London’s Shanghai Emporium – where to pick up your hoisin sauce in 1934

Just as a quick follow up – I mentioned the The Shanghai Emporium in a post on the Shanghai Restaurant’s Cookery Book the other day – both the restaurant and Emproium were in London’s Greek Street, down in Soho. It seems the restaurant ran a food store selling Chinese goods on the same street in the 1930s and also advertised it in its branded cookery book. The ad below

BTW: 6 Greek Street today is still food-related by, perhaps in a sign of the changing foodie times in London, is now Le Bavoir Restaurant, described as “Modern European with Moroccan and Lebanese Influences.” (i.e. tagine with a knife and fork) – picture of the building today below…just a few doors down from the rather well known Gay Hussar restaurant, a surviving Soho institution.