Telling our stories, finding our roots Exeter Multicultural History

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1958

Exeter's First Chinese Restaurant

In 1958 Sam Fat Law and his partners opened the first Chinese restaurant the "Rice Bowl" in Exeter. It was located at number 13 North Street, currently the site of an Indian restaurant.

Before 1958, it would not have been possible to eat noodles or fried rice or green curry in Exeter.

This photo of the Law family was taken around 1960. There are more photos from the Law family album in our gallery section.

You can find out much more about the history of Exeter's Chinese community on this page.

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The Telling Our Stories Finding Our Roots website is a resource for multicultural education and exploration highlighting the diversity in Devon and Exeter's local history.

The product of our community research project exploring multiculturalism and diversity in Exeter, supporting Black History Month and Exeter’s Respect festival with information on our story-telling events, local history, films and schools activities.

Part of a Heritage Lottery funded project,'Telling our Stories, Finding our Roots: Exeter's Multi-Coloured History' is run by Devon Development Education at the Global Centre in Exeter.