The Hong Kong Chef Who Brought Cantonese Food To Houston
If you find your shumai in Houston, Texas especially authentic, you have Hoi Fung to thank. He is the first chef who brought authentic Cantonese cuisine to the city in 1982 after moving from Hong Kong. Now, his own daughter is carrying on the family’s legacy of cooks, with her own spin on Chinese food.
Shop address: 7320 Southwest Fwy APT 115, Houston, TX 77074, United States
This is the fourth episode of our latest “Mean Street Gourmet” series about mom-and-pop stores across the Chinese diaspora. In the next episode, Up next, we take you to Paris to meet a xiaolongbao maker who was inspired by her French and Chinese roots.
00:00 Houston’s first Cantonese restaurant
00:36 How it started
01:06 Father and daughter
01:30 Daughter’s specialty
02:21 Why carry on the legacy
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Producer: Dolly Li
Script: Lyn Yang
Videographer: Joy Jihyun Jeong
Editor: Cliff Man
Mastering: Victor Peña
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Love the Cantonese; love even more the Gnorn Chow Gnau Hor @ 0.53.
I like that she loves her dad.
Love the tee shirt 🙂
What a wonderful family!
Finally a video where they don't say 'the younger generation doesn't like hard work'
Please do more of these kinds of videos, tracing the history of Chinese food in the US
Kinda sad that's it's been closed for over a year and a half due to a major fire. Hopefully they'll reopen….
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It's nice to see a video about the Chinese food scene in Houston. It has a lot of good Chinese restaurants and a large Asian community; and, these facts aren't widely known. People think of the the Bay Area, the LA Area, and New York City when they think of Chinese food in the United States.
Beef Chow Fun! Steamed fish with ginger scallion, Lazy Susan, Chow Mai Fun?, Five spice crab?,
All of these dishes are astonishing and wonderful! Thank you Goldthread for creating, making and sharing. Your channel rules!
I'm in Houston, Cantonese and planning on going here now. So many of these restaurants are closing back where I am from in LA. It's nice to see that it looks like Fung's will be around for the next generation.
It's so common to see the next generation run from their parent's line of work and follow a different path. This was refreshing to see. Your food looks wonderful and I wish you continued success!
Really love how Goldthread is featuring Houston! First Mein and now Fung’s Kitchen!! I grew up eating at Fung’s at least twice a month. It was all my mom craved when she was pregnant with me 🥰
if authentic and traditional they should use bamboo steamers not metal steamers for the dim sum
Houston proud, my sister wedding reception was there.
Why are they sub titling he daughter who speaks perfect English?
Why did she cry, did he pass away or something?
They ignore you at this restaurant. They only serve the big tables.
lol I know his son Gilbert.
that's a quality daughter
Could you make a longer video about Hong Kong milk tea?
are they open? I decided to go there two months ago and they were closed.
Great to see Chef Fong's daughter carry on the legacy for Cantonese cuisine. Here in Honolulu, so many kids won't take that step and ultimately, the restaurant close. May his daughter never lose that passion to continue, especially during these trying times.
Gold thread , 4mins to tell 5 generation story of chefs….at least 10-15mins. 2 min less its just a YOUTUBE short
4 minutes is too short! This should have been a 10 minute video.
Why such a short video? I feel like there would be much more to this.
5 generations of chefs! Thats so cool. All this knowledge being passed down to future generations.