Paquebot Tonkin, 1899 (Orangutan) Dogs one smiling at a fat

one smiling at a fat doughnut with a small hole and the other frowning at a thin doughnut with a large hole:

with every menu category written in Italian

Big band leader Duke Ellington played here and it was one of the first nightclubs to have an integrated clientele

The ship was eventually taken out of service in 1969 and replaced by a smaller liner

Paquebot Tonkin, 1899 (Orangutan) Dogs one smiling at a fatThe Paquebot Tonkin was part of the French Messageries Maritimes fleet. Launched in 1898 from the yards of La Ciotat, the Tonkin initially worked the Marseille Saigon Yokohama route, with space for 185 first class passengers, 86 second class and 77 third class. This menu, from February 1899, would be from one of her earliest voyages. The Tonkin took her name from the French term for northern Vietnam, which was occupied by the French at the time.