Word: cantonal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were "hopelessly overcooked." The egg roll "oozed grease." The spareribs were "dreadful," the dim sum were "stale," the sesame beef roll "stiff and cold." As for the chrysanthemum tea, it "could easily have been matched with water in which artichokes had been cooked." Ow! as they might say in Canton...
...they also might say in Canton, and elsewhere, Honor Is All. Kwong and Mary Ann Lum, the Canton-born owners of Dish of Salt, came back with chopsticks flying. For $1,200 they placed an ad adjacent to Sheraton's "Restaurants" column in the Times last week, claiming that they had been subjected to "a most malicious attack." Terming her critique "wise-guy," "sadistic," "prejudiced" and "misleading," the owners threatened: "We intend to hold you accountable for your cruelty, your malevolence and your viciousness." The Lums also claimed that Sheraton had only visited their restaurant once, not several times...
Across the nation, the worsening inflation and the Administration's inability to deal with it have caused widespread dismay. "It has been six or eight months since I've taken my wife to a restaurant," grumbles John Conroy, an accountant in Canton, Mass. David Traver, a student and part-time department-store clerk in Atlanta, cannot replace a car that blew its engine and could not be repaired. Says he: "When I was 19, I could afford to buy a new car. Now I'm 26 and I can't afford to buy a used...
Giff Duffy turned away 37 shots and Mike Watson and Mark Fusco each tallied a goal and an assist as the Harvard hockey team roared back from a 1-0 deficit with three unanswered goals and held on for a 5-3 victory over St. Lawrence in Canton, N.Y., last night...
...yesterday, the Harvard hockey team boarded a bus and departed on their last--and longest--road trip of the season, a 500-mile jaunt to upstate New York. The icemen close out their 1979-80 season this weekend, facing St. Lawrence tonight in Canton, and driving down the road tomorrow to play the Golden Knights of Clarkson in Potsdam...