"chili-spiked, deep-fried chicken lollipops"??
NYTimes:
NEW YORKERS always think they know the real thing when it comes to Chinese food. Forty years ago it was egg rolls, chop suey and drinks with paper umbrellas. Then it was General Tso's chicken and sesame noodles.
But over the past decade, as large communities of people from India, Peru, Korea, Trinidad and Guyana have formed here, New York has had to expand its ideas about what Chinese food can be.
"I call them second-generation Chinese restaurants," said Cheuk Kwan, who has directed a documentary film about the spread of Chinese restaurants around the world. "These restaurants always have a hyphen: Chinese-Venezuelan, Chinese-Norwegian, Chinese-Mexican.
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posted by Carolyn @ 1:27 PM
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I think you guys are a funny lot. :) Keep posting!!!
So what exactly is chinese-mexican food? A guacamole and black bean filled egg roll???
Guacamole and black bean filled egg roll is certainly possible. When Brady and I were in NYC, we went to this Mexican-Asian fusion restaurant called Bright Food Shop. Some food pictures are posted at Brady's Flickr site. The salmon maki (which is a burrito) was yummy :-)~
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