Gregory Morrow
Actually good authentic American style Chinese coozine is not all that inexpensive, the tab can run fairly high for a full service, full course dinner n' exotic paper bumbershoot drinkypoos... and most round eyes have become too used to paying fast food joint and family style chain restaurant prices... last time I went to my favorite Chinese restaurant the damage exceeded $100 a head before tip. I mean like even the least expensive pick; egg drop soup, spare ribs, egg roll, chow mein, flied lice, a scoop of pisstachio is gonna run like $40 per. But if yoose choose house special sweet n' sour zupe, Cantonese shimp n' lobster sauce, Peking sesame duck, General Taos beef, and the like, not to mention some fancy leechee/cumtwat dessert and a few drinkypoos yer gonna easy hit that hundrit smacker mark.
Many good Chinese joints just aren't doing enough business to make it... and they can't compete with the take outs, which have become the benchmark of the multitudes... the taste in butters actually think shoestring freedom fries in a styrofoam clam shell is seafood, NOT!
And the neighborhood ethnicty changes... Yids and WOPS appreciate good Chinese, Afros and Hispanics do not... in fact no restaurant does well in Afro/Hispanic neighborhoods, only fast food drive-bys n' sports/titty bars survive.
Sheldon Fong Gool House
