Asian-Americans Take Offense at a Law Firm Memo: "It began, like so many office controversies, with an e-mail message.
Responding to a note seeking someone to adopt a puppy, a partner in the London office of the law firm of Dewey Ballantine wrote, 'Don't let them go to a Chinese restaurant.'"
law.com - Article: "Last March, the firm issued an apology after the Law Journal reported that at a Jan. 31, 2003, annual dinner, the firm had parodied the closing of its Hong Kong office with a version of 'Hello Dolly' retitled 'The Dirge of Long Duck Dong,' an apparent reference to the stereotyped Chinese exchange student in the movie 'Sixteen Candles.'
The song said the seven-lawyer office, which closed at the end of March 2003, was 'chow mein' and was getting 'the gong.'
'You were the firm's folly,' the song continued, 'and now we so solly to be cutting off your source of livelihood.' "
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