[Sca-cooks] OOP - Seeking Latino Seafood Soup Recipe (and name!), 2nd attempt

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 10 Feb 2002, at 0:29, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Ok, so what is the logical reason for seeing a Cuban/Chinese
> resturant?

The same reason for seeing an American/Chinese restaurant.

In the 19th century, many Chinese laborers went to Cuba to work
on the sugar plantations, just as they went to the U.S. to work on
the railroads and in the mines.  They -- and their descendants --
remained.  When the Communists rose to power in Cuba, many
members of the Chinese-Cuban community chose to emmigrate to
the U.S.  A bunch of them went to New York.

I first discovered the joys of fried plantains at a Cuban-Chinese
restaurant on the Upper West Side.


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