{"id":15410,"date":"2012-10-09T17:41:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/47-years-on-for-this-pe-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2012-10-09T17:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:41:34","slug":"47-years-on-for-this-pe-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/47-years-on-for-this-pe-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"47 Years on for this PE Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>Before you read any further, the pop quiz question is; \u201cWhich Port Elizabeth <a title=\"Restaurant\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">Restaurant<\/a>, established in 1965, has only moved once and is still owned by the same family?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This popular <a title=\"restaurant\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> originally occupied premises on Elizabeth Street \u2013 just off of Main Street (now Govan Mbeki Avenue) and moved to Walmer in the late 1990\u2032s. It has been continually in the hands of one family since 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Our family have been regular and faithful patrons for almost as long as the <a title=\"restaurant\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> has been existence. Regulars greet each other by name and are welcomed as honoured members of an extended family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of our memories include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whilst the owners were busy in the kitchen the phone in the <a title=\"restaurant\" target=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/\">restaurant<\/a> would ring and one of the diners would get up to answer it. The diner would turn to the other diners and ask; \u201cIs their space for one more table?\u201d and the diners would roar back; \u201cNO, we are full!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On a Tuesday we would phone to book and tell old Mrs Whitely that we wanted to come at 8:00 pm and she would tell us; \u201cNo, No, No, you come now, we watch TV at 8:00!\u201d and we would meekly change our plans to suit her.<\/li>\n<li>I introduced the Longhair to this restaurant in order that we may sample their crispy fried prawns. The day that I did so was a Saturday Lunchtime. At the time I didn\u2019t realise that they weren\u2019t open for lunch but had just barged in. Peter and Verna didn\u2019t say a word but prepared the most amazing meal for us in a completely empty restaurant. To this day the Longhair tells all and sundry that the crispy fried prawns made by Peter are the best ever.<\/li>\n<li>One of our table tried to open a window in the old restaurant and managed to break the handle \u2013 From then on old Mrs Whitely always acknowledged me as that \u2018Naughty Boy\u2019 who \u2018broke my window\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course you must have guessed which restaurant I am talking about, by now \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/canton_chinese_restaurant_13349.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Canton Chinese Restaurant<\/a>. The Canton was established in 1965 by Peter Whitely\u2019s father and has been in the family to this day. With the passing of his parents, Peter and Verna now run this Port Elizabeth institution.<\/p>\n<p>We went back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/canton_chinese_restaurant_13349.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Canton Chinese Restaurant<\/a> on Sunday for my Mother\u2019s birthday and were well impressed. The food is cooked fresh to order, not oily and certainly enough to fill a hungry tummy.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the meal were the sweet and sour pork, chicken soup and the company. Peter even did specific diabetic friendly versions of each of his dishes for my Mother \u2013 great service.<\/p>\n<p>My only concern is that payment is cash or cheque only \u2013 no cards. This could be something that stops a lot of older patrons from visiting as often as they would like, what with the risk of carrying cash around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/search\/R_,045_From_Racing_to_Rust\/Restaurants\/canton_chinese_restaurant_13349.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Canton Chinese Restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you read any further, the pop quiz question is; \u201cWhich Port Elizabeth Restaurant, established in 1965, has only moved once and is still owned by the same family?\u201d This popular restaurant originally occupied premises on Elizabeth Street \u2013 just off of Main Street (now Govan Mbeki Avenue) and moved to Walmer in the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-15410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}