The New Chinatown Restaurant has closed. I found this out this evening when I went down there for dinner after work. There was a sign on the door thanking everyone for their business, and saying that a place called "College Hots" would be opening up soon in that space.
I'm not sure when it happened. I suspect they closed the Saturday before the university's Spring Break (a little over 2 weeks ago) and then just never opened up again.
I wonder why they closed. I hope it's not due to an illness. I'm pretty sure it was family-run, and if someone got sick it might throw everything into turmoil. Perhaps business just fell off? Dine-in traffic was sparse for the dinner hour, but they did a brisk take-out trade. The phone was always ringing, and a lot of people would pop in to make or pick up orders to go. And the few times I went there for lunch with a friend from work (whose New Chinatown name was "Walnut Chicken," just like mine was "Chicken Broccoli"), the place was busy and full. Often we'd have to wait for a table.
Here's a thought: maybe they'll be running "College Hots" when it opens. Perhaps they noticed (like I did) that we have an awful lot of Chinese restaurants, and decided to try something else.
I guess I'll have to wait and see. In any event, I'll have to find somewhere else to conduct my not-chicken-and-broccoli experiments. I could probably go to the restaurant the next block over. Or to the one in the block after that. Or the one after that...
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What's a College Hot? Or why?
And how much does a Grecian earn?
(I know a joke about how many f's there are in broccoli, but it wouldn't travel...)
I haven't the faintest idea. Maybe it's something like a "Texas Hot," which is a hot dog with some sort of fancy-schmancy secret-recipe chili on top of it. If you can call any chili "fancy." Maybe the restuarant's turning into a hot dog stand? *Shrug* I guess I'll know soon. Watch this space.
Don't get me started with the puns. I collect punny names: Rocky Schorr, Rose Trellis, Bob Wire, Citronella Candle (and her brother Roman), Gloria Patri, Polly Dactile...best one I ever heard was on "A Prairie Home Companion," listed as one of the writers: Amanda Reckenworth.
V - I know this is going to sound like anyone you can name, I can name exoticer (exoticker?), but it's true.
I have an ancestor whose given names were Violet Fanny.
Now allowing for the Great Transatlantic Meaning Shift, it's still amusing, no?
Violet Fanny? Teehee. You win. Mine were all phrases that sound like they could be names. Though my 7th-grade history teacher (who loved puns) knew someone named Shawnda Lear. And (this isn't quite the same category) my Mom went to school with a Chinese-American boy named Peter Pan.
Oh! I just thought of someone I met with a punny name. My sophmore year of college, I roomed with a girl in the university marching band. One of her fellow clarinetists was named Kelly Green. Hand on my heart, that was the girl's name.
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