Tai Tung, Chinese restaurant in International District, Seattle, US.
Tai Tung is a Chinese restaurant on the ground floor of the Rex Hotel building in Seattle's International District. The menu focuses on Cantonese cooking, with dishes served at simple tables in a no-frills dining room.
The restaurant opened in 1935, founded by an immigrant from Hong Kong, making it the oldest continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the International District. It has outlasted decades of change in the neighborhood while staying in the same building.
Tai Tung sits in Seattle's International District, the neighborhood that has long been the center of the city's Chinese community. Regulars come back for the same dishes week after week, and the dining room feels more like a local gathering place than a tourist stop.
The restaurant is open on Christmas Day, when most other places in Seattle are closed, so it draws larger crowds than usual during the holidays. Booking ahead is a good idea if you plan to visit on a weekend or around a holiday.
Bruce Lee was a regular here and had a preferred table in the back of the dining room. He typically ordered beef with oyster sauce and garlic shrimp when he came in.
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