"There were just a few plastic chairs-you didn't want to sit here,"
"The hot-and-sour soup. I didn't like it until I got sick with COVID for a month and a half,"
"I think the average person comes here and has the same three items over and over again,"
"I still really liked it, but my body didn't,"
Patrick Herlihy moved to Portland in 2003 to be near his daughter and ex-wife after retiring from the US Navy. He initially disliked Chin's Kitchen near his Hollywood neighborhood because of sparse plastic chairs and unappealing food. Wendy Li and her family took over Chin's Kitchen in 2017 and transformed it into a warm, welcoming spot serving cuisine from northeastern China. Herlihy moved back to Hollywood in 2023 and became a frequent patron, sampling much of the lengthy menu and favoring seafood and pork dumplings and shrimp noodles with chile oil. He turned to hot-and-sour soup during a prolonged COVID illness and now avoids braised pork belly due to digestion and age.
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