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The Ricsha Cafe, 8232 S. Lewis Ave., has closed. Tulsa World file
The Ricsha Cafe, 8232 S. Lewis Ave., whose Tulsa presence goes back to 1958, has closed.
The restaurant was founded by Mona and Henry Jin in Brookside in the building currently occupied by Leon's and for many years previously by S&J Seafood Cafe & Oyster Bar. Ricsha was at that location 1958-1982.
Phone book records from the 1940s and 1950s suggest Ricsha Cafe was the second Chinese restaurant in Tulsa, following the Mandarin downtown on Third Street.
The Jins also owned the Jade East restaurants in several locations from 1972 to the early 1990s, according to Mona Jin. Henry Jin died in 1993.
The Jins' son, Edwin Jin, and his wife, Elizabeth, reopened Ricsha Cafe in 1994 in the Plaza Shopping Center.
Efforts to contact Elizabeth and Edwin Jin were unsuccessful. Mona Jin confirmed the restaurant has closed, probably for good.
"Edwin was going to close earlier, but his customers wanted him to keep going," Mona Jin said. "So, he went six more months but said business wasn't good enough."
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