New Hollywood Bakery Restaurant

New Hollywood Bakery Restaurant
652 Pacific Ave (Grant/Kearny), 397-9919,
7am–6pm, 7 days.

This is a simple restaurant, 40 seats, with a large display of baked goods, including birthday cakes. The menu consists of porridges, noodle and rice-noodle soups, and noodle and rice plates, many with American-type accompaniments such as ham, pork, chicken, fish, beef or shrimp. New Hollywood Bakery Restaurant is usually jammed with Chinese diners, seldom a Caucasian.

Rice porridge, $1–3.00. Plain porridge or Chinese fried bread, $1.00. Chicken, pork or beef porridge $3.00, shrimp or seafood porridge, $4–4.75.

Pan-fried noodles, chow fun, or chow mein, $3.50–4.50. e.g., bean sprouts chow mein $3.50, BBQ pork chow mein $4.25, shrimp with vegetable chow fun $4.50, seafood chow fun $4.50.

Noodles and rice-noodle soups, $3–4.50, e.g., won ton soup $4, chicken or beef noodle $3.50, seafood noodle $5.25.

Rice plates, all served with soup and bread, $4.00–4.75, e.g., chicken with bean curd $4, curry chicken $4.25, pork chops with onions or tomato $4.50, sliced fish or lamb $4.75.

Fried rice, spaghetti, or macaroni — served with soup and bread — $3.50–4.75, e.g., chicken or beef with macaroni $3.50, vegetable fried rice $4.25, beef stew spaghetti $4.50, shrimp fried rice $4.50.

Beverages, desserts, e.g., coffee or tea 70 cents, hot chocolate $1.35, bean curd pudding $1.25, snow mixed fruit with ice cream $1.50–1.95, ice cream float $1.95, milk shake $1.95, ice cream sundae $1.95, banana split $2.75.

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New Hollywood Bakery Restaurant entrance in Chinatown on Pacific Ave.