Image Credit: Ted Lewin, author and illustrator of Big Jimmy’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out.

Kum Kau Restaurant has been on Myrtle Avenue in Clinton Hill for more than 38 years.  The restaurant, on the corner of Washington and Myrtle, has been a local institution for years and was even featured in a children’s book.  Big Jimmy’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out, written and illustrated by neighborhood resident and Pratt Institute alum Ted Lewin, provides today #ThrowbackThursday image.  The watercolor illustration captures Kum Kau in 2001, and it looks like not much has changed in the past 13 years at this local landmark.

Big Jimmu’s Kum Kau Chinese Take Out by Ted Lewin, published by Harper Collins Publishers, 2001.

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