New York City is a paradise when it comes to Chinese food (cold noodles in sesame sauce! shrimp dumplings! chow fon! eggplant in black bean sauce! turnip cake!). This magnificent cuisine abounds in all five boroughs at relatively cheap prices, thanks to heroically hard-working Asian restaurateurs. Naturally, such diligence and its attendant profits attract predators, a.k.a., politicians and bureaucrats. These parasites suck at their hosts so greedily that they often kill them, à la this notice taped to the locked doors of one of Manhattan’s landmarks on Second Avenue near East 64th Street: China Fun has closed after 25 years … Continue reading A Cri de Coeur from A Regulated-Out-Of-Business Small-Business Owner