this one's really for the CMU crowd: so i was sitting at the communal table of my favorite fast food ramen noodle place, AJISEN RAMEN (see pic of napkin pak above -which consequently you have to pay for. here in china, napkins in restaurants aren't given out as freely as back at home. sometimes they automatically put them on your table, so you think it's free until you use it. next thing you know, there is a charge of 3RMB on your tab - which is really less than 50cents, but if the US dollar keeps on dropping, i might consider wiping my mouth on my sleeve next time.)
getting back to my original story...i was sitting at the communal table and in comes this kid that sits down in the seat in front of me. after we both get our food, he takes his jacket off and underneath was a PENN STATE t-shirt. being the nosy guy that i am, i asked him if he went there. he said he was a junior and that he was studying abroad for a semester in china. i told him i went to CMU and it turns out that his parents live in mount lebanon and own the szechuan house chinese restaurant up on murray avenue in squirrel hill. can the world be any smaller? do you remember how many studio all nighters were started with takeout delivery from szechuan house? kelly used to call for us all the time!
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Isn't Ming Na (is Mulan her "biggest" role?) also from Mt. Lebanon? And don't her parents also own a local Chinese restaurant that she used to waitress in? Damn, I didn't realize Mt. Lebanon was such a hot incubator for jet-setting Chinese food service entrepeneurs.
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