I wonder if you were thinking of chop suey, which has one of its origin stories being from San Francisco?
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months agoI don’t remember, I just remembered reading that both of those were made by some Chinese immigrant that started a “Chinese food” shop in San Francisco, some time in the 1930s or so. Seemed believable since there were a lot of Chinese immigrants in California as early as the 1850s cause of the railroad
poppy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
No. Chop Suey was invented when someone grabbed a brush and put a little makeup.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That seems possible
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Yeah…that Chinese immigrant started it in New York city, though. Not San fransisco.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fortune cookies were originally Japanese, but when the Japanese were sent to the internment camps, the Chinese opportunistically began serving them in their restaurants on the West Coast