Tung Hoy– The Sound and Fury
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You never know what’s goiing to elicit reader response.
Take, for example, my tongue-in-cheek July 1 column on the demise of Tung Hoy restaurant in Mamaroneck. I had no idea the degree to which the Chinese restaurant was a culinary lightning rod.
The e-mail poured in. Some people said Tung Hoy had great food and others like Nancy Richy thought the joint served inedible slop. “For the life of me I cant understand why people continued to go there,” Nancy wrote. She said her dining experience was, in a word, “disgusting.”
Others swore Tung Hoy had the best Wanton Soup in the county. The egg rolls got high marks, too. Among those who gave high praise was Betsy Plaut Lubin of White Plains who mourns the day she ate her “last delicious Tung Hoy eggroll, Wanton Soup and chicken chow mein.”
I admitted in the column that I never actually ate a meal at Tung Hoy, but somehow miss it anyway. “I’m amazed that you’ve never eaten there!” Nancy said.
Oh well.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
Be glad that the restaurant wasn’t in Altoona.