i can still remember the menu from 1955. you know, $1.25 for four shrimp, a scoop of fried rice and some chow mein. >> here's my daddy in the restaurant. my father grew up working in the family business. how old do you think he was here? >> my guess is 16. i don't remember him smiling a lot. >> what was life like working in that restaurant? >> it was all consuming. we were open seven days a week. if we didn't sell anything, we wouldn't eat. so it was very difficult. >> do you think people looked down on them in america because they were chinese? >> i do. when we had the restaurant, my father was the host. and people would go, chop, chop, hop sing, come over here. me wantee fried rice. and my father would look at them like, are you kidding me? but it was our life. so he simply said okay.