363 Fore Street Portland, ME 04101 www.CheevitdeePortlandME.com 207 747 4795 Healthy Thai Food | Beverage | Alcohol Vietnamese Restaurant Lemongrass B R U N S W I C K , M A I N E 207 725 9008 LEMONGRASSME.COM Vietnamese Restaurant Lemongrass B R U N S W I C K , M A I N E 207 725 9008 LEMONGRASSME.COM B R 207 O c t o b e r 2 0 1 7 5 1 “Growing up, this was rice for a special occasion, not every day,” John Wen says as he hands out a small carton of Nou Mi Fan, a fragrant pilaf of jasmine and sticky rice studded with shreds of pork, tiny dried shrimp, and slices of Chinese mush- room. He’s in the kitchen of Hakka Me, a Cantonese food truck. Maine’s hunger for Chinese food dates back long before Empire and The Golden Lotus began to delight us with dim-sum and cha siu bao. An advertisement for the Chinaman’s Tea & Coffee Store on Congress Street appeared in the Portland City Directory in 1871. The tea shop was run by Ar Foo Fong, who had arrived in Portland from China in 1860. Nine years later, “Ar Tee Lam opened what is believed to be Maine’s first Chinese restaurant at 1 Custom House Wharf in 1880 […] At the time, Portland’s population of 33,810 included nine Chinese men,” says Gary Libby in Chinese America: History & Perspectives. “Maine’s first known Chinese immigrant, Daniel Cough, came here in 1857,” Libby tells Portland Monthly. “Bernard “Sonny” Cough was his grandson.” Bernard was one of the founding fa- ther of the College of the Atlantic and owner of the legend- ary Atlantic Oakes by-the-Sea Motel. First Wave