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Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States by Andrew Coe
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“It is the Bohemian fad to expatriate himself, to seek strange and bizarre environments. As soon as a place begins to attract civilization he flees it for some new hiding place. When he chooses a Chinese dinner he must have a restaurant where no white man has ever before trod, if he can find one. . . . As soon as others begin to frequent it also, again he flies.27”
Andrew Coe, Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States