Post #407477 by Limbo Lizard on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 8:16 AM

On 2008-09-01 19:28, Unkle John wrote:
...they could have sold Polynesian food along with Chinese.

Bingo!
The 1981 Dallas Yellow Pages ad:

The registered agent listed on the incorporation filing for Canton Enterprises, Inc. (Kon Tiki Ports) was not the owner, who apparently was Frank Yet Lau. I ran the agent's name, and found he applied for an assumed name in Dallas County for a tax/bookkeeping and a business management services business. So I think he may have only been involved in filing for incorporation, on behalf of the owner.

Predating and overlapping Kon Tiki Ports by many years, there was Yet Lau Restaurant.

Here's the Yellow Pages ad, from 1979:

Now, here's the ad from the same 1981 book as the Kon Tiki Ports ad, above:

Hmmm. "New"? Did Frank Yet Lau sell his first restaurant to Jade Palace, Inc., and then start Kon Tiki Ports? (The library was missing the 1980 book - drat!) Yet Lau's last ad was in the December 1989-90 Yellow Pages. There was no Kon Tiki Ports ad in the 1982 book. Called my father, and he said he remembers Yet Lau Restaurant having had a 2-story rear section, where the owner (or someone) lived. (My father was a contractor, and he built a little steak restaurant right by it, in the mid- or late 70's.) All the buildings along this bit of Northwest Hwy. were razed, and replaced with new buildings, but I can't remember exactly when. But that may have been the time and reason Yet Lau closed.