Foo Chow Finally, there's Foo Chow, in the original downtown Chinatown, one of the few Chinese places left in Los Angeles proper that won't make you want to hop in your car and head east to Alhambra.
By David Cuniff and Philip Hamburger The New Yorker, May 7 , 1966P. 38 Overheard in the Foo Chow Restaurant, on Lexington Avenue, one waiter to another: "How do you spell 'mah-jongg'?" View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By David Remnick By Malcolm Gladwell.
By David Cuniff and Philip Hamburger The New Yorker, May 7 , 1966P. 38 Overheard in the Foo Chow Restaurant, on Lexington Avenue, one waiter to another: "How do you spell 'mah-jongg'?" View Article By Anthony Lane By Andy Borowitz By Jia Tolentino By Rebecca Mead.
Farther on, I read about a memorable 1866 race between British barques in the tea service, in which the Ariel, the Taiping, and the Sirica left Foo Chow, China, together, and then "separated and lost one another till they reached the English Channel, when the Ariel and Taiping got abreast and raced to the Downs, the former arriving some ten minutes before the latter….
On 28 October 1938, Duncan was struck by the Greek steamer Pipina whilst lying at anchor at Foo Chow, China.
As Marian Gouverneur, wife of Samuel Laurence Gouverneur, Jr. (the first American consul in Foo Chow, China), related the story, General Ramsay seized the bell ropes to stop the bells from sounding, but to everyone's shock they did not stop ringing.
For those who grew up in post-war America, this is not the Cantonese food of our childhoods, all chow mein and egg foo young and shrimp with lobster sauce.
And where else can you see largely bygone "Old Favorites" like egg foo yung and chicken chow mein so proudly displayed?
The restaurant in question is the Lingnan in Edmonton, Alberta, a black-lacquered, red-swagged establishment that has been dishing out chow mein, chop suey and egg foo young (all currently on the menu!) for more than 60 years.
BEST DISHES -- Egg foo yong; won-ton soup; lobster with burnt pork; barbecued spareribs; chicken chow mein; lobster soong.
