... Not to forget the delicious rolls cus-
tomers make using rice paper or green
leaf as a wrapper to fill with vermicelli,
herbs, vegetable, meat ... dipped in
garlic or peanut bean sauce.
Thang Long is open Tuesday
through Thursday and Sunday, 11 to
9, and Friday and Saturday, 11 to 11.
As with other ethnic foods,
Vietnamese cuisine has dishes peculiar
to specific regions and classes ... And if
mirrored on menus, without people
having to guess, would give a truer
reflection of the Vietnamese way of
eating ... Thang Long is no guiltier
than other ethnic restaurants in not
following this line.
THE EXTRAVAGANT culinary
efforts of over 40 local area chefs will
showcase hors d'oeuvres, entrees and
desserts ... Sunday, May 21, 3 to 6
p.m. ... at Cranbrook Schools' 22nd
Annual Le Gala de Cuisine ... on
Lone Pine Road off Woodward, in
Bloomfield Hills.
Jazz sax great, George Benson, will
perform with the Cranbrook
Kingswood Upper School band ... and
attendees will receive a cookbook of
recipes _by the participating chefs.
For tickets and other info, call
Chairgal Glenna Coleman, (248)
683-6099.
RESTAURANT UPDATE ...
Capraro's Italian Ristorante will soon
become Mario's of Troy ... It has been
bought by Vince Passalacqua, owner of
Mario's on Second Boulevard ... New
owner of Nifty Norman's, on
Commerce Road in Walled Lake, is
Ramzi Naber, who has sold his
Pompano's in the Holiday Inn of
Farmington, to Ron Wilson and Joe
Montez They'll rename it Alegria,
with Spanish and Mexican themes ...
Nifty Norman's has always been a big
favorite especially with its down-
stairs for bar and bar mitzvahs, etc.
CONGRATS ... to Morrey
Schwartz, owner with son, Gary, of
Morrey's Sunoco Station in Southfield
... on his birthday ... To Dharlene
Norris ... to David Sachs ... on their
birthdays.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE Dept. ...
From Avery and Marilyn Warnick
about the two little kids in a hospital,
lying on stretchers next to each other,
outside the operating room ...
The first kid leans over and asks,
"What are you in here for?"
The second kid says, "I'm here to
get my tonsils out and I'm a little ner-
vous" ...
The first kid says, "You've got noth-
ing to worry about. I had that done
when I was 4. They put you to sleep

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