The newly crowned Miss Chinatown USA ... The Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco was made up. It's purely American like chop suey or the fortune cookie. The parade, now in its 60th year ...

Regardless of its origins, chop suey was a mainstay in mid-20th-century Chinatown. Grant between Pacific and Broadway, 1944. Photo via San Francisco History Center/SF Public Library The Shanghai ...

Where to find it: Sam Wo Restaurant (Chinatown, San Francisco) You might think chop suey is an authentic Chinese dish, but it ...

What’s remarkable, though, as historian Andrew Coe writes in Chop Suey, is that the Sze Yap-born residents of San Francisco’s Chinatown were eating shap suì as an honest reinterpretation of ...

In her visit to San Francisco, Lakshmi focused her efforts on dissecting what Chinese food is in America. Exploring restaurants in Chinatown, Lakshmi dives into what "chop suey" really is — it's ...

Another is that one of the first Chinese restaurants to open in San Francisco during the Gold Rush was the site of chop suey's invention. The story goes that one night in 1849, a group of drunk ...

He had just learned that Kum How, a prostitute known as “The Golden Peach,” had been passing the money he gave her to Low Sing of a rival gang, Suey Sing ... battle in San Francisco history.

The story of Chinese food in San Francisco - and its future - can be told, in many ways, through the Chinatown address ... Far Low "the undisputed king of chop suey makers in these parts." ...