Pekin Noodle Parlor (built 1909) is the second oldest continuously[1] operating Chinese restaurant in the United States, located in Butte, Montana.

The elder Tam found work shipping supplies to Chinese communities on the west coast, while his son made his way to Butte in the 1890s and founded the Quong Fong Laundry, which continued serving the community for another fifty years at its South Arizona Street location,[9] as well as a spice import and export business.

[10] Hum Yow, a Tam family relative and California-born, first-generation Chinese, originally started Pekin Noodle Parlor on West Mercury Street.

[6][11] Family relatives Hum Yow and Tam Kwong Yee soon established themselves as businessmen at the new location in Uptown Butte.

Then, as now, the menu featured Chinese American classics like chow mein, chop suey, and egg foo young.

"[12] The restaurant offered a wide variety of dishes on its menu, but customers preferred their wet noodles (yaka mein) and chop suey.

Their son Jerry Tam now runs the restaurant and has said his father's immigration story is that of the American Dream.