As Chinatown bleeds into Bridgeport, a new generation of young restaurateurs emerges

A Place by Damao is a Sichuan joint unlike any other. I’ve recently learned there’s no more appropriate viewing when gnawing on a cold duck neck than the Syfy vampire gorefest Van Helsing, which can be a colorful primer on how to eat your way around cervical vertebrae. Well, maybe you’d approach a human neck differently, but at Bridgeport’s A Place by Damao, you just pick up the bird’s nape from each end and get in there, nicking precious scraps of spice- and soy-braised flesh out of the curves and angles of the tiny vertebrae like a merciless, red-fanged predator.…