America is where ylthey historically sent the unwanted people. So it no surprise to hear about the homeless near it as it is the same where I live
@@DW-op7ly and they were planning to build homelesscamp near chinatown in seattle and NYC...
Chinatown in NY is no longer Chinatown I used to know too. Most of the traditional Chinese restaurants closed down bc of the pandemic. Most Chinese ppl were pushed out of it also. It feels like it's more for tourists and rich ppl as most rent controlled and stabilized apartments become unstabilized due to greed.
😊Everything in NYC changes…that’s the rhythm of the city BUT…NYC Chinatown is very much alive and going strong. Locals as well as tourists visit daily. And many of the established family run restaurants are still operating. Please come again and I hope you have fun in NYC! My city is the greatest melting pot in the world and we LOVE tourists 💗
@@vanessazannis5523 I live in nyc chinatown.
@@katherinelok7689 I saw you on Canal and Bowery streets !!!
@@anthonytran7566 sure u did. Lol
@@katherinelok7689 I used to live in Long Island New York my brother retired from NYPD ...
Thank you for sharing.
Be happy that all of you experienced before any other that ever will. Blessings. 😊
Ate a lot of great food, breakfasts, lunches and dinners in Chinatown in 70s..Great place buy gift too. Sad to see it is not as vibrant.
cuz you white racist. When try to be asian, they get shame for it. So most asian gave up asian culture and start adopting white culture.
Same thing happening with GOLDEN CENTURY SEAFOOD in Sydney!
I don't go to Chinatown due to 30% to 40% price hike.
Bowl of Pho is almost $20, from $11.95 just 1 year ago.
Not just Chinatown, it is all over the United State.
If only a restaurant like this could come to Silverdale, WA
hahahah yeah right, good luck chuck
I'M HAPPY TO HEAR "RETIREMENT" IS THE REASON FOR CLOSING.ENJOY THE FRUITS OF ALL THOSE YEARS OF SERVING US EXCELLENCE!A HUI HOU!!!
Used to go here as a kid, always delicious food, we were here every weekend
Omg good thing we just went... 2022 ching family reunion. Been craving ever since. Sad to see it go. Blessings to the ohana.
I wanted to go there someday. sad😢
Many have closed in Mexico too.
Hmmm... I wonder how much the homeless and crime contributed to this closing. I have no doubt it was in the equation.
it's Hawaii, not California. The landlord probably wanted to increase rent, maybe throw some unreasonable terms their way.
its an excellent restaurant when
it comes to delicious foods
that is being served to customers.
god bless you all.
Sad to see old traditional restaurants closing . That applies to all ethnic backgrounds. Bcuz their kids don’t want to continue with the family business and pursue other goals in life
Chinese people are known to hand down business from generation to generation and they are skilled and hard working people. The owners are just polite but I know the real reason is the increasing crimes, homeless and etc. Near the area. Its just bad for the business and its hurting them already.
The controversy is that they have secret police stations all around there.
Like what???? Spying????
We don’t like Chinese food anyway
There’s a Chinatown in Hawaii? I didn’t know there was that many
I didn’t get a chance to try this place out
I grew up on Dim Sum, but waiting in lines to get inflated priced Dim Sum. I learned to make it myself during pandemic, it doesn't taste as good and I can't make everything. But the price I pay for one dim sum plate I can make almost 6 at home. I never been here before, but Im sad to see a Dim Sum place close.
China town will never fade away even in bad economic they will away stand tall with their good food ❤🙏
I am not a fan of Chinese food or McDonald's. But I'd still like to go there sometimes. It's sad to see it closed. 😞
Not a fan of Chinese food? You are telling me you rather eat dog foods?
Wow and im in ny chinatown seen many places come and go but woah that’s tough on Honolulu oof
Sorry, but where is this located? I thought this is in Baltimore because of Hon.
Ouch.
Concerning the skills needed to make dim sum, can it be possible that we are now living in times when anything that is 'labor intensive' (or even requires just a bit more effort) is no longer considered 'cost effective'?
Could the capitalistic society that we live in be blamed for that?:
- Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Daniel De Leon
- How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney
Could a highly rated Bay Area Chinese restaurant be closing for the same reasons as GOLDEN P.? Read the 2022 article "Bay Area dim sum restaurant with Michelin nod set to close after 20 years".
Hes right ..China Town is no longer Chinatown 💯
Is this Honolulu?
@@lxc1227 ..yes
Oh no for us!
Looks exactly like the restaurant in binondo with the same name.
where is this at, LA or NY or SF or where?
Honolulu,Hawaii
Finally closing!!!!
Awe...dont let it close
Don't close it!!! Find a buyer who will take over the business
Pride, for a business that u build up for years, and then pass it to someone and can't control the quality of the food is a no for them.. they rather die together with it. Rather than ruin it's reputation for money.
Why don’t someone buy it
This hurts.
Which state? Which city?
C'mon sense everyone knows Rental are killing them
Lots of places have Chinatown !!!!! Which one ??????
Ooooh nooooo....
Why is around that area always packed with bumps and druggy but city and county is ok with that? On other hand, not in Waikiki.
racism...
I think it's because Downtown has homeless shelters and food and other services available to them so they just live there. I used to work in Downtown and there's so many of them by the Walmart on Fort Street Mall.
City made an effort to kick them out of the area about a year ago, probably to promote tourism in the China Town area, and it was nice for a bit, but they all came back eventually.
Hate trying to walk out for lunch and seeing some random homeless screaming at cars or human poop on the sidewalk. It's a problem
You could open in Florida
I’ll buy the restaurant
Ernest Carvalho is right. 👍
I guess they are closed as of today? Said Monday is there last day and today is Wednesday :o/
That's where I used to go with my dad when we used to live in Hawaii. After, we go around Chinatown to buy produce. huhuhu. HAPPY MEMORIES.
I’m sad!!!
Oh this is in Hawaii Chinatown
Look at the location . Prime real estate . cashing out 🎉🎉🎉
Just come on over to the San Gabriel Valley....theres a Chinese restaurant about every 50 feet
❤
In Hawaii?
How sad that they’re closing. Someone should step in and bring some LA dim sum over there. Elevated yumyum
Nothing lasts forever...
Business closes with time with a hope for better life n options....
Too bad the family does not want to keep it going.
😢
they should incorporate, and sell the shares/ownership off.
DIM SUM HAS BECOME SO EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything has become so expensive
Nice. No more Chicom town
And then they replace it with Panda Express
Some of these Chinese restaurants, I look around inside the restaurant & the bathroom & I always wonder how the heck they pass heath inspection, I’m brutally honest here & I’m Asian.
Whose gonna buy the building?!?!
Panda Express? Nah they’ll demolish it and make a new building filled with lawyers offices.
What China town ?????? Where ????????
Sad bobs big bear restaurant went under too
Sad
So the gamerooms isclosing 🤣🤣💯👇
i like her. she is BIG!
4 kids .. you need to keep the business running! 😂😂
What's the big deal. 20 years isn't even that long.
Sad for Hawaii! Here in Portland Oregon our China Town is disinegrating like a cancer patient. The huge rats, aggressive drug beggars, and filthy homeless being treated at the suboxone trearment center there, are what has destroyed this formerly beautiful, charning, historical to Portland area, and is what deterred me from the area. It should be called rattown. so sad, another loss to bad city decisions. Next bad decision will be housing a rapist being released to live in Old Town on Dec 16 22, after serving 36 years
How come no one mentioned American dream any more?
It’s sad they will be closing after 21 years in business. They will be missed. But i can’t help but wonder…will another one open up there an hour later?😂
How sad...we used to eat dimsum there..
Good job IGE you did a terrific job creating jobs.
Whats IGE?
@@AllenHanPR what country do you live in?
What happened?
Which china town ??? China town is in many many cities all over the world. Which place is closing down ???
I bought my first bottle of skunk perfume from Chinatown ages ago🤣
OH, HOW SAD🤣🎏😭
Pho $16 Dollars
Where's Nancy?
Is China going to close down too?
a lot of these legacy chinese restaurants the owner for some reason don't like to sell to someone else or no one wants to take over.
we know for sure a lot of the second generation or third generation don't want to take over. if you ask around a lot of restauranters kids or grandkids don't want to take over they have no interest in hte family business.
Dim Sum restaurants aren't easy to take over because making dim sum is labor intensive and the banquet dishes require skills that take years of training. Many don't want to take over because they can't take over.
Many new Dim Sum restaurants Don't even make their own dim sum any more and buys them from factories.
Like many of the kids of these Chinese restaurant wants to sell but can't because it's not like a franchise where there is already a easy formula to follow. Most they could sell is the property if they even owns it.
Also the cost of labor is so high they probably can't afford a professional Chinese chefs. Even the Dim Sum restaurant on Hong Kong are struggling due to labor cost and inflation and the lack of interest by young people, also most dim sum restaurant customer base are also old people.
Closing? Sad. Good bye to excellent food
They had made so nuch money and wants to enjoy the fruits of their labor
The neighbourhood cats are gonna throw a huge party when this place closes.
Just like your mom!!🤣
Politician policy: priority resources supports for the non-contributors, homeless, criminals to promotes get free everything & do nothing and boycott to the hardworking ppl contributing so much to sicuety
Strange they couldnt sell a successful business the guy said ine business after another closing os their more to the storey like lease up
Should have SHUT DOWN WHEN COVID STARTED. Kept on paying the rent, when there's NO CUSTOMERS.
If only they had written the menu in Chinese font.
Stop closing ur restaurants on sundays
If you are working for the state. You will retire. If you own a restaurant for 21 years. You should retire