![]() ![]() There, under the light of multi-colored lanterns, and amid the silk and bamboo decorations that are quite luxurious from an Oriental point of view, chop suey is served to the midnight supper crowd. But he was simply following the general assumption that, no matter what is to be found anywhere else on Manhattan Island, Harlem must have "one of its own." It is a far cry from the Harlem chop suey establishment to the one in Long Acre, which claims the most exclusive patronage of the town. His compatriots had already pushed past him to the Long Acre district. The necessity for tearing down whole blocks of houses to make room for the new Pennsylvania railroad terminal in that locality has temporarily put "Boston" out of business. He moved into Third Avenue, near Rivington Street, and did so well that other chop suey merchants followed, and finally crowded him into Seventh Avenue, near Thirty-fourth Street. It was an ambitious young Chinaman who for some reason or other is know among Chinatown habitués as "Boston" (for he has never been anywhere near the Hub, and knows nothing about it, he says) who led the chop suey movement out of Doyers Street. It would have been possible for them, under these circumstances, to order what they wanted without falling into the hands of the police for assaulting a waiter, as they did in a chop suey establishment lower down town. ![]() They simply were not aware of the fact that since the chop suey reserve broke loose from Chinatown, about one year ago, and joined in the general up-town movement, they might have gone into a Chinese restaurant right in the heart of the large late supper houses of Long Acre Square and ordered from a bill of fare that mentions Chinese delicacies on one side of the bill of fare and American dishes on the other. New York City Chinatown > Newspaper ArticlesĬhinese Dish Now Served in Many Parts of the CityĪn unfortunate choice of locality was mainly responsible for the fact that six guileless young strangers from Staten Island last week, who went into a chop suey "joint" and ordered steak and onions landed in a police station. ![]()
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