Last standing Chinese eatery in downtown Nairobi holds strong

First there were four, then three, then two and finally just one.

When Tin Tin Chinese restaurant in Nairobi opened nearly four decades ago it was in good company. Today, Tin Tin is the only Chinese restaurant in the highly competitive downtown area.

Henry Tin, 68, has seen the city grow from one with single-lane unsealed roads to multilane paved roads overshadowed by Kenya's modern skyline. He has seen the Indian middle class pushed to the suburbs by the burgeoning Kenyan middle class whose changing lifestyle now dictates the business models adopted by entrepreneurs interested in surviving.