| 词条 | Edsel Ford Fong |
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| name = Edsel Ford Fung | image = Edsel Ford Fong 1982.png | caption = Edsel Ford Fong with his customers in 1982 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|05|06}} | birth_place = San Francisco, California, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|04|24|1927|05|06}} | death_place = | nationality = American | other_names = | known_for = World's rudest waiter, Sam Wo restaurant | occupation = Waiter }}Edsel Ford Fung (often spelled Fong) was an American restaurant server from San Francisco, California.[1] He was called the "world's rudest, worst, most insulting waiter" and worked at Sam Wo restaurant.[2] LifeFong was born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown. He worked the second floor of the Sam Wo Restaurant on Washington Street. (The restaurant name means "three in peace", a reference to its founding partners.)[3] As head waiter, Fong greeted visitors with an admonition to "Sit down and shut up!"[4] He was known for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", criticizing people's menu choices and then telling them what they should order, slamming food on the table, and complaining about receiving only 15% tips. An imposing man with a crew cut hair style, he also was notorious for seating people with strangers, forgetting orders, cursing, spilling soup on customers, hazing newcomers, refusing to provide forks or English menu translations, and busing tables before diners were finished.[5] Fong was made famous by columnist Herb Caen, who often described the misanthropic Fong during his visits to Sam Wo. Caen would interview Fong on matters of local politics and gossip, then reprint Fong's Yogi Berra-like responses, which Fong would in turn proudly show to his loyal regulars.[5] Caen included Fong in his guide of things to do in San Francisco, under "58. See the world's rudest waiter".[6] Shirley Fong-Torres described Edsel Fung as one of the main attractions of Sam Wo in her 2008 book The Woman Who Ate Chinatown, saying that customers "came to see and be verbally abused by Edsel".[7] Although genuinely rude, his style was self-conscious and his role at the restaurant was not just to serve food but also to be a resident "entertainer" and "madman", with one longtime patron recalling him as "[not] rude. He was actually certifiably crazy. He didn't act that strange to locals, but the tourists got to him after a while."[7] LegacyFong was a regular recurring character in Armistead Maupin's series of Tales of the City novels, and was played by Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad in the 1993 Channel 4 miniseries.[8] Fong had a cameo in the 1981 Chuck Norris film An Eye for an Eye.[9] Robin Williams referred to Fong in his 1997 eulogy of Herb Caen: "'Oops, she (Pamela Harriman) is missing our table, going right to God's.' I hope they have a waiter like Edsel Ford Fong who goes, 'No water here. Only wine!'"[10] A series of club-level bistros at Oracle Park are named "Ford Fong's" in his honor.[11][12] He is also memorialized by a portrait on "Gold Mountain", a mural depicting Chinese contributions to American history on Romolo Place in North Beach, a few blocks from the restaurant.[13] Sam Wo Restaurant continued to operate in Chinatown until 2012, still listed in one tourist guidebook as being where Fong practiced a "wicked sarcasm [that] took on aspects of performance art".[14] The restaurant announced its temporary closure in April 2012, citing the age of the building and kitchen as a contributing factor in the closure. Sam Wo reopened in 2015 at a new location on Clay Street.[15] See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.homeandabroad.com/c/11/Site/75999_Sam_Wo_s_visit.html|title=Sam Wo's|accessdate=2007-09-12|publisher=home & abroad|archive-url=https://archive.is/20110712214517/http://www.homeandabroad.com/c/11/Site/75999_Sam_Wo_s_visit.html|archive-date=2011-07-12|dead-url=yes|df=}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fudcourt.com/samwo.html| author=Guest Joe Franko|title=Sam Wo |date=2002-06-14|accessdate=2007-09-12|publisher=Fud Court}} 3. ^{{cite web|publisher=www.yelp.com|url=http://www.yelp.com/biz/sam-wo-restaurant-san-francisco|accessdate=2008-10-15|author=Lillie F.|title=Sam Wo Restaurant (review)|date=2008-05-30}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.portolasanfrancisco.com/history.html?lang=en&type=6&cityid=202 |publisher=Portola San Francisco |accessdate=2007-09-12 |title=San Francisco Information }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3348/articles1.html|accessdate=2007-09-12|title=Curry Noodle Time:The Sam Woh Experience|quote=But it was a despotic head waiter known as Edsel Ford Fong that made SAM WOH such a formidable Babylon-by-the-Bay institution. Edsel, big for an oriental chap at 6' 200 lbs. in his whitewall crew cut, long apron and omnipresent game-face scowl. If you walked in at prime time and didn't know Edsel you were in for some first-class abuse taking. He was the Pol Pot of noodledom and when it came to insults, he took no prisoners.|author=Eric Ehrmann|year=1996|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804231707/http://geocities.com/TheTropics/3348/articles1.html|archivedate=2009-08-04}} 6. ^{{cite web|publisher=Coast News|url=http://www.coastnews.com/restaurant-guide/chinatown.htm|accessdate=2007-09-12|author=Nina Wu|title=San Francisco Restaurant and Dining Guide|year=2007}} 7. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/21/local/la-me-sam-wo-20120421 |title=San Francisco bids farewell to beloved Sam Wo Restaurant |author=Romney, Lee |date=21 April 2012 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=17 September 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|publisher=IMDB|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106148/combined|title=Tales of the City|accessdate=2009-09-12}} 9. ^{{youtube|ReOrtagnAFE|title=Edsel Ford Fung in An Eye for an Eye}} 10. ^{{cite news|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=2007-09-12|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/02/08/MN35074.DTL|quote=Oops, she's missing our table, going right to God's. I hope they have a waiter like Edsel Ford Fong who goes, No water here. Only wine!| title=Robin Williams|date=1997-02-08}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/2000/03/26/SPECIAL445.dtl|accessdate=2007-09-12|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|title=There Are Lots of Things to Do ... Even If You Don't Watch the Game|author=Rick DelVecchio|date=2000-04-11}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/ticketing/ballparkguide_list.jsp|title=Access Privileges|publisher=San Francisco Giants|accessdate=2007-09-12}} 13. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/12/BAH0S2TVJ.DTL|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|title = San Francisco mural depicting 9/11 flight attendant scarred by taggers|author= Jim Herron Zamora|date = 2007-09-12| accessdate=2007-09-12}} 14. ^{{cite news|accessdate=2007-09-12|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/12/TR11762.DTL|title=Tourist at home: Why not enjoy here what others travel the world to find?|author=John Flinn|date=2003-10-12}} 15. ^{{cite news|accessdate=2012-04-19|publisher=Inside Scoop SF|url=http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/04/19/chinatown-institution-sam-wo-is-closing/|title=Chinatown institution Sam Wo is closing this weekend|author=Paolo Lucchesi|date=2012-04-19}} External links
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