[Sca-cooks] baby bok choy
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Sun Jan 11 16:52:56 PST 2004
I'm
> heartbroken to report that The Magic Lantern, my local
> hole-in-the-wall that secretly sold real Chinese food to certain
> select clientele, and half-fried-chicken-fried-rice-and-no-onions to
> those who preferred that sort of thing, is now closed, the space now
> devoted to some yuppie foolishness or other. At around the same time,
> we lost The Joy Luck Restaurant, which for maybe 85 years was the
> primary (and almost the only) place to get family-style Toysan
> cooking, things like steamed pork patties with salted duck eggs, or
> various greens cooked with fermented bean curd cheese (like
> watercress or amaranth greens in a sauce a bit like salty, melted
> Camembert) It seems like some of the Cantonese restaurants are taking
> up some of the slack, but not many. It's probably simple reality that
> the demand for this type of cookery, in the face of changing
> immigration patterns, is not high.
Yeah, we're experiencing a similar thing here in DC. Because of the new Convention
Center and MCI Center, which are located on the perimeter of DC's Chinatown, the
area is becoming a high rent district, and driving most of the local Chinese
establishments out of business. We've already seen several restaurants, a wonderful
grocery store and a department store go away, and we fear that it's just a start.
Sigh.
Kiri
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