Members of Bolt, Beranek and Newman's IMP team, when they were working on the first IMPs to create the ARPANET in 1969, would eat Chen's food at her restaurant, which was located next door to BBN. The first restaurant operated for thirteen years, closing in 1971. Ĭhen introduced northern Chinese (Mandarin) and Shanghainese dishes to Boston, including Peking duck, moo shu pork, hot and sour soup, and potstickers, which she called "Peking Ravioli", sometimes shortened to "Ravs".
For Chinese-speaking and English-speaking staff and customers to communicate more easily, Chen introduced the practice of numbering menu items. 2 and other food coloring at her restaurants.
She promoted healthy Chinese cooking and refused to use Red Dye No. She also used the buffet format to allow customers to sample unfamiliar authentic dishes at their own pace. According to her son Stephen, here she pioneered the all-you-can-eat Chinese dinner buffet to boost sales on otherwise-slow Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Restaurants Ĭhen opened her first restaurant, Joyce Chen Restaurant, at 617 Concord Avenue in Cambridge in 1958. Chen had already become adept at finding or substituting hard-to-get ingredients, and adapting her recipes to American tastes. She was surprised to hear that her then-unfamiliar Chinese snacks had sold out within an hour, and she was encouraged to make more. In 1957, she first thought that her cooking might be popular when she made pumpkin cookies and Chinese egg rolls for a bake sale fundraiser at the Buckingham School in Cambridge. She gave birth to another son, Stephen, in 1952. Thomas Chen worked as an importer of fine art, while Joyce was a housewife raising two children, a dramatic change from her job in China as an insurance broker (an uncommon vocation for women in China at that time). On April 21, Chen and her family settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The family was on the second-to-last boat to leave Shanghai before the port closed. 1948) left Shanghai (and China for the last time) on Apas the Communists were taking over the country. At that point, her mother and her governess cooked the family meals, and Joyce watched and learned from them. In her book, Joyce Chen Cook Book, she later said that she grew up with a family chef who left to cook for her father's friend, "Uncle Li", who became the Chinese ambassador to Russia. Her wealthy father, a railroad administrator and city executive, could afford to hire a family cook. Services are under the direction of Holmes~Coffey~Murray Funeral Home in Durant.Joyce Chen was born in Peking (now spelled Beijing in English), the youngest of nine children of a high-ranking Qing Dynasty official, during the Republican era under Sun Yat-sen. Bettye’s pallbearers will be Austin Malone, Arron Hess, Yang Chin, James Patty, Jeff Patty, and Corey Dillingham. Her final resting place will be the Bokchito Cemetery in Bokchito, Okla. 2 at the Holmes~Coffey~Murray Funeral Home in Durant, Okla. She is survived by a daughter, Rena Mahaffey, Keller Texas sons: Gary Borchardt and wife Rebecca of Quinlan, Texas, Larry Borchardt and wife Chalida Pheerathoranis of Irving, Texas, Robert Borchardt and wife Hong of Fort Worth, Texas grandchildren: Vickie Malone and husband Rick of Bennington, Okla., Diane Dillingham and husband Corey of Van Alstyne, Texas, Annette Borchardt of Royse City, Texas, Jerri Borchardt of Royse City, Texas, Joanie Patty and Kathy of Lone Oak, Texas, James Patty and Billie Jo of Durant, Okla., Jeff Patty of Royse City, Texas, and Zhi Yang Chen of Fort Worth, Texas great-grandchildren: Kayle and Austin Malone of Bennington, Okla., Aaron Hess of Van Alstyne, Texas, Kye Dillingham of Van Alstyne, Texas, John Walker and Rebekah of Sherman Texas, Jace Patty of Royse City, Texas, and Evie Mitchell of Royse City, Texas.įamily hour will be from 7-8 p.m. Cody husband, Charles Borchardt and son-in-law, Ken Mahaffey. Betty was deeply loved and will be missed by all her friends and family.īettye was preceded in death by parents, Violet Knight and M.P. Charles passed away in 2010 and Bettye continued to live at their home in Bennington until her health required that she move to a nursing home. Soon afterwards, they moved to Irving where they lived and raised their four children. She met Charles Borchardt and they were married on Aug. After graduation from high school, she moved to Dallas to attend Beauty School and to work as a hairdresser. She was 92 years, 6 months and 20 days old at the time of her passing.īettye, an only child, grew up in Bokchito among her parents, grandparents and friends. 30, 2019 at a skilled nursing facility in Keller, Texas.
Bettye Borchardt passed away on Monday afternoon, Dec.
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