04.15.08
Asian Groups Fight to Change Eatery’s Name
Joseph Groh’s popular eatery in a blue-collar neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia has been serving them up pretty much the same way since it opened in 1949. The restaurant, which is called Chink’s Steaks, was opened by Samuel Sherman, who was nicknamed “Chink” as a child because of his supposedly slanted, Asian-looking eyes. The problem is that the term “chink” is every bit as racist and hurtful to Asian Americans as “the n-word” is to African Americans — so much so that some have taken to calling it “the c-word.”
Asian American groups began lobbying Groh to change the name in 2004.
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