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“This place had about six blue Formica kitchen tables with matching chairs … Dad was right – the food was consistent and good.”
For the benefit of extended family members who live out of town, she takes the concept of takeaway to extraordinary lengths. “We put it in the car fridge and take it home 1,000km to Mount Isa for them.” We’re also looking for stories from those who ran, or run, the restaurants. Juliana Loo Bun wrote to us about her dad, Arthur, who arrived in Australia from Hong Kong in the 1950s as a sponsored migrant. With his wife Matilda, he ended up running two Chinese restaurants in Queensland: Melin and Lantern.
“At Melin, we all helped out in the restaurant. All four kids were expected to lend a hand. It truly became a family-run enterprise! It gave me a much deeper appreciation for the phrase ‘hard yakka’ and how hard my parents worked.
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