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Tad's Broiled Steaks
Thanks for the background, beachmouse. I'm always curious about why certain ethnic groups can be found in various locations, not just because they are community-centric, so when one family went, all of them did, but also because I'm legitimately intrigued by immigration patterns.
One good tv show about that is called 'Chinese Restaurants', which aired in the US on Link TV a while back:
http://www.chineserestaurants.tv/index.html
Some good stuff about how Chinese families and small communities ended up in all corners of the globe from Cuba to Israel (by way of Vietnam) to Norway to Trinidad, and how much of their culture and food they've kept or not.