Formerly the Cathay House

I was genuinely surprised to learn that the intersection of Albert and Bank was once the heart of Ottawa's Chinatown. I won't pretend to be any sort of expert on the subject, but i do offer three scans from the old Ottawa Journal that offer a barest whiff of how Chinese cuisine was perceived and welcomed as it crossed over to the "mainstream" after WWII. From 1946, less than a year after the war ended, and then from ten years later.

(Click on the images to render them readably large.)

... and from 1956, still being treated as an exotic novelty. Forgive if i say that "Ho-Ho Cafe" suggests a joke on a par with the guy who wants to get some "Chinese writing" tattooed, and ends up getting "chicken fried rice" written over his heart.

No, i don't think she's going to eat it all herself.