[Magdalen] WTPho?

[Jay Weigel]

Our local Ethiopian place closed about a year ago and was replaced by a bar
called the Golden Pony. BLEAH.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 4/9/2016 9:25:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> scottknitter at gmail.com writes:
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> In old  photos of downtown Chicago, it looks like the really exotic
> places to eat  are "chop suey" restaurants. No Mexican or anything  more
> specialized.>>>>>>>
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> Looks like chop suey restaurants were a favorite of Edward Hopper,
> one of my favorite American painters:
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> http://www.edwardhopper.net/chop-suey.jsp
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> My mother, who always had her lunch on shopping days in  Minneapolis
> at the "Nankin" Restaurant, but ordered "chow mein" instead.   She always
> said that chop suey was ordinary, and chow mein was the  gourmets'
> choice for Chinese food.  That always came with egg fooyoung,  of
> course.
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> David Strang.
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