amino's® Chinese restaurants in Michigan. Not just another Hong Kong-style dining spot ... Hong Kong dishes at award-winning Hong Hua are as authentic as you can get ... Its head chef, Peter Chan, also one of the four partners and a cook in Hong Kong as a 17-year-old, later becoming head chef at the prestigious Far East Business Club in Hong Kong, is responsible for all the excellent food that comes out of his kitchen. There is too much on the new menu to talk about so let's concentrate on the grouper preparations made at Hong Hua. I don't know of any place anywhere that prepares grouper like Peter and his staff does ... All are served with an uncanny consistency and delicate taste that boggles the most discerning taste bud ... One that I recently had, filet of black grouper with pea pods in a black bean sauce, was out of this world ... but is only one of about 11 different styles that are prepared at Hong Hua. Grouper is sometimes called rockfish or rock cod, with many species market- ed in the United States ... The most common ones, though, are the black grouper and red grouper. The new menu at Hong Hua is like a "best of" sort of thing ... Owners Peter, Danny Yu, Gary Yau and Shetwai Seto have taken the top favorites and lumped them into the menu ... Thinks like the excellent lettuce wrap with diced chicken ... If you think you've had a better lettuce wrap chicken preparation than at Hong Hua, you haven't tasted this one. Much of the same might go for almost everything on the new menu ... Its grouper is in a separate class since there are few single dishes in a Chinese restaurant that are prepared 11 different ways ... with all being good. GET WELL Wishes ... To Jane Rayburn, fine Detroit News restaurant reviewer ... recuperating at Cottage Hospital in Grosse Pointe ... Too bad it doesn't serve Chardonnay wine, Jane. MAIL DEPT. ... From Jim Hiller, owner of Hiller's Markets ... "The `Please Select a Cart' sign [at the West Bloomfield store on Orchard Lake Road] dated back to the time when our customers had to tie their horses out- side before they entered to shop. Since we have dispensed with the hitching post, the sign has now disappeared as well" ... Thanks, Jim. The sign "Please Select a Cart Before Entering Store" had me going bugs trying to figure it out since the shopping buggies were on the inside. MUCH TALK ABOUNDS about the food at Angelo's Bistro that took over the former site of Paparazzi in Sugar Tree Plaza on Orchard Lake Road, north of Maple in West Bloomfield ... That it was always good but lately seems to have gotten even better ... Could be because Angelo made some changes in the kitchen ... I know that one of Angelo's Bistro's big seller dish, linguini pasta with clam sauce, is now served with fresh clams still in the open shell. ANSWER DEPT ... Plans for the Cheesecake Factory restaurant to open at Somerset Collection in Troy fell through, and Howard Gordon, senior vice president of Business Development & Marketing writes, 'As in many cities where we do not have a location, we continue to look for the right location and deal" ... The former W.O.W. site on Woodward and 14 Mile in Royal Oak will not become a kosher restau- rant as expected ... Word is that the often-leased building may become another Ram's Horn. BIRMINGHAM TAILOR to the stars Dino Mitropoulos (Dino the Tailor) and golfer-clothier Grant Williams (Grant's Clothes) were finally able to rest after weeks of walking around with red eyes from little sleep. They had been contracted by the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) to do the final fitting and tailoring for members of the Ryder Cup team, vol- unteers and committee members, of clothes made for them by a noted man- ufacturer ... plus many of the wives and Tiger WOQC1' S fiancee. Thanks to Dino and Grant, players and volunteers on the Oakland Hills course in Bloomfield Township and at private parties looked good for the world to see via television. NOT TOO MANY Coney Island operations have all-beef hotdogs on request to go with the chili, mustard and onions ... This puts Spangas Coney Island on Woodward, south of 14 Mile, in Royal Oak in quite an exalted class. WHO'S WHERE DEPT ... Billy Rose Trio is now playing every Wednesday, 7:30, at Italian Epicure restaurant on Grand River, west of Haggerty, i nNovi ... Also at Mario's on Second, in Detroit Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 1, 2, 9, 22 and 29. HOW COULD I FORGET the date ... which lives in infamy ... Sept. 11 ... It's also the birth date of our granddaughter, Hannah Raskin, in California ... Congrats on number 15 ... Papa is so sorry. ❑ Danny Raskin's e-mail address is dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net 4301 Orchard Lake Rd. 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