A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from January 08, 2018
“What does a vampire order at a Chinese restaurant?”/“Chow vein.”

A vampire riddle was posted on Twitter on May 17, 2012:
   
Q: What’s the most popular dish at a Chinese Vampire Restaurant?
A: Chow Vein.

 
A similar riddle was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on January 9, 2018:
   
Q: What does a vampire order at a Chinese restaurant?
A: Chow vein.

 
“What does a vampire never order at a restaurant?”/“A stake sandwich” is a related vampire riddle.
 
     
Wikipedia: Chow mein
Chow mein (/ˈtʃaʊ ˈmeɪn/) and (/ˈtʃaʊ ˈmiːn/) 炒麵 in Chinese and Chinese English are stir-fried noodles, the name being the romanization of the Taishanese chāu-mèing. The dish is popular throughout the Chinese diaspora and appears on the menus of Chinese restaurants. It is particularly popular in the United States, UK, Nepal, and India.
 
Twitter
Jacob Stormhunter‏
@Cymtrymanx
Q: What’s the most popular dish at a Chinese Vampire Restaurant? A: Chow Vein.
10:35 PM - 17 May 2012
 
Twitter
Roy “The Boy"Hodgson‏
@rabidrambo
#CannibalFood chicken chow vein
10:56 AM - 31 Jul 2012
       
Twitter
this is sammy‏
@redhotsales69
Halloween chow vein (With photo.—ed.)
4:11 AM - 1 Nov 2017
 
Reddit—3amjokes
What does a vampire order at a Chinese restaurant? self.3amjokes
Submitted January 9, 2018 by TheGooferTroopers
Chow vein
 
Twitter
3AM‏
@3AM_Jokes
What does a vampire order at a Chinese restaurant?... Chow vein
10:04 AM - 9 Jan 2018

Posted by Barry Popik
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