Chef Bryant is offering a Holiday Chinese Family Meal, available for pre-order, to be picked up on December 24 and December 25! Highlights include: Kung pao pastrami, cornbread stuffing, curry mashed potatoes, and pepper jack egg rolls…
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Next jazz night this Thursday, 02/12! (I can’t make it)
If the playlist is similar to last time, I’d say it’s a bit more of a mix (some jazz, some 70’s funk).
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Jade Rabbit had flyers posted that it is running a weekend evening special of Mushu Pork made with Sonoratown tortillas.
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dying to try that…
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Partner ordered an egg roll yesterday, and I was like, “Who puts pepperjack cheese in an egg roll???”
It’s actually really, really good. And tastes nothing like an egg roll (which is a plus in my book). It was kind of like a… chimichanga? Or a meatball sandwich served as an eggroll? I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
As an FYI, the Mushu Pork is apparently only available at dinner time on Fri and Sat (I was looking for the Mushu yesterday and then saw a flyer about it).
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dying to try that mushu with flour tortillas from Sonoratown…but I do not see my self doing JR as a dinner on a Friday or Sat…
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Hah! Depending on my wk, sometimes I like a quiet, low-key meal on Fri or Sat to commemorate surviving the workweek… 
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new rooftop izakaya bar is opening up in NY, also called Jade Rabbit. I wonder how owners react to news like this behind the scenes with trademarks/logos. Especially if the Jade Rabbit owners are thinking of expanding.
Otherwise, I guess it can create consumer confusion, and while it may initially increase brand awareness if the NYC spot is popular (even though they are totally different), it risks damage through poor reviews associated with the wrong location I reckon… or am I thinking too into it?
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You are not thinking too into it – the issues you flagged are the core reason trademark law exists!
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I’m not a trademark lawyer but I do dabble in that area. . . There’s also a Jade Rabbit in Portland and one in Wayne PA. So mostly likely a live and let live situation until one of them starts to expand into multiple states, sell retail products across the country, etc.
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Northern Cafe and Joe’s Pizza lol
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Exactly.
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I’m still SO confused by this (or them, I guess)…
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I think it’ll be hard to enforce anything since the name is kind of a translation of a famous East Asian myth. It would be like trying to enforce against a cafe named Robin Hood or named after the Knights of the Round Table (although I guess King Arthur flour probably has a viable claim). In fact, Chinas lunar rover program is named after the myth as well
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If you’re dealing with local brands and somebody uses that name in a different geographic area it’s probably not actionable. There’s probably Golden Dragons and China Expresses in hundreds of US cities.
Trademarks are specific to context. Maybe you could call a furniture company Round Table Tables, but not a pizza place.
More importantly, not considered worthy in Eaters recent post of where to eat in SM.
Maybe the editors could’ve rounded up to 20 so that Jade Rabbit and Colapasta (how could that be left off???) could be included.
There’s a thriving shipping company in the San Gabriel Valley called Blue Panda Express.
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There are also several thriving restaurants in SoCal called Northern Cafe lol…