Mandarin Restaurant Mai Tai Cup
notes: label: Description
content: A green Tiki cup, with a personalized label of one of the three Chinese symbols of the Mandarin Restaurant. Cecilia Chiang specifically ordered personalized Tiki cups from the Otagiri Mercantile Company, a Japanese company based in San Francisco, California, that manufactured Tiki cups in the 1960s. Cecilia Chiang became good friends with Trader Vic, owner of the well-known Tiki-themed restaurant, and she served Tiki drinks (alcoholic Hawaiian-themed beverages) in her own restaurant.
label: Description
content: Cups can tell you a lot about the Chinese restaurant. In our collection for Cecilia Chiang’s The Mandarin Restaurant, we have two kinds: one white teacup and one green tiki cup. The white teacup suggests that Mrs. Chiang served tea, a typical Chinese hot beverage, at her original restaurant on Polk Street, San Francisco. Although a Drinks section did not appear on her original menu in her Polk Street restaurant, tea is a traditional beverage that comes alongside any Chinese meal. A drinks section of coffee and tea did appear later in the Beverly Hills location.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cecilia Chiang
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0115.02
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0115.02
label: accession number
content: 2011.0115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mai Tai Cup
label: Object Name
content: cup
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 10.3 cm; 4 11/32 in x 4 1/16 in