Genroku opened in 1996, started by Lily on a stretch of Greenville Avenue that has since grown into Richardson's Chinatown.
Her idea for the place was simple. The food should be the kind of Taiwanese and Japanese cooking she made for her own children at home. Real ingredients. No shortcuts. Done properly.
Most of her regulars call her Grandma now. After enough years of the same families coming back, parents started introducing her to their kids, and the name stuck.
If she wouldn't feed it to her own kids, she wouldn't feed it to anyone.
That's been the rule from day one. It's why the basil chicken is the basil chicken, and why people who ate here as kids now bring their own kids in for it. Same booths, same wok, same recipes.
The Chinatown around us has grown into something special too. Okaeri Cafe next door, the bakeries and tea shops up and down the block. We're glad to be in the middle of it, and we're not going anywhere.