Those who are in the know and live in a community with hard core Chinese people are in for a treat on national holidays. The traditional Chinese restaurant that we frequent does serve a round-eye menu, but for the most part, their offerings are what to be expected in a Beijing style restaurant. The weekdays see white collar workers and serve dishes that suit the American palate, but on weekends… dim sum is served. Being a weekday, and knowing that the restaurant was going to be open, but were pleasantly surprised that they were serving dim sum to a rather crowded dining room filled with Chinese people.

A propos to the cheaply manufactured goods bearing the stars and stripes, sweatshop scented fireworks, and well… practically anything fabricated — I felt good eating the steamed meatballs, spicy spareribs, bbq pork rice roll, fried taro root dumpling, spicy fried squid, curried baby cuttlefish, crispy duck with sweet carrot and daikon pickle, with green beans (healthy… but fried with bits of spicy pork). Though the staff’s homeland is thousands of miles away, locked in a Communist regime, I hope that they’re happy here… enjoying the freedom of Capitalism… on a national holiday.