Nanking Chinese

[BensGrandad]

Any of the oldies on here remember this in Market St. It was the first Chinese I ever went to in about 1960/1. Dont think it is still there now but I havent been down that road for years. Probably one of the first in Brighton.

 

[sydney]

 

[John Bumlick]

 

[fat old seagull]

Any of the oldies on here remember this in Market St. It was the first Chinese I ever went to in about 1960/1. Dont think it is still there now but I havent been down that road for years. Probably one of the first in Brighton.

Here's one for later mate....

 

[Whoislloydy]

Not even my dad was alive in 60/61 so I've definitely never heard of it.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I remember it from early /mid 70s. Think it was probably the first Chinese I went to .

 

[Guinness Boy]

i believe it's now the Nanjing Chinese. Happened around the time Peking Duck was rebranded as Beijing Duck

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I remember going there, and on to the Hippodrome for a show.

 

[The Birdman]

I remember Roy Castle playing Buttons in the Christmas pantomime at the hippodrome and we waited for autographs outside the stage door. To young to go to the pub or club afterwards

 

[skipper734]

I worked in Walter Gillett over the road in the sixties so spent a lot of the day looking out the shop window watching for young ladies walking past, but mostly looking at the front of the Nanking Chinese Restaurant and it's customers.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Went to the Chunking just up from the clocktower, mid 60's, near where BHA's shop was.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Blimey! That means Nanking Chinese and I are about the same age......................never have eaten there though.............

 

[Gwylan]

Went to the Chunking just up from the clocktower, mid 60's, near where BHA's shop was.

That was my first Chinese too. I remember that it was a treat to stop for their set lunch - back in the days when Chinese food was seen as something exotic.

I remember Nanking too ... and Choys in East St, they were both seen as a bit more upmarket Chinese. Pretty sure Nanking used to advertise at the local flicks: " ... just five minutes away from this cinema."

 

[half time scores]

I do remember the grainy cinema adverts for it when I was a child, never went there though.

 

[Robinjakarta]

I remember the Nanking and Choys as a little on the posh side. The Chungking near the Clock Tower had one of the longest menus I have ever seen.

 

[The Oldman]

IRC one of the first sit down Chinese restaurants in Brighton in the late 50's, early 60's was in West Street and called the Lotus House. It was regarded as very high class.

 

[aolstudios]

It was still around in the eighties. The first place I ever took a girl for a meal

 

[getz]

Re TC

 

[chimneys]

It was still around in the eighties. The first place I ever took a girl for a meal

Let me guess-she had the Cream of Some Young Guy?

 

[getz]

Remember the Nanking in the early sixties. Stories abounded that cat and dog were the principle ingredients. I believe many times the food inspectors made unexpected visits and found rat droppings.Very popular after a skinful in the Druids Head. Strangely enough I was thinking of their watery mushroom soup last week. Choys was the Chinese of choice but Nanking was the cheap introduction to Chinese food.