It’s amazing that Yang Sing is still around today. Most of London’s most-established Chinese restaurants from that period are all gone: Mayflower, Fung Shing, etc.
Lee Ho Fook, mentioned in Warren Zevon’s 1978 classic, Werewolves of London, was replaced by Leong’s Legend (one of its chefs is now plying his trade in Penang’s Osmanthus Alley).
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fook’s
For to get a big dish of beef chow mein
Ah-hooo, werewolves of London
Ah-hooo
Ah-hooo, werewolves of London
Ah-hooo
Yang Sing owners, the Yeungs, share the same family name as me: Yeoh is the Hokkien/Fujianese rendition of Yang (Mandarin) and Yeung (Cantonese). All Yeoh/Yang/Yeung, no matter where they come from, originate from the same clan in Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. Our clan’s progenitor (Yeoh Guy Pin) was born in 1312 AD during the reign of Buyantu Khan (Emperor Renzong), the Eighth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.
Xi’an is today known for its Terracotta Army site.
