Kai-Kai Coffee Shop’s Barbecued Pork Chow Fun

On hot, humid evenings in Chicago, when my mother was too tired to cook, she would send me out to one of our local Chinese restaurants for a take-away meal. Our favourite place was the Kai-Kai, a small diner that specialized in Chinese-American standards but also prepared quick and popular Chinese dishes for those who knew what to order. The Kai-Kai’s range of authentic Chinese foods was limited, but what they did they did well. We loved their barbecue. Actually, it was in my uncle’s kitche