Stark Commentary On The Decline of Cantonese Food

As you may know, King Hua, one of the top tier SGV dim sum restaurants was one of the first pandemic casualties back in 2020. It was one of a succession of dim sum restaurants operating at that location dating back to 1984 and Casa de Oriente, which chose a decidedly un-Chinese name so as to not ruffle feathers in what was then still a largely white area of Alhambra. That space is now occupied by the first US branch of the Chengdu based Sichuan nightclub chain JiangHu Bistro. This really puts an exclamation mark on the shift we’re seeing in the SGV and Chinese communities all over the US away from Cantonese cuisine and to Non-Cantonese Mainland cuisines. As such I wanted to drop by to see how the premises changed from where I enjoyed so many Cantonese meals to one where I discovered myself in a red fog.