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St. Louie Chop Suey

By Malcolm Gay November 15, 2006

In a life beset by uncertainty, we can be sure of this: Socrates never ate a... More >>>

15 Images

A St. Louis original: The St. Paul Sandwich.

Cocktails, anyone? Jacques-Louis David's The Death of
Socrates.

On July 4, 1984, Park Chop Suey founder Steven Yuen made
the cover of Riverfront Times. A copy of the issue
still hangs in the restaurant's waiting area.

Midshift at Park Chop Suey, owner Billy Luu prepares to
deliver an order.

Who're you calling drunk? Menus displayed at the Museum
of the Chinese in Americas' traveling exhibit, Have You
Eaten Yet?: The Chinese Restaurant in America.

Immanuel Kant, sentimentalist.

President Richard Nixon killed America's love affair with
chop suey when he traveled to China in 1972.

You want tails with that? An illustration depicting the
Chinese as rat-eaters accompanied cub reporter Theodore
Dreiser's St. Louis Republican account of an 1894
excursion to Hop Alley.

The relationship between chop suey houses and their
African-American clientele ainÂ�t what it used to be.

Edward Hopper immortalized Chinese-American fare in his
1929 painting Chop Suey.

Poster from Seattle in the 1880s.

Jacques Derrida: Deconstruct this!

The venerable St. Paul Sandwich, as prepared by David Owens.

Terrene chef David Owens offers a 21st-century take on the
St. Paul Sandwich.

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