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When the executive chef is
also one of the partners, chances
are very good that the dishes he puts out
include a little extra care ... Most chefs
preserve their reputations with utmost
efforts, but in the cases of those like head
chef Peter Chan at Hong Hua gourmet-
style Chinese restaurant, Orchard Lake
Road north of 12 Mile, Farmington Hills,
it is done with even more importance ...
Like paying the bills.
Chef Chan, former main chef at the
prestigious Far East Business Club in
Hong Kong, where wealthy business-
men and their families often dine, and
his Hong Hua partners, Danny Yu, Gary
Yau and Shetwai Seto, count 55 years of
restaurant experience ... 25 of which are
owned by Peter ... His special talents
with authentic Cantonese, Szechuan and
Hong Kong preparations continue to gain
prominent note.
ANOTHER MAX'S Deli is scheduled
to open Monday, Dec. 1 ... It will be by a
former Detroiter, but not in this region ...
The new Max's Deli, owned by ex-localite
Steve Dubrinsky, is named after his late
dad, Max Dubrinsky, who passed on this
past October ... As fine a gent as Max
was is how Steve says he hopes his new,
authentic, Jewish-style deli will be, located
on Colonnade Parkway in Birmingham,
Ala., where Steve and wife Berenice now
live ... "We want it just like the delis in
Detroit," says Steve. "All our core deli prod-
ucts, corned beef, etc., are from Detroit.
Where else could great deli food come
from? The fellows at United Meat & Deli,
Sy Ginsburg and Steve Kirsch, have played

a big role in this project." ...
in Joe's chain without the
The first Max's Deli was owned
Andiamo name.
by Max and Belle Horenstein
CHEF'S KORNER ...
on Southfield and 13 Mile in
The talent recognition for
Southfield.
Don Yamauchi, executive
THANKS TO Charlene Green
chef at Forte restaurant in
for letting me know ... In
Birmingham, goes back to
checking it out, I discovered that
his days at the classic French
Sam's Club no longer has Best's
haute cuisine Le Francais
Kosher hotdogs to go with the
restaurant in Wheeling,
Danny Raskin
beverage for $1.50 ... Same deal Senior Columnist Ill. ... Don is the former
but Sam's now uses non-kosher
executive chef at Tribute, also
Nathan's Hotdogs ... Some
owned by the Wisne family's
Costcos still have Sinai Kosher.
Epoch Restaurant Group, and MGM Grand
MAIL DEPT. ... "There is a new
Hotel, Detroit.
Chinese restaurant that I am sure your
THE BIG BLIZZARD of 1978 is
readers will enjoy. It is China House in
remembered for both the havoc it caused
Livonia on Seven Mile Road, one block
and the naming of a baby boy ... Dr.
east of Farmington Road, in a shop-
Stuart Kirschenbaum and wife Janice were
ping center with Joe's Produce. We really
certain it would be another girl ... they
enjoyed the lightly breaded Glazed Walnut
already had little Jennifer and were not
Shrimp also glazed with a creamy sauce;
prepared for a son ... Hence the name
the Cantonese Chow Fun, rice noodles
Storm Kirschenbaum ... not a nickname
with chicken or beef, onions, bean sprouts
some folks might imagine it to be, but one
and ginger; and the Almond Boneless
sort of created by a blizzard.
Chicken. The food is excellent, the por-
CHOICE OF FIVE first-run films is
tions very large and the prices very rea-
this year's Evening at the Movies gala by
sonable." ... Cindy Dorton, Canton.
Michigan Chapter of Crohn's and Colitis
SURE YOU CAN have a hamburger for
Foundation of America ... This is the first
lunch at the elegant Whitney restaurant,
time in the event's 31 years that folks will
Woodward at Canfield, Detroit ... Half-
be given a choice of five films ... Date is
pound grilled sirloin served with three
Monday, Dec. 1, at the Palladium Theatre
cheeses, mayonnaise, tomato, lettuce and
in Birmingham ... For info, call (248)
grilled onions, $8, including French fries.
737-0900, ext. 0 ... The five movies are
DIFFICULT ECONOMIC times for sure, all biggies, including the new James Bond
but add still another new restaurant to Joe
Quantum of Solace ... Pre-glow at 6 and
Vicari's Andiamo Restaurant Group ...
movie at 8, plus free popcorn and pop.
Soon to open will be Rojo's Mexican Bistro
IF YOU SEE HER out dancing up a
in Novi's Fountain Walk ... Mesquite
storm, Florine Mark, president and chair-
Grill no longer will be the only restaurant
gal of the WW Group, Inc., tells in the

Ask Florine column of Weight Watcher's
Thinline newspaper why she's out there
terpsi'ing with the best of them ... "Many
people refer to exercising as working out.
I call it funning out. I love to dance. I take
ballroom dance lessons at a studio and
when I'm home, I move and groove to my
favorite songs."
MANY GUYS WILL remember with
much fondness those comfy barber chairs
that fold back as a tonsorial artist gives a
relaxing shave ... Shaving in barber shops
has became somewhat of a dying thing,
but has been revived by Hershal Gross
at his Clippers Hair Salon in Applegate
Square, Northwestern Highway at Inkster,
Southfield ... He also has the same
style chairs now at his new location in
Applegate, each one costing a whopping
$3,500 ... Clippers becomes one of the
very few barber shops around that gives
those coveted shaves ... Hampton Inn is
scheduled to open this coming year in the
entire back sector of Applegate Square,
where Clippers and others were located.
REUNION DEPT. ... Oak Park High's
1959 class' 50-year shindig is set next
year for Aug. 1 at Somerset Inn, Troy ...
Contact Carol (Hack) Maltzman, (248)
855-1114.
CONGRATS ... To Loralei Levine on
her birthday ... To Norma Copley on her
birthday ... To Joan Rappaport on her
birthday ... To Saundra Conway on her
60th birthday ... To Dennis and Sharon
Green on their 10th anniversary. E

Danny's e-mail address is
dannyraskin@sbcglobaLnet.

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