Detroit Through A Chinese Restaurant Window

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 9:55 a.m.

Curtis Chin was practically raised at Chung\u2019s Cantonese Cuisine, his family\u2019s restaurant in Detroit. It was a restaurant that served everybody, from the mayor (who was a regular) to sex workers to business executives. Within the walls of the restaurant, the Chin family saw the rise of Detroit as a multicultural, industrial city, and its decline in the wake of white flight and the crack epidemic.