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Fuzhou Chinese restuarant
Fuzhou Chinese restuarant
East Broadway
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
restaurant
As ours is the only Chinese restaurant in town,
Its chef, my
father, is famous throughout.
With the sound
of chattering school children,
The screaming
phones, groaning boilers,
And clattering
utensils echoing in the kitchen,
While voiceless
customers pamper in the fragrance
Of Chicken with
Broccoli and General Tso Chicken.
Between the
kitchen and front counter,
My sister and I
sprint like the wind,
As my mother
transforms blank-white boxes
Into finished
brown packages.
Pushing past
each other,
The members of
my family fight against time,
But my
nine-year-old brother
Deep in his
rectangular bed under the front counter,
Dreams of a time
when my family circles around the dinner table,
Lounging for
hours around the eagerly awaited delicacies of Chinese New Year.
sisters
After her mother left her when she was six, her sister and she were placed in my grandmother’s care. Being the oldest Child, she was supposed to watch over her younger sister. Can this grandmother, who was living under their oldest uncle’s roof, take full care of them? Does she treat the sisters like one of her children? Everything was fog and mist to the six and four years old sibling.
For
the next five years, they were always considered to be somebody else in their two
cousin’s eyes. Gone were their
parents, the sisters were left to have only each other. Harbor by their grandmother, they still
felt like beggars, as the grandmother has to expand her care over all her seven
grandchildren.
Inside
their minds, “What is future?” became the daily question. Justice was unknown to them, as their older
cousins had the right to beat them everyday, and everything lies at the plea of
the cousins’s mercy. “King” was
the title of one of the cousin while the sisters were his servants. Lost in the world, the sisters learned
earlier on how to depend only on themselves. More than anything else, all they wished for was a normal
family like any others. No other
request was needed.
On the first day
of school, they learned that the only escape and hope would be within this
building. Pouring all their heart
and effort into schoolwork, they knew this would be the only way to impress
their hosts and their unknown parents on the other side of the globe. “Quitting” became a word that cannot be
found in their dictionaries. Reducing
their world to home and school, the school became their second home. Seeing a expansion of opportunities to
their horizon, the sisters worked harder.
To them, there was always a brighter side to the world as long as one
works hard on it. Until their goal
was met, they would never give up.
Via this determination, they were known throughout the
neighborhood. “Wow. XX is so smart!” became the mark of
every corner. Yet, this was not satisfying
enough to them. Zipping through
time, one would never forget the sisters’ work ethic and strong
determination.
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