The Chinese restaurant in Richmond where I went to celebrate my goddaughter’s graduation was filled with customers. Graduation, Mother’s Day, Birthday—there was no lack of reasons to eat out. People with reservations walked happily past the ones who waited in line. The waiters worked like busy bees. Their attitude was excellent and they were extremely efficient: taking orders, serving, giving out clean plates in exchange for dirty ones, cutting the cake.
The slow economy was incongruous with the busyness here. Here the workers had jobs and diners had money. Everyone was having a good time. A little paradise. A lobster-sea cucumber-abalone-rock cod-coral shrimp-paradise.
May the world be kind to all.
