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 9 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 9 months ago
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
No. Chop Suey was invented when someone grabbed a brush and put a little makeup.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That seems possible
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Yeah…that Chinese immigrant started it in New York city, though. Not San fransisco.
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 9 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