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The menu claims that Henry's House is the first restaurant in Shenzhen to specialize in serving the dish and has red labels for 'popular', 'new item', 'good value', and 'reccommendation'  written next to certain dishes. The restaurant also offers a few different types of value and business set meal deals. Henry's House is open from 10:30-22:00 and offers delivery within a designated area.\r\nThis is one of fourteen menus from restaurants in Shenzhen serving regional cuisines that the museum collected on the occasion of the exhibition V&A in Shenzhen: Rapid Response Collecting, staged at the 5th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, The Value Factory, Shenzhen. The menus show the city’s culinary offerings and reflect the regional diversity of Shenzhen’s population. A large portion of Shenzhen’s workforce moved to the city from other parts of China and beyond with few family ties, many eat out on a daily basis. Nearly every Chinese restaurant, regardless of their advertised regional specialism, serves some dishes from Hunan and Sichuan, the homes of a significant portion of Shenzhen’s migrant residents. Shenzhen, China’s first special Economic Zone is located at the tip of the Pearl River Delta. The city grew from a modest fishing town into a vast, sprawling metropolis of more than fifteen million in just thirty-five years, through manufacturing, trade and relentless commercial energy. Today Shenzhen is the world’s third busiest container port, with a population with an average age of the less than thirty and almost entirely composed of recent migrants.\r\nThe Museum asked more than sixty people in Shenzhen to propose a design object that told a story about their city and the result was an exhibition of twenty- three things and twenty-three stories about the place. By exhibiting everyday objects, the show placed centre stage the realities of urban life, of industry and of commercial and social change. The menus were suggested by graphic designer Huang Yang because, for him, the regional diversity of Shenzhen’s population make up is best reflected by the city’s many street food restaurants and the wide range of culinary styles.","physicalDescription":"A menu in red, yellow ochre, and white for the the restaurant Henry's House.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Rapid Response Collecting","id":"THES262867"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"DAD","id":"THES260586"},"images":["2024NV8301","2024NV8300"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"DR","shelf":"118","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Menu","id":"AAT27191"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Menu from restaurant in Shenzhen serving regional cuisines from across China.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Graphic designer Huang Yang thinks the regional diversity of Shenzhen’s population make up is best reflected in the city’s culinary offerings. As commented on elsewhere in the exhibition, a large portion of Shenzhen’s workforce moved here from other parts of China. With few family ties, many eat out on a daily basis. Nearly every Chinese restaurant, regardless of their advertised regional specialism, serves some dishes from Hunan and Sichuan, the homes of a significant portion of Shenzhen’s migrant residents.\r\nSuggested by Huang Yang, graphic designer","date":{"text":"2013","earliest":"2013-01-01","latest":"2013-12-31"}},{"text":"Restaurant menus and table accessories\r\n2013\r\nThe menus and accessories collected in various areas of Shenzhen show how restaurants adapt – in their dishes options and sometimes even with visual design elements – to give migrant residents a taste\r\nof home. 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