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with this post.

From today's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/dining/22CHIN.html
As All-American as Egg Foo Yong
By MICHAEL LUO
A new exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas in Chinatown
offers the ultimate road map to the Chinese restaurant's extraordinary
trek across the American landscape.


See also:

http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp?cid=17