Lau Yee Chai, Honolulu 1930s Clark's Chef Victor Hirtzler reproduced this

Chef Victor Hirtzler reproduced this bill of fare in The Hotel St

In 1933 the venerable restaurant re-opened at 65 Post Street

near Houston Street

The food on offer in this 1936 menu may have been for a private dinner on board

Lau Yee Chai, Honolulu 1930s Clark's Chef Victor Hirtzler reproduced this'''Me, PY Chong!" he brashly called himself. And so he was known far and wide, the original owner and chef of the world famous Waikiki Lau Yee Chai restaurant, which opened in 1929, at the corner of Kuhio and Kalakaua Avenues. According to the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, " its elaborate, classical Chinese architecture stood out in the Waikiki landscape, effectively attracting mainland tourists to its door". "My dad was a waiter at the