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| - It sounds like ownership of this place changed more recently, but here's why I'm never going back to this place again (from last November).
I went in there one night to get quick take out to bring home for dinner. There weren't a whole lot of customers there at the time, so I thought it should be a pretty quick process.
When I get to the ordering counter and someone finally comes out to take my order, I request the flat rice beef noodles to go, simple enough. The waitress notices I'm Asian, and decides to play the whole "where are you from" game to ask me if I'm from China. After I tell her I'm not, she proceeds to tell me about how much she loves Chinese culture and is dating a Chinese man etc. anyway, and spends a good 5-10 mins doing so before finally going into the kitchen and placing the order.
As I wait out on an empty table 20+ minutes for my food, one of the customers walks up to me and tells me in slow English that "The food was really good". He clearly assumed that I worked there just because I was Asian and assumed that I didn't speak English on top of that, and I was so shocked at the microaggresion I had just received that I kind of just angrily said "ok." To which he realized I didn't work there but was unapologetic about it anyway. Two other customers were eating with an Asian couple and I overhear them asking super stereotypical questions to the couple about Asian parenting, such as "do you force your kids to play an instrument" and "is it true that you place a high value on education over recreation", or something along those lines, speaking to them as if they're aliens. I was appalled and infuriated, and wanted to just get my food and get out of there as soon as possible.
I have never felt more uncomfortable being Asian in a Chinese restaurant before, let alone being Asian in this city at all. On top of all that, the food didn't taste good and it gave me food poisoning for days.
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