Anyone here old enough to remember Wah Kee’s in NYC Chinatown?

Yes but I misremembered it as the “Wo Ki”. My boyhood best friend’s father worked in the city & introduced me & my sister to them with a combined family outing. (their house & ours were 4 feet apart, 4 kids in ea house-- comparable ages-- if you didn’t know us you couldn’t tell which set of kids belonged to which house. It was there I learned of the glory of chicken fried rice! Also egg rolls, good Moo Goo Gai Pan ( it can be insipid ) Moo Shu Pork. I always remembered the address as 17 Doyers St though the menu shows as 16 & 1/2b. Beginning about '66 me & my friend would go there at least once a month for 10 years.

Food & Restaurant critic Richard Gehman mentions it in his book The Haphazard Gourmet 1966. Great Book, the kind of food writing that keeps one opening the fridge. Not available as an e-book.

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