我家附近的sushi 店是一个日本家庭经营了二代人的,我的邻居女孩子长大了,也在那做part time 的waitress ,增加点她读研究生的零花钱,她母亲是日裔。另外在Kirkland 附近的也是日本夫妇经营的。两家都非常地道。
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We have a Japanese guy who opened a Ramen shop, quite popular. It's not nicely furnished, just a hole in the wall type of restaurant. Very small inside, with a few tables. I have to mention we are not a big city, just a military town in the Southeast. So yeah, there are Japanese chefs in the U.S too and they're not fancy people, just like anyone else here. There was a sushi bar in Georgia where I used to go, even the waitresses were all Japanese. They shouted Japanese when customers came in. The sushi chefs were all Japanese too. Actually I don't go to a Japanese restaurant run by Chinese people. Once I found out it's owned by Chinese, I'd never go back again. In our city even the places like Miyabi Jr. are run by pacific islanders like Samoa, not the Chinese. Only Chinese takeouts and Japanese takeouts like Osaka Express are run by Chinese people from FuJian. And
I loath those people. Literally. Because I worked with them 23 years ago as a new immigrant. They're not the people that fit with my taste. They are crude, uneducated people from the rural areas of China. And there's nothing that matched my own background. My family was intellectuals, living in big cities. So the experience was unpleasant, to say the least, to be put together with them, even for a short period of time. They only know how to make money and nothing else. Some of them never lived a life besides cuddling in the small kitchen and flipping the wok. I can't describe how simple their minds are. One guy didn't even know how to perform as a man on the bed because he spent most of his teen and adult life chopping veges. He was smuggled in as a teenager and stopped at that age mentally forever. He did crawl onto my bed one morning but stopped short of doing anything else but laying down there. Poor thing. He knew he wanted something but what that is was unclear to his simple mind. Is it love, intimacy, or whatnot? Or to find a partner to make money together? He didn't have the ability to sort it out at 26 years old.