Szechwan Dry-Fried Beef

In the sixties, the U.S. government did away with the so-called oriental exclusion act, and Chinese from Taiwan began arriving on American shores in great numbers. One of them, David Keh, got a student visa and worked part time in the kitchen of a restaurant on Maiden Lane near Wall Street called the Four Seas, nominally a Beijing- or Mandarin-style place owned by the Brazilian-Chinese shipping magnate C. Y. Tung. Because Tung liked the spi