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Chinese Takeout in Baghdad

by Karina Longworth, Posted Aug 11th 2005 @ 2:21PM

A few weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Chen Xianzhong opened the first authentic Chinese restaurant in post-Sadaam Iraq. His only competition? A rival joint in the Green Zone whose proprietors he writes off as "amateurs" whilst intimating that the restaurant doubles as a massage parlor. Everything was going great for awhile - until a suicide bombing "spewed body parts into the dining room." Now Chen and a few workers prepare take-out from the top of his Chinese goods emporium for a few regulars who got hooked on his food before choas wrecked his business. Craig S. Smith has more in the New York Times.
 

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Filed Under: Business, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants
Tags: asia, baghdad, chinese+takeout, ChineseTakeout, closings, msg

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Finished.Law.School

8-22-2005 @4:01PM Finished.Law.School said... Sucks about the body parts thing...
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