The Oriental Restaurant at Sincere

The Oriental Restaurant was inside the Sincere Department Store on Nanking Road (Nanjing East Road now). The old department store building with its distinctive clock tower still stands on the corner with Chekiang Road (Zhejiang Lu), just as it has since 1917. It’s the rather dismal Bailian store today with no food options to rival the once highly rated Cantonese restaurant, The Oriental. It was there from at least the early-1930s through to 1949.