![]() The owner, Yen, was charged with keeping a gaming house and fined $75. ![]() The police arrested about 17 Chinese, charging most of them with being in the presence of gaming equipment, and each was fined $10. Other officers burst through the restaurant's doors. On the restaurant building, they removed a window that led into the bathroom, and then they entered the restaurant. Some policemen went to the second floor of an adjoining building and then went onto the fire escape which ran between the two buildings. The Lowell Sun, April 21, 1903, stated that on the prior Sunday morning, the police, after several weeks of surveillance, made a raid on the restaurant. There was a police raid at one of the Chinese restaurants, owned by Yon Yen (aka John Yen), on Middlesex Street. All these are chopped together the gravy, blood juice, the Chinaman calls it, which goes with the chop suey, is made from the juice of the black beans.” The article also provided a description of the dish, “.Chop Suey is a Chinese dish composed of pork, celery, onions, noodles and black beans and sometimes, when ordered, mushrooms. The Lowell Sun, February 13, 1902, provided a brief ad for a new Chinese restaurant, at 308 Middlesex Street, offering " Chop Sooey." Again, the restaurant wasn't provided a name.Ĭhop Suey serving Chop Suey? Interestingly, the Lowell Sun, February 26, 1902, reported that “ In Middlesex street there is a Chinese restaurant whose proprietor’s name is ‘Chop Suey.” It seems highly unlikely that his actual name was "Chop Suey," and it is far more probable that he adopted it as a nickname.
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