St. Paul sandwich St. Paul sandwich The St. Paul sandwich can be found in many Chinese American restaurants in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as other cities in Missouri, including Columbia, Jefferson City, and Springfield. The sandwich consists of an egg foo young patty (made with mung bean sprouts and minced white onions) served with dill pickle slices, white onion, mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato between two slices of white bread. The St. Paul sandwich also comes in different combinations and specials, such as chicken, pork, shrimp, beef, and other varieties. One source has the origin of the St. Paul sandwich dating to the
Chinese Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area first association of Chinese-operated, Western-style restaurant owners association in Toronto was established in 1923. By the late 1950s larger, fancier restaurants had opened in the Chinatown in Toronto, and several of them catered to non-Chinese. Fatima Lee, the author of "Food as an Ethnic Marker: Chinese Restaurant Food in Toronto," wrote that after large numbers of educated, skilled Chinese arrived in the post-1967 period, the quality of food at Toronto's Chinese restaurants "markedly improved". The first Hong Kong-style restaurant to open in the city was "International Chinese Restaurant" () on Dundas Street. In 1989 the "Chinese Business Telephone Directories" listed